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Speaker 1: Jersey and Amanda gam Nation.

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Speaker 2: Well, Guy Montgomery might hail from New Zealand, but he's

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Speaker 2: so successful it's only a matter of time before we

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Speaker 2: claim him as our own. He's earned himself a legion

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Speaker 2: of fans thanks to his appearances on Thank God You're Here,

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Speaker 2: have been paying attention, and most recently as host of

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Speaker 2: the Wildly Funny Guy Mont's Spelling Bee. Next year, he's

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Speaker 2: going to be headlining the Sydney Comedy Festival.

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Speaker 3: Guy Montgomery, Hello.

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Speaker 4: It's a big deal.

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Speaker 1: Hello Jones, Hello Amanda. How are you both?

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Speaker 4: We're great. That's a big deal. So your family's going

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Speaker 4: to see you now your secret is no longer safe.

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Speaker 3: That's right.

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Speaker 1: Well, my family is still in New Zealand. They've got

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Speaker 1: no idea what I'm doing over here.

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Speaker 2: I did like that you said you've moved to Canada

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Speaker 2: to start your career so that no one would have

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Speaker 2: to see you suck.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, I sort of put off starting comedy because

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Speaker 1: I thought I was funny, you know, conversationally with friends

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Speaker 1: and stuff. And then when I realized I wanted to

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Speaker 1: try and do it publicly. It's embarrassing, you know, to

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Speaker 1: become good at comedy. Everyone has to live through being bad,

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Speaker 1: and I didn't want in front of the people who

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Speaker 1: my main defining trait was that I was funny. I

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Speaker 1: didn't want to expose myself as being unfunny, So I

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Speaker 1: didn't practice for a year in privacy, you know, relatively

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Speaker 1: speaking from New Zealand and Canada.

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Speaker 3: And what did Canada make of you?

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Speaker 1: Well, I think, to be honest, it was twenty twelve

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Speaker 1: when I went there, and the sort of Flight of

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Speaker 1: the Concords was still as a television show was quite big,

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Speaker 1: and Tiger had just set out Boy and so there

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Speaker 1: was a real warmth towards hearing in his zeal On accent.

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Speaker 1: I think, like we know would get up on stage

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Speaker 1: if they heard any zeal On accent. I think the

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Speaker 1: assumption of a lot of people who just generally like

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Speaker 1: comedy was that whatever I was going to say could

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Speaker 1: be funny. So you get a little bit of a

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Speaker 1: five second buffet at the start where this sort of thinking,

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Speaker 1: oh this is different from hearing another Canadian accent. Then

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Speaker 1: of course you still have to be funny. But it

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Speaker 1: was perfect. I mean I didn't know anyone, so I

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Speaker 1: had no community or friend so the people I became

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Speaker 1: friends with just all the people who are the same

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Speaker 1: open mics as me every night.

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Speaker 4: But there's there's truth in that. You look at Billy Connolly.

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Speaker 4: I remember once he was doing this bit about the

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Speaker 4: gay lesbian Mardi Gras and he says this, he's lesbians

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Speaker 4: and they drave bikes and they called dikes on bikes

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Speaker 4: and people are just laughing their heads off and he's

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Speaker 4: just giving out information. Everyone knows that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, accent, it's the accent that does it.

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Speaker 1: It can help, you know, I think. I mean, my

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Speaker 1: dream has always been in terms of a perfect joke.

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Speaker 1: It's been the sad sentence, was nothing funny in the

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Speaker 1: sentence and still get people to laugh. I think that's

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Speaker 1: like that's a platonic ideal of comedy because their brain

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Speaker 1: is dancing with the idea of what you could say

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Speaker 1: or what you could do with it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, And are you at that level? Yet?

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Speaker 1: Occasionally it's not really for me to inflict on where

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Speaker 1: I am. It's all going pretty well, to be completely honest.

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Speaker 1: You know, I'm going well enough to be on the

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Speaker 1: radio with you guys that.

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Speaker 3: Come on to man's expect adition. It studies time tell

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Speaker 3: us about the Spelling Bee. This began over Zoom. How

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Speaker 3: did it take off? And was spelling.

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Speaker 1: Well, so, yeah, it was. It was on Zoom, it

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Speaker 1: was during lockdown and twenty twenty I think I started

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Speaker 1: doing it and it was basically all my work got

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Speaker 1: wiped out. Was just a means of mucking around with

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Speaker 1: friends and spelling was something. Spelling something I've always had

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Speaker 1: a fondness forign language, and it was one of the

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Speaker 1: few things I remember thinking I was good at at school,

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Speaker 1: and then when I was trying to create something for

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Speaker 1: people to play and to watch, even when it was

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Speaker 1: just for online, I think spelling this incredible universal access point.

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Speaker 1: Everyone who spells, everyone has a relationship to it. It's

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Speaker 1: kind of a false representation of intelligence. It actually doesn't

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Speaker 1: matter if you're good at spelling a lot it there's

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Speaker 1: no bearing on how you go through your life. So

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Speaker 1: it's perfect because it's got quantifiable stakes that mean nothing,

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Speaker 1: and so I think everyone can get into it. And

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Speaker 1: the other thing that I really liked about it is

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Speaker 1: that it means that it can exist in the vacuum.

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Speaker 1: You know, a lot of great television is responsive to

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Speaker 1: what's happening in the world or you know, have you

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Speaker 1: been paying attention? For example, it's responsive to the news,

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Speaker 1: but spelling My dream and why I made the set

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Speaker 1: when I look kind of old, is that someone could

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Speaker 1: find this in ten years and because it's non responsive,

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Speaker 1: because it's just all nonsense, it could still be as

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Speaker 1: funny then as it was now. It's sort of timeless.

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Speaker 1: I get that.

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Speaker 4: Is there a word that friends? For example, when I'd

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Speaker 4: spell the word friend, I always muck it up. Really yeah,

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Speaker 4: I just always get back and I am wrong?

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Speaker 3: Does he writes it high free in?

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Speaker 4: I get this like it's like this glitch in my

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Speaker 4: brain that it can't spell friend. And I thought I

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Speaker 4: was pretty good at spelling. But friend, you put a

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Speaker 4: gun at my head, I reckon I'd muck it up.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean there are certain that there are words

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Speaker 1: like and I suppose even though it's so simple and

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Speaker 1: you kind of know what you're meant to do, you

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Speaker 1: still panic when you know you're coming up to friends.

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Speaker 1: I think the equivalent word for me would be priv

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Speaker 1: where I know it does the pr I V. And

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Speaker 1: then it's always, even though I've tried to learn it,

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Speaker 1: it's always a coin toss. And whether it's an iron

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Speaker 1: e after that bet, and I know how finishes, I

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Speaker 1: know how it starts, but I can never remember what

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Speaker 1: the vowel in the middle.

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Speaker 2: Is interesting, and I can't remember whether it has a

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Speaker 2: D in it or not. I get confused with that.

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Speaker 2: And also I do a worldle every day. The American

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Speaker 2: spelling of fiber I lost my winning tell you my.

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Speaker 1: Word or tread was absolutely blowing up that day. It

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Speaker 1: was unbelievable, you know there was it was. I mean

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Speaker 1: it was Tom Cashman, who's another comedian. He's put on

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Speaker 1: task mark through the assistant, and he was absolutely apoplectic,

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Speaker 1: and he'd been on a really hot run the week before,

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Speaker 1: just talking trash anyone who would listen. He's the best

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Speaker 1: in the world. All of a sudden he forgets word

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Speaker 1: was America, and he's saying, it's not fair, it's not right.

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Speaker 1: I'm saying, you've been playing it your whole life. You've

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Speaker 1: just got to adjust, You've got to know.

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Speaker 3: You just got to know.

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Speaker 4: I'd like to see him spell apoplectic. That's a good one,

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Speaker 4: and that's easy to spell. It's a great word.

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Speaker 1: Whenever I lose word or I think it's because I

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Speaker 1: know too many five me the words I'm too great

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Speaker 1: for the game.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, of course a man is that good at it.

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Speaker 4: She does it during our radio show. In fact, she's

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Speaker 4: doing it right now as we chat.

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Speaker 3: I had.

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Speaker 1: Word. That's that's why. That's also why Tom was upset.

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Speaker 1: It was that Cora fiber double. You know, like in

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Speaker 1: a week it's two words which are either seldom correctly

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Speaker 1: or absolute nonsense. Cora, what is it call? It's like

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Speaker 1: it's it's just ludicrous.

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Speaker 3: It's completely ludicrous. Thank you for sharing.

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Speaker 4: You two can chat about this to your heart's content.

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Speaker 3: I'll do it.

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Speaker 4: It's great to talk to you. For tickets and to

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Speaker 4: your information, you can head to live nation dot com today.

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Speaker 4: You guy Montgomery, thank you, thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: You have a great dame said