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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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RHLSTP 512 - Nick Wilty

RHLSTP with Richard Herring ·

2024/07/17

#512 Veteran- Rich is back in Canterbury and has some great stuff about medieval archbishops that should play well on Live at the Apollo. His guest is veteran comedian and army veteran, Nick Wilty. He is a man with the most extraordinary life who has talked himself and others out of deadly situation. Amazing stories include convincing someone not to jump off a bridge before returning to the same spot in a different position the next year, having a gun in his face whilst hitchhiking, how he became an

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45:02

RHLSTP Book Club 105 - Rob and Neil Gibbons

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2024/07/12

Book Club #105 - Alan Partridge Big Beacon - The time has come for the creator of Alan Partridge to meet the current writers of Alan Partridge, theGibbonsBrothers, who sadly don’t share a bunk bed, but have done amazing work over the last decade or so with the character. They discuss how they ended up with this lucrative gig, how not being obsessive Partridge fans helped them to reinvent the character somewhat, how writing as Alan involves turning off your imagination and going with the first idea,

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1:06:15

RHLSTP 511 - Tony Gardner

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2024/07/10

#511 What You On?- Richard is back in Colchester with possibly the greatest example of a local news story that there has ever been. His guest is doctor turned actor TonyGardner. They chat about being bitten by an over enthusiastic zombie, the decision to go to Edinburgh that would change his life, how it became impossible to keep both his GP job and acting work going, his reluctance to do children’s TV, but how My Parents Are Aliens changed his life and led to a very impressive CV, as well as slight

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49:38

RHLSTP Book Club 104 - Marcus Chown

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2024/07/05

Book Club #104 - A Crack In Everything - Richard talks to physicist and journalist Marcus Chown about this fascinating book about Black Holes and the people who discovered them, A Crack in Everything. Are Black Holes black and holes? Can we time travel if we go inside one? Why is the one at the centre of the Milky Way smaller than most and what repercussions does that have for us? The pair talk about how Einstein didn’t think black holes would exist, the tragic and difficult lives of many of the

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1:04:49

RHLSTP 510 - Rob Brydon

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2024/07/03

#510 McCartney Set List - Richard is still being played on by Scant Regard, but as this long tour progresses his stand up sections get mercifully shorter! His guest is the multi-talentedRobBrydon. They chat about how a birthday message to Margot Robbie led to a part in a potentially Oscar winning film (You’ll know if it won by now, but we poor fools in the past did not), howBrydonpretended to be ill to get out of a guest slot on Would I Lie To You? and how the show has become bulletproof, how

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51:41

RHLSTP Book Club 103 - Sofie Hagen

RHLSTP with Richard Herring ·

2024/06/28

Book Club #103 - Will I Ever Have Sex Again? - Richard chats with comedian and authorSofieHagen about her thought-provoking and often heart-breaking, but also hopeful book Will I Ever Have Sex Again? They talk about the minefield that sexual politics still is, why we should talk about (and during) sex, why no means no and yes sometimes means no too,whether elderly cis people like Richard need to be afraid of pronouns and people being trans or non-binary and how thinking more about why we have sex or

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1:04:44

RHLSTP 509 - Armando Iannucci

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2024/06/25

#509 Pot Noodle is Bad For You - Richard is doing some stand up that was super topical on 5th February when this was recorded, but for you will be a nice window to see what the people of the past thought was mildly amusing, plus there’s an exciting new addition to the show. His guest is comedy geniusArmandoIannucci. They talk about how a Christmas advert wasArmando’s proudest achievement, how it’s possible that 30 years have passed since the Day Today (apparently it’s something to do with the linear

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46:54

RHLSTP Emergency Questions 9

RHLSTP with Richard Herring ·

2024/06/24

EQ: Cheese It's time - at long last - for the Cheese episode. See Rich on tourhttp://richardherring.com/ballback/tourSUPPORT THE SHOW!Come and see us liveGIGSWatch our TWITCH CHANNELSee extra contentat our WEBSITE Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/rhlstp.Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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50:23

RHLSTP Book Club 102 - James Wright

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2024/06/21

Book Club #102 - Richard talks to archaeologist and trained stonemason James Wright about his terrific book busting some of the myths about ancient buildings. They chat about why people wrongly believe that spiral staircases are often clockwise, how castles were bling rather than defensive, why you can’t trust anything written on a pub, why stonemasons carved grotesque and pornographic sculptures on churches (and pre-empted one of Richard’s best known emergency questions), what the marks left on

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1:04:28

RHLSTP 508 - Maisie Adam

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2024/06/19

#508 Matterface - Richard is back in Brighton and is aghast at the local news of rude waiters and big cats. His guest is football mad stand upMaisieAdam. They discuss how a choice in a writers’ room they were both in led one of their careers to sky rocket (but which one), the disappointment of the wrong Royal at the Variety Performance and how maracas were the sign of a job well done, playing in Soccer Aid the day after your wedding, a Tipping Point humiliation and taking a job where you might get

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36:28

RHLSTP Book Club 101 - Janey Godley

RHLSTP with Richard Herring ·

2024/06/14

Book Club #101 - JANEY: The Woman That Won't Shut Up - Richard talks to brilliant comedian, author, actor and agitator Janey Godley about her fab autobiography Janey. They discuss living with a cancer that you know will kill you, why she wanted to be honest about the horrors and laughter that cancer brings and why survival is nothing to do with the person with cancer. Plus dealing with trolls, a brush with the stalker from Baby Reindeer, knitting a scarf for a film star, being friends with Billy

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1:02:55

RHLSTP 507 - Rufus Jones

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2024/06/12

#507 Jackie Chan and the 700 Mops - Richard has come to the Brighton Komedia with plans to Mount Everest and a surprising testicular fact. His guest is writer and actorRufusJones. They discuss the mystery of the year ofRufus’ birth, getting pissed with TerryJones, playing an American president with a squeaky voice, the magnificent achievement of the sitcom Home and being observed whilst acting nude, the ever changing technology of supermarket shopping, why Rich will never download Royal Match and

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1:06:53

RHLSTP Book Club 100 - Joel Morris

RHLSTP with Richard Herring ·

2024/06/07

Book Club #100 - Be Funny or Die - In our 100th Book Club podcast Richard talks to comedy writerJoelMorrisabout his frog dissecting book, Be Funny Or Die, which promises to reveal the secret of comedy and does a pretty decent job of doing so. They discuss what makes a good and a terrible catchphrase, how no comedian can make everyone laugh and why they shouldn’t want to, the tribal nature of comedy, whether comedy is by definition offensive to someone, the power of shared laughter in an

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RHLSTP 506 - Urooj Ashfaq

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2024/06/05

#506 Review Rainbow - Richard has some dispiriting revelations about what people google when they are looking for him, but is quickly revived by the ready wit of Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer 2023,UroojAshfak. They chat about the difficulties (or not) of taking comedy across international boundaries, the burgeoning Indian stand up scene, being a question on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, meeting fleabag, turning teenage diaries into comedy and the only stand up award that Richard has ever won

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1:06:59

Retro RHLSTP 86 - Harry Shearer

RHLSTP with Richard Herring ·

2024/06/03

RETRO RHLSTP #86 - Creative Differences - Richard has some news of an amazing time travelling finger and is clearly super excited to be meeting one of his all-time comedy heroes, Harry Shearer from off of This is Spinal Tap and The Simpsons. Rich was too scared to talk to him when he saw him improbably travelling on London's tube, but hopefully he won't just sit quietly, staring at him and saying nothing this time. The pair discuss Harry's career which seems to break the space-time continuum as he's

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RHLSTP Book Club 99 - Catherine Nixey

RHLSTP with Richard Herring ·

2024/05/31

Book Club #99 - Heresy - Richard talks to journalist and author and daughter of a nun and a monk, CatherineNixeyabout her witty and informative book about the early days of Christianity, Heresy. They chat about what the word Heresy really means, the extraordinary gospels that didn’t make it into the New Testament which show Jesus’ murderous side and the magical powers of the Virgin Mary’s anatomy, the varying beliefs of early Christian sects, including one that said he hated kids and their parents,

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1:10:48

RHLSTP 505 - Bob Mortimer

RHLSTP with Richard Herring ·

2024/05/29

#505 Cheeky Underground Presence - Richard is back to work after the Christmas break (we’re coming to you from the past) and is worried about the door of depravity that he has opened up, but there is no need to fear because his guest is processed meat advocate, BobMortimer. It’s a free-wheeling chat as you might be prepared for that takes in farmers, meeting Paul McCartney,whether double acts are still talking to each other or not, a cursed earring, favourite openings and oh, just listen to it. It’s

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1:43:34

Retro RHLSTP 85 - David Mitchell

RHLSTP with Richard Herring ·

2024/05/27

RETRO RHLSTP #85 - The Shreks of Westminster Bridge - Slightly worse for wear after having lunch with Alice Cooper at the Q awards, Richard is delighted to welcome a man he thinks might be him from another time stream, David 'Mitch' Mitchell. He's certainly met his match in pedantry and both men accidentally reveal some shocking details about their respective psyches. Never have two men discussed at such length the vagaries of choosing between a ham hand and a sun lotion arm pit. And that is

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RHLSTP Book Club 98 - Kevin Jon Davies

RHLSTP with Richard Herring ·

2024/05/24

Book Club #98 - 42 The Wildly Improbably Ideas of Douglas Adams - Richard talks toKevinJonDavies, the editor of this fascinating collection of items from the archives of Douglas Adams. They chat about the insight the notes, letters, scripts and thoughts give to the mind of this extraordinary thinker, the notebooks that started with optimism, moved into self-hatred and then largely remained blank (that most writers will be familiar with), the alternate reality where Adams gave up writing, what Arthur

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1:05:50

RHLSTP 504 - Justin Moorhouse

RHLSTP with Richard Herring ·

2024/05/22

#504 Respect Hook - Richard is back at the Lowry Theatre Salford and is annoyed about an Amazon review for his book. His guest is comedian, actor and former Edinburgh flatmate, JustinMoorhouse. They discuss doing a corporate for an arms manufacturer, improvising with Eric Cantona, how everyone in the Manchester area has to appear on Coronation Street (as up to three characters), being a cheeky f***er to Danny Boyle, why Justin doesn’t go everywhere with his face painted, why it’s a bad idea for

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