Comedi­an Luwita Hana Rand­hawa does look a little ser­i­ous below. She looks like someone who prob­ably does­n’t take a lot of non­sense. Someone who would handle a heck­ler with a dry, sassy quip that would leave every­one wish­ing they’d thought of such a line, because every­one has those “If only I’d said that” moments. I bet even the fool­ish heck­ler would appre­ci­ate the way that they’d been knocked down a peg or two.

Luwita, looking half dry, half sassy, mostly funny
Luwita, look­ing half dry, half sassy, mostly funny

That, of course, is not an invit­a­tion to heckle Luwita when you go and see her Fringe Fest­iv­al show, Noth­ing to be Done, which is on at Fringe Bar on Allen street for 3 nights only, Feb 19–21st.

Luwita is prac­tic­ally a loc­al – she atten­ded Vic­tor­ia uni­ver­sity for three years and prefers her cof­fee in a Peoples Cof­fee cup. This means that, des­pite declar­ing her­self as ‘made in Eng­land, raised in South Africa and Brazil, and from Kuala Lum­pur b*tch(WARNING: there’s coarse lan­guage in that wee clip, for those that don’t appre­ci­ate comedi­ans with a dose of ‘adult’ lan­guage), we as Wel­ling­to­ni­ans can do what all New Zea­l­and media do and make this about us.

Luwita is one of a few young, female com­ics on the rise in the Malay­si­an scene and in fact is the first Malay­si­an to per­form at the New Zea­l­and Fringe Fest­iv­al, that’s obvi­ously all thanks to Vic­tor­ia Uni­ver­sity and Wel­ling­ton and prob­ably even the people of the region! Nice work us!

Luwita describes her show ‘Noth­ing to be Done’ as “The col­lec­ted mus­ings and brood­ings of a twenty-some­thing former inter­na­tion­al stu­dent of Wel­ling­ton. Half dry, half sassy and mostly funny. Thumbs up.” When promp­ted she also described her­self as ‘prob­ably Ray from Girls’ so I’m not sure where that ‘Thumbs up” con­fid­ence comes from. I assume, as one anec­dote goes, that after sit­ting down to eat some deli­cious fried rice in a food court only to have the lights go out and then being able to per­form a stand up com­edy routine, like it ain’t no thing, gives you an innate abil­ity to step up to what is thrown at you. These inter­est­ing events and how Luwita deals with them provide plenty of scope for her show where she tends to poke fun at her­self and her life.

With a show trail­er like THIS how can you not be intrigued enough to get book­ing tick­ets right now.

AND if $15 is too much for you to fork out for 45 minutes of com­edy then you’re in luck. We have two double passes to give away! Just leave a coher­ent, polite com­ment below and we’ll draw two lucky win­ners! You have from now until 12 pm Monday 17th to get your name in the hat.