New Zealand Prime Minister, John Key shot an unscripted, impromptu dialogue with Australian comedian Peter Flaherty, who was in character as Shaun Wayne.
It's not too bad. It is hard to imagine any Prime Minister within living memory of being able to pull something like this off. According to Stuff,
The unscripted seven-minute video was shot during Napier's Art Deco Weekend last month as part of a $100,000 campaign to market the city to tourists from the east coast of Australia. . . .
Napier Mayor Barbara Arnott and her staff were delighted with the video but worried that, after Mr Key saw it, he would not approve its release.
After he gave the go-ahead, Mrs Arnott said: "It was wonderful that the prime minister understood very well what we were trying to do. He entered the spirit of things wholeheartedly.
"Peter Flaherty is a very intelligent comic – you have to be intelligent to play a dumb character that well."
The council hopes the video will go viral on social networks, backing up a big tourism campaign in Australian media.
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