Tofiga’s creative Prime Ministerial biopic
After Tofiga describes the task as “another silly challenge”, Paul points out they are tasks, and adds they don’t like to describe them as ‘silly’.
Tofiga’s list includes Joseph Parker and Steven Adams. He then asks Paul the name of New Zealand’s current Prime Minister (Christopher Luxon) and adds this as his twentieth person.
In the studio, Paul confirms that Christopher Luxon was the only white person on Tofiga’s list.
Before starting his biopic, Tofiga notes that ‘Luxon’ sounds like a brand of soap, and suggests to Paul that perhaps Christopher Luxon had toy planes as a child and thought, “Oh I wanna be CEO of Air New Zealand” (he served as CEO of the company between 2012 and 2019). He then suggests that Christopher Luxon had maybe loved honey, so decided that he wanted to have his own beehive (The Beehive is the common name for the executive wing of New Zealand’s Parliament, where the Prime Minister’s office is located).
Tofiga’s biopic features Paul in the role of Christopher Luxon, who is initially seen eating honey on toast and playing with a toy plane. Tofiga then enters the scene wearing a top hat, playing Christopher Luxon’s father. He tells his son to stop playing with planes, and also complains that he has eaten all of the honey. When he reminds Christopher that he is the future of their soap business, Christopher responds that he doesn’t like soap and that one day he will be CEO of Air New Zealand and have his own beehive.
After insisting that his son will look after their soap business, Tofiga sniffs a bar of soap he’s holding, before saying “Smells like Luxon, feels like Luxon”. He then takes a bite of the soap and says “Even tastes like Luxon”, before Christopher tells him to stop eating soap.
The biopic then jumps to 45 years later, showing Christopher (now played by Tofiga) sitting at the desk eating honey on toast. He says “Kia ora. My name’s Christopher Luxon, and I’m the Prime Minister of Ao-te-reo New Zealand. Tena koutou, kina toukou, milla koutou, milla moa.” He then takes a bite out of a bar of soap, before saying, “Ahh Luxon”.
In the studio, Jeremy says he likes how Christopher Luxon changes ethnicity towards the end. Josh, representing Tofiga, claims that the biopic was factually correct, pointing out that the Prime Minister probably does like honey on toast, and that his dad probably ate a lot of soap.
Tofiga earns 4 points for his creative biopic.
(Written by JoGo and proofread by Karl Craven)
(Illustrations collected by JoGo and adjusted by David Fuller)
