JULZ from NZ

This year at The Wellies, we had an awesome videographer on site interviewing the comics and capturing the craziness of the night. They've put together a wee video clip for us so you can check it out! Watch and Like! The Wellington Comedy Awards #CapitalComedyWellington #Comedy

The Wellington Comedy Awards are lovingly nicknamed 'The Wellies' and I help to run them as part of my comedy production company Capital Comedy. This year I had the awkward experience of presenting an award to myself on stage. Haha! It really didn't make it any less emotional to receive it or any less of a huge honour to be voted the winner. I had actually been nominated for 5 awards this year; for my own comedy performance Most Improved and for Best Joke (about vibrators), a

Our first ever Sing It Wrong song went off with a roar. Or should I stay started with it's own unique Theme Song sung by hosts Katie and Julz (me!), and with sweet harmonising started off the night with huge applause. The night only got better from there! Each performer bought something special to the stage, whether it was the panties they flung or the new rally cry for Labour that rang around the venue, and each left the audience crying with laughter. Eight performers, not c

This year the production team of Sanjay Parbhu and Julz Burgisser from Capital Comedy's Blindset was asked to perform at the Wellington Comedy Awards as we won an award for Best Concept Show last year. What an honour to take the stage at such a prestigious event. We did a live topic forming improvised set with interesting results. We were again nominated for the same award this year. We were so excited to still be considered one of Wellington's top concept shows and we clappe