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the comic effect

Rose Matafeo is all for being enthusiastic and obsessive about things – or in her words, being “horny” for something. She’s felt this way since she was a kid, starting endless clubs at school in Auckland, before venturing into stand-up comedy at the tender age of 15. “I was a fucking nerd,” she says of her early years. “I had no life

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