Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast (RHLSTP)

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?

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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.)

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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!

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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?

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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 podcasts

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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.

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Christmas Treat - Happy Now? - Full Standup show

After years of drifting aimlessly and alone, Richard Herring is now settled down with a wife and a tiny baby. Is he finally happy now? Or does responsibility for the lives of others come with its own terrors?

In his twelfth solo stand up show, Richard examines whether we can ever hope to be or are meant to be truly content. If we were never unhappy would happiness have any meaning? Why do our brains force us to envision the worst possible outcomes even on a day when everything seems fine. How likely is it that Richard's baby will be skewered by a stalactite of frozen urine falling from a plane and is it really worth him wasting his time thinking about it? Does being happy mean a comedian loses his edge and true belly laughs only come from depression? How much pressure was there on Happy the dwarf to live up to his name? Is there any system that will guarantee us eternal bliss or should we just embrace the fact that life is a vale of tears and our only option is to laugh in its face?

This DVD was recorded in St David's Hall, Cardiff. It captures a superb performance in front of the biggest audience of Richard's career.

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Bonus Pod - Christmas Ask Me Anything - It’s Christmas so as a special treat for you all, Santa has arranged that this month’s pay-walled Ask Me Anything is free to all, even the poorest of children (as long as they have a device to listen to podcasts on) because it is the season. Richard answers every question he has been set, no matter how inappropriate and unChristmassy! Find out his favourite terrorist atrocity, whether he was born out of wedlock, if he would ever vote Tory, if he would eat a dinosaur egg and what gift he would have brought the baby Jesus (at last a Christmassy one!). And much more.

Remember you can hear all the AMA podcasts and get loads more benefits by becoming a badger at http://gofasterstripe.com/badges (you need to pay at least £8 a month for the bonus podcasts, but there’s loads of benefits at £5 a month). And you can get your question on a future ep and get a beautiful badge (and access to the podcast your question is on even if you’re NOT a badger) by emailing Rich at [email protected]).

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#11 If You Could Go Into A Chrysalis And Emerge As Anything You Wanted, What Would It Be And Why And Also Do You Think That Says Anything About You? - Oh yes! It's another one of these Emergency Questions compilations. Can you guess which question has been selected this time? Here's a hint - the question has been asked of celebrity stars including James Acaster, Reece Shearsmith and Fern Brady... Merry Chrysalis everyone :)

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#477 Magic Bullet - Here’s a bonus remote podcast (because we’re not doing enough at the moment) with superstar actor and director and now podcast documentary (if you will pocumentary) maker, Rob Reiner. With limited time, they discuss which of his films is the greatest of all time, what you need to make a perfect improvised movie, the first toilet flush on US Prime Time TV and appearing in the Batman TV series. But mostly they talk about Rob’s fascinating new podcast series “Who Killed JFK?” and the flimsiness of the official account of the assassination, why it means so much to Rob and why it’s important to get to the truth. Plus what it was like sharing a duplex with Albert Brooks and the moving story of remaking the Princess Bride with his dad, Carl.

Listen to Who Killed JFK? here, or wherever you get your podcasts. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/who-killed-jfk/id1714611578.

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