Tim Batt

Tim Batt (born 19 August 1987) is a New Zealand-based comedian and podcaster. He co-hosted The Worst Idea of All Time podcast with fellow NZ comedian Guy Montgomery and was nominated for a Billy T Award in 2014 and 2015. Batt grew up in Christchurch, New Zealand and later spent time in Wellington, and then Auckland. Before comedy, he worked in radio and call centers. He attended Cobham Intermediate School, and was a contemporary of singer and UNICEF ambassador Hayley Westenra.

Batt's first appearance on TV was in 2014, on the TVNZ U show U LATE with future collaborator Guy Montgomery, where he appeared as a "pathetic but upbeat" public bathroom reviewer. He has also performed standup comedy and worked in commercial broadcasting on the networks MediaWorks and NZME. He and Montgomery started the podcast The Worst Idea of All Time, in which every season the duo rewatch and review the same film weekly for a year; as of 2024, the show is New Zealand's most successful comedy podcast at over 18 million downloads. Based on its success, Batt launched a podcast network, Little Empire Network.

Batt hosted TVNZ Duke chat show Banter in 2017, and in 2019 hosted a chat/sketch show hybrid with cohost Luke Rowell called Space Couch. Starting in 2022, he cohosted a comedy/conspiracy theory podcast for Radio New Zealand with R.M.S. Titanic enthusiast Carlo Richie about Titanic conspiracy theories, called Did Titanic Sink?. In February 2022, Batt was appointed Creator Network Development Director for New Zealand for Swedish podcasting company Acast. In 2024, Did Titanic Sink? published a second season.