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Speaker 1: M with Jones and Amanda.

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Speaker 2: Tell you what.

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Speaker 3: I'm a huge fan of our next guest. I love

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Speaker 3: her on of you been paying attention. The reason we're

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Speaker 3: playing this song is that she's a key we she's

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Speaker 3: now brightening up out Tuesday nights. I don't know if

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Speaker 3: you've seen the show The Cheap Seats. It is fantastic.

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Speaker 3: Channel ten is finally resting. NCIS repeats for a little while.

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Speaker 2: No, I know what a shock, what's going to happen?

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Speaker 3: So The Cheap Seats is co hosted by the fabulous

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Speaker 3: Melanie brace Well.

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Speaker 1: Melanie, Hello, Hello, Wow, what I feel right at home? Listen,

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Speaker 1: thank it's this song what a tree do you?

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Speaker 2: Perhaps?

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Speaker 4: Are you being a little bit sarcastic about that because

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Speaker 4: we know that New Zealand so whatever.

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Speaker 1: No, that's actually our national anthem. It's really quickly right

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Speaker 1: in the Olympic spirit.

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Speaker 4: Because Dave Dobbin did other stuff. He was in the

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Speaker 4: Banditi Smash and actually love You Like I Should was

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Speaker 4: a great song.

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Speaker 3: But we never play that. I never play that one.

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Speaker 1: That's true. It's true.

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Speaker 3: So tell us about this show. It's a clip show

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Speaker 3: and you and Tim McDonald's sort of riff at the

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Speaker 3: end of the all the quirky clips from the week.

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Speaker 3: I know that because you're not a native Australian, you've

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Speaker 3: been struggling with some of the things, like the pronunciation

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Speaker 3: of the Queensland premier's name I saw last week.

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Speaker 1: Yes, I mean it's it was basically they didn't really

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Speaker 1: tell me anything about Australia. They were like, it'll be good, Telly,

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Speaker 1: just humiliate yourself on TV and we want to tell

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Speaker 1: you how to pronounce you of names. We will tell

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Speaker 1: you any of the local references. Will just kind of

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Speaker 1: throw you in the deep end and see what happens.

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Speaker 1: But that's essentially the result. Although I can't have myself

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Speaker 1: to blame. I got Tim's name wrong last week as well.

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Speaker 1: I caught him mom, So.

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Speaker 2: That's a tough one.

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Speaker 1: Really fully blame it on not knowing the references. I

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Speaker 1: am just stupid.

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Speaker 4: Well you just used to Tom Glisner, that's what would

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Speaker 4: be Surely it's just a slip of the tongue.

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Speaker 1: Yes, he was in the audience. I caught a glimmer

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Speaker 1: of his eye and I just said his name and

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Speaker 1: it was it was down help from me.

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Speaker 2: And he's the working dog as well. So you know

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Speaker 2: you've got to you know what I mean, grease the palms,

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Speaker 2: as they say, Melanie.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely that, you know what.

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Speaker 3: I know. I've seen you also and transform into Cinda

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Speaker 3: An in an extraordinary way. Were you aware that you

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Speaker 3: looked like her? It was only when you sort of

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Speaker 3: juuged up the face and the teeth that it appeared.

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Speaker 4: It was.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a little bit of both. I guess.

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Speaker 1: I think. I remember the night of the election when

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Speaker 1: she won. I was doing like a crappy comedy gig

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Speaker 1: in town and I turned up and I was wearing

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Speaker 1: redblitz and a jacket and someone was like, just thunder.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, she just won the election. She's not going

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Speaker 1: to turn up to match bar down and do a

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Speaker 1: tight five.

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Speaker 4: Because you've got a multi skill a bit in New Zealand,

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Speaker 4: don't you like? You know, you could be the prime

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Speaker 4: minister and then you're off to you know, shear a

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Speaker 4: sheep or something like that.

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Speaker 2: So I could happy.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I mean that's probably something she could do,

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Speaker 1: because she was quite humble. She ever said I wouldn't

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Speaker 1: do it. I wouldn't, you know, take the time to

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Speaker 1: do a gig during winning an election. He would be like, oh,

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Speaker 1: calm down, okay, getting a bit fully is this.

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Speaker 3: When you met her? How did that go? Because I

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Speaker 3: know that you met her. I think you addressed as

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Speaker 3: her when you met her, weren't you?

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Speaker 1: Yes? So I was asked by her people to do

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Speaker 1: a little intro to comedy debates that she was, you know, mediating,

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Speaker 1: and essentially they wanted me to go out there and

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Speaker 1: just pretend I was just und her at first, to

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Speaker 1: a lot of disappointment from the crowd, who brought to

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Speaker 1: some new's cover. But the problem was is that during

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Speaker 1: lockdown my I did the impressions during lockdown where I

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Speaker 1: had a lot of regrow so my hair is naturally brunette,

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Speaker 1: I could tie it up looked like her. But as

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Speaker 1: soon as we got out of lockdown in New Zealand,

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Speaker 1: I went back to blonde and my only like quick

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Speaker 1: solution was to buy this like six dollars, very crappy wig.

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Speaker 1: So the impressions that I did on TikTok looked quite legit,

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Speaker 1: But when I actually met her, I was in this awful,

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Speaker 1: disgusting tatty wig and had to be like, people say,

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Speaker 1: I look like.

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Speaker 3: You've also worked with another of my heroes, my giant

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Speaker 3: crushes Jermaine Clement from Fight to Flight of the Concords

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Speaker 3: Wellington Paranormal is a brilliant show. You're one of the

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Speaker 3: writers on.

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Speaker 1: That, Yes, I am. And it's funny I say that

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Speaker 1: because he was actually one of my heroes as well

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Speaker 1: growing up. I Play The Concords was out when I

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Speaker 1: was an intermediate school. I was years here then, and

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Speaker 1: all I did at school was like wrap hippopotamus, this

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Speaker 1: is why rhymes at school and I was like fully

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Speaker 1: obsessed where I don't know how much you remember of

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Speaker 1: the show, but the name of the obsessed fan was now, yes,

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Speaker 1: that's right. You know. My parents would make fun of

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Speaker 1: me for that. So when I met Tomine, I had

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Speaker 1: to really kind of underplay how much of a massive

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Speaker 1: fan I was, because you know, we met, but I

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Speaker 1: had I didn't tell him that we had actually met before,

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Speaker 1: because I had paid like fifty dollars to have a

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Speaker 1: photo with him at like a comic com expo. I

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Speaker 1: had to be like, oh, nice to meet for the

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Speaker 1: very first time. You might have seen me on TV.

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Speaker 2: Because you can't break that wall.

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Speaker 3: No, you can't say I was a fan.

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Speaker 1: Now I feel a bit more comfortable. I literally, I

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Speaker 1: want to take this to the grave. I'm going to

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Speaker 1: burn that, butto you know, try and you know, make

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Speaker 1: sure I look more like a professional. I worked on

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Speaker 1: the four seasons of the show. I'm like, Okay, you

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Speaker 1: probably won't fire me because like, but.

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Speaker 2: It's like Katie. It's like Katie Holmes.

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Speaker 4: She had a picture of Tom Cruise up on her

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Speaker 4: wall when she was a kid, and then as soon

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Speaker 4: as she married him and she told him that he

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Speaker 4: dumped HER's that's my speculation. But I'm just saying, as

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Speaker 4: soon as you cross over that then you know.

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Speaker 1: I know, yeah, I mean, I'm not I'm not claiming

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Speaker 1: to make but I see.

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Speaker 2: Which are working with him.

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Speaker 4: It's like me saying I've got a VH collection of

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Speaker 4: Amanda presenting on Beyond two thousands.

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Speaker 3: He told me that I'd have to dump.

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Speaker 2: You exactly, so I don't tempting every time.

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Speaker 4: When you use that episode, Melanie, it's so great to

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Speaker 4: talk to you. You can catch cheap Seats tonight nine o'clock

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Speaker 4: on ten and ten play Melanie brace Well.

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Speaker 2: Your co host name is Tim.

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Speaker 3: Don't forget it.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Thank you. Jones Amanda's