Chloe Swarbrick's adjournment speech managed to generate some laughs from Members of Parliament after she confessed a fellow colleague "offered to have a secret signal" to tell people to laugh at her jokes.
The new Green MP started her speech off yesterday by saying, "I have heard that these things are supposed to be funny but the problem is, is that I’m not."
"It doesn't bode well for my back up dream career of stand up comedian but I hadn’t thought that this was something which was incredibly well known until this morning I discovered that there was cross party consensus on the issue and my education and workforce select committee Marja Lubeck offered to have a secret signal in order to ask my colleagues to laugh at my jokes.
"But I think Mr Speaker, I will leave the puns and humour to minister of dad jokes and co-leader of the Green Party, the Honorable James Shaw."
As the 23-year-old continued, she thanked voters who turned out and voted for the new Government and put Greens in the position of a coalition partner.
She told Parliament how quickly she realised becoming a politician is like "becoming an adult."
"As a kid, you look adults and you think they know the meaning of life, that they have a clue. Then you grow up and you realise that nobody really knows what the heck is going on.
"I found that becoming a politician is much like that. We are all trying to do the best that we can with the resources available to us with both the baggage and the insight that our life experience gives us, that we give to this place."
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