A lot of the time the weather's pretty shit, and I think they're a culture geared to being very conversational. They're used to sitting inside and entertaining each other - I'm impressed at just how funny they are. Which, of course, segues beautifully into Kendall's Comedy Festival show, War , which is surely no topic for a lady. Because women are only interested in nail polish and tampons. I wanted to write a show about why we go to war, which is a real bitch of a topic.
War is a human folly, and most comedy's about human folly.
Kendall's interest in war was nourished when she used to work in a Sydney pub and served a lot of old diggers. They actually missed World War II, because that was the last time they were heroes. They fought the Reich, landed on beaches and had to stop fascism. It was almost like Star Wars - the enemy was so bad and had to be stopped. That's very romantic to someone of my age.