Waitasecond

On the new NZ On Screen site that just launched, there’s a clip from NZ comedy legend Billy T James in 1990, doing a ‘newsreader in the future’ gag with the nation’s crooner Sir Howard Morrison. Howard delivers this line: “..there’s no truth in the rumour that the last four remaining Pakeha seats will be abolished…” There is applause and laughter, and the camera cuts away to someone in the crowd smiling happily at this riff on NZ’s controversial Maori seats…
…waitaminute…

…is that…

…a young version of National party leader John Key? The very chap who just got into hot water over the proposed abolition of the Maori seats?
Check for yourself. At the 3’30” mark.