Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont-Spelling Bee (2023)

Original title

Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont Spelling Bee

Genre

panel game

Country

New Zealand

Length

2 seasons, 16 episodes

Rated

PG

Rating

8.6 of 10 from 7 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A comedy panel show where New Zealand comedians compete in a spelling bee with deliberately frustrating rules. Each episode has four contestants trying to spell words in rounds designed to be annoying for them and funny for the audience. The winner returns next week while the loser sits in a dunce corner wearing a cone hat.

playfullightheartedcompetitivecomedicsillyquirkyfast-paced

What happens

Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont-Spelling Bee is a New Zealand television comedy panel show on Three, created and presented by Guy Montgomery and co-hosted by Sanjay Patel. The show is loosely based on a spelling bee: each episode, four comedians participate in a series of rounds, where the goal is almost always to spell words or names in rounds that are "designed to be infuriating to take part in and entertaining to watch". The winner of each episode competes again the following week, and the loser of each episode (the one who got last place) must wear a dunce cap in the Dunce's Corner. The first series of Guy Mont-Spelling Bee aired in 2023, and the second series aired in late 2024. An Australian version of the show was commissioned by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) in 2024. Guy Mont-Spelling Bee was renewed for a third series in 2025. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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