Rich’s diet continues to go well, but will he be in his 2015 suit by the end of the series? The anticipation is killing us all I know. His guest this week is the sweet-looking, foul-mouthed Rosie Jones. They chat about her meteoric rise to stand up success, how pacing affects comedic impact and can save you having to write too much stuff, what it’s like to be on shows she once worked behind the scenes on, how Jimmy Carr messed up her jokes, some extraordinary stuff about having sex with...

Richard believes he will soon be a multi-millionaire but agrees to give 1/365th of this profits to charity. His guest is comedy legend Matt Lucas. They talk about the power of honesty in comedy, even if the comedian comes out of it badly, how Matt became possibly the only person who’s rung up to complain about a TV show to end up working with the stars, the combination of talent, hard work and luck that is required for success, being in a Blur video by accident, dealing with tragedy and a...

Happily-married Rich meets a man who works in a castle and the woman he has found love with, before introducing the legend that is Les Dennis. They talk about a mysterious spate of Norfolk-based graffiti, both types of dying on stage, the strange dynamics of a double act, living your private life out in public, getting tax advice from Ken Dodd and how go survive in showbusiness for half a century and counting. There are stories of the great comedians of the past and a heartwarming story of...

Richard explains why he is constantly upsetting businesses who ask him to fill in surveys, before meeting this week’s guest, impressionist and satirist, who is still unable to write jokes about the future, Matt Forde. Find out about the extraordinary day where Matt was mentioned in parliament, diagnosed with a surprising disease and chased down the street by a spitting Finn, the rollercoaster of verbal abuse of being a child mascot for Nottingham Forest in 1993, whether Nottingham has...

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Check out our website and become a badger for extra content http://bit.ly/rhlstpweb See details of the RHLSTP tour dates http://bit.ly/RHLSTPgigs Buy DVDs and Books at http://bit.ly/gofasterstripe Richard has been spending a lot of time with his kids and consequently his stand up is going to be all Kids Do The Funniest Things from here on in. But it’s been a good ride. His guest is the non-award nominated yet brilliant stand up, Suzi Ruffell. The pair talk about where all the working class...

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Check out our website and become a badger for extra content http://bit.ly/rhlstpweb See details of the RHLSTP tour dates http://bit.ly/RHLSTPgigs Buy DVDs and Books at http://bit.ly/gofasterstripe Rich manages to do some successful crowd work for once in his long life, before introducing the man the Adam Sandler film was surely based upon, David Morrissey. They chat about being mobbed by zombie fans, why David’s kids thought he was going to be Doctor Who, the meticulous research that goes...

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Check out our website and become a badger for extra content http://bit.ly/rhlstpweb See details of the RHLSTP tour dates http://bit.ly/richgigs Buy DVDs and Books at http://bit.ly/gofasterstripe Richard reveals all the changes that are happening with the podcast, plus what RHLSTP now stands for (and he’s not happy) before introducing the first guest of the new London based series JON RONSON. They discuss giving up internal organs for Jesus, Jon’s part in the election of Donald Trump, how...

Check out our website and become a badger for extra content http://bit.ly/rhlstpweb See details of the RHLSTP tour dates http://bit.ly/richgigs Buy DVDs and Books at http://bit.ly/gofasterstripe Rich is still at the Bristol Slapstick Festival, chatting with some of his comedy heroes, including the co-creator and one of the stars of the Inbetweeners, Damon Beesly and Joe Thomas. They chat about the difficulty of casting the show, why it was set in the present day rather than the 80s as...

Check out our website and become a badger and see extra content http://bit.ly/2BFJHC8 See details of the RHLSTP tour dates http://bit.ly/2Ipl2HS Buy DVDs and Books at http://bit.ly/2EjFAgS 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Drunk from one beer from last week’s podcast, Richard is indiscrete 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 show 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...

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...

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 til 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...

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...