Lana Walters is a comedian and writer whose standup has been called 'masterful mum comedy'. She has appeared on TV shows like Seven Days and The Project, and is this year’s winner of the Yellow Towel (aka the Billy T Award). Lana tells Julie Hill five things she hopes for in 2025.
More playgrounds with sun protection As the parent of a young child, all I want to do this summer is get my kid out of the house and away from the sweet temptation of Paw Patrol.
The problem is even the nicest playgrounds we visit seem to have spent all their money on mini-trampolines and elaborate water cannons while leaving nothing in the budget for a single measly sunshade!
Free PayWave It makes me furious when I see that horrid little sign saying a 3.5 percent surcharge will apply. We have been given this fabulous new convenience of tapping to pay and now you’re making it elitist? Only those wealthy enough can PayWave like kings while the rest of us have to insert our cards like peasants? I’m ashamed to say all too often I pay that stupid fee so my hope for this year is that it disappears entirely. Surcharge? No siree.
A new album from Lorde PLEASE! I’m begging. I loved hearing her feature on the remix of Carlie XCX’s Girl, So Confusing but that little taste only made me long for a full new Lorde pop masterpiece. Not to pressure Ella, I have met her once and she was lovely; I was sitting on a couch at a party and she walked right up to me and whispered in my ear “You’re sitting on my bag” so I moved.
A house with a real backyard I’m so sick of living in a townhouse. There’s so little parking. There’s so little storage space. My lawn is a tiny square patch of grass. It feels ridiculous to own an entire lawn mower to mow that single patch. The lawn is the same length as the lawnmower! And what makes it worse is my cat focuses all her poop on that tiny patch of grass. I hope by the end of 2025 I will move into a house house with a real backyard that is worthy of mowing and has ample space for cat poop.
Packed out shows at the 2025 NZ International Comedy Festival It's a local product we should be very proud of and every year I'm shocked how many people have no idea it's even on! To be fair the main group I've been asking is Uber drivers but if they're not the voice of the nation, who is?
I won't be doing a show this year but I am planning to attend as many shows as possible and breastfeed my newborn in the front row just to drum up some extra promo for the comedian.
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