I think it just really excites me, the idea of delving so far into a character that people actually believe it's real, and I start to believe it's real. It's a strange thing to say, but it's the thrill of getting all the details right and being so absorbed in the character that people go along with the illusion.

Australia has a thing where apparently it's fine for me to dress up as an Asian woman. No one has questioned that.

I went to a private boys' school, and we had girls in the last two years.

I never like to think of any character as being over. I'm always thinking of different ways of bringing them back.

Like, Australians definitely don't walk around dressed up in blackface going "Ha-ha."

I feel really qualified to write about Australia.

I started doing comedy just as myself, because I thought, "This is what's expected, you're meant to tell stories and do observations." And then I started to realize that I wanted to mix it up a bit, so I started to doing songs, and I had a little keyboard onstage and would bring in little props. Then I thought about the idea of talking about a character and becoming the character onstage. So, it sort of morphed into being stand-up that was more character based, and I found that's the stuff I got the better reaction from and was more exciting for me.