Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast

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RHLSTP SPECIAL: Tim Vine - Back to Back. In the first of three special interviews from the Bristol Slapstick Festival, Richard talks to ex-World Record Punster and Pen Behind the Ear supremo, Tim Vine, who picks some of his favourite comedy clips. The pair chat about how to write one-liners, how they have helped and failed to help each other's sets, the best joke ever from the Edinburgh Fringe and look through some of the influences that have made Tim the child-man that he is today. Will a slightly ill Tim make it to the end of the interview? Let's hope so, cos there's a great clip with his dad to enjoy if he does. More episodes: https://www.comedy.co.uk/podcasts/richard_herring_lst_podcast/ Check out our website and become a badger and see extra content: http://rhlstp.co.uk See details of the RHLSTP tour dates: http://richardherring.com/gigs Buy DVDs and Books at: http://gofasterstripe.com

RHLSTP #201: Sathnam Sanghera - Sex in a Bush. RHLSTP is going on the road this year - check http://richardherring.com/gigs for dates (loads more to come) starting with a journey to Bilston Town Hall in Wolverhampton. Richard is incredibly and justifiably rude about the fifth worst city on the planet, but does he secretly love the place? His guest is local boy made good; author, journalist and defender of Wolverhampton (apart from the racist bits) Sathnam Sanghera. The pair discuss what it was like to work on Live TV (with an amazing revelation about Topless Darts); what it was like being an ordinary person going to Oxbridge; sharing a flat with John Oliver; the universality of the story of Bros and whether one of them has had work done; the figurative and literal madness of family life; and losing religion (and sometimes hair). Sathnam reveals that he has in fact met Richard before and it's a another embarrassing story of past foolishness. The next episode sees a new chapter in the RHLSTP story. Thanks so much to Orange Mark and everyone at British Comedy Guide for their fantastic support for this project. More episodes: https://www.comedy.co.uk/podcasts/richard_herring_lst_podcast/ RHLSTP is at the Leicester Square Theatre every Monday til the 1st April. Why not come along? Future guests include James Acaster, Les Dennis and Matt Lucas: https://leicestersquaretheatre.ticketsolve.com/shows/873492663

RHLSTP #200: Richard Herring - Pennsylvania Polka. It's episode 200 of the podcast and the end of Series 14, two insane milestones for this ramshackle lump of podcast. And to celebrate this occasion there's a record breaking fourth appearance from the grandson of a Batman, Adam Buxton. Adam sets the agenda from the start, bearing gifts, mocking stone-clearing like a philistine, revealing what 1995 Richard Herring had somehow discovered annoyed Stewart Lee, and attempting a slightly underwhelming tribute to Groundhog Day. Plus find out how Nile Rodgers responded to jokes by kids; why a head in a jar has to bring its own cloth; whether it's possible to have a film set at Stonehenge without the stones being knocked over at some point; and whether child-men in their fifties have to finally grow up. Plus some extraordinary epistles from World War One and how fields with barbed wire can still cause injury even today. More episodes: https://www.comedy.co.uk/podcasts/richard_herring_lst_podcast/ Thanks to everyone who has supported this endeavour over the last 200 episodes and six years. Hopefully we can continue to move onwards and upwards. We will be touring the podcast in 2019 (as well as another run at the Leicester Square Theatre on Mondays from 4th February to 1st April. Tickets here https://leicestersquaretheatre.ticketsolve.com/shows/873492663) Buy Richard's books and DVDs at http://www.gofasterstripe.com Get 8 delicious or at least weird tasting craft ales for free at http://www.beer52.com/rhlstp See if Richard is coming near to you with a RHLSTP or other gig: http://www.richardherring.com/gigs

RHLSTP #199: Terry Hall - Terry Hall Hall. Richard has finally won a TV quiz show and I am afraid he will never stop talking about it again, but he’s nervous as Hell because one of his heroes is on the podcast and he’s sure he’ll screw it up, it’s ex-Fun Boy Three-er Terry Hall. They discuss the dynamics and disagreements that come with collaboration, the nostalgic sexual time waves of early 1980s fashion, the one occasion when Terry laughed, being mistaken for a ventriloquist by the taxman, why the greatest album of all time only made it to 95 in the charts and why Terry didn’t end up as a hairdresser. There’s some serious chat about sexual abuse and depression and how Terry had dealt with these traumas and some cruel assessments of the town of Coventry. And can the power of RHLSTP finally get the album Home to number 1 where it belongs? No, I don’t think so. It doesn’t seem to be commercially available. More episodes: https://www.comedy.co.uk/podcasts/richard_herring_lst_podcast/ Buy Richard’s books and DVDs at http://www.gofasterstripe.com Get 8 delicious or at least weird tasting craft ales for free at http://www.beer52.com/rhlstp See if Richard is coming near to you with a RHLSTP or other gig http://www.richardherring.com/gigs

RHLSTP #198: Sanjeev Bhaskar - Pert Nipples. Richard chats with the audience and struggles to find anyone who works in IT, but discovers a human interest story that would be moving and inspirational in the hands of anyone else, but Herring manages to get laughs instead, the monster. HIs guest this week is actor, writer and a man who might be able to take on Michael Palin for the title the nicest man in show business, Sanjeev Bhaskar. They talk about working with a tiny James Bolam; Richard's drunken debauchery and theft at a corporate gig in the early 90s; how Sanjeev's big break rested on the toss of a coin; the real life origin story of The Kumars and how a TV executive attempted to ruin it; and how Sanjeev ended up marrying his own grandmother. Loads more stuff in this one including Brian Blessed, working with Pythons, pert nipples (I must have told that one before) and becoming friends with Roger Moore. More episodes: https://www.comedy.co.uk/podcasts/richard_herring_lst_podcast/ Get 8 free craft beers for just £2.95 p and p by subscribing here: http://www.beer52.com/rhlstp Buy my Emergency Questions book: http://www.gofasterstripe.com/eq Buy my Oh Frig I'm 50! DVD or download: http://www.gofasterstripe.com/ohfrig Check out upcoming gigs and see if RHLSTP is coming to your town: http://www.richardherring.com/gigs

RHLSTP #197: Rick Edwards - Bailey's Comets. Rich is back on the telly, even if at this point, House Of Games is looking like it might be another House of Horrors, but if he plays his cards right he might be able to get on another quiz show, because his guest is the host of !mpossible, it's Rick Edwards. Find out how Ruby Wax helped steer his career; what it's like to get married in Kew Gardens; how Rick upset Jake Gyllenhaal; and if it's true that he has no sense of smell. Richard attempts to pull down the concept of Alternate Universes, but fails (if only we'd been in the Universe where he succeeded in making his point) and the pair discuss whether being incredibly handsome has damaged their careers. Plus Backgammon, Rick and Morty and some pretty successful attempts by Richard to remember pop culture things that no one else recalls. More episodes: https://www.comedy.co.uk/podcasts/richard_herring_lst_podcast/ Get 8 free craft beers for just £2.95 p and p by subscribing here: http://www.beer52.com/rhlstp Buy my Emergency Questions book here: http://www.gofasterstripe.com/eq Buy my Oh Frig I'm 50! DVD or download here: http://www.gofasterstripe.com/ohfrig Check out upcoming gigs and see if RHLSTP is coming to your town here: http://www.richardherring.com/gigs

RHLSTP #197: Fingers on Buzzers Podcast - Frank Bruno's Chauffeur. Drunk from one beer from last week's podcast, Richard is indiscreet about one of his former girlfriends, but let's move quickly on to welcome Lucy Porter and Jenny 'The Vixen' Ryan from the excellent Fingers On Buzzers Podcast. Rich finally gets to dedicate a whole podcast to his quizzing failures and to envy Lucy for the number of extra shows she's been on. We hear about behind the scenes on the Weakest Link; how Lucy and Jenny met on a record breaking episode of The Chase; who knows the most about their home town; foot fetishism; sexual awakenings during Hi-de-Hi!; how creating a quiz show can make you a millionaire; and which celebrity from Croydon Richard would most like to have sex with. More episodes: https://www.comedy.co.uk/podcasts/richard_herring_lst_podcast/ Buy the new Emergency Questions book: http://www.gofasterstripe.com/eq Get your eight free beers from our sponsors Beer52: http://beer52.com/rhlstp Get your hands on one of the limited edition DVDs of Oh Frig I'm 50 - or buy the download here: http://www.gofasterstripe.com Check out other Richard Herring gigs and find out if RHLSTP is coming anywhere near you: http://www.richardherring.com/gigs

RHLSTP #195: Joe Lycett - 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 jerk; and how envy can eat you up and how age can soften its grip. We also learn about Joe's new projects, including the Great British Sewing Bee, and hear from Esme, one of the judges of that show, who is in our front row and is rather well refreshed after a day out with Joe. More episodes: https://www.comedy.co.uk/podcasts/richard_herring_lst_podcast/ Buy the Emergency Questions book here: http://www.gofasterstripe.com/eq Get your eight free beers from our sponsors Beer52: http://beer52.com/rhlstp Get your hands on one of the limited edition DVDs of Oh Frig I'm 50 - or buy the download: http://www.gofasterstripe.com Check out other Richard Herring gigs and find out if RHLSTP is coming anywhere near you: http://www.richardherring.com/gigs

RHLSTP #194: Amanda Abbington - Chicken Carcass Ghost. Rich has had to deal with the soft poo of his ill dog, but he didn't eat any of it, even though it looked delicious and anyone who says he did is lying. And he meets some men who work in IT in his audience, which is a novelty, but wait till you hear about the marital status of one of them... His guest is a woman he worked with just four days before recording, though she seems to have forgotten all about it, Amanda Abbington. Can she name the cast of Man Stroke Woman? How many times has she appeared on The Bill? What is Nicholas Lyndhurst's acting secret? Has she played Give Us A Clue with Una Stubbs? And Rich recounts how he has twice failed auditions to appear in shows with her. Rich makes a pitch to appear in Death In Paradise, which might not quite work out for him and there's chat about UFOs, sex robots and more evidence that drinking alcohol might not be the best preparation for a long-form interview. More episodes: https://www.comedy.co.uk/podcasts/richard_herring_lst_podcast/ Buy Richard's EQ book here: http://www/gofasterstripe.com/eq Buy his new DVD here: http://www.gofasterstripe.com Keep checking here for news on 2019 RHLSTPs: http://www.richardherring.com/gigs Get 8 free craft beer for just p and p - look how drunk they make you: http://www.beer52.com/rhlstp

RHLSTP #193: James O'Brien - Sean Connery's Macbeth. Rich is back on terrestrial TV as a last minute guest on a new Channel 5 gameshow, so cheg on suckers, he's out of here. He always hated podcasts and was just using you to get back on the telly. But while he's waiting for the phone to start ringing there's time for another chat, this time with the journalist and broadcaster James O'Brien. Recorded on a particularly depressing week, but maybe not as depressing as the world you're living in as you listen to it, there's some serious dissection of Brexit, Trump and how fake news and indignation have stymied debate. Find out about James' time as a showbiz reporter, his investigations into the truth behind Interval and more from his book 'How To Be Right In A World Gone Wrong'. Is there any hope? Are we learning what it was like to live through the rise of Hitler? Has James ever tried to suck his own cock (don't know, forgot to ask)? And is the way through all this just to drink eight craft beers and let the anti-depressants cheer you up? And there's a revelation about his Red Dwarf/Star Trek knowledge that will destroy his credibility forever... More episodes: https://www.comedy.co.uk/podcasts/richard_herring_lst_podcast/ Buy James' excellent book here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0753553090/comedyguide-21/ Buy Richard's excellent book here: http://www/gofasterstripe.com/eq Buy his new DVD here: http://www.gofasterstripe.com Keep checking here for news on 2019 RHLSTPs: http://www.richardherring.com/gigs Get 8 free craft beer for just p and p - look how drunk they make you - http://www.beer52.com/rhlstp

RHLSTP #192: Nish Kumar - Not Michael Sheen. Richard's participation in a PTA quiz in his village led to an unlikely correspondence with one of his new neighbours, but he's really looking forward to meeting the star of Twilight and the Damned United - oh no, he had to pull out, so we got Nish Kumar instead. But lucky us (apart from the obvious bad luck) because we get to hear about Nish shitting himself on camera watching a man get down and dirty with a horse; being the worst Taskmaster contestant ever; the best use of a House Of Games trophy; and what it's like to lose it on Question Time. How's Brexit going to turn out and why can't Brexiteers stop themselves leaving? Plus the unpredicted but satisfying success of The Mash Report. If you're hoping Michael Sheen might pop up as a surprise guest at the last minute then I am afraid you will be disappointed (hopefully we can get him to come down in 2019) but there is a brief ray of light as he sends us a message. More episodes: https://www.comedy.co.uk/podcasts/richard_herring_lst_podcast/ Please support our podcast and our new sponsor by claiming your 8 free craft beers (you just pay 2.95 p and p): http://www.beer52.com/rhlstp Please buy the new Emergency Questions book for yourself and all your family - https://www.gofasterstripe.com/eq To check out where RHLSTPs will be happening in 2019 (and a tour is being mooted) check out www.richardherring.com/gigs

RHLSTP #191: Rose Matafeo - Ladybird. Richard has had a ladybird in his house and is reminded of the horrors of the 1976 ladybird invasion, but how it eventually paid off to his advantage, but there's no time to consider too deeply if he's had sex with an insect that has magically taken human form, because he's talking to 2018 Comedy Award winner and the quarter Croatian, Rose Matafeo, the third guest on this podcast series to have lived in a house just behind Richard's old house in Shepherd's Bush. Richard gets pathetically drunk on just one bottle of Beer 52 beer and is scarcely able to remember how to speak, let alone recall what was discussed, but it includes a lot of racist attempts to do the English accent by Rose; plus what it's like to be up the tallest building in the Southern hemisphere; 'women's things'; an attempt to understand millennials; waiting for Burt Bacharach; watching your pet die; and the New Zealand version of The Horny Time Traveller. More episodes: https://www.comedy.co.uk/podcasts/richard_herring_lst_podcast/ Please support our podcast and our new sponsor by claiming your 8 free craft beers (you just pay 2.95 p and p): http://www.beer52.com/rhlstp Please buy the new Emergency Questions book for yourself and all your family - https://www.gofasterstripe.com/eq To check out where RHLSTPs will be happening in 2019 (and a tour is being mooted) check out www.richardherring.com/gigs

RHLSTP #190: Greg Davies - Bowl of Cheese. It's a showdown battle of who is best, Richard or Hugh Jassburn - in book form at least, but Richard is keen to bring back one of his all time favourite guests: the magnificent beast and Master of Tasks that is Greg Davies. They discuss schoolday soilings; dick-lifters; being related to a ghost; little Alex Horne; the exquisite pain of laughing when you're not meant to; sex with teddies; the saddest of bachelor meals; the death of two fathers; the devastating surprise of ageing; what it takes to be in your fifties; the weirdest group of celebrities to gather at Buckingham Palace; and the wondrous comedy of commitment to joyous stupidity. It's eye-wateringly funny stuff with two childish old men who should know better. More episodes: https://www.comedy.co.uk/podcasts/richard_herring_lst_podcast/ Please support our podcast and our new sponsor by claiming your free beers (you just pay £2.95 p and p): http://www.beer52.com/rhlstp Please buy the new Emergency Questions book for yourself and all your family: https://www.gofasterstripe.com/eq

RHLSTP #189: Drunk Women Solving Crime - How Does She Know So Much About Parachuting? Richard has been publicising his latest book, but it's not popular with canines, but at least he's got daytime DJs asking some wholly inappropriate questions. His guests this week are Hannah, Taylor and a slightly familiar Catie, from the Drunk Women Solving Crime podcast. Can the inebriated females solve a mystery that has remained mysterious for sixteen years? What crimes has Richard had carried out upon his small person, can he and his wife get through this podcast without resorting to divorce? What kind of crimes do they have on the Isle Of Wight and how effective are the police? Plus sex robots, pond-pushing and the beautiful autonomy of podcasting. More episodes: https://www.comedy.co.uk/podcasts/richard_herring_lst_podcast/ Please support our podcast and our new sponsor by claiming your free beers (you just pay £2.95 p and p): http://www.beer52.com/rhlstp Please buy the new Emergency Questions book for yourself and all your family: https://www.gofasterstripe.com/eq

RHLSTP #188: Jess Robinson - Doctors and Nurses. Richard welcomes an audience member who has come all the way from America JUST to see him, and boy is he pleased about that? His guest is the multi-talented singer, comedian and impressionist, Jess Robinson. She talks about the decision to do Britain's Got Talent and the seemingly shocking truth about some of the contestants; how she chanced into impressionism thanks to an acting audition; what kind of crimes Noddy can solve in this crazy PC world that had dulled Enid Blyton's fine morality; and questionable fashion choices. Is the voice behind Virgin train toilets someone famous? What kind of genitals does a Merman have? What have the Chuckle Brothers smeared on Jess' face? What nerdy madness drives impressionists? Who was the celebrity gimp who danced with Vaginal Tap? Is marriage a good idea? And most importantly, has Jess Robinson ever met Brian Blessed? This is the only podcast where you'll be able to find out. More episodes: https://www.comedy.co.uk/podcasts/richard_herring_lst_podcast/ Enjoy some of the crazy craft beers from our sponsor Beer 52 for FREE (you just pay 2.95 p and p) by signing up at http://www.beer52.com/rhlstp Buy the Emergency Questions book at http://www.gofasterstripe.com/eq

RHLSTP #187: Alice Lowe - Horny Time Traveller. Rich has had the time of his life in Manchester and wants to leave the avocado-munching Londoners behind forever - is he no longer one of them? And it's time for him to create a work of art that will surely make him the richest man in the world, or just feel slightly sickened. But it's not like living in the country has driven him mad like a character from the dark mind of Alice Lowe. There's some chat about the insanity of giving birth and how Alice managed to conjure up a hit film whilst seven-months pregnant; the terrible and slightly sexy things that happen on camping trips; the Keswick Pencil Museum; whether TV dulls the creative experience; winning the Perrier with the cult hit Garth Marenghi; and maybe the most convincing ghost story yet. Has Alice Lowe met Brian Blessed? This is the only podcast where you'll be able to find out. More episodes: https://www.comedy.co.uk/podcasts/richard_herring_lst_podcast/ Enjoy some of the crazy craft beers from our sponsor Beer 52 for FREE (you just pay £2.95 p and p) by signing up at http://www.beer52.com/rhlstp Buy the Emergency Questions book at http://www.gofasterstripe.com/eq Bid for the Emergency Questions art work at: https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/herring1967/m.html

Manchester Special 2 - Glenn Wool - Werewolf Penis. Richard has had to stay in Manchester for another week so he can interview the most sane Canadian comedian in the world, Glenn Wool. They discuss changing taste in jokes, how much Mary Whitehouse would love Twitter, how to get a cheap London hotel, the poetry of the gutter and a weird coincidence revolving around mysterious genital apparitions. Plus late fatherhood, playing yourself in a film and more questions from the brand new Emergency Questions book that you really should buy if you had any decency. More episodes: https://www.comedy.co.uk/podcasts/richard_herring_lst_podcast/ Buy the new Emergency Questions book here: http://www.gofasterstripe.com/eq Move your energy over to Bulb and get £50 credit for you and Rich by using the link: https://bulb.co.uk/refer/richard234 Get 8 free craft beers and pay just £2.95 postage by signing up at http://www.beer52.com/rhlstp

RHLSTP #186: Lou Sanders - Cold Stones. Richard has some Hitchin-based stand-up, that doesn't play well with the self-obsessed London metropolitan elite and it's seat of your pants time for this podcast because booked guest Amanda Abbington is stuck on the M6 so we have parachuted in last-second replacement, crystal obsessed nutjob Lou Sanders. They discuss where comedy and madness meet, dodgy massages, shamanic healing, giving up booze, the sex scene that they shared and tooth-snaggles during blow-jobs. All with no time to research apart from minimal notes from producer Ben. More exciting news on the stone clearing project too. More episodes: https://www.comedy.co.uk/podcasts/richard_herring_lst_podcast/ Please support our podcast and our new sponsor by claiming your free beers (you just pay 2.95 p and p) at www.beer52.com/rhlstp Please buy the new Emergency Questions book for yourself and all your family: - https://www.gofasterstripe.com/eq Why not come and see a podcast live - some fantastic guests still to come. Tickets and line ups here: https://leicestersquaretheatre.ticketsolve.com/shows/873492663

Manchester Special 1: Toby Hadoke - Blake's Seven Spoilers. Rich has travelled to Manchester to take part in a podcast festival and the live podcast-starved people of this fine city have snapped up all the tickets without even knowing who the guests are. Luckily Richard has made some brilliant bookings and first up is a man who is so much more than a massive Doctor Who nerd (I expect, we only talked about Doctor Who), it's Toby Hadoke. Toby demonstrates his skill of being able to name the character and episode of Doctor Who that any actor appeared on, chats about interviewing Doctor Who actors before they die, and Rich reveals that he has worked with both Baker Doctor Who's and who is his favourite. But it's not just Doctor Who. They also talk about Servalan from Blake's Seven. Before returning to some more Doctor Who based chat. With a brief diversion about the great lost Spike Milligan play and how Toby was voted North-West comedy hero above Dodd, Kay, Coogan and Aherne, plus his remarkable 21 year tenure of one of the country's best comedy clubs, XS Malarkey. More episodes: https://www.comedy.co.uk/podcasts/richard_herring_lst_podcast/ Move your energy over to Bulb and get £50 credit (£100 if you act quick) for you and Rich by using the link https://bulb.co.uk/refer/richard234 Get 8 free craft beers and pay just £2.95 postage by signing up at http://www.beer52.com/rhlstp Become a badger: http://www.gofasterstripe.com/badges Become a dripster: http://d.rip/richard-herring