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.