February 12, 2025 • 8 mins
Comedian Jono Pryor is set to return to our screens again after years of successful radio hosting and podcasting.
His new series, Vince, is set to air this week on Three and ThreeNow - and it promises to deliver side-splitting gags and goofs, as well as plenty of heartfelt moments.
Pryor joined the Afternoons team to explain further.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
You're listening to a podcast from News Talk zed B.
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
John Prior has been a big name in New Zealand
media for a couple of decades, now Hit TV, show's
massive social media presence, stunts, pranks, and currently on the
Jonathan Ben and Meghan Breakfast Show on the Hits. Now
he's going out on his own with a non Ben
show He's written, produced and start in a new comedy
starting on TV three tonight at eight thirty pm and
on demand on three now. And he's here with us.
(00:38):
So John O tell us about the new show, Vince.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Well, it's basically about a self obsess narcissistic broadcaster who
loses his job after an unfortunate incident at a children's
hospital whereas his trousers come down and live on television
and so essentially canceled, and he's trying to claw his
way back and get his job.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Bat But he doesn't pull his trousers down. His trousers
just come down.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
They just come down.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
But that's a bit of a plot point, okay, because
this happened to you, didn't At Christmas in the park
you were getting a photo with some kids and your
pants came down. But that wasn't on purpose.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
There was no unintentional I had my arms around both
children as the mother was taking the photo, and the
exact moment I'm pretty sure she hit hit the photo button,
the pants came down, some vaping scllywag come up behind,
and yeah, yeah it was.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
It was a.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Textbook down trail though.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
We'll give that to The Wiggles have been very careful
about things like that, got a lot of protocols in
place when they're around kids. They got their their fingers up,
the finger guns, the finger games.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
We had a photo with them and you go to
put your arms around them, They're like, no, no, slit's
finger guns.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
The finger guns was invented so you could always see
their hands. So everything was There was no questions he
ever asked of the Wiggles. So you've done a lot
of I guess skip Baits comedy over the years, with
you know, Johno's New show and the Jonavan Ben show. Bat.
That's a bit bit of a step up having to
write full episodes and a series arc.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
How was that It was a huge learning experience, to
be honest me, I know you've obviously you've written a
movie before and deviled in it before, but you learn
so much along the way, and it was actually really
very satisfying and humbling experience, to be honest, because Jonathan
Ben absolutely loved the years that we had making that show.
But it was such a willwind, you know, like a
(02:22):
week to week will w and we were just meeting
this deadline of Thursday night and Friday night whenever it
was on air, and so you never as it was happening,
got to really appreciate what was happening.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Yeah, it's not till after the offeat. It's kind of
like a radio show. It just goes and goes and goes.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Never like one day and fifty years we were sitting
back and oh yeah we did. Some didn't appreciate it
at that time, but yeah, so I guess the difference
between when we're making that show and to what this was.
It was a very slow moving train. Like you you
write a pilot script, you see, if a network wants it,
then you have to apply for your zealing on air
funding and they give you some development money. So it's
all it was all very slow. But actually, in being
(02:58):
so slow, you get to appreciate and really put your
all into each step of the process, so you feel like.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
You had the script just absolutely screwed down by the
time you started shooting, Yeah, because it had been.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Like three or four years by the time.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Yeah, and I would say, very slim chance of you
getting it on here.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Yeah, it was very surprised when when the funding came
through and it was yea, the whole thing was surreal.
I didn't really expect the funding to get through, And yeah,
just thanks to TV three for taking a gamble on it.
But you turn up to work and you've probably had
this when you guys did your movie. You turn up
to it and you go, oh, there, dumb idea.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
That that we had has now employed forty people, you know,
And yeah, I found that very humbling, kind of like
a war. Just the pure logistics of getting it done,
the locations, the lighting trucks. It's quite a thing into
its south. How did you find that whole process eye opening.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
I'll never watch another show sort of like this and
not appreciate how much work goes into it, Like, and
there's there's so many talented people in that industry. We
had to go around with a location scout and look
at locations and that the catering, the makeup and quite
like everything, like even you'd walk into a be a
room and then someone would have to design the room.
(04:11):
The stuff you've written down on paper, not even thinking, and.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
So that part of it was really high and they
come up to you and they've done two days work
on one bit you wrote that you didn't even think about.
It wasn't even important, and they're like, I've got that,
and you're like, oh, you should have just come and
talk to me. I would have had have deleted that.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
And a lot of time you're like, these poor people's
been twelve hours trying to make this image that you
blindly wrote. But it's thankfully But yeah, well you had
a really great team. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
I'm always really impressed with the location people because things
you would never think about. You see an exterior of
a building and then someone walks in and something happens
and there's someone's had to deal with the parking for
all the trucks, they get the they've had to get
the council across the line, get the permits, find space
for the catering. Argued with the neighbors. It's it's the
(04:56):
logistics are so intense, especially now, even more because back
when you were shooting Johonaan being back then you could
be a but loose. You just sort of turn up
at Mission Bay and hassle some people.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
It was a lovely you're right, Yeah, just the amount
of the amount of work that goes and you know,
you just flick on Netflix and you're like, don't like
that show, and you're like, three hundred people have just
worked their guts out on that for about two years
and you don't even see most of the work on
the screen.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
So you're a famously nice guy. You never hear anyone
saying anything but positive stuff about John O, right, and goes, God,
he's a great guy. But you've always sort of had
this tendency towards that shocking, edgy stuff. Yeah, why do
you think that is?
Speaker 3 (05:31):
I My mum's got a very dark sense of humor,
and I think it came my mum was a journalist
for the press in christ Church, and yeah, she spent
a lot of time at Thomas some of the politicians
and stories she would tell, like very dark senses of
humor in that in that world, and so yeah, I
think that's where I got it from and I remember
actually when we're doing John and Ben would film the
(05:53):
show live and as comedians, he was warming up the audience,
as they say. And then after the show, Mum, she
was at the show. She came up to Sam and
she's like, you're very good at that job. And he's, oh,
thank you, you know, very commanding. You can, you can you
can hold an audience like lah.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
And this is Amazon, what do you mean? She's like, well,
he was.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
He was charismatic, He held a room, he held a
room's attention. So she's that's her sense of humor, right, So.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
It's come through to you. Yeah, And so you've obviously
been it's been Jonathan, Ben done TV shows together, you
do the Hits Show, You've been very successful together. So
this is kind of the first project that's basically all JOHNO.
How's for a while. How's that?
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Yeah, it's it's been Honestly, it's been different. It has
been weird. It's really felt unusual in parts, and we
both have since the TV show wrapped up, have just
been you know, pitching shows together and doing all sorts
of mate. If you want to tell you what if
you want to pitch for a TV show. We've got
to play desktop full of the mat. We'll pitch you
(06:57):
a show. But no, none of me, excuse me, none
of been really sort of landing for you know, whatever reason.
The industry is having an interesting time at the moment.
And so yeah, this wasn't sort of like mindfully me going, oh,
I'm going to go off and do something by myself.
It was just so genuinely much like you like writing,
find it really satisfying. And it just kind of started
(07:20):
naturally that way. I was locked in a room with
COVID during COVID and yeah, that's kind of it. So
it wasn't like, oh, I'm going to break away and
do my own thing by any stretch. And yeah, just
over a four year period, the snowballs started to grow
with this idea.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Yeah, did you use that script writing book I sent
you that time.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Yes, absolutely, that's bloody great. And I've got to send
you one too. Have you read Rick Rubin's one?
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Oh yeah, creativity or whatever it's Yeah, they are. Yeah,
I just bought that for my son. That is so good.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Yeah. If you don't know, Rick Rubens very famous music producer.
He's produced some of the world's biggest albums and just
his approach to creativity is amazing.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Yeah. Oh well, you're a great New Zealander. I can't
wait to see the show. You've done so much good
stuff before and you're a beloved figure, so looking forward
to seeing your pants get pulled down and see where
it goes from there.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Oh man, it's been a pleasure, mate, Thank you you
enjoying this was the show?
Speaker 2 (08:08):
I love it? Yeah, I love dream result results.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Manheath has got the ultimate radio gig, perfect hours on
the biggest station and doing a great job.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Cheers mate.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
For more from News Talks at b listen live on
air or online, and keep our shows with you wherever
you go with our podcasts on iHeartRadio.
You're listening to a podcast from News Talk zed B.
Follow this and our wide range of podcasts now on iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
John Prior has been a big name in New Zealand
media for a couple of decades, now Hit TV, show's
massive social media presence, stunts, pranks, and currently on the
Jonathan Ben and Meghan Breakfast Show on the Hits. Now
he's going out on his own with a non Ben
show He's written, produced and start in a new comedy
starting on TV three tonight at eight thirty pm and
on demand on three now. And he's here with us.
(00:38):
So John O tell us about the new show, Vince.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Well, it's basically about a self obsess narcissistic broadcaster who
loses his job after an unfortunate incident at a children's
hospital whereas his trousers come down and live on television
and so essentially canceled, and he's trying to claw his
way back and get his job.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Bat But he doesn't pull his trousers down. His trousers
just come down.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
They just come down.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
But that's a bit of a plot point, okay, because
this happened to you, didn't At Christmas in the park
you were getting a photo with some kids and your
pants came down. But that wasn't on purpose.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
There was no unintentional I had my arms around both
children as the mother was taking the photo, and the
exact moment I'm pretty sure she hit hit the photo button,
the pants came down, some vaping scllywag come up behind,
and yeah, yeah it was.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
It was a.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Textbook down trail though.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
We'll give that to The Wiggles have been very careful
about things like that, got a lot of protocols in
place when they're around kids. They got their their fingers up,
the finger guns, the finger games.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
We had a photo with them and you go to
put your arms around them, They're like, no, no, slit's
finger guns.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
The finger guns was invented so you could always see
their hands. So everything was There was no questions he
ever asked of the Wiggles. So you've done a lot
of I guess skip Baits comedy over the years, with
you know, Johno's New show and the Jonavan Ben show. Bat.
That's a bit bit of a step up having to
write full episodes and a series arc.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
How was that It was a huge learning experience, to
be honest me, I know you've obviously you've written a
movie before and deviled in it before, but you learn
so much along the way, and it was actually really
very satisfying and humbling experience, to be honest, because Jonathan
Ben absolutely loved the years that we had making that show.
But it was such a willwind, you know, like a
(02:22):
week to week will w and we were just meeting
this deadline of Thursday night and Friday night whenever it
was on air, and so you never as it was happening,
got to really appreciate what was happening.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Yeah, it's not till after the offeat. It's kind of
like a radio show. It just goes and goes and goes.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Never like one day and fifty years we were sitting
back and oh yeah we did. Some didn't appreciate it
at that time, but yeah, so I guess the difference
between when we're making that show and to what this was.
It was a very slow moving train. Like you you
write a pilot script, you see, if a network wants it,
then you have to apply for your zealing on air
funding and they give you some development money. So it's
all it was all very slow. But actually, in being
(02:58):
so slow, you get to appreciate and really put your
all into each step of the process, so you feel like.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
You had the script just absolutely screwed down by the
time you started shooting, Yeah, because it had been.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Like three or four years by the time.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Yeah, and I would say, very slim chance of you
getting it on here.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Yeah, it was very surprised when when the funding came
through and it was yea, the whole thing was surreal.
I didn't really expect the funding to get through, And yeah,
just thanks to TV three for taking a gamble on it.
But you turn up to work and you've probably had
this when you guys did your movie. You turn up
to it and you go, oh, there, dumb idea.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
That that we had has now employed forty people, you know,
And yeah, I found that very humbling, kind of like
a war. Just the pure logistics of getting it done,
the locations, the lighting trucks. It's quite a thing into
its south. How did you find that whole process eye opening.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
I'll never watch another show sort of like this and
not appreciate how much work goes into it, Like, and
there's there's so many talented people in that industry. We
had to go around with a location scout and look
at locations and that the catering, the makeup and quite
like everything, like even you'd walk into a be a
room and then someone would have to design the room.
(04:11):
The stuff you've written down on paper, not even thinking, and.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
So that part of it was really high and they
come up to you and they've done two days work
on one bit you wrote that you didn't even think about.
It wasn't even important, and they're like, I've got that,
and you're like, oh, you should have just come and
talk to me. I would have had have deleted that.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
And a lot of time you're like, these poor people's
been twelve hours trying to make this image that you
blindly wrote. But it's thankfully But yeah, well you had
a really great team. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
I'm always really impressed with the location people because things
you would never think about. You see an exterior of
a building and then someone walks in and something happens
and there's someone's had to deal with the parking for
all the trucks, they get the they've had to get
the council across the line, get the permits, find space
for the catering. Argued with the neighbors. It's it's the
(04:56):
logistics are so intense, especially now, even more because back
when you were shooting Johonaan being back then you could
be a but loose. You just sort of turn up
at Mission Bay and hassle some people.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
It was a lovely you're right, Yeah, just the amount
of the amount of work that goes and you know,
you just flick on Netflix and you're like, don't like
that show, and you're like, three hundred people have just
worked their guts out on that for about two years
and you don't even see most of the work on
the screen.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
So you're a famously nice guy. You never hear anyone
saying anything but positive stuff about John O, right, and goes, God,
he's a great guy. But you've always sort of had
this tendency towards that shocking, edgy stuff. Yeah, why do
you think that is?
Speaker 3 (05:31):
I My mum's got a very dark sense of humor,
and I think it came my mum was a journalist
for the press in christ Church, and yeah, she spent
a lot of time at Thomas some of the politicians
and stories she would tell, like very dark senses of
humor in that in that world, and so yeah, I
think that's where I got it from and I remember
actually when we're doing John and Ben would film the
(05:53):
show live and as comedians, he was warming up the audience,
as they say. And then after the show, Mum, she
was at the show. She came up to Sam and
she's like, you're very good at that job. And he's, oh,
thank you, you know, very commanding. You can, you can you
can hold an audience like lah.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
And this is Amazon, what do you mean? She's like, well,
he was.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
He was charismatic, He held a room, he held a
room's attention. So she's that's her sense of humor, right, So.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
It's come through to you. Yeah, And so you've obviously
been it's been Jonathan, Ben done TV shows together, you
do the Hits Show, You've been very successful together. So
this is kind of the first project that's basically all JOHNO.
How's for a while. How's that?
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Yeah, it's it's been Honestly, it's been different. It has
been weird. It's really felt unusual in parts, and we
both have since the TV show wrapped up, have just
been you know, pitching shows together and doing all sorts
of mate. If you want to tell you what if
you want to pitch for a TV show. We've got
to play desktop full of the mat. We'll pitch you
(06:57):
a show. But no, none of me, excuse me, none
of been really sort of landing for you know, whatever reason.
The industry is having an interesting time at the moment.
And so yeah, this wasn't sort of like mindfully me going, oh,
I'm going to go off and do something by myself.
It was just so genuinely much like you like writing,
find it really satisfying. And it just kind of started
(07:20):
naturally that way. I was locked in a room with
COVID during COVID and yeah, that's kind of it. So
it wasn't like, oh, I'm going to break away and
do my own thing by any stretch. And yeah, just
over a four year period, the snowballs started to grow
with this idea.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Yeah, did you use that script writing book I sent
you that time.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Yes, absolutely, that's bloody great. And I've got to send
you one too. Have you read Rick Rubin's one?
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Oh yeah, creativity or whatever it's Yeah, they are. Yeah,
I just bought that for my son. That is so good.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Yeah. If you don't know, Rick Rubens very famous music producer.
He's produced some of the world's biggest albums and just
his approach to creativity is amazing.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Yeah. Oh well, you're a great New Zealander. I can't
wait to see the show. You've done so much good
stuff before and you're a beloved figure, so looking forward
to seeing your pants get pulled down and see where
it goes from there.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Oh man, it's been a pleasure, mate, Thank you you
enjoying this was the show?
Speaker 2 (08:08):
I love it? Yeah, I love dream result results.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Manheath has got the ultimate radio gig, perfect hours on
the biggest station and doing a great job.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Cheers mate.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
For more from News Talks at b listen live on
air or online, and keep our shows with you wherever
you go with our podcasts on iHeartRadio.
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