Creator, writer, director and star of international hit romcom Starstruck, and host of Channel 4’s upcoming brand-new Junior Taskmaster Rose Matafeo is set to record a brand-new stand-up special of her latest show ‘On and On and On’. Filming at The Royal College of Music’s Britten Theatre in London, Matafeo will perform two shows on Saturday 26th October. Tickets are on sale now and can be found online here.
With premiere details soon to be revealed, Matafeo will also perform a three-week run of the new show at London’s Arcola Theatre from Monday 30th September to Saturday 19th October, tickets can be found at ArcolaTheatre.com.
Following a run at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival which saw the show receive a nomination for the Best Show award, On And On And On is a return to stand up where Matafeo explores all the regular stuff: love, loneliness, miscellaneous worries, her favourite fonts and death (order may vary).
Elsewhere, it has been revealed that Matafeo will star in and host the brand-new show Junior Taskmaster as the titular Junior Taskmaster herself later this year on Channel 4. Assuming the role of the mighty Junior Taskmaster to score the efforts and assign points to five plucky junior contestants as they complete a series of characteristically bizarre tasks that are designed to encourage and inspire wile, wit, creativity, and athleticism in the show that recognises genius at any age.
Matafeo is a regular face on TV having featured on Have I Got News For You (BBC One), The Royal Variety Performance (ITV) W1A (BBC One), Unspun with Matt Forde (Dave), Jon Richardson’s Ultimate Worrier (Dave), 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown (Channel 4) 8 Out Of 10 Cats (E4), Hypothetical (Dave), There’s Something About Movies (Sky One), Dave Gorman’s Terms and Conditions Apply (Dave), House of Games (BBC Two), Big Zuus Big Eats (Dave), Would I Lie to You (BBC One) and The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice (Channel 4), while was also a contestant on series nine of Taskmaster (Dave/Channel 4).
In the US, Rose has performed stand-up on Conan (TBS) and has appeared as a guest on Late Night with Seth Meyers (NBC), The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (CBS), and The Kelly Clarkson Show (NBC), while she is set to star as the voice of Loto in the brand new feature film Moana 2. In New Zealand Rose was the lead writer and star of the sketch show Funny Girls (TV3), and a regular on panel show 7 Days (Three Now NZ). 2020 saw her star to great acclaim in the feature Baby, Done (Piki Films). She also co-hosts the podcast Boners of the Heart with fellow comic Alice Snedden.
