October 27, 2024 • 9 mins
The hilarious Monty Franklin joins Jonesy & Amanda ahead of his upcoming Australian tour.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jersey and Amanda jam Nation.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
One of my favorite comedians is Australian Monte Franklin. He
has taken America by storm. He's about to do his
Yeah Nah show back here in Australia. Here is some
of Monty in the States.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Do you know in America they do not sing hip
Hip hooray at the end of Happy Birthday? Did you
know we were the only people who did that? Do
you know how embarrassing it is? I was at a
table of people I didn't even know that well and
they finished Happy Birthday.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
And I just go hip.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
One of them goes, what'd you do that for?
Speaker 1 (00:43):
In Australia.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
One person yells out hip hip and then everyone yells hooray,
and we do that three times, and they went why
do you do that? And I went, I don't.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
I think we beat the wrong bit of that word
there kept and left the rest.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
What was that?
Speaker 1 (00:59):
He was out of good? This guy?
Speaker 2 (01:01):
I love that, though it never occurred to me that
we're the only people that do that.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Isn't it so strange? I was in Zurich and they
do a different thing. They go like hurglely hurgly blah,
like they've got a different thing. But I've done the
hip hop like in America, like full on in front
of people I didn't know, and they're all just staring
at me, and I'm like, oh, that doesn't usually happen.
Happy birthday goes to forty five minutes't do that? And
then someone goes, why what was he born? So like
(01:25):
it's a whole song and dance.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
And that's it. Because Jim y Raie here his brother.
What does he do he he.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Oh yeah, so he'll go hip and we're hooray, hip hooray,
and then everyone's expecting the third one.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Then he just doesn't do.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
It because he just wants to tease.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
I like him, because you're the band. When you start
the hip hip, it's like those people that yell out
o oh yeah you You've suddenly become your own band leader.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
But there's a hierarchy to who can initiate hipip. Isn't
it true if you have to be close to whoever's
birthday it is. If you don't know the person, you
can't jump in with the hip hip. That's not your role.
But I did that in America because I I panicked
there was too much time in between when Happy Birthday
finished and when hip hop should have started. So I
looked around the table I went, I'm going for it,
(02:08):
and then I just looked like an insane.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
What are some of the other things that particularly Americans
find extraordinary about us that we're not even aware we're
the only.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Ones that do well? You know, in America they don't
have Christmas bond bonds, and that just means they don't
have Christmas hats. So this is a very normal thing
for us at the Christmas table. But the funny thing
is I brought an American girlfriend over years ago for
her first Australian Christmas. Imagine what she must have thought,
having never seen this tradition before in her life, and
(02:39):
no one says anything about it. Everyone just quietly puts
on their paper crowns and starts eating food. And she's
looking around, going what is wrong with these lunatics multi
colored paper mache crowns, And everyone yells at someone who
doesn't put their hat on, like, Gary, put your hat on,
You're embarrassing the American girl, and then tell us the joke.
(02:59):
And I want to see the talk. I'm an adult
and I want to see what toy you got in
your thing. But that's such common, so common for us
it is, well they do it in England, it must
be a Commonwealth thing.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
And with you now bringing your show to Australia, how
do you make that material work back for Australians?
Speaker 3 (03:16):
But that only works for Australians. I can't talk about
that stuff in America because they don't know about it.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
But are you able to say to them, here's another
way we're weird.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Oh yeah, I love coming back to Australia and pointing out,
did you know the rest of the world we don't
do this. Do you want to know something funny I
did the other day. So I was at a place
called Mammoth Mountain in California and there was all these
people crowded around a cave area and I said to
a going, oh, what's going on in there? And he
looked at me and went, oh, there's a bear in there.
Now you know exactly what I said to him. I'm
(03:45):
a grown man. I looked him in the face and
I went and a chair as well, and he just
stared at me because they don't know what that means.
And I look like an insane person on the mountain
and he's like, what kind of terrible detective does he think?
I am a weird mob.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
I was talking to a German friend of mine and
when she came over here, I said, what do you
find about Australian And she said, you never follow through
with anything. If you say let's catch up and have
a barbecue, they mean the Germans believe that, okay, and
they die.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
And so efficient.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Yeah, like that barbecue on the twelfth, when is this happening?
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Or if you say why don't you stay with us
when you come over you never mean it? And then
this stranger looks you up and expects to stay your.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Haup there with their bags and you're like, what are
you doing?
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (04:29):
I just said that to be nice.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
There's no more Australian term than yeah. Nah. That's a
perfect name for your tour.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Isn't it great telling them people from overseas that yearna
means no and yeah means yes. It's very confusing, but
I called it the yearna, which is no, which it
should it should be more positive, but that rolls off
the tongue better. Yeah nah, And that said more. I
would say that nah, Yeah, Like yeah, I love it.
I love the year nah. Yeah, and it's just whatever
(04:55):
you finish on is well. You can actually just string
a bunch together. Like if someone said to you, are
you are you coming? You're not bailing on the on
the trip this weekend, You're like, Noah.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Yeah, yeah, you've chured with some big nabs. You. I
didn't realize that you are you open for Joe Rogan?
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Yeah, what's that like? Because I look at Joe rang
because I remember him when he was on that show Broadcast.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
News Radio, News Radio, and then you.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Did that Fear Factor show and then I always like
listen to his podcast and he just sort of makes
up a lot of stuff. But I saw that I
saw a little bits of the Trump interview thing. Yeah. Yeah,
It's quite interesting how he just gets things out of people.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
He's he's one of the loveliest people have ever met,
very down to earth guy, loves comedians. He's been a
very great mentor and a friend to me. So when
I opened for him. He does stadiums. We did the
United Center in Chicago, which is where the Chicago Bulls played,
So our green room was the Chicago Bulls locker room
and it was me, him and Andrew Santino sitting next
(05:55):
to Michael Jordan's in boss locker that's there, and we're
to sit there, go what are we doing? There's twenty
thousand people out there listening to our silly jokes and
we're sitting next to Michael Jordan's locker. So these are
some of the crazy things that you get to do,
like in America and with what I've been doing, which
is so awesome.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
But a big stadium like that, is that is that
harder or than a small club or is it you're
all Once a titter of laughter starts in the crowd,
then you've got a big titter.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
It's just very different. It's you need to think about
your pacing. And obviously with my accent, I have to
slow right down for many places I go in America,
and I can't use too much slang. Americans don't understand
what petrol means. They say gas and they don't understand
anything else. So if you say, oh, you know, petrol station,
(06:43):
they're like what is that? And You're like, okay, gas station.
Calm down.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
There must have been a big learning curve for you
when you first started performing in the States, where you think,
why don't they understanding what I'm saying no.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Petrol, well twelve years. And that's why I'm making these
silly videos on my Instagram because every day I find
something that I'm like, why don't you know what that is?
Speaker 1 (07:03):
And when you're in America, do you feel that it's
going to be okay, like with this election at the moment.
And we spoke to Rob Schneider about this, and he said,
on the Internet, it looks like it's nuts, but when
you're there, it's not nuts.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
No, it's not at all. It's like, look, if you
go to America, all they see about Australia is Shark
Week and stuff they've put on, and they just think
everything is going to kill you, which to some degree
is true, but it's not what it's like, right. So
that's the same polarization of what we're getting from America.
If you're in California or New York, it's pretty heated
(07:35):
right now and everyone's discussing about it. But if you're
in the middle of the country in Dayton, Ohio, honestly,
they're just really good people that want to live their
lives and they've got different lives than us, and they
want to have their guns and whatever. But they've got
their reasons for it, and I actually that's the heart
of America is in the you know, the middle of
the country, and they're not too fussed either way, to
(07:57):
be honest, they just want to be good people and
live their lives, which is interingting from our vantage point
thinking that everyone's going crazy over there.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
They're interesting to hear. Yeah, they're all sitting there wondering
what petrol is?
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Yeah, what is this? What is this petrol?
Speaker 1 (08:11):
But we have great with you. Like the bottles like that.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
America's bottle. You say bottle, I think, what what's the bottle?
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Smokeo, bottle of Yeah on anything?
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Smoko, Yeah, you check on anything. I like saying oil.
Let's go to the bottle and go skull tiny's in
the back of the ute. And I say that to
someone and they go, what just happened? And sorry about it?
Whereas it's a pretty bogan thing for me to say.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Pretty fun, Mandy, it's great to talk to you. Get
your chicks to see Monty now at Monty Franklin dot com.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Thank you for coming in, no worries, Thanks a lot
for having me. Yeah and more theater November seven. I'm
looking forward to this is one of the best theaters
in the world. It's so awesome, good coming back to Australia.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
It's pretty funny. You stand up on that stage and boom,
I noticed I've been naked on that stage. Have you
really like a sanctioned defend? It wasn't I.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Might get naked.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
Actually he was doing the full month. You could be
the full month.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
And there you go, there you go, performance opening it.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Finally
Jersey and Amanda jam Nation.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
One of my favorite comedians is Australian Monte Franklin. He
has taken America by storm. He's about to do his
Yeah Nah show back here in Australia. Here is some
of Monty in the States.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Do you know in America they do not sing hip
Hip hooray at the end of Happy Birthday? Did you
know we were the only people who did that? Do
you know how embarrassing it is? I was at a
table of people I didn't even know that well and
they finished Happy Birthday.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
And I just go hip.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
One of them goes, what'd you do that for?
Speaker 1 (00:43):
In Australia.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
One person yells out hip hip and then everyone yells hooray,
and we do that three times, and they went why
do you do that? And I went, I don't.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
I think we beat the wrong bit of that word
there kept and left the rest.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
What was that?
Speaker 1 (00:59):
He was out of good? This guy?
Speaker 2 (01:01):
I love that, though it never occurred to me that
we're the only people that do that.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Isn't it so strange? I was in Zurich and they
do a different thing. They go like hurglely hurgly blah,
like they've got a different thing. But I've done the
hip hop like in America, like full on in front
of people I didn't know, and they're all just staring
at me, and I'm like, oh, that doesn't usually happen.
Happy birthday goes to forty five minutes't do that? And
then someone goes, why what was he born? So like
(01:25):
it's a whole song and dance.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
And that's it. Because Jim y Raie here his brother.
What does he do he he.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Oh yeah, so he'll go hip and we're hooray, hip hooray,
and then everyone's expecting the third one.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Then he just doesn't do.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
It because he just wants to tease.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
I like him, because you're the band. When you start
the hip hip, it's like those people that yell out
o oh yeah you You've suddenly become your own band leader.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
But there's a hierarchy to who can initiate hipip. Isn't
it true if you have to be close to whoever's
birthday it is. If you don't know the person, you
can't jump in with the hip hip. That's not your role.
But I did that in America because I I panicked
there was too much time in between when Happy Birthday
finished and when hip hop should have started. So I
looked around the table I went, I'm going for it,
(02:08):
and then I just looked like an insane.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
What are some of the other things that particularly Americans
find extraordinary about us that we're not even aware we're
the only.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Ones that do well? You know, in America they don't
have Christmas bond bonds, and that just means they don't
have Christmas hats. So this is a very normal thing
for us at the Christmas table. But the funny thing
is I brought an American girlfriend over years ago for
her first Australian Christmas. Imagine what she must have thought,
having never seen this tradition before in her life, and
(02:39):
no one says anything about it. Everyone just quietly puts
on their paper crowns and starts eating food. And she's
looking around, going what is wrong with these lunatics multi
colored paper mache crowns, And everyone yells at someone who
doesn't put their hat on, like, Gary, put your hat on,
You're embarrassing the American girl, and then tell us the joke.
(02:59):
And I want to see the talk. I'm an adult
and I want to see what toy you got in
your thing. But that's such common, so common for us
it is, well they do it in England, it must
be a Commonwealth thing.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
And with you now bringing your show to Australia, how
do you make that material work back for Australians?
Speaker 3 (03:16):
But that only works for Australians. I can't talk about
that stuff in America because they don't know about it.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
But are you able to say to them, here's another
way we're weird.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Oh yeah, I love coming back to Australia and pointing out,
did you know the rest of the world we don't
do this. Do you want to know something funny I
did the other day. So I was at a place
called Mammoth Mountain in California and there was all these
people crowded around a cave area and I said to
a going, oh, what's going on in there? And he
looked at me and went, oh, there's a bear in there.
Now you know exactly what I said to him. I'm
(03:45):
a grown man. I looked him in the face and
I went and a chair as well, and he just
stared at me because they don't know what that means.
And I look like an insane person on the mountain
and he's like, what kind of terrible detective does he think?
I am a weird mob.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
I was talking to a German friend of mine and
when she came over here, I said, what do you
find about Australian And she said, you never follow through
with anything. If you say let's catch up and have
a barbecue, they mean the Germans believe that, okay, and
they die.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
And so efficient.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Yeah, like that barbecue on the twelfth, when is this happening?
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Or if you say why don't you stay with us
when you come over you never mean it? And then
this stranger looks you up and expects to stay your.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Haup there with their bags and you're like, what are
you doing?
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (04:29):
I just said that to be nice.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
There's no more Australian term than yeah. Nah. That's a
perfect name for your tour.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Isn't it great telling them people from overseas that yearna
means no and yeah means yes. It's very confusing, but
I called it the yearna, which is no, which it
should it should be more positive, but that rolls off
the tongue better. Yeah nah, And that said more. I
would say that nah, Yeah, Like yeah, I love it.
I love the year nah. Yeah, and it's just whatever
(04:55):
you finish on is well. You can actually just string
a bunch together. Like if someone said to you, are
you are you coming? You're not bailing on the on
the trip this weekend, You're like, Noah.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Yeah, yeah, you've chured with some big nabs. You. I
didn't realize that you are you open for Joe Rogan?
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:15):
Yeah, what's that like? Because I look at Joe rang
because I remember him when he was on that show Broadcast.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
News Radio, News Radio, and then you.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Did that Fear Factor show and then I always like
listen to his podcast and he just sort of makes
up a lot of stuff. But I saw that I
saw a little bits of the Trump interview thing. Yeah. Yeah,
It's quite interesting how he just gets things out of people.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
He's he's one of the loveliest people have ever met,
very down to earth guy, loves comedians. He's been a
very great mentor and a friend to me. So when
I opened for him. He does stadiums. We did the
United Center in Chicago, which is where the Chicago Bulls played,
So our green room was the Chicago Bulls locker room
and it was me, him and Andrew Santino sitting next
(05:55):
to Michael Jordan's in boss locker that's there, and we're
to sit there, go what are we doing? There's twenty
thousand people out there listening to our silly jokes and
we're sitting next to Michael Jordan's locker. So these are
some of the crazy things that you get to do,
like in America and with what I've been doing, which
is so awesome.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
But a big stadium like that, is that is that
harder or than a small club or is it you're
all Once a titter of laughter starts in the crowd,
then you've got a big titter.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
It's just very different. It's you need to think about
your pacing. And obviously with my accent, I have to
slow right down for many places I go in America,
and I can't use too much slang. Americans don't understand
what petrol means. They say gas and they don't understand
anything else. So if you say, oh, you know, petrol station,
(06:43):
they're like what is that? And You're like, okay, gas station.
Calm down.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
There must have been a big learning curve for you
when you first started performing in the States, where you think,
why don't they understanding what I'm saying no.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Petrol, well twelve years. And that's why I'm making these
silly videos on my Instagram because every day I find
something that I'm like, why don't you know what that is?
Speaker 1 (07:03):
And when you're in America, do you feel that it's
going to be okay, like with this election at the moment.
And we spoke to Rob Schneider about this, and he said,
on the Internet, it looks like it's nuts, but when
you're there, it's not nuts.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
No, it's not at all. It's like, look, if you
go to America, all they see about Australia is Shark
Week and stuff they've put on, and they just think
everything is going to kill you, which to some degree
is true, but it's not what it's like, right. So
that's the same polarization of what we're getting from America.
If you're in California or New York, it's pretty heated
(07:35):
right now and everyone's discussing about it. But if you're
in the middle of the country in Dayton, Ohio, honestly,
they're just really good people that want to live their
lives and they've got different lives than us, and they
want to have their guns and whatever. But they've got
their reasons for it, and I actually that's the heart
of America is in the you know, the middle of
the country, and they're not too fussed either way, to
(07:57):
be honest, they just want to be good people and
live their lives, which is interingting from our vantage point
thinking that everyone's going crazy over there.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
They're interesting to hear. Yeah, they're all sitting there wondering
what petrol is?
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Yeah, what is this? What is this petrol?
Speaker 1 (08:11):
But we have great with you. Like the bottles like that.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
America's bottle. You say bottle, I think, what what's the bottle?
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Smokeo, bottle of Yeah on anything?
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Smoko, Yeah, you check on anything. I like saying oil.
Let's go to the bottle and go skull tiny's in
the back of the ute. And I say that to
someone and they go, what just happened? And sorry about it?
Whereas it's a pretty bogan thing for me to say.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Pretty fun, Mandy, it's great to talk to you. Get
your chicks to see Monty now at Monty Franklin dot com.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Thank you for coming in, no worries, Thanks a lot
for having me. Yeah and more theater November seven. I'm
looking forward to this is one of the best theaters
in the world. It's so awesome, good coming back to Australia.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
It's pretty funny. You stand up on that stage and boom,
I noticed I've been naked on that stage. Have you
really like a sanctioned defend? It wasn't I.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Might get naked.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
Actually he was doing the full month. You could be
the full month.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
And there you go, there you go, performance opening it.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
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