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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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34:32

RAACN week 1

RHLSTP with Richard Herring ·

2026/01/31

RAACN -In an attempt to bring the people the REAL news, not the lies of the Mainstream Media, faded 90s almost-celebrity Richard Herring teams up with an 134 year old ventriloquist dummy, Ally Sloper to report daily (yeah right) on the stories that really matter. With reportage and interjection from other characters from Twitch of Fun, a show sadly cancelled before it could reach its 100th episode.Week 1 (week ending 30th January 2026)- Pre-Workout Workout - In the first week of this groundbreaking

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44:06

RHLSTP Book Club 167 - Jess Robinson

RHLSTP with Richard Herring ·

2026/01/30

RHLSTP Book Club #167 - Life is Rosi - Rich chats to impressionist and actor Jess Robinson about her terrific debut book, (which she describes as Anne Frank meets Bridget Jones), Life is Rosi, an ambitious true story combining the diaries of 20 something Jess with the diaries of her grandmother, Rosi. They discuss the slightly forgotten first stages of the Holocaust where Polish Jews were expelled from Germany in 1938 and how Rosi’s positivity helped her to survive this turbulent period, also the

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1:05:31

RHLSTP 596 - Mathew Baynton

RHLSTP with Richard Herring ·

2026/01/28

RHLSTP #596- My Presumably Scrotum - It’s the final live record of RHLSTP in 2025 and Richard is worrying he might piss himself. His guest is the actor and writer MathewBaynton. They chat about Mat’s musical ambitions and the bands that his band supported, plus playing Bottom in Midsummer Night’s Dream and having to cope with matinee performances full of children, the preponderance of Nepo-Second-Cousins, why eating a yoghurt with the least dignity led to one of the most memorable pieces of TV ever,

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1:13:33

Retro RHLSTP 130 - Philippa Perry

RHLSTP with Richard Herring ·

2026/01/26

#419 Eights as Infinities - Rich has an apology to make to the prescient geniuses who voted for Brexit. His guest is therapist and advice columnist PhilippaPerry. They talk about the jobs she drifted in an out of in her 20s, how she got to be a mature student thanks to having Mill Aunties,whether therapy makes or breaks a comedian, how to stay sane and how thePerryfamily have become a 21st Century Vision On. Richard attempts to get some free therapy and desperately looks for reasons to blame his

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54:52

RHLSTP Book Club 166 - Doug Naylor

RHLSTP with Richard Herring ·

2026/01/23

RHLSTP Book Club #166 - Sin Bin Island - Rich meets Red Dwarf co-creator and writer for A Kick Up The Eighties, DougNaylorto talk about his thrilling and funny new book for kids, Sinbin Island. They chat about how Doug got started in comedy, why he gave us the Chicken Song, how Galton and Simpson inspired the writing of Red Dwarf, the difficulty of getting a sci-fi sitcom off the ground and how losing a leg at the age of 7 led to a correspondence with Douglas Bader. They then talk about what

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1:07:59

RHLSTP 595 - Richard Osman

RHLSTP with Richard Herring ·

2026/01/21

RHLSTP #595 - THE SAME DAY???? - Richard is back at the Leicester Square Theatre after completing a TV commitment. But what was the secret show he was doing? He will never tell. He’s also slightly taken aback by his son’s Christmas list. His guest is sarcastic TV host and best selling author and now effing podcaster, RichardOsman. Herring pitches some gameshow ideas to an unimpressedOsmanand attempts to solve the RichardOsmanurinal conundrum. They also chat about the strange questions that you get

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1:16:27

Retro RHLSTP 129 - Rich Hall

RHLSTP with Richard Herring ·

2026/01/19

#423Do Sniglets! -Richis delighted about the new comedic discovery that his daughter has discovered and her enthusiasm for expressing it. His guest is comedy legend and unique brainedRichHall. They talk about whyRich’s appearance (or non-appearance) in a movie is an indicator of its failure, how he started his comedy career on the streets baptising dogs, trying to take that level of performance into clubs, working alongside Seinfeld and Larry David and making up 90 minutes of comedy every morning

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54:19

RHLSTP Book Club 165 - John Lloyd

RHLSTP with Richard Herring ·

2026/01/16

RHLSTP Book Club #165 - The Meaning of Liff is 42 - Richard is back at the all new Podcast Room to chat again with comedy genius John Lloyd. They discuss yet another version of the fantastic Meaning of Liff book, this time for the 42nd anniversary of the first publication. They chat about where the idea came from, how John and Douglas Adams happily collaborated on this idea, even after falling out over Hitchhiker’s Guide, whether being bumped out of that project was actually the best thing for John,

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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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