On an unseasonably pleasant Sunday morning a couple of weeks ago, I found myself on the Sex and the City guided bus tour with one of my best friends and four strangers. Well, not exactly strangers—I’d been listening to two of them for the last year on their weekly podcast, The Worst Idea of All Time. Kiwi comedians Tim Batt and Guy Montgomery had watched and critiqued Sex and the City 2 once a week for the last 51 weeks, and they were here in New York to tape their final live episode. I interviewed them about their psychotic project for the magazine, then had a brilliant idea—we’ll take the Sex and the City bus tour! They loved the idea, though they had never seen the series or the first movie, and here we were—two comedians, their girlfriends, my friend and I.



The Sex and the City Hotspots tour from On Location Tours (who also run Gossip Girl, Sopranos and The Real Housewives of New York-themed tours) is a three-and-a-half hour journey through the lives of our four favorite fictional New Yorkers, jampacked with clips from the series and movies that were filmed in the 40-plus locations the tour whizzes by. We were greeted by Elyse Brandau, our fabulous tour guide, and climbed onto a bus three-quarters of the way filled with demure women who appeared to be between 35 and 55 years old. There were a few husband-types along for the ride as well.