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RHLSTP with Richard Herring

Sky Potato, Go Faster Stripe and Fuzz Productions

RHLSTP 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... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:03:13

RHLSTP 594 - Carl Donnelly

RHLSTP with Richard Herring ·

2026/01/14

RHLSTP #594 - Taekwondo in Droitwich - Richard has returned to the Bewdley Festival where he has found possibly the longest and most insignificant local news story ever. His guest is veteran comedian CarlDonnelly. They chat about how they spent the morning after the Brexit vote together, their plans for a comedian ambassador calendar, the tingling effects of Original Source shower gel, the surprising consequences of taking ayahuasca, a probable mental breakdown in Edinburgh which means Carl

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1:13:12

Retro RHLSTP 128 - Mathew Baynton and Jim Howick

RHLSTP with Richard Herring ·

2026/01/12

#421 Gascoigne V Herring -Richard’s daughter has firm evidence for the existence ofghosts, which is apt because Richard’s guests areghoststoo!!! It’s Mat and Jim from off ofGhostsand much more. There are some harsh words about the reboot of Bob the Builder and a story of actorly distress from the set of Hellboy, but then we’re into a nice long chat about the genesis of Horrible Histories andGhostsand what the team at the core of these projects saw in each other. Rich is prepared to go to great

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1:08:02

Best of RHLSTP 2025 - Part 3

RHLSTP with Richard Herring ·

2026/01/09

Best of RHLSTP 2025 - Part 3 - "The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there." But 2025 was only a week and a half ago, so you should be able to pick up most of what's going on in this final RHLSTP compilation from that era. Featuring such names as Nish Kumar, Ania Magliano, and Paul F Tompkins - and also the people those names refer to!SUPPORT THE SHOW!See details of the RHLSTP LIVE DATES Watch our TWITCH CHANNELBecome a badger and see extra contentat our WEBSITE Buy DVDs and

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1:01:23

RHLSTP 593 - Sam Nicoresti

RHLSTP with Richard Herring ·

2026/01/07

RHLSTP #593 - Polyamorous Regrets - Richard has come to the Bewdley Festival, but isn’t sure the town (that he’d never heard of til he got here) should be so proud of their Prime Ministerial connections. His guest is the Edinburgh Comedy Prize winner Sam Nicoresti. They discuss Sam being heckled by Herring Junior during the 2025 Fringe (and who is to blame for that), how winning the award will pay for Sam’s wedding, the possible reasons that so many older comedians seem to have jumped on the

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1:18:11

Best of RHLSTP 2025 - Part 2

RHLSTP with Richard Herring ·

2026/01/06

Best of RHLSTP 2025 - Part 2 - That's right, it's time for another compilation of top RHLSTP moments from 2025 - this time featuring the likes of Tim Key (twice), Bernie Clifton (twice), and Rosie Jones (one time - but it's a good one time. In fact, all of the clips are good. That's the point.)SUPPORT THE SHOW!See details of the RHLSTP LIVE DATES Watch our TWITCH CHANNELBecome a badger and see extra contentat our WEBSITE Buy DVDs and books from GO FASTER STRIPE Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy

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1:15:19

Best of RHLSTP 2025 - Part 1

RHLSTP with Richard Herring ·

2026/01/05

Best of RHLSTP 2025 - Part 1 - Happy old year! This is what you ought to say whenever you think about the year 2025 from now on, solely because of what an incredible year it was for RHLSTP episodes. Don't believe me? Take a listen to this beautiful compilation of episodes including Ivo Graham, Amy Gledhill, Paul Whitehouse and yes, even John Kearns. I await your rebuttal!SUPPORT THE SHOW!See details of the RHLSTP LIVE DATES Watch our TWITCH CHANNELBecome a badger and see extra contentat our WEBSITE

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58:50

Twitch of Fun 2025 Special

RHLSTP with Richard Herring ·

2025/12/31

Twitch of Fun New Year’s Eve 2025 Special - 6,7 - Twitch of Fun is BACK in this non-canonical episode to celebrate the end of another horrible year and to attempt to tempt some temporary temps to this zenith of Richard’s work. There’s an attempt to extract an apology from our most perverse character (that could be any of us), plus Henry Hippo’s New Year’s Resolution and Ally and Rich look back at the Coldplay couple and who we are to judge them, a Thai woman who rose from the dead, the evil plan of

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49:42

Stone Clearing Chapter 184

RHLSTP with Richard Herring ·

2025/12/29

Stone Clearing Chapter 184. - Wake Up, Fleepyheadf -It’s 11.55am on 17th December and as a Christmas treat/punishment Rich is returning to the Stocean after a 10 month absence for another Stone Clear. Will the field still be there? Will there be any stones? What medieval songs shall Richard sing? How many plastic bags will be mistake for stones? Has the Stone Stasi been lulled into a false sense of security? Will you be able to listen to him doing a wee? These questions will all be asked. Plus

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33:43

RHLSTP Book Club - Boxing Day Special - Right Bollock

RHLSTP with Richard Herring ·

2025/12/26

RHLSTP Book Club - Boxing Day Special - Right Bollock - I Right Bollock - Herring gets the interview everyone wants as he chats to debut author Right Bollock about his autobiography. Find out what it was like to be born a testicle, how RB felt when he discovered he had a brother, his perspective on some of the incidents that have made it into Herring’s stand-up, how he escaped during the operation and what his aspirations for the future are. If you want to spend Boxing Day listening to a man talking

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1:45:59

Happy Now

RHLSTP with Richard Herring ·

2025/12/25

Christmas Treat - Happy Now? - Full Standup showAfter years of drifting aimlessly and alone, Richard Herring is now settled down with a wife and a tiny baby. Is he finally happy now? Or does responsibility for the lives of others come with its own terrors?In his twelfth solo stand up show, Richard examines whether we can ever hope to be or are meant to be truly content. If we were never unhappy would happiness have any meaning? Why do our brains force us to envision the worst possible outcomes even

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1:03:48

Christmas AMA 6

RHLSTP with Richard Herring ·

2025/12/22

Bonus Pod - Christmas Ask Me Anything - It’s Christmas so as a special treat for you all, Santa has arranged that this month’s pay-walled Ask Me Anything is free to all, even the poorest of children (as long as they have a device to listen to podcasts on) because it is the season. Richard answers every question he has been set, no matter how inappropriate and unChristmassy! Find out his favourite terrorist atrocity, whether he was born out of wedlock, if he would ever vote Tory, if he would eat a

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54:57

RHLSTP Emergency Questions 11

RHLSTP with Richard Herring ·

2025/12/19

#11 If You Could Go Into A Chrysalis And Emerge As Anything You Wanted, What Would It Be And Why And Also Do You Think That Says Anything About You? - Oh yes! It's another one of these Emergency Questions compilations. Can you guess which question has been selected this time? Here's a hint - the question has been asked of celebrity stars including James Acaster, Reece Shearsmith and Fern Brady... Merry Chrysalis everyone :)SUPPORT THE SHOW!See details of the RHLSTP LIVE DATES Watch our TWITCH

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45:25

Retro RHLSTP 127 - Rob Reiner

RHLSTP with Richard Herring ·

2025/12/17

#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,RobReiner. 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 aboutRob’s fascinating new podcast series “Who Killed JFK?” and the

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49:29

Christmas EQ Special

RHLSTP with Richard Herring ·

2025/12/13

Bonus Pod - Christmas EQ special - It’s Christmas so in the first in a series of special treat, please welcome Rich's puppet pal Ali asking Rich a series of his own Christmas Emergency Questions. Usually this sort of thing is not for public consumption - we keep it for the most generous of Rich's supporters, but as it is the season of goodwill, everyone may listen.You can buy your own copy of the Christmas EQ book here -

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54:08

RHLSTP Book Club 164 - Andy Webb

RHLSTP with Richard Herring ·

2025/12/12

RHLSTP Book Club #164 - Dianarama - Richard chats to journalist and documentary maker Andy Webb about his exhaustively researched (and lived) book Dianarama which is about the Martin Bashir interview with Princess Diana and the lies and subterfuge that were required to get it and the alleged cover up at the BBC that followed. How much did the BBC bosses know and how soon? Why hasn’t it been properly investigated at the Beeb? Was Bashir’s exploitation of Diana’s understandable fears at least partly

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1:04:42

RHLSTP 592 - Paul F Tompkins

RHLSTP with Richard Herring ·

2025/12/10

RHLSTP #592 - Smell My Suit -It’s another Leicester Square Theatre podcast and Rich is wondering if he’s already got to the point where his kids are funnier than him (low bar). His guest is the multi-talented and almost ubiquitous Paul F Tompkins. They chat about the practical drawbacks of acting with a claw, why Mr Peanut Butter in Bojack Horseman has the same voice as Paul, the unique confidence of starting stand-up at 17 and assuming you’re the best, why Paul wears a suit on stage and whether

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1:19:37

Retro RHLSTP 126 - Victoria Coren Mitchell

RHLSTP with Richard Herring ·

2025/12/08

#418 Starfish Perineum - Rich is back to his usual chair this week and tries to influence an impossible to win bet before being joined by Victoria Coren Mitchell. They chat about the disconnect between Victoria’s teenage angst and then partying with Frankie Howerd, the worst celebrity poker players, why the coughing Major should have gone for anal beads, how Victoria charmingly manages to lose money doing her Radio 4 show, how it’s possible that she didn’t learn to ride a bike as a child, the

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1:04:37

RHLSTP Book Club 163 - Steve Punt

RHLSTP with Richard Herring ·

2025/12/05

RHLSTP Book Club #163 -LostOnInfinity- Richard talks to Steve Punt about the book and incredible multi-media experience that he has created (along with Elaine and Matthew Sweetapple),LostOnInfinity. They have a long chat about Steve’s Benjamin Button career from starting on BBC1 on the Jasper Carrott show to 26 years on the Now Show, the lessons that the rollercoaster of Weekending taught them both and whether Eric Idle might be Steve’s dad. Then they discuss the long gestation period of the book

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1:06:34

RHLSTP 591 - Richard Ayoade

RHLSTP with Richard Herring ·

2025/12/03

RHLSTP #591 - Grolsch - Richard is back at the Leicester Sq Theatre and has a new moral dilemma to rival the Trolley Problem. How guest is actor, presenter, film director, author and philosopher RichardAyoade. They discussAyoade’s impressively varied career, why he wrongly doesn’t see himself as an actor, the sleeper cult show Garth Merenghi Darkplace, being the only one of the British/Irish cast who went to America to do the IT Crowd pilot, trying not to laugh at Bob Mortimer, why there should be

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1:13:20

Retro RHLSTP 125 - Anneka Rice

RHLSTP with Richard Herring ·

2025/12/01

#417 Captain Dick - Rich and some other Londoners are only alive today thanks to his skilful driving which means he is here to interview the absolutely remarkableAnnekaRice. They discuss her new stand up career and the way she tackles serious subjects like death and Alzheimers in her radio showAnnekaHas Issues, why she was recently arrested at an airport, the return of ChallengeAnnekaand whether there’s the same community spirit that there was 30 years ago, the physical imperfection that nearly

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