RHLSTP with Richard Herring
764 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 255 ratingsRHLSTP is an award-winning series in which comedian Richard Herring ("The Podfather" - The Guardian) chats with some of the biggest names in comedy and entertainment. Stephen Fry, Eddie Izzard, Dawn French, David Mitchell, Katherine Ryan and Brian Blessed are amongst the many stars to have been interviewed across the 400+ episodes...
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RHLSTP 492 - Davina McCall
February 28, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour - 28.7 MB#492 Davinadroid - Richard has been frightened by a weeing Samurai and an apparently dead audience member, but he’s back for more RHLSTP, back a the LST and with a guest who is too good for this rubbish, the glorious Davina McCall. They discuss how she (eventually) beat a comedian to host God’s Gift, Street Mate on skis, how Davina is ultimately to blame for the destruction of the world, why Richard was one of the first to know about an historic moment in Big Brother, why sitcom was not for ...
Retro RHLSTP 73 - Lucy Beaumont
February 26, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour - 27.7 MBRETRO RHLSTP #73 - The Marx Brothers - Rich is back at Hull City Hall for his last RHLSTP recording of 2019 and he has had an accidental slip off the wagon. But does it count? His guest is Hull’s finest comedian and wonderful oddball, Lucy Beaumont. They discuss appearing on Crimewatch, being used as a crow stepping-stone, waking you to find biscuits on your head, becoming a cleaner at the place you went to University, getting drunk at the Hootenanny, collecting lost body parts in Harrods,...
RHLSTP Book Club 85 - Rosie Jones
February 22, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour - 29.8 MBBook Club #85 - Emperor of Rome - Richard has been a dad for nine years and is trying to work out if he will have any life after the kids have left home (no he won’t). His guest is comedian, actor and children’s author Rosie Jones who talks about why she wanted to write a book with a disabled person at its centre, why she wishes Tiny Tim had died, the beautiful story line where Edie finds herself and begins to understand her sexuality, plus her new book about bullying Moving On Up. They also...
RHLSTP 491 - Lee Mack
February 20, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour - 30.7 MB#491 Detached Semi - RHLSTP comes to Aldershot, the scene of one of Richard’s most dangerous ever gigs. But we’re all safely off the mean streets to welcome the incredible Lee Mack to Aldershot! They talk about keeping the Inside Number 9 secret, why the woodworking answer to the Bake Off was axed, the manufactured controversy at the NTAs, 100 episodes of Not Going Out and whether Lee is going for the Last of the Summer Wine record, why Lee did not become a darts superstar, which serial kill...
Retro RHLSTP 72 - Tim Minchin
February 19, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour - 38.8 MBRETRO RHLSTP #72 - Fish Pie Mix - Rich has exciting news that will make other puppet-sex enthusiasts very jealous, but there’s no time for even a brief wank using the hand of a 100 year old ventriloquist dummy as it’s the second coming of, if not the new Jesus, certainly the new Judas, Tim Minchin. The pair bring out the best worst in each other again, alternating between inappropriate chat about wangs and fufus and serious topics like the rise of anti-intellectualism, the imminent destruct...
RHLSTP Book Club 84 - Mary Beard
February 16, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour - 28.1 MBBook Club #84 - Emperor of Rome - Another live RHLSTP Book Club coming fittingly from the oldest recorded Roman City in England, Colchester. Rich and Mary discuss whether they might be on the site of Camelot, Boudicca’s decision to level the place to the ground and what year it might have happened, plus the controversy over which month Pompeii met its fate. But mainly they talk about her fab book Emperor of Rome and her podcast Being Roman. Did the excesses and jokes of the Roman emperors re...
RHLSTP 490 - Sooz Kempner
February 14, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour - 31.6 MB#490 Do Horses Remember? - Richard is excited about recent developments in robotics, but he doesn’t have time for stand up (or any stand up). His guest is the remarkable comedian, singer and YouTube sensation Sooz Kempner (plus some interjections from her mum). They talk about personifying a times table, being snubbed by opera singers, how to satirise the almost unsatirisable Tory MPs, why Twitter has gone down the toilet, responding to trolls and reply-guys, the wonder that is the fans of D...
Retro RHLSTP 71 - Limmy
February 12, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour - 31.8 MBRETRO RHLSTP #71 - Monopoly Penguin - Rich is on the cusp of a couple of massive life changes, but he won’t let ageing and moving get in the way of asking comedians strange questions in an attempt to make them reveal intimate truths. Today he talks to a man with inventive ideas for revenge and murder, Limmy. They discuss being concreted into the pavement, manspreading, swearing xylophones, fake whatsapps, undescended testicles, sea lion genitals, how to save money when touring, the joy of t...
RHLSTP Book Club 83 - Becky Holmes
February 08, 2024 04:00 - 46 minutes - 21.6 MBBook Club #83 - Keanu Reeves Is Not in Love With You - Richard talks to internet sensation Becky Holmes about her fantastic book about internet scammers and the people they scam. They chat about how this idea came about, the hilarious Twitter chats Becky has had with scammers, how the book delves into the world of fraud in much greater and more serious detail than you might have expected, why intelligent people can be susceptible to cons, the crazy things we all do for love, the instinct to ...
RHLSTP 489 - Amar Latif
February 06, 2024 04:00 - 57 minutes - 26.7 MB#489 Dream On - Richard has had a very difficult journey to the Leeds City Varieties and wouldn’t have made it without the genius of tour manager Bec, but thank God he did because this is a terrific podcast with broadcaster and former accountant Amar Latif. He talks about how he coped with losing 95% of his sight at 18, why he was still determined to become an accountant and why he refused to accept that unaccompanied blind people weren’t allowed to travel the world. Richard inevitably attem...
Retro RHLSTP 70 - Joe Lycett
February 05, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour - 29.6 MBRETRO RHLSTP #70 - Esme - Rich has found the mother of all stones and is banging on about that as usual (don’t worry he will syphon this off into a podcast you don’t have to listen to soon). His guest is RHLSTP super fan and fly in the ointment Joe Lycett. They discuss the beauty of being allowed to be silly in a serious world, whether Tom Daley should be sponsored to go to Pride, the Daily Express making mountains out of molehills, how a TV chef did not appreciate a joke about chicken jer...
RHLSTP Book Club 82 - Bob Cryer
February 02, 2024 04:00 - 55 minutes - 25.8 MBBook Club #82 - Same Time Tomorrow? - Richard chats with actor Bob Cryer about the charming and beautifully balanced book he’s written about his much missed dad, Barry Cryer. They talk about the difficulties and emotions of writing about someone you were so close to, the importance of it not being a hagiography, the shocking revelations that only came out after death (luckily not the kind of shocking that others have been subject to), how Barry was an honorary Jew and an honorary gay, the ef...
RHLSTP 488 - Corinne Bailey Rae
January 31, 2024 04:00 - 54 minutes - 25.4 MB#488 Fifty Shades of Rae - Richard is in the City Varieties Leeds, the scene of a traumatic RHLSTP that he and the audience are still processing. And he’s booked another rock star, will they be as much trouble? It’s the sublime Corinne Bailey Rae. They talk about the whirlwind of her early success, why on earth she’s choose to still live in Leeds, how a teacher crushed her dreams of playing classical violin, her forays into Christian Rock, why she called her first band Helen, exposing emotio...
Retro RHLSTP 69 - Sarah Millican
January 29, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour - 34.2 MBRETRO RHLSTP #69 - Old Man’s Pants Under The Bed - Rich has just had to stand impassive in a stranger’s guff for fear of looking like the one who smelt it and thus dealt it and it’s been a bad day all round, but everything should be OK as it’s round 5 of the verbal boxing match (that threatens to become a naked wrestling match) with Sarah Millican. They chat about Daniel Craig’s bum, who invented the lifeboat, whether we only remember the times we were bullied and not the time we were the ...
RHLSTP Book Club 81 - Ian Rankin
January 25, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour - 30.2 MBBook Club #81 - A Heart Full of Headstones - Richard is in Edinburgh and talks to Edinburgh’s second favourite knight (after a penguin) Ian Rankin. They discuss the latest of his many books about Rebus and Edinburgh (is it a character in itself?), how well Ian knows the character after all this time, why he chose to have him age in real time, how his books embrace topicality, whether Rebus could really pull Duckface, why Ian let go of the TV adaptations, the changes made by American publishe...
RHLSTP 487 - Steve Pemberton
January 24, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour - 27.9 MB#487 Beige Towel - Richard finally has a chance to prove whether his or a rival’s podcast is the most popular, but will he like the answers? His guest returns after 11 short years, it’s BAFTA award winning Steve Pemberton. They talk about that bus episode of Inside Number 9, the official ranking of all of the episodes, Mel Smith punks and non-existent dog poo chocolates, the other Steve Pemberton, surviving a heart attack (according to the Daily Mirror) and using a holiday snap as your actin...
RHLSTP Emergency Questions 7
January 22, 2024 04:00 - 48 minutes - 22.7 MBEQ What Would You Take From A Museum Another EQ compilation, but what will the question be this month? There is literally no way to find out without listening to this. Find out what celebs as diverse as David Cross, Anneka Rice, Limmy and Sophie Ellis-Bextor would take home with them from museums or art galleries if they were allowed. Damn gave it away. SUPPORT THE SHOW! Come and see us live GIGS Watch our TWITCH CHANNEL See extra content at our WEBSITE Become a member at https://plus...
RHLSTP Book Club 80 - Tez Ilyas
January 19, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour - 28.3 MBBook Club #80 - The Secret Diary of a British Muslim Aged 13 3/4 - Richard is in Chorley for another live book club with stand up and actor Tez Ilyas. They talk about why Tez wanted to write about his childhood, why he selected the diary format even though he needed to recreate the entries retrospectively, being chased by a farmer with a shot gun, pretending his friend had broken his neck and how the book will resonate with most people’s experience of adolescent concerns, but with added laye...
RHLSTP 486 - Robert Bathurst
January 17, 2024 04:00 - 55 minutes - 25.6 MB#486 Punchable Face - Rich is in Tunbridge Wells and amazed at the 20th Century news coming from a seemingly 19th Century newspaper. His guest is the superb and charming actor Robert Bathurst. They chat about whether Robert can claim to have had a number one record, the enduring appeal of Joking Apart and how Robert might have screwed u the chance of a third series, the art school appeal of Toast of London, touring Australia with Emma Thompson, playing Jeffrey Barnard in the very pub where e...
RHLSTP 485 - Jeff Innocent
January 15, 2024 04:00 - 52 minutes - 24.4 MB#485 Chinggis Khan - Richard is in Norwich at Halloween and there’s been some terrible pumpkin news. His guest is veteran stand-up and surprise social media smash, Jeff Innocent. They chat about how audience preconceptions are subverted by his brilliant act, his shady family history and why his mum won’t let him talk about it, his choice to go in a different direction with some surprising jobs, how social media has given him fame in his sixties, how diversity doesn’t always include the worki...
RHLSTP Book Club 79 - Prof Farah Karim Cooper
January 12, 2024 04:00 - 39 minutes - 18.5 MBBook Club #79 - The Great White Bard - Richard chats with Farah Karim Cooper about her brilliant thoughtful and challenging book about Shakespeare, The Great White Bard. They discuss how you can still love a writer and challenge their world view, the racial stereotyping in Shakespeare’s works and why sometimes it’s used to undermine the clichés and sometimes it isn’t, how the Tempest is more about colonialism than the teenage Richard realised, how Shakespeare’s portraits have become increasi...
RHLSTP 484 - Jason Cook
January 10, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour - 40.6 MB#484 Giraffe in a Headlock - Richard is back at the Stand in Newcastle and in the week that the Northumberland Sycamore was cruelly cuts down, dare he risk making an allusion? His guest is legendary stand-up and TV writer, Jason Cook. Rich might be getting a bit tired from touring, but it doesn’t really matter, as we have a story-teller topped only by Brian Blessed for loquaciousness. Jason talks about being a tiny chef in some biscuit ads and going through airport security covered in flour,...
Retro RHLSTP 68 - Off Menu
January 08, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour - 32.6 MBRETRO RHLSTP #68 - Bobby Davro’s Notebook - Richard has been playing I Spy with a 3 year old, and also reveals the cover of his new book, Would You Rather? His guests are the disrespectful young imps from the Off Menu podcast (after Richard was so well behaved on theirs) Ed Gamble and James Acaster. They discuss how many people believed Richard was a competition winner on their podcast - and how the pair have fared with some genuine competition winning guests, Richard’s constructive critic...
RHLSTP Book Club 78 - Adam Bloom
January 05, 2024 04:00 - 50 minutes - 23.4 MBBook Club #78 - Finding Your Comic Genius - Another book club in front of an audience - this one coming from Aldershot with Adam Bloom talking about his exhaustive manual for improving your stand up comedy act, Finding Your Comedy Genius. They talk about knowing you are going to be a comedian from the age of 9, working alongside future stars in Asylum, the various techniques that Adam has devised to ensure your punchlines hit, how to get rolling laughs, avoiding virtual comedy and how stage ...
RHLSTP 483 - Lauren Pattison
January 03, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour - 34.9 MB#483 Nit Infestation - Richard is at the Stand in Newcastle with an enthusiastic Sunday afternoon crowd and he’s amazed by the number of ginger hues he can expect in the city. His guest is comedian Lauren Pattison. They talk about how low things had got for her during their last chat in lockdown, how the worst day to dump a comedian is April Fool’s Day, how working in Morrison’s during the pandemic was surprisingly creatively inspiring, coping with online criticism and how her last Edinburgh...
Best of RHLSTP 5
January 01, 2024 04:00 - 1 hour - 38.4 MBThis is the last of five end of 2023 "best of" shows! See RHLSTP live http://richardherring.com/rhlstp SUPPORT THE SHOW! Watch our TWITCH CHANNEL See extra content at our WEBSITE Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/rhlstp. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Best of RHLSTP 4
December 29, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour - 32.2 MBThis is the fourth of five end of 2023 "best of" shows! See RHLSTP live http://richardherring.com/rhlstp SUPPORT THE SHOW! Watch our TWITCH CHANNEL See extra content at our WEBSITE Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/rhlstp. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Best of RHLSTP 3
December 28, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour - 33.3 MBThis is the third of five end of 2023 "best of" shows! See RHLSTP live http://richardherring.com/rhlstp SUPPORT THE SHOW! Watch our TWITCH CHANNEL See extra content at our WEBSITE Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/rhlstp. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Best of RHLSTP 2
December 27, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour - 33.5 MBThis is the second of five end of 2023 "best of" shows! See RHLSTP live http://richardherring.com/rhlstp SUPPORT THE SHOW! Watch our TWITCH CHANNEL See extra content at our WEBSITE Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/rhlstp. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Best of RHLSTP 1
December 26, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour - 30.5 MBThis is the first of five end of 2023 "best of" shows! See RHLSTP live http://richardherring.com/rhlstp Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/rhlstp. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
RHLSTP 482 - Vasyl Baidak
December 25, 2023 04:00 - 55 minutes - 25.4 MB#482 May The Force Be With You - It’s a very special and moving Christmas episode as Richard talks to Ukranian comedian Vasyl Baidak about performing comedy in a war zone, how comedy has differed before, after and during the conflict, performing in shelters and trenches, how comedy helps process the horror and how absurd comedy seems redundant in the more absurd state of war, converting Stewart Lee tickets into a car, being championed by Stephen Fry, the influence of Andy Kaufman, building t...
RHLSTP Book Club 77 - Alasdair Beckett-King
December 22, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour - 28 MBBook Club #77 - Montgomery Bonbon - Murder at the Museum - The Book Club is still on the road, this week at the Norwich Playhouse with flame-haired (though not on fire) stand up and author Alasdair Beckett-King talking about his fab children’s book series, Montgomery Bonbon. Find out the unusual way in which he got a book deal, why he wanted to write about a 10 year old girl who transforms into a male detective with an indistinguishable foreign accent, the challenge of writing jokes for kids...
RHLSTP 481 - Shane Todd
December 19, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour - 32.4 MB#481 What Do They Do With the Foreskins? - Rich is back in Belfast and is wondering if they should be as proud as they are of the Titanic. His guest is stand-up Shane Todd. They talk about touring America, being circumcised as an adult, whether soup or yoghurt is harder to eat in public, unusual foods to sneak into a cinema, supporting Kevin Hart on tour and what you do if he doesn’t turn up, taking a charity boxing match a bit too seriously and trying to compete with the mysteriously dead S...
Bonus 18
December 18, 2023 04:00 - 38 minutes - 17.6 MBAs a lovely Christmas present to you all, we've decided to give this month's subscriber only podcast out to everyone. It's the season after all. If you've forgotten to get us anything, don't worry - it's better to give than to receive. Put if you really want to do something, consider joining our Acast plus subscribers area - https://plus.acast.com/s/rhlstp Or our badge scheme - https://gofasterstripe.com/badges Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/rhlstp. Hosted on Acast. See ac...
RHLSTP Book Club 76 - Ashley Blaker
December 15, 2023 04:00 - 49 minutes - 22.8 MBBook Club #76 - Normal Schmormal - Richard is joined by comedy producer turned stand up, Ashley Blaker to talk about his parenting book, Normal Schmormal. They talk about trying stand-up as a teenager, how becoming more religious led to Ashley’s new stand up career (and becoming less religious), the demands of having six children with or without special educational needs, what makes a kid a Coldplay and what makes them a Zappa, having the kids on the audiobook and the suspicious chapter supp...
RHLSTP 480 - Lisa McGee
December 13, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour - 28.7 MB#480 Murder She F***ing Wrote - Richard is in Belfast and has some ideas on how to heal the divisions in this great city. His guest is writer and genius Lisa McGee. They chat about first dances at wedding, whether Jessica Fletcher is a typical writer, how Derry Girls is used in schools by lazy (but still correct) teachers, casting (some) comedians, whether a writer knows in advance if a show will be a hit, getting referenced on the Simpsons, the Derry Girls mural and why all nuns aren’t bad,...
Retro RHLSTP 67 - Richard Herring
December 11, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour - 30.9 MBRETRO RHLSTP #67 - Kickstarter "This is the most self indulgent thing I have ever done", says Richard Herring as he bounds on to the familiar stage of the Leicester Square Theatre. And who are we to argue - for the guest on this week's show is none other than Richard himself. With a combination of swagger and poor camera tricks we will finally get to see what makes the mysterious Herring tick. This podcast is a document to the kindness of the 2000 contributors to our recent KickStarter cam...
RHLSTP Book Club 75 - David J Cohen
December 08, 2023 04:00 - 54 minutes - 25 MBBook Club #75 - Stand Up, Barry Goldman - Richard meets comedian, musician, script writer and inventor of the phrase “Comedy is the new rock n roll”, Dave Cohen. They discuss why he wanted to write a fictionalised account of the comedy scene of the late 70s, how it was inspired by true events and seeing Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson performing in a porn cinema in Edinburgh. Plus living and working through the early days of alternative comedy, writing for Horrible Histories, the Young Ones sty...
RHLSTP 479 - Jarred Christmas
December 06, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour - 29.5 MB#479 Pot Noodle Versus Road Kill - Richard is still in Bath and still staying at his parents and has become an unpaid tech advisor (luckily successful). His guest this week is comedian, actor and panto star Jarred Christmas. They discuss how Jarred went from hero to zero on Hollyoaks Later, his foray into the world of advertising and why he nearly had to pay all the money back, what it was like working with Verne Troyer in panto, why he loves living in a West Country village and how the vill...
Retro RHLSTP 66 - Annabel Giles
December 04, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour - 28 MBRETRO RHLSTP #66 - Christmas Presents for Ethiopia Richard is at the Brighton Theatre Royal and in danger of having a deadly secret revealed unless he stumps up the cash, but is it worth the price he has to pay? Never mind, he can forget all about it for now, as he chats with model turned presenter turned actor turned author turned therapist, Annabel Giles. They discuss teenage rebellion, accidentally becoming a model, behind the scenes at Band Aid, saucy Lady Di, how Annabel managed top...
RHLSTP Book Club 74 - Bec Hill
December 01, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour - 29.1 MBBook Club #74 - Horror Heights - A rare live Book Club coming to you from Tunbridge Wells, where we get to meet and chat to comedian Bec Hill about her brilliant stand up and meeting David Tennant AND talk about her fab series of books Horror Heights. What would happen if slime came to life? How difficult is it write a series of books that all take place on the same weekend, with different protagonists and interweaving story arcs? Was Round The Twist a big influence on the author and much mo...
RHLSTP 478 - Stuart Goldsmith
November 29, 2023 04:00 - 56 minutes - 26.1 MB#478 Surprise Postman - Richard is in Bath, but spent the night in Cheddar and is wondering about what the last few years of his life might hold for him. His guest is rival podcaster and stand-up, Stuart Goldsmith. They talk about Stuart’s brief acting career, whether Richard listens to The Comedians’ Comedian Podcast, why Stuart might need to go off for a wee at any moment (spoiler - he doesn’t), stand up tips, whether we’re all fucked because of climate change, how Stuart teaches business ...
RHLSTP 477 - Rob Reiner
November 27, 2023 04:00 - 43 minutes - 19.9 MB#477 Magic Bullet - Here’s a bonus remote podcast (because we’re not doing enough at the moment) with superstar actor and director and now podcast documentary (if you will pocumentary) maker, Rob Reiner. With limited time, they discuss which of his films is the greatest of all time, what you need to make a perfect improvised movie, the first toilet flush on US Prime Time TV and appearing in the Batman TV series. But mostly they talk about Rob’s fascinating new podcast series “Who Killed JFK?...
RHLSTP Book Club 73 - Lou Sanders
November 24, 2023 04:00 - 45 minutes - 21.1 MBBook Club #73 - What's That Lady Doing? - It’s another live Book Club, this time recorded at the Leicester Square Theatre with comedian and ice skater Lou Sanders. They talk about why the time was right for Lou to detail the funny (and occasionally shocking and sad) escapades from her life, why it’s tricky to write about family and how to get the balance right, why shame is universal and needs to be embraced and accepted in order to move on, how most people are plagued by self-doubt even if ...
RHLSTP 476 - Peter Richardson
November 21, 2023 04:00 - 57 minutes - 26.4 MB#476 The Mike That Never Was - Richard is back in the witch-burning city of Exeter and this time his guest is Comic Strip Presents legend Peter Richardson. They talk about how Peter meet Nigel Planer and invented the character of Neil, the early days of the Comic Strip in Raymonds Revue Bar, why it was a good thing that he didn’t end up playing Mike in the Young Ones (though he might well be wrong about that), how he shocked Steve Martin, getting bottles of piss thrown at him by Heavy Metal ...
Retro RHLSTP 65 - Peter Serafinowicz
November 20, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour - 44.9 MBRETRO RHLSTP #65 - Brian Blessed and the Big Foot It’s the final episode of series 10 of RHLSTP and Rich meets a bearded man who has managed to find a partner (find out how he did it nerds). His guest is the laid-back and yet also intense (and rather beautiful) Peter Serafinowicz. They talk about how it’s almost impossible to parody the new President of the United States, but the effective way that Peter managed it and his fears and plans should there be repercussions from the thin-skinne...
RHLSTP Book Club 72 - Geoff Norcott
November 17, 2023 04:00 - 50 minutes - 23.3 MBBook Club #72 - The British Bloke, Decoded - Rich welcomes back comedian Geoff Norcott to talk about his new book about UK masculinity, The British Bloke, Decoded. Is it possible to generalise about a whole sex? And more importantly is it funny? Is size important (both penis and height in general)? Can you beat a chimp in hand to hand combat? Are women as deluded about their tennis skills as men? Why don’t men check their junk more regularly? Under what circumstances is it OK for men to cry?...
RHLSTP 475 - Spencer Jones
November 14, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour - 29.3 MB#475 France’s Youngest Shepherd - Richard has come to Exeter, where there is some very bad news about the bins. His guest is amazing actor and comedy genius Spencer Jones. They talk about how a last minute self-tape got him a recurring role in Ted Lasso, where Death in Paradise meets Milton, how his first double act led to him losing his virginity and then his bottle, the extraordinary sequence of events that led to his first TV show, whether finger-wagging admonishment might make the bad gu...
Retro RHLSTP 64- Sarah Kendall
November 13, 2023 04:00 - 1 hour - 33.4 MBRETRO RHLSTP #64 - Sarah Kendall - Richard is amazed how a joke on Twitter now pretty much always gets taken at face value by someone, even if it's in an open letter to an 8 month-old baby. His guest is Nicole Kidman impersonator and fantastically thoughtful yet and puerile stand-up Sarah Kendall, fresh from her nomination for the big comedy award at the Fringe. They discuss the horrors of child birth, the redundancy of the hand job, growing up in New Newcastle, how audiences can sometimes l...
RHLSTP Book Club 71 - Joe Wilkinson
November 10, 2023 03:00 - 1 hour - 30.7 MBBook Club #71 - My (Illustrated) Autobiography - It’s another live Book Club from the Leicester Square Theatre with Joe Wilkinson talking about his groundbreaking book My Autobiography - illustrated by the brilliant Henry Paker. Though the chat is mainly an attempt to discover Joe’s true life story rather than the fictitious one involving scrumping and bus timetables. They chat about daily podcasting, the Pleasance Sold Out Board and great shows that nobody saw, working with Bobby Ball and a...