2012 #4: Andrew O'Neill and Juliet Meyers. After 2 days of nearly lost podcasts can we make it 3 in a row? All seems fine with the desk, but who would believe that workmen in the street would drill through cables and disrupt it all again? Well they did, but luckily Rich had switched on the Tascam as we get an 'interesting' chat with Steam Punk transvestite O'Neill (who manages to be funny sometimes too!). Jack the Ripper, Ian Huntley and the people of Sutton turn out to be comedic topics, as does the generally distracted nature of comedians and sex with Doctor Who monsters. Lots more besides and some great stand-up from Juliet Meyers.

2012 #3: Marek Larwood and Doug Segal - After yesterday's disaster (though if you missed it there was a non-Dalek bootleg version which went up later) Richard has left nothing to chance, recording the show through the desk and on his Tascam and wearing two pairs of pants. His guest Marek Larwood, stalwart of silly children's TV and silly adult comedy alike is concerned about how people judge him on his looks and Richard is happy to wade in with his own judgement. Some new TV gameshow ideas are workshopped, the sense of humour of top Olympian Steve Redgrave is dissected and a one-time winner for Countdown is in the audience - that's right, look impressed because it is impressive. And Margaret is back in the audience trawling for young men. Hopefully Harry is still alive. With stand-up from mind reader Doug Segal.

2012 #2:1 This Year's Lost Podcast, The bootleg. @red_scamp had so little faith in my technical abilities that they illegally bootlegged it. Lucky for you they did. This is what it sounds like recorded from a distance, without the Dalek voices. This is where you find out that we just started speaking like Daleks in the 17th minute anyway!

2012 #2: This Year's Lost Podcast - Peacock and Gamble, Naughty Keith and Catie Wilkins - A double podcast disaster as the through the desk recording of the podcast goes haywire and the back up on the phone also goes wrong after 16 mins. We're left with a post car crash attempt to splice the two together (unless someone from the audience comes forward with a bootleg) - the first 16 mins are fine (you'll even hear a bit of the dressing room banter at the start) but then it goes into full, probably unlistenable Dalek mode, where only the brave and foolhardy will want to progress. You will get to hear about the changes at the TEMPT NG TATTIE and the strange audience arrangement were one man sits in the light in the front row whilst others skulk in the darkness and about the love across the generations between Margaret and Harry, but then you will need an ear of strength to hear anything else. Which is a shame as you'll miss Naughty Keith and his thoughts on Stewart Lee and a brilliant set from Catie Wilkins (who we will have on another day) and lots more inappropriate fun. Maybe you'll persist. Good luck. From now on the Tascam will be utilised as a back-up so this shouldn't be a problem. This is why you must come to the live shows if you can.

2012 #1: The Return of the King - Sarah Kendall and Iszi Lawrence. Edinburgh has only been going a day and Richard Herring is already exhausted, tired enough to attempt to instigate a rebellion against the Fringe Jesus, Stewart Lee. But is he serious? No one seems entirely sure, least of all Herring. But he's back with tales of Badmington cheating and lift etiquette and his greatest comedy moment, Harold Pucksa: The Man Who Can Only Live in a Vacuum. His guest is ex-Fringe flatmate and Comedy Award nominee Sarah Kendall who has tales of what happens when you Dirty Dance in a kitchen and her husband's athletic antics whilst she gave birth. Richard reveals what he did to an Amy Pond costume at the Dr Who exhibition in Cardiff and keeps us up-to-date with all the latest news on the 1988 series of Going for Gold. A Scottish man in the front row drinks half a bottle of wine in the hour, whilst under the influence of opiates from an operation. Richard receives his first Talking Cock review during the show too. Surely this can only end in crying. With stand-up from Iszi Lawrence.

It's the end, my friends and someone is set to win half a bottle of olive oil, some Weetabix and the monarchy of Edinburgh. And we've saved the best till last as Count Buckules is here to tell us about the times he has said inappropriate things on 6Music, how his computer cable must be placed 'just so', a trip to New Zealand with a ventriloquist, what a cock bongo would involve and what it would take for him to fellate Keith Allen. Rich is remarkably indiscreet as always, spreading possibly libellous rumours about certain celebrities and revealing the genesis of a famous Stewart Lee sketch and a classic bit of Alan Partridge. And Seymour Mace is also here to give his controversial views on evolution. Thanks to everyone at The Stand and at The British Comedy Guide for their sterling work. Might we do it again next year? ... Surely not.

Richard has now been talking to comedians for 24 hours - it'll take you a whole day to listen. And there's one more to come. Hopefully our technical gremlins are behind us and after 10 gigs in 2 days Rich had an early night. And though he apparently looks like a tramp he is in good spirits. Made better by the fact that his guest is Isy Suttie, from off of that scene in the stationery cupboard in Peep Show (if you don't know what Peep Show is or what TV is, that all gets explained in the podcast - though we forgot to explain what a podcast is, sorry). You'll find out what happens when you don't put helium in your balloon, how celebrity death can wreck a comedy routine and if a member of Pink Floyd stole Isy's guitar. Top drawer stand-up from Andrew O'Neill. There's only one more to go.

After yesterday's debacle where the podcast got recorded on the wrong setting - Chris at The Stand 'accidentally' forgets to record the opening of today's show - which is coincidentally the bit where I am slagging him off for his incompetence. Weird. My first guest today is someone who Phil Nichol was talking a lot about yesterday, eccentric street performer, Rumpel - the Worldly Kangeroo Fool of Oz - and it turns out that either Nichol has a very good imagination (where the things he think take physical form) or this is a real man. He says something that I think is the funniest thing in all 23 podcasts so far. Then the relatively sane Matt Kirshen is on hand to talk about which order you should rape and kill a tramp in, men's nipples and performing in a meeting room at a hotel. Episode 23 is a podcast packed with actual insanity and unpleasantness and laughs. Let's just hope it all recorded OK.

Due to a recording error we only had a very speeded up and corrupted recording. We have slowed it down, but you will probably only want to listen if you are a completist. This is what was in it though: Phil Nichol and Markus Birdman - It's a small crowd and Rich is a bit sluggish again, but when talk moves on to pleasuring oneself at disaster sites things perk up. Phil Nichol is on hand to talk about how it is to win awards and whether they should exist, people having sex in public places and what got him into comedy. Rich is looking back at 2008 and when rib tickling turned to rib cracking and Phil introduces us to a street performer who may be real or might be just in his imagination called Rumpel (we'll find out tomorrow as he's going to be a guest on the show). Stand-up provided by Markus Birdman and today's episode sponsored by Genna Delaney's jewellery. www.gennadelaney.com

A late night performing at the awesome Set List gig has left Richard both tired and exhilarated and fittingly he's talking to the producer of that show, Paul Provenza. He has tales of how a lazy eye got him into comedy, the genesis of his film The Aristocrats and the differences between American and British stand-up. It's quite a scholarly look at the comedy business and the mindset of comedians, but there's plenty of funnies too, including how far Paul will go to deal with a heckler - it is a long way! Rich has a story of trying to intervene in an assault in 1987 and there's some mention of high-backed armchairs. See if you can spot the moment where Rich actually nearly fell asleep (due to late night and hangover rather than the conversation taking a dull turn). Stand-up from the sausage and bean loving future superstar Joe Lycett.