{"id":934316,"date":"2026-05-03T04:49:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T04:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/934316\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T04:49:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T04:49:14","slug":"guy-montgomery-one-fan-took-us-back-to-his-house-and-showed-us-all-his-guns-australian-television","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/934316\/","title":{"rendered":"Guy Montgomery: \u2018One fan took us back to his house and showed us all his guns\u2019 | Australian television"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have <\/strong>you<\/strong> ever won a spelling bee?<\/strong><\/p>\n

No! I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve entered any formalised spelling competition. When I was eight or nine, there was a guy who I used to copy during tests. We were doing a spelling test and the word was \u201cvehicle\u201d and he made an absolutely terrible attempt at it. I knew he\u2019d spelled it wrong and was like, wait \u2013 have I been copying someone who\u2019s more stupid than me this whole time?<\/p>\n

Which word do you hate the most?<\/strong><\/p>\n

None! That\u2019s crazy! I love all words. They\u2019re just out there, doing their best.<\/p>\n

Who would you like to play you in the biopic about your life?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I used to get compared to Paul Bettany a lot. He\u2019s older than me, but I think he\u2019s got range; he can have a crack.<\/p>\n

Your assistant Aaron Chen<\/a> has left Guy Montgomery\u2019s Guy Mont<\/strong> Spelling Bee for <\/strong>the United States. Do you miss Aaron or is Sam Campbell the superior assistant?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I do miss Aaron. And Sam is a fantastic assistant. You\u2019re not going to get me that easy! I\u2019ve been media trained by the guy who does all the professional sports players.<\/p>\n

I love Aaron. Making a show with him is such a dream. I never would have asked for him to leave. But he\u2019s in the ascendancy. He\u2019s a star. So the likelihood of him being able to come back from New York to film Spelling Bee was always going to be low. So to fill the void with Sam \u2013 I hold very few comedians in my esteem as I do Aaron, but Sam is amongst them, so I feel blessed. I look up to both of them as comedians, so to get to work with them has been a dream.<\/p>\n

What is the biggest misconception about New Zealand<\/a>?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Man, I don\u2019t even know what the conceptions of New Zealand are any more. I think everyone\u2019s so busy looking at countries visibly destroying everything, we\u2019re kind of under the radar. What are the conceptions about New Zealand?<\/p>\n

It is now full of prepper billionaires and very expensive.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Well we do have a few billionaires and it is unbelievably expensive to live there at the moment, especially in Auckland, where I live. Groceries, petrol obviously \u2013 the basic stuff that you would never consider a luxury has gone crazy. I don\u2019t think there are any misconceptions.<\/p>\n

What has been your most memorable interaction with a fan?<\/strong><\/p>\n

When my friend Tim [Batt] and I first did our podcast, The Worst Idea of All Time, we crowdfunded a trip to Los Angeles to put on a live show there. We were young and silly and we\u2019d stay with fans to save money. I wouldn\u2019t race to stay with fans again. There was one guy who took us back to his house and showed us all his guns and we were like \u201cOhhhh!\u201d He was enthusiastic and lovely, he was just mental. I think he had really rich parents. It was kind of like living on a different plane of reality. I remember we were looking at the guns and thinking, \u201cMaybe we should start paying to stay in neutral settings.\u201d<\/p>\n

What are you secretly really good at?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I got incredibly house-broken growing up. I hold the cleanliness of the sink, the stacking and unstacking of the dishwasher, even the way the laundry is hung out, to an unnecessarily pedantic standard. I\u2019m also really, really, really good at falling asleep at night. It\u2019s cash money. In my brain there\u2019s this massive \u201cpower off\u201d button, and I can just feel a hand reaching out to hold down the button and it just shuts all systems down. My beloved partner Chelsea will be sat next to me throwing all variety of conversation topics at me to try and stop me from pressing the button \u2013 but it is a very powerful button \u2026<\/p>\n

If you had a sandwich named after you, what would be in it?<\/strong><\/p>\n

OK. I\u2019m starting with fresh mozzarella. I\u2019m putting rocket and a chilli onion jam in. Listen to me go! I\u2019m putting butter on both pieces of bread, and avocado on one. I\u2019m putting heirloom tomatoes in there. I\u2019m wondering if I should put bacon or chicken in there. No \u2013 I\u2019ll put both! It\u2019s my sandwich! This is not an everyday sandwich! This is a maybe once-a-month sandwich! It feels like quite a decadent sandwich.<\/p>\n

Who is the most famous New Zealander you know?<\/strong><\/p>\n

What is the metric for knowing? Like to stop and say hi if I ran into them on the street? I know Flight of the Conchords well enough to say \u201cWhat\u2019s up?\u201d Actually, I know former New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern well enough to be like, \u201cHey, how you are going?\u201d We met because I was in an improv comedy troupe for 10 years. We performed in Auckland Central all the time and she was just an MP in Auckland Central then. So she saw us perform a lot, because if you\u2019re the minister for Auckland Central it\u2019s a good idea to get to know the arts community. She was very friendly to us. She\u2019s lovely.<\/p>\n

Would you rather die at the bottom of the ocean or out in space?<\/strong><\/p>\n

They\u2019re both good options, to be honest. Either way you\u2019re making a statement. Not one that people would know about because obviously you\u2019ve been marooned in either setting. Actually, what\u2019s crazy is that in both instances I\u2019m annoyed that I don\u2019t get to tell people that\u2019s how I die.<\/p>\n

We could get an audience to watch you die if you want.<\/strong><\/p>\n

No, I just want it to be reported on. Those guys died in that submarine recently, and everyone made fun of them. So I\u2019ll take space. I don\u2019t want to get bullied for dying at the bottom of the ocean.<\/p>\n

I think it would probably make the news that Guy Montgomery died in space.<\/strong><\/p>\n

You reckon? That\u2019s quite a nice thought.<\/p>\n

Guy Montgomery\u2019s Guy Mont Spelling Bee season three airs on Wednesdays at 8:35pm on ABC TV. All three seasons are available to stream on ABC iview<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Have you ever won a spelling bee? No! I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve entered any formalised spelling competition. When…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":934317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3940],"tags":[4080,77,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-934316","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116508843534196673","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=934316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/934317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}