Look who washed up on the beach... last summer It’s non-other than stand up comedian, writer, podcast overlord and thoroughly lovely chap Jim Campbell! This episode was recorded in the summer of 2019 when Jim was gearing up for his Edinburgh show Beef which received great reviews. Jim is arguably best known for hosting the disgustingly popular (and now daily!) podcast Football Ramble, which has been topping charts for over 10 years. The Football Ramble gang have toured the UK performing a...

The castaway in this episode is award winning stand up comedian, compère extraordinaire and fellow podcaster Rich Wilson. Rich is beloved not just in Britain’s best comedy clubs but around the globe having toured the USA, the Middle East, Australia and New Zealand where he won the best international artist award at the 2016 New Zealand comedy festival and was nominated again in 2017. But it is back home in Blighty where our castaway is most loved. He is a stalwart of the comedy circuit and...

Good lord who’s this plodding up the beach covered in kelp? It’s only star of BBC2’s Live at The Apollo and host of Radio 4’s Comedy Club - comedian and writer Laura Lexx! Laura won best performer at the Comedians Choice Awards, best MC at the 2017 Comics Comic Awards. She was 3 time nominee at the Chortle Comedy Awards, and she was in the top ten in Dave’s Funniest Joke of the Edinburgh Fringe. Laura has gigged all over Europe and is currently starring in her new show Knee Jerk at the...

Not another washed up comedian! Well actually Eric Lampaert is only washed up in the mythical eternity-snack desert island sense. In the real world he’s doing rather well. Eric is also an actor, a writer a director and a multi-linguist. If that’s not enough he also studied clown at Lecoq in Paris. Erics stand up exploits have taken him across the globe. He’s performed at the Montreal’s Just for Laughs Comedy Festival, the Johannesburg Comedy Festival, several solo shows at The Edinburgh...

This weeks castaway is an actor, writer, comedian and all-round legend Tim Downie Tim has starred in multiple Oscar and BAFTA nominated films. He played the duke of Gloucester in The Kings Speech, Montgomery Clyde in Paddington as well as Brevet in Les Miserables. More recently he has appeared in Michael Bay’s Transformers 5 and alongside Brad Pitt in War Machine. Our castaway is also a small screen wonderlord. He is probably best known for playing Kit Marlowe in Ben Elton’s Upstart Crow and...

Look who’s just flopped onto the beach gasping for air, it’s only bloody Rachel Stubbings! Rachel has dozens of film and tv credits to her name, recently starring alongside Karl Pilkington in Sick of it (Sky) and Julia Davis in Sally4ever for HBO as well as the highly acclaimed short Whenever you’re ready which is in development to become a sitcom. Other credits include the BAFTA nominated The Ghoul and Gameface for E4. Rachel’s dazzling list of acting credits can only be eclipsed by her...

After a long break (sorry) the worlds best stranded on a desert island snack based podcast is back! We kick season 2 off with a musical treat featuring some of the hottest music producers of the moment, WiDE AWAKE. Production credits include stars like Stormzy, Wiley, Pitbull and Will Smith. Record labels such as Sony/Columbia, DIM MAK and Lowly Palace are taking notice and their raucous DJ sets have LAID WASTE to the likes of Creamfields, NASS, Boothaus, fabric and ADE . Across their...

Actor, comedian, presenter and political activist Rufus Hound joins us for our very special and very crispy Crispmas Special! You will probably know him off that telly box as a team captain on Argumental or as a Celebrity Juice stalwart. He’s presented Top of the Pips and Glastonbury as well as shows on Talk Radio and Radio 4 to name a few. As an actor our castaway has starred in the West End in the acclaimed One Man Two Guvners, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Wind in The Willows. If he makes...

The shores of our desert island have lay baron for a while and just as Tom and Sam were getting all lords of flysey the wonderful Will Andrews has washed up with his smiley face. Will is an award winning comic, actor, director, writer and all round good guy. After winning the Tap water award for character comedy at the ed fringe in 2003 it has been non stop for Will. He has starred in dozens of TV and Film projects collaborating with Steve Coogan, Jack Dee and Marcus Brigstock to name a...

This week Tom and Sam couldn’t believe their luck when comedy superstar RUSSELL BLOODY HOWARD washed up upon the shores!!! I mean, it’s a terrible tragedy for Russell and his loved ones but his endless charm and chirpy nature is just what the island needs. Russell is arguably best known for his TV shows Russell Howards Good News and The Russell Howard Hour as well as his regulars appearances on panel show Mock the week. Russell is one of the best loved stand ups in the UK. He has sold out...

Look who’s just crawled out of the sea - it’s only Michael bloody Malarkey, the British-American actor and singer probably best known for his role as Enzo in the television series The Vampire Diaries but also starring in loads of hit US TV shows when he’s not touring all over the world with his band. Malarkey was born in Beirut, Lebanon to an Irish American father and a British mother of Arab/Italian origin. Malarkey had his beginnings on the London stage appearing in theatre productions...

The First Recording. In this bonus episode of the podcast we hear from Tom and Sam as they make their own eternity-crisp selections. The recording was made shortly after the tragic plane crash which saw the pair marooned on a small island in an endless sea. In 2004 a Ryanair plane carrying some of Britain’s brightest acting talents and Sam Pamphilon and Tom McCall crashed somewhere in the Caribbean Sea near Puerto Rico. Luckily most of the survivors were picked up by a Japanese herring...

Look who’s washed up on our shores this episode, it’s none other than actor, stand-up comedian and writer extraordinaire Aisling Bea. If Aisling can’t find her way off this god-forsaken island the entertainment industry will grind to a complete standstill… The Ch4 commissioned series she’s writing with Emmy nominated Sharon Horgan won’t get written. 8 Out Of 10 Cats will be looking for a new team captain. Show’s like Qi (BBC1), Taskmaster (Dave), 8 Out of Ten Cats Does Countdown (Ch4),...

For several days the island has been battered by a powerful storm causing all manner of debris to wash up on the beach including British actor, writer and producer Nick Blood. Nick is well known for his roll of Lance Hunter in Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Before he hit Hollywood, Nick had a string of roles on UK TV, including Trollied, Misfits, Him & Her and the police satire Babylon. Nick is no stranger to Theatre. He made his professional stage debut in The Priory as Adam, at the...

In this episode we welcome comedians Ellie Gibson and Helen Thorn AKA the Scummy Mummies to the island. The comedy duo are podcast legends hosting their own iTunes topping fortnightly chat show for less-than-perfect parents. Until the unfortunate circumstances that found them washed up on the shores of this cruel and unforgiving tropical sand slice the Scummy Mummies where touring the UK with a sellout stand-up show. If they ever make it off the island alive you might want to go to...

This weeks episode welcomes modern day renaissance man Christian Stevenson AKA DJ BBQ to the island. Christian has his fingers in many proverbial pies. He is a a brilliant chef and is Jamie Olivers right hand man on the Foodtube channel. Christian also has his own weekly show on the DJBBQ channel. He is probably best known and respected as the presenter of his Channel 5 television series ‘RAD’ and ‘RAD The Groms Tour’ which ran for 10 years and won him and the channel their first BAFTA in the...

In this episode we welcome stand-up comedian, writer, actor and generally lovely man Ed Gamble to the island. Ed’s list of credits is huge - Mock the Week, Man Down, The Russell Howard Hour, The Apprentice: You’re Fired, Drunk History, Insert Name Here, Dave’s One Night Stand the list goes on and on… Ed’s latest stage show Mammoth sold out the entire run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2017 and includes three nights at Leicester Square Theatre. Ed was co-writer and co-host of the...

We kick off with a Jayde Adams who finds herself stranded on the island after an unfortunate accident. Jayde Adams is a British comedian, actress, writer and singer from Bristol. She's the winner of the 2014 Funny Women award and 2016 nominee for Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards. Jayde won the The (Scottish) Sun’s Best Female Comedian and Best Show of Edinburgh Edinburgh Fringe in 2017.