That Guy
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Leigh Hart is a New Zealand
performance artist who is better known by the pseudonym
"That Guy". He has made various appearances on New Zealand
television
, including Sports Cafe and his own show, Moon TV
.
Leigh was born in Greymouth and went to Christ's College
in Christchurch
. He was singer/songwriter for New Zealand Rock Band Wild Turkey. The band was briefly jailed and then deported from France.
Leigh also worked on the Channel Tunnel in the early nineties.
He currently appears on Moon TV, an original and innovative late night comedy show. Leigh also writes a column for the Herald on Sunday
, and has worked for the television show Fair Go
. He has made various appearances on television advertisements for Hellers Bacon, and ANZ.
Leigh Hart's Mysterious Planet Leigh's latest series is a mockumentary series in which he travels the world attempting to solve the worlds greatest Mysteries including Bigfoot, the LochNess monster, UFOs, The Bermuda triangle, Lost Inca Gold, the Pyramids and of course Stone Henge.
This programme has been sold internationally including Russia and Australia.
Leigh Harts Mysterious Planet 2008/2009
Live Appearances: Leigh is a regular speaker and M.C at public events. In 2011 in Shanghai he helped raise nearly half a million dollars for the Christchurch earthquake relief fund.
Rugby World Cup Show That Guys World Cup
Scott Scott's World of Cheese
No 8 Rugby Internet Campaign
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
performance artist who is better known by the pseudonym
Pseudonym
A pseudonym is a name that a person assumes for a particular purpose and that differs from his or her original orthonym...
"That Guy". He has made various appearances on New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
, including Sports Cafe and his own show, Moon TV
Moon TV
Moon TV is a New Zealand television comedy show. It is produced by Leigh Hart . In 2006 the show received NZD$176,324 in funding from New Zealand On Air for six half-hour episodes, to screen on TV2....
.
Leigh was born in Greymouth and went to Christ's College
Christ's College, Canterbury
Christ's College, Christchurch is an independent, Anglican, secondary, day and boarding school for boys, located in the central city of Christchurch, New Zealand....
in Christchurch
Christchurch
Christchurch is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the country's second-largest urban area after Auckland. It lies one third of the way down the South Island's east coast, just north of Banks Peninsula which itself, since 2006, lies within the formal limits of...
. He was singer/songwriter for New Zealand Rock Band Wild Turkey. The band was briefly jailed and then deported from France.
Leigh also worked on the Channel Tunnel in the early nineties.
He currently appears on Moon TV, an original and innovative late night comedy show. Leigh also writes a column for the Herald on Sunday
The New Zealand Herald
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, and has worked for the television show Fair Go
Fair Go
Fair Go is a New Zealand consumer affairs television program now co-hosted by Gordon Harcourt and Alison Mau. First aired in 1977, it is one of New Zealand's longest-running and highest-rated programmes, frequently placed high in the New Zealand TV Guide list of most viewed programs.Fair Go...
. He has made various appearances on television advertisements for Hellers Bacon, and ANZ.
Leigh Hart's Mysterious Planet Leigh's latest series is a mockumentary series in which he travels the world attempting to solve the worlds greatest Mysteries including Bigfoot, the LochNess monster, UFOs, The Bermuda triangle, Lost Inca Gold, the Pyramids and of course Stone Henge.
This programme has been sold internationally including Russia and Australia.
Television series
- Moon TVMoon TVMoon TV is a New Zealand television comedy show. It is produced by Leigh Hart . In 2006 the show received NZD$176,324 in funding from New Zealand On Air for six half-hour episodes, to screen on TV2....
(2002–present) - Sports Cafe (screened 1996-2006 & 2008, starred 2001-2006 & 2008)
- The Great New Zealand Spelling BeeThe Great New Zealand Spelling Bee"The Great New Zealand Spelling Bee" is a New Zealand game-show type series that pits well known New Zealanders against each other in a Spelling Bee type layout....
(2006) - Pulp SportPulp SportPulp Sport was a TV show filmed in New Zealand, that mixes sport with various styles of comedy. The hosts Jamie Linehan and Ben Boyce act under their respective pseudonyms Bill and Ben, performing a half hour of various sports based skits...
(2007) - Shock Treatment
- Moon TV USA
- That Guys World Cup (TVNZ on Demand)2007
- Moon TV MTN Network May (2008) 10 part series, featuring The Late Night Big Breakfast, Naan Doctors and old favorites like Speedo Cops and Hamster man.
Leigh Harts Mysterious Planet 2008/2009
- Rugby Mundo:(2011) A humorous rugby world cup show broadcast from his home during the 2011 world cup in New Zealand.
Live Appearances: Leigh is a regular speaker and M.C at public events. In 2011 in Shanghai he helped raise nearly half a million dollars for the Christchurch earthquake relief fund.
Film
- He made a cameo in You Move You Die
Rugby World Cup Show That Guys World Cup
Scott Scott's World of Cheese
Commercials
- ANZ Bonus Bonds (screened 2006–present)
- Hellers Bacon (screened 2006–present)
No 8 Rugby Internet Campaign
Controversy
On 10 May 2009, Hart wrote a humorous piece for the New Zealand Herald entitled That Guy: Let's hear it for the Maori sasquatch . This piece provoked outrage in the cryptozoological community for the representations of individuals at the conference, as well as its overall tone. A subsequent apology claimed that the article used fictional individuals, but an analysis of this at cryptozoology site Cryptomundo, claimed that Hart referred to specific individuals and fictionalized his encounters with those individuals.External links
- Moon TV — The official Moon TV website.
- Interview by the NZ Herald (February 2006)
- Interview by the New Zealand ListenerNew Zealand ListenerThe New Zealand Listener is a New Zealand magazine. First published in 1939 and edited by Oliver Duff and the Monte Holcroft it originally had a monopoly on the publication of of upcoming television and radio programmes. In the 1980s it lost its monopoly on the publication of upcoming television...
(2003) - Interview (PDF) by Te Waha Nui (October 2004)