That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.

Coolguy.website

Residing so peacefully in his digital home

Hello, I am Zach Mandeville and this is my homepage! I am a comedian, writer, and friend living in Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand.

This space is my online home, garden, notebook, library, lab, altar, riverside picnic, and chill zone. It is my calm spot on the web and I hope you find some nice stuff here too.

You can read the original manifesto for this site to understand my inspiration.

Upcoming shows

If you want to catch me in person, and we don't already have lunch plans, then come on out to a show!

Friday Laughs
October 02, 08:00pm to 10:00pm at Fringe Bar

I am on this great lineup show alongside Li'i Alaimoana, Lesa Macleod-Whiting, Joana Joy, George Fenn, and hosted by Jerome Chandrahasen!

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Scarehorn
October 30, 07:30pm to 09:30pm at Newtown Community Centre

The spookiest comedy show is BACK! A classic airhorn of standup and sketch and improv and music and dance but also frights, chills, scares, thrills, boos, bumps, and eerie mayhem!

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If you want to keep in touch with me subscribe to my newsletter! It is an eclectic, entertaining ramble sent out seasonally.

You can also email me directly at webmaster[at]coolguy[dot]website

I'm also on Cuba and Dixon a lot and hang out at the Newtown Community Centre often too. If you see me and wave, I'll wave back, then prolly come over and talk to you. We can figure out somewhere to go from there.

I've got a new radio show!

Logo by Angelica

My friend Leki and I started a weekly radio show, Rabbit Hole Radio.

It airs on the radio every Monday, 9pm on Radio Access Wellington, and can be listened to online after on our show page.

We also have our own homepage, but it's v. small and slight at the moment: rabbitholeradio.nz

And my pride and joy Airhorn!

My friends and I regularly put on a weirdo comedy show I am so proud to be a part of: AIRHORN.

It happens at the Newtown Community Centre. Awarded the most innovative comedy show in Wellington, two years running, and the mayor of wellington said we were ushering in a new golden age. You gotta check it out!

We have a website here: airhorn.nz

Recent Changes

New log entry: Touching Hands
24 Jul, 2026

Added my thoughts around a sweet boardgame and sweet boardgames check it out →
New log entry with picture
13 Jul, 2026

Added short log entry, but it has a nice picture of a Kererū that Angelica took. check it out →
Added Rabbit Hole Radio and Airhorn to home page.
9 Jun, 2026

I have a new radio show I wanted to share, and realized I hadn't really talked about Airhorn on my homepage, and it's a huge part of my life. So I added both to the homepage, to give a better view of what I am up to now.

Visit the full changelog to see every change to the site (since I started tracking it).

Explore my site!

A drawing and quote by Ted Nelson, from his book "Computer Dreams". He is a hero of mine and inspiration for this site. I wrote an ode to him you can read.