The Most Famous
COMEDIANS from New Zealand
This page contains a list of the greatest New Zealander Comedians. The pantheon dataset contains 98 Comedians, 1 of which were born in New Zealand. This makes New Zealand the birth place of the 7th most number of Comedians behind Brazil, and Yemen.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary New Zealander Comedians of all time. This list of famous New Zealander Comedians is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Jemaine Clement (b. 1974)
With an HPI of 43.48, Jemaine Clement is the most famous New Zealander Comedian. His biography has been translated into 46 different languages on wikipedia.
Jemaine Atea Mahana Clement (born 10 January 1974) is a New Zealand actor, comedian, musician, and filmmaker. He has released several albums with Bret McKenzie as the musical comedy duo Flight of the Conchords, and created a comedy TV series titled Flight of the Conchords for both the BBC and HBO, for which he received six Primetime Emmy nominations. He has had featured parts in films such as Eagle vs Shark (2007), Gentlemen Broncos (2009), Men in Black 3 (2012), People Places Things (2015), Humor Me (2017), The Festival (2018) and Avatar: The Way of Water (2022). He has also done voice-work for Despicable Me (2010), Rio (2011) and Rio 2 (2014), Moana (2016) and The Lego Batman Movie (2017). In 2014, he made his directorial debut with What We Do in the Shadows, which he also co-wrote, co-directed and co-starred in with Taika Waititi, and later adapted into a show for the FX television series What We Do in the Shadows.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as New Zealander comedians born between 1974 and 1974. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living New Zealander comedians include Jemaine Clement.
