TV quiz show host shocked as audience member yells out answer
The bizarre moment happened on the hilarious ABC show, Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont-Spelling Bee, which returns to screens tonight, Wednesday June 4 (with all episodes to be available on ABC iView from 8.35pm).
The program, hosted by comedian Guy Montgomery, tests the spelling prowess of some of Australia's favourite personalities.
But one of the contestants, Chinese comedian He Huang, got a little bit of unexpected help while filming an episode for the soon to be released second season.
In the clip, which you can watch in the video player above, Huang was struggling to answer a question about flags.
She eventually locked in 'Austria' as her answer, before a heckler in the audience quickly corrected her and yelled out, 'Poland!'
The contestants could not believe it …
'(That's) absolutely illegal,' host Montgomery said to the audience member, much to the amusement of others in the crowd.
Speaking to news.com.au about the hilarious incident, Montgomery said, 'it was just a moment of, not madness, but something got away from them (the audience member) where they had to pitch in.'
He continued, 'The show does draw an audience of word nerds or people who believe in themselves as spellers and there is a sense of excitement and frustration that can occur when they're watching a contestant who's approaching a word or so close to being able to spell it.'
When asked if he had any words of advice for future audience members, Montgomery joked, 'Keep your mouth shut! Pull your frickin head in!'
Roll with the punches
Whereas most taped TV quiz shows would have edited the moment out, Montgomery was adamant he wanted to leave it in the final episode.
' I like that in the world of the show, we can just sort of roll with that,' he told news.com.au.
'It's like, 'well that is incredibly unusual and kind of funny and I guess builds on the lunacy and the madness of the universe that we're trying to have inside the spelling bee.''
Other contestants
As mentioned, Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont-Spelling Bee has featured some of Australia's favourite personalities as contestants.
Tim Minchin, Wil Anderson, Urzila Carlson, and Tony Armstrong are just some of the big names who competed in the show's first season.
When asked which contestant he was most excited about in the upcoming second season, Montgomery named Hamish Blake.
'I grew up a fan (of his) … he's such an influential Australian television comedy figure.'
Others who'll feature in season two include Julia Morris, Rove McManus, Denise Scott, Becky Lucas, Josh Thomas and Dave Hughes.
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