WINNER 2025 Billy T Award.

Hoani Hotene (Ngāti Hauā) brings his Billy T Award winning show to town for this year's Tauranga Arts Festival.

The world's heating up, going wild, and Hoani Hotene is trying to get through it all with what…? Jokes? Yep. Growing up in a kura kaupapa, Hoani comes with different lens on Aotearoa and everything that’s going on. He’s here asking big questions about politics, religion, and breakfast.

Hoani is one of Aotearoa’s fastest up and coming comedians. Hoani’s shows are sell-outs throughout the maunga and he’s opened tours with some of Aotearoa's biggest names, Joe Daymond and Tofiga Fepulea’i.

“Hoani Hotene is a charming ray of sunshine full of upbeat, sometimes silly, positivity”

Chortle (UK)