David Correos

INFO

Name	David Correos (he/him)
Also known as	Dave Correos
Born	1992
Country of Birth	Aotearoa
Place of Residence	Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland
Ethnicities	Filipino
Artform	Comedy, Screen
Decades Active	2010s, 2020s

ABOUT

David Correos is a Filipino comedian and performing artist based in Tāmaki Makaurau. His work is absurd, joyful and extreme and described as “[blending] the lines between theatre, comedy and just straight up insanity with no regard for the rules”.

Correos grew up in Ōtautahi Christchurch. At 17, he became a National Champion Olympic Weightlifter. At 19, he won Junior Gold at the Oceania Championships and Junior Bronze at the 2012 Commonwealth Games. He missed his goal to compete at the 2014 Commonwealth Games after injuring his ankle during the qualifying period.

Correos studied performing arts at Hagley Theatre Company, where his interest in comedy grew. Following the 2011 Christchurch earthquake, he started performing stand-up alongside musicians and street performers.

In 2013, while he was working as a debt collector in Christchurch, he decided to pursue a career in comedy and moved to Tāmaki Makaurau in 2014, where he continued to work as a debt collector while performing stand-up. In 2016, following his solo show at the NZ International Comedy Festival, Second Place Winner, he won the Billy T Award.

Correos performed his first show, Chaos and Order with Matt Stellingwerf at the 2017 Edinburgh Festival Fringe and returned in 2018 with his solo show The Correos Effect. He returned in 2019 with Better Than I Was The Last Time, where a critic captured a breakdown he had during this show.

After being brought into the Taskmaster NZ production office for an afternoon to test a task in its first season, Correos was invited to compete in the second season, where he finished in third place. He has also made appearances on THREE’s Comedy Gala, 7 Days, AotearoHA, TVNZ’s Stand Up, Laughs Unleashed, Pax Assadi’s Comedy Mixtape and YouTube sketch comedy channel Viva La Dirt League.

Correos has played characters in Creamerie (2021), Golden Boy (2019) and Double Parked (2023), and has appeared in television commercials for Burger King, 2degrees and McDonald’s.