Early Life
Pinder was raised in in Oamaru, North Otago, 80 km south of Timaru, where he was born. His greatest influences while growing up were the circus and comedy. Pinder lived next door to a ‘circus lot’ as a child, where Bullens Circus and Ashtons Circus regularly performed. Although his household didn’t have a television set, they used to sit down to listen to the radio as a family; when The Goon Show began being broadcast in New Zealand as Pinder hit puberty, he was the perfect age to enjoy the new form of comedy that his parents loathed. His subsequent career has included a great deal of work with comedians and circus performers.
Read more about this topic: John Pinder (comedy Producer)
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