Hilarious Chaos and Unpredictable Characters: Honest Liars Light Up Tauranga

If you’ve ever wondered what happens when you mix a fertility clinic heist with porcelain Trump dolls and a faulty bouncy castle — well, you clearly missed the last Honest Liars improv comedy show. But don’t worry, the blog will fill you in on the delightful absurdity.

The evening kicked off with a bang — or rather, a chaotic tumble — during the game of ‘Pocket Note’, where players Ryan, Steve and Kathy were tasked with sneaking bizarre audience-written lines into a scene. The premise? Robbing a fertility clinic. Because why not?

Each time someone picked up a pre-written line like “don’t go downstairs on rollerskates” or “you couldn’t hit an elephant from there”, the scene took an even more ridiculous turn. The joy of Pocket Note lies in the sheer unpredictability — and the players’ commitment to acting like these oddball lines were totally normal things to say while mid-heist. Ryan’s earnest delivery of “I get the best carpark spots” mid-escape may go down in Honest Liars’ history.

Next up was ‘The Returns Desk’, where the audience got to stitch up the performers in the nicest way possible. Each returning customer had no idea what item they were bringing back — only that Jon, behind the counter, would have to give them cryptic clues based on their made-up shop. Gala ended up at the zoo with a venomous spider who only spun half a web. Fee found herself at Peaches and Cream trying to return a far-too-loud… ahem, adult toy. And Sue wandered into an events hire store with a tragically childless bouncy castle.

Watching the players desperately try to interpret Jon’s increasingly pointed clues had the crowd in stitches, especially when Fee finally realised what she was holding and had described it as very large!

Another favourite, the ‘Dating Game,’ saw Sue play the ultimate bachelorette and choose between three wildly unsuitable suitors. There was Fee, a vacuum cleaner salesperson with a worrying passion for suction; Ryan, whose love for porcelain Trump dolls might’ve breached national security; and Steve, who was, rather unsettlingly, transforming into a lion.

After a few probing questions (“Where would you take me for dinner” being a personal highlight), Sue sniffed out the feline and chose Steve — clearly the purrfect match.

As always, the Honest Liars delivered an uproarious night of spontaneous silliness, quick thinking, and gloriously weird characters. Whether you were there in person or not, one thing’s certain: Tauranga hasn’t laughed this hard since the last show.

Missed out? Don’t worry — the Honest Liars will be back on the 1st Saturday of each month with more madcap mayhem. Just be careful where you park your bouncy castle.

Thanks to players

Jon MC Kathy MC Steve Gala

Fee Sue Ryan

Thanks to
Admin: Kelly
Sound engineer: Anthony.

Book your tickets for the next show and join the players for loads of laughs.

1^st Saturday of every month.
16th Ave Theatre.
16th Avenue, Tauranga.
Show Starts: 7.30 p.m.
Licenced bar available.