#460 - John’s 50 Kids, Nish Kumar and The Cobbles Sing Their Plaintive Lament

Elis James and John Robins

BBC

Comedy

4.8 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

It’s a lament time of year. It’s an Edinburgh time of year. A time when John yearns for the crippling comedic examination which is the Edinburgh Festival. For he cannot experience that emotional rollercoaster this year. He can’t sit on a stage and call himself a C*** after someone shouts “have you had a ploughman’s” during the most emotionally hefty part of his show.

Thankfully Elis’s wedding DJ, Nish Kumar, is on hand to bring despatches from the Caledonian comic frontline.

And as always that isn’t all. Because as a magazine show commands, there must be a selection of other lighthearted segments and features. In such bits expect John to, yet again, admonish Elis’s potential car selection and a return of an old featurey friend to set tongues alight.

It’s [email protected] and 07974 293 022 on WhatsApp for all of your passing thoughts. And do go check out the blooming Bureau de Change of the mind eps on the BBC Sounds feed if you haven’t already!

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music Radio Podcasts.
0:05.0	Hello listeners.
0:24.3	I've got a question for you.
0:26.7	What does success look like?
0:29.5	Is it John?
0:30.8	Edinburgh Comedy Award winner, word game expert,
0:33.8	and someone who's managed to make much love podcasts
0:36.0	about his two favourite things, trauma and golf.
0:39.7	And Queen.
0:40.6	And Queen.
0:41.5	Three Much-Love podcasts.
0:43.5	Is it Dave Masterman, a man who's gone on holiday to the Algarve again, such as his confidence that he's an integral and sackable part of this show?
0:51.2	Actually, I think that if you're to sum up success, look no further than little Ellis James.
0:58.1	Because finally, after 20 years of doing stand-up, I've gone viral after a post was made on the British
1:06.5	Golden Age Facebook page. What's that? Right then. For the following joke.
1:13.0	Wales is not just rugby, sheep and valleys.
1:15.3	We have Wi-Fi sarcasm, indie bands and a perfectly balanced sense of inferiority and pride,
1:20.7	which makes us both unbeatable in both passive aggression and heartwarming hospitality.
1:25.2	This has gone viral.
1:26.3	I keep seeing it being shared.
1:28.8	Yeah, the problem is I never said that is AI.
1:32.7	So I looked on a Swansea City fans forum the other day, and people were discussing this
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