RHLSTP with Richard Herring

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 Carl Donnelly. 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 remembers nothing about the show that got him a Comedy Prize nomination, the complex personality of excess and sensitivity that makes Carl such a unique and brilliant stand up, why so little of his material has been filmed, taking his dead dad on stage with him every night and the difficulty of transporting ashes on planes and why it’s tough for comedians to appear on bills with musicians and why actors are better at acting auditions that comedians (it’s because they’re actors).SUPPORT THE SHOW!See details of the RHLSTP LIVE DATES Watch our TWITCH CHANNELBecome a badger and see extra content at our WEBSITE Buy DVDs and books from GO FASTER STRIPE

#421 Gascoigne V Herring - Richard’s daughter has firm evidence for the existence of ghosts, which is apt because Richard’s guests are ghosts too!!! It’s Mat and Jim from off of Ghosts and 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 and Ghosts and what the team at the core of these projects saw in each other. Rich is prepared to go to great lengths for a part in Ghosts and there are some definitive answers to the ghost emergency questions, plus find out why the lovely film Bill has been overlooked, why it’s nice to get an acting job near your house and what it’s like to have played important roles in Peep Show. Plus a disection of the philosophy behind Ghosts and why it’s a horrible show that should be taken off air immediately.Come and see us live http://richardherring.com/rhlstpBuy Richard’s new book here http://gofasterstripe.com/ballSUPPORT THE SHOW!See details of the RHLSTP LIVE DATES Watch our TWITCH CHANNELBecome a badger and see extra content at our WEBSITE Buy DVDs and books from GO FASTER STRIPE

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 content at our WEBSITE Buy DVDs and books from GO FASTER STRIPE

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 anti-trans bandwagon and whether the most embarrassing thing about this is how hack their jokes are, why Rich ran out of Sam’s gig, the utterly unthreatening nature of Sam’s audience, how Sam is able to tell stories that highlight the horrible stuff that trans people have to deal with, whilst being self-aware enough to mock her own foolishness and also some fun ghost stories (and sorry that you get to hear the Ernie ghost story again, but you can always fast forward). Plus it’s the first gig Rich has ever done where the action is being relayed on screen for the audience. Is it strictly necessary?See Sam on tour https://www.samnicoresti.com/SUPPORT THE SHOW!See details of the RHLSTP LIVE DATES Watch our TWITCH CHANNELBecome a badger and see extra content at our WEBSITE Buy DVDs and books from GO FASTER STRIPE

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 content at our WEBSITE Buy DVDs and books from GO FASTER STRIPE

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 content at our WEBSITE Buy DVDs and books from GO FASTER STRIPE

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 Labubus and Katy Perry in space. And if you time this right you get a countdown to the new year at the end. What more do you want?Pre order Right Bollock’s autobiography here https://www.gofasterstripe.com/cgi-bin/w.cgi?showfull=67271Become a monthly badger here http://gofasterstripe.com/badgesLet Rich know if you want more Twitch of Fun herring1967@gmail.com

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 another victory for the Brexit ditch and a surprisingly modern attitude is revealed for a traditional stone clearer. If you’re listening on the RHLSTP feed and enjoyed this then you can hear loads more that are almost exactly the same here https://www.comedy.co.uk/podcasts/stone_clearing_with_richard_herring/ or wherever you get your podcastsEmail Rich at herring1967@gmail.com (no nudes) if you want more or less of this.

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 to his own testicle, then this is the podcast for you.Buy the book/pamphlet available soon at https://gofasterstripe.com/cgi-bin/w.cgi?showfull=67271, or from Richard at gigsSUPPORT THE SHOW!See details of the RHLSTP LIVE DATES Watch our TWITCH CHANNELBecome a badger and see extra content at our WEBSITE Buy DVDs and books from GO FASTER STRIPE