Guy Montgomery has a history of taking normal experiences - say, watching a movie - and stretching and contorting them until they're rendered unrecognisable - say, watching the same movie every week for a year, and then doing it again with a different movie, and then doing it all over
again.
It's a laborious sentence to read, let alone carry out, but Montgomery's done this for three years. It's a lot of time to mull the peculiarities of the world and societal inanities, and more than enough time to develop some sort of derangement.
The 2014 Billy T Award winner's new stand up hour, Let's All Get In A Room Together, is a combination of irreverent, observational anecdotes, taken to ridiculous extremes.
Montgomery moves through his raft of elaborate, overwrought tales with a laboured ease. It's an unusual contradiction; he plays up his highly strung, frenetic on-stage persona - bursting to get through his stories - but is deeply comfortable on stage.
He truncates certain lines with fantastic timing, either feigning personal embarrassment at the revelation or excitedly and intentionally tripping over his heels and rushing onwards. Yet other times, he'll run off on a minutes-long tangent, before tempering his own excitement at the end of a frenzied rattle with a muted, 'nah, but it's cool'.
