Guy Montgomery

Guy Montgomery (born 29September 1988) is a comedian from New Zealand. He is known for his panel game show Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont-Spelling Bee, which he began as a web series before becoming a TV series, for Three in New Zealand, and later, adapted to an Australian version for the ABC. He is also known for his long-running podcast series, The Worst Idea of All Time, created with friend and fellow New Zealand comedian Tim Batt. He has won two New Zealand comedy prizes: the Billy T Award in 2014 and Fred Award in 2023. Montgomery won the Australian Silver Logie Award for Most Popular New Talent in 2025 for the ABC's version of Guy Mont-Spelling Bee.

Early life and career Montgomery was born in Wellington, New Zealand on 29September 1988. At a young age, Montgomery's family moved to Sydney and back to Wellington before settling in Christchurch.

To begin his career in comedy, Montgomery moved to Canada in 2010 first Montreal, and then Toronto, which had more open mic nights. Reflecting on the time in 2024, he said that "it was such an incredible year, and I do think it's probably made me". He later moved to New York City.

Podcasts and radio The Worst Idea of All Time was started in 2014 by Montgomery and Tim Batt. The first season was focused on the Adam Sandler movie Grown Ups 2; the second on Sex and the City 2; the third season on We Are Your Friends; and the fourth on the first Sex and the City film. After the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the duo did an "emergency season" in which they watched the film Home Alone 3 every three days until their local New Zealand lockdown orders were lifted. The fifth season began in 2020, with Batt and Montgomery reviewing the FrenchAmerican Emmanuelle series of softcore pornography films.

Montgomery and Batt are also co-hosts of Til Death Do Us Blart, a once-yearly, "eternal" Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 review podcast hosted in conjunction with the McElroy brothers of comedy podcast My Brother, My Brother, and Me, that airs every American Thanksgiving. The podcast operates under the principle that each of the five hosts chooses and then annually confirms a successor, who, in the case of the timely or untimely death of one of the founding hosts, will take over the empty spot. This is to ensure the podcast can run, uninterrupted, until the end of linear time.

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