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#526 Joyfully Reckless - Richard is back in Dublin and is intrigued by the Book of Kells. His guest is the superb and philosophical comedian and interviewer Tommy Tiernan. It’s a lovely sprawling waffle encompassing the trouble that being mischievous can get you into, the stress of doing a show with no plan, how studying acting made Tommy a worse actor (only in his opinion), Jerry Sadowitz, hitchhiking in the eighties and swearing on the Late Late Show. A written description will not capture the magic for this one. Have a listen.

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#525 The Biggest Award in Comedy - Richard has been sent to Coventry and remembers a previous visit to the Warwick Arts Centre where he had to turn the other cheek. His guest is the winner of the biggest (and slowest) award in comedy, Lindsey Santoro. Find out what Lindsey spent her money from this RHLSTP backed award and listen as the award itself is inflated. Plus they chat about why it’s so hard for working class acts to attend the Fringe, begrudging Guardian reviews, why still doing her day job keeps Lindsey grounded and gets her 50% off pizza, how her trademark pink hair came about, forgetting to get fully dressed for a TV appearance, the biggest animal she has had to get out of her house and she tells a story that possibly explains all ghosts. And is Lindsey bound for superstardom and how will that affect her trips to Aldi?

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#516 Tooth in a Bag - Richard is back in Bristol and details some of the things that have made this city so famous. His guest is TikTok sensation and stand up Abi Clarke. They chat about almost going to circus school, how lockdown shifted her focus from stand up to online content and how that helped her find an audience, working with your parents, Rich’s strong feelings for Abi’s mum, death threats from One Direction fans, performing an hour after having a wisdom tooth removed and how to turn round a lethargic audience with a Mexican wave!

See Abi’s show at the Edinburgh Fringe - https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/abi-clarke-role-model

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This is the first of five end of 2023 "best of" shows!

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#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 the country back one house at a time and keeping the Ukraine in people’s minds and raising funds for the military. How do you tour and celebrate Christmas in a war? It’s an incredible story from a very eloquent man speaking in a second language (where school lessons did not prepare him for talking about war). Please listen and share this one. And tonight don’t thank God it’s them instead of you. Ask God why anyone has to be in this situation.

See the Guardian documentary here https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2023/feb/23/the-year-that-never-ended-how-a-ukrainian-comedian-rebuilt-a-strangers-house-documentary

Watch Vasyl’s special here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C34z0ozw_9E

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Book 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 and for making a book that appeals to all kids. Plus Dr Who, making fantastic videos like this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kH-CfCaMl8, how online success has led to stand up tours and creating an image that makes you recognisable at distance from behind!

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#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 Shane Todd.

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Book 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 supposedly authored by Ashley’s wife, what led the couple to adopt another child and the importance of embracing and accepting diversity in kids as well as in the adult world. Plus the story of the publicity shy Johnny Vine and why this serious situation is also a sitcom waiting to be made - and as always the power of comedy to help us learn about things that aren’t always, of themselves, considered amusing.

Buy the book here https://www.amazon.co.uk/Normal-Schmormal-occasionally-parenting-neurodivergence-ebook/dp/B0BQPVWXLN/

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#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, how to catch one and whether you should always obey a ghost one.

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