Rose Matafeo is bad at endings. So bad that, after stepping away from standup in 2018, the New Zealand-born comic is now back with a new show, On and On and On. The return was prompted by some significant endings in her life: bereavement, breakups, her TV show Starstruck, her 20s. “I was surprised with how bad I was at all types of ending,” she says. “The show is me coming to terms with that. Things end: it’s not the end of the world.”
Since Matafeo’s 2018 show Horndog earned her the Edinburgh comedy award, there hasn’t been much time for standup. She starred in the film Baby Done, appeared on Taskmaster, was appointed host of Junior Taskmaster and made three series of Starstruck with her co-writer Alice Snedden.
