Dai Henwood

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Dafydd Morgan 'Dai' Henwood (born on 7 February 1978) is a New Zealand comedian, perhaps best known for serving as a team captain on TV3's weekly panel comedy show, 7 Days.

He studied Theatre and Film at Victoria University of Wellington, graduating with a BA in Eastern Religions.

He won the Best New Face award on TV2's Pulp Comedy in 1999, the Billy T Award in 2002, and the Fred Award in 2007. In 2016, he was presented with the Rielly Comedy Award by the Variety Artists Club of New Zealand.

In 2004 and 2005, he toured the shows The Hot Stepper and Champagne Table Tennis, and performed at the Tokyo Comedy Store, and in Melbourne and the UK.

He has subsequently performed shows in both Auckland and Wellington, during the New Zealand International Comedy Festival, including Dai-Namic Scenarios (2007 & 2008), Shabba (2009), Dai Another Day (2009), Ideals vs Reality (2010), Fonzie Touched Me (2011), and Adapt Or Dai (2013).

In 2008, he was invited to the Montreal Just For Laughs Festival and recorded a televised Gala special. Two of his comedy shows - Dai Another Day (2009) and Adapt or Dai (2013) - have been released on DVD.

He spent a period on TV3's Sunrise morning show, as the 'gadget guy', giving humourous reviews of the latest gadgets. He subsequently rose to prominence after hosting C4's Insert Video Here, and went on to host two series of a comedy travel show, Roll The Dai, on the same network.

Between 2009 and 2021, he served as captain of Team Two on TV3's weekly panel comedy show 7 Days, appearing in over 250 episodes.

He appeared as a host of seasons 7 and 8 of Dancing with the Stars, in 2018 and 2019.

In 2023, in an interview on The Project, he disclosed that he had been diagnosed with metastatic bowel cancer, back in 2020.

Also in 2023, he appeared as a contestant on Guy Montgomery's comedy panel show, Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont-Spelling Bee

[Source: Wikipedia and IMDb, 29/05/2023.]