12 Questions With Guy Williams

Our frickin' festival across New Zealand is very soon. In the lead up to it, we asked a few of the comedians performing some questions to get them psyched up (and anxious) about the festival. In this article, we asked comedian Guy Williams 12 questions ranging from meta and inconsequential to pretty damn interesting. 

Guy Williams is a comedian and television personality (a job title that will stop existing in 2021). He was once selected by TV Guide Magazine as New Zealand's sexiest television personality. Without further ado, here's his sexy interview: 

1. What’s your opinion about being interviewed? 

I love it! I love sharing my dumb opinions! What do you want to ask me about? Dental hygiene? I don’t trust it! It’s a conspiracy created by dentists to prop up the lucrative floss industry.

2. What would you be doing right now if you weren’t doing this interview?

Thinking up my own questions and answering them to prepare for future interviews!

3. On a scale of 1 to 10, how annoying or excellent have these first three questions been? (including this one.)… with 10 being excellent. 

What is 1? If 10 is excellent? Then 1 is so bad it makes us question the point of life itself? This is a 1.

4. A good interview with a comedian requires the questions to be unfunny in order for the comedian to then give funny responses. What are your thoughts on this premise?

We’re heading below a 1! 

5. When did you decide you wanted to become a comedian?

When I was at Uni I was invited to the “Wellington Comedy Club” (a weekly gig at the San Francisco Bath House) by a female friend thinking it was a date. Turns out about eight of us were invited and we were just their to support her brother. Getting over my initial disappointment I loved the gig so much I started going every week. Eventually I decided “I can do better than this” and I’ve been trying and failing ever since.

6. If you weren’t a comedian, what would you be? 

Ideally: Starting Small Forward for the Toronto Raptors. Realistically: A confident white guy at work, you’re not really sure what he does, but he’s very confident and he talks loudly.

7. When you tell people you’re a comedian, and they obnoxiously ask you to “tell them a joke” what do you say? 

What’s worse is when they ask to tell you a joke. I normally say “As long as it’s not racist, homophobic, or sexist” and they normally walk away disappointed.

8. What’s your worst heckler experience? 

Just drunk people you can’t understand are annoying. As long as I can hear it I can work with it but if it’s incoherent than it can be really hard to deal with.

9. You’ll be performing across NZ for Another Frickin’ Festival, would you say audiences are starkly different in different parts of the world? If so, which audiences would you say NZ audiences are most like? 

I’ve only ever performed in New Zealand so I’d say: “New Zealand audiences are the best audiences in the ENTIRE WORLD! AM I RIGHT!?” Hold for audience cheers and applause. 

10. What will your solo show be about at AFF? 

Oh shit I forgot I was doing that! I’m doing a solo show in Queenstown! I was just doing a show down there a few months ago so I would have to say similar to that but with completely new, more current material. There’s a lot of stuff to talk about at the moment especially politcally! 

11. Please sum up the people of NZ in three words:   

Laid Back. Don’t even need a third.

12. Is your opinion about being interviewed still the same as what it was at the start of this interview?

To be honest I don’t think I like interviews anymore.

Catch Guy at our NZ Comedy Festival 'Another Frickin' Festival'  ➡️ Info & tickets right here.