December 16 2008
John Key Camps It Up For NZ Tourism
posted by Ana Samways at 9:21 amOur new PM and Minister of Tourism plugs New Zealand to overseas holiday makers with his unusual lilt and apricot shirt making him appear … er, quite fey. Maybe he’s after the pink tourist dollar? What do you think?
(thanks Dancing Cookie)
December 16th, 2008 at 9:25 am
Dear lord, if he was any camper he’d be shitting tent pegs.
December 16th, 2008 at 10:01 am
Rather than encourage people to visit NZ it’s practically an invitation for other countries to bomb the heck out of us to stop us breeding any more camp, dorky PMs!
December 16th, 2008 at 10:57 am
Managed ok to explain some of those Shortland St scenes to the pre-schooler, but this… this is going to be difficult.
December 16th, 2008 at 11:00 am
This is embarrassing.
December 16th, 2008 at 11:34 am
I’m confused. I thought John Key was PM of New Zealand. When did he become PM of Noo Zild?
December 16th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
Surely Key is simply inventing new ‘fabulous’ words for us to use – words like ’shtrike’, ‘cultcha’, ‘picuress’ and ’sumfing’.
By the way, is that a Polo shirt Key is wearing? What, couldn’t stoop to wearing a Kiwi brand?
December 16th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
Dancing Cookie – if it’s okay for the All Blacks to ignore Kiwi clothing manufacturers, I’m sure Mr Key feels it’s okay for him too. Anyway, he looks simply divine in peach.
December 16th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
That’s too good. Choice in fact.
He looks very pituress in that salmon tee.
December 16th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
Oh. God.
That is truly horrible.
December 16th, 2008 at 6:15 pm
Bear – at least the All Blacks can find clothes that fit them! Key looks like he’s being sent off to boarding school in a shirt two sizes too big!
December 17th, 2008 at 6:42 am
Please tell me that this was done as a p*ss take- I would hate for anyone overseas to think we are all like that!!! KEy also needs to learn how to pronounce New Zealand
December 17th, 2008 at 7:05 am
John Key’s been Benny Hillified . Hilarious!
December 17th, 2008 at 7:07 am
What did they do for the background? Photograph a bit of paddock a cow had been lying on? And please John, learn your lines before they push “go” on the camera…
December 17th, 2008 at 7:25 am
My god, that was the worst ad ever. I can not imagine anyone watching that crap then thinking to themselves ‘wow, I really want to go to New Zealand’.
On a side note, that video reminds me of a video clip I saw on Spareroom of an American couple who make home movies (‘lets make a movie’).
December 17th, 2008 at 7:31 am
What better way to follow dykie Hullun Clark? Picked Johnboy for family when he was first hitting the screens. Told all my friends “you heard it first from moi!”
December 17th, 2008 at 7:39 am
Unfortunately, I never got to see it, as it has now been pulled. ‘No longer available’
December 17th, 2008 at 7:55 am
It’s working for me Aphrodite.
December 17th, 2008 at 8:28 am
Audiologists worldwide will be pleased to know we have the cleanest ear.
December 17th, 2008 at 10:41 am
Oh dear… do kiwis really sound that bad???
December 17th, 2008 at 11:02 am
This looks like something that an ad agency would do in their spare time as a rehearsal. EEK… I sure hope this wasn’t actually used for promo work!
December 17th, 2008 at 11:12 am
That Benny Hill thing is brilliant. I tried it on another Key video, here.
December 17th, 2008 at 11:57 am
Do we have noone better to promote us than the self-proclaimed man with a “folksy style”. This is truly embarrassing!
December 17th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
Oh no, I’ve lived here in NZ all my life. Now after seeing that all I want to do is run off overseas and bury my head in the sand.
This is one very embarrassing advert for NZ, a dancing carrot could have done a better job.
December 17th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
This is…something like listening to Lorraine Downes when she won Miss Universe…awful but fascinating all the same. I mean do we ‘rilly’ sound like that? I wonder if people other than those from Downunder can understand what he’s saying? Congratulations I say. To me he comes across as most Kiwis. He’s friendly, NZ loving and not too polished-genuine I think is the word.
December 17th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
OMG…and they said Helen Clarke was gay…
December 18th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
“Those 360 turns will spin your head as well as spin your body in the boat.” HAHAHAHA!!
The only thing that could take the puss out of this more than what John was able to unwittingly do to himself is to provide subtitles. What a slurring stammering twit.
December 18th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
They’ve taken it off…I’m so upset. Did anyone capture it so that it can be reposted?
December 19th, 2008 at 10:00 am
Peter McLennan explains why the video’s been taken down. But we reckon it’s because Spare Room readers were taking such good piss out of it.
December 21st, 2008 at 8:16 am
It was a pretty cheesy video.
Call me blind, but I can’t see/find the explanation on Peter’s site regarding the why the video was taken down.
December 21st, 2008 at 1:23 pm
Mmm, he’s taken it down. From memory, it was something about the rights for the song used in the vid only being liscenced for international coverage…smells fishy to me.
December 22nd, 2008 at 7:48 pm
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January 12th, 2009 at 3:37 pm
hmmm, guess i missed the joke since video has been taken down.
sounds like many reasons to make fun. but not sure i get the “pink tourist dollar” park of the the post.
is that supposed to make fun of homos or something else?
please tell me, and i’ll make sure to vacation elsewhere.
January 16th, 2009 at 10:24 am
That is outrageous that this can be removed and should be illegal. This is part of NZ heritage and should not be allowed to be deleted.
Seriously this must be restored, if this was broadcast on TV it would have to be kept on videotape for archive purposes.
What is the matter little Johnny can’t you handle a little criticism? Helen and any previous PM would be constant fodder for comedians, are we just a little too precious then need to cry about it?