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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Entertainment
Sian Cain

Wil Anderson: ‘I honestly believe being mistaken for Adam Hills is one of the great gifts of my life’

Middle-aged man with short hair wearing a black tee and casual jacket  standing in front of a dark wall looking to his left and laughing.
‘I think I have done 28 or 29 different Wil pun shows so far and I think I’ve got another 50 on the list that are good’: Australian comedian Wil Anderson. Photograph: Ian Laidlaw

Do you have a nemesis?

I know Adam Hills did one of these and he chose me as his nemesis because we often get confused. He said it in a nice way – but I wouldn’t say Adam, because I honestly believe being mistaken for Adam Hills is one of the great gifts of my life. Even at the peaks of my career going well, it was always quite a good reminder that people never care as much about anything that you care about. Sometimes you’d have moments where you think: “Everyone thinks this or that about me” – and then someone would say, “Hey, I love you Adam!” Adam’s a very well-known comedian, I’m a very well-known comedian and yet, half the time when somebody comes up to say g’day to us, they don’t even know who it is. There’s something really nice and humbling in that.

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