It became clear that he was stranger and more exploratory than many of his contemporaries, and not really a traditional punch-line comic. You saw glimpses of it sometimes when he occupied the nightly comedy chair on The Project and suddenly went off-script, lurching into eccentric improvisations on live TV.īut it was 7 Days where Thomson got to really spin his wheels.
He has carved out a niche for himself as Aotearoa’s reigning comedy surrealist. Josh Thomson and his father, Pareora-based David Thomson.
