Rose Matafeo is bad at ending things.
This is pretty much the first thing she tells her audience in her new stand-up special, “On and On and On,” premiering Thursday on Max. It’s also a fitting problem for the New Zealand-born, London-based comedian who gained U.S. attention for creating and starring in the romantic comedy “Starstruck,” the Max series she co-wrote with comedian Alice Snedden.
Matafeo was so affable the time she appeared on the British comedy panel competition show “Taskmaster” that even though she didn’t win the season, she did win over a lot of fans with a folk song she wrote in record time about series creator Alex Horne. With lines like “We’ll get five guys and gals to play your game / Who will all be of varying levels of fame,” “Taskmaster Country Rap” is such a perfect earworm that it has even gotten stuck in Matafeo’s own head (“it was an achievement, but it also drove me to madness,” she says, laughing.).
