Adam Riches
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2025
⏱️ 135 minutes
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Summary
Adam Riches is known for his shows that teeter perfectly between crafted brilliance and sheer chaos with his fearless, high-energy characters performances - from Sean Bean, Coach Coach to Michael Ball. This is an incredibly rare look behind the mask and one you don't want to miss!
We discuss why Edinburgh shouldn't be seen as the Olympics, Eddie Izzard's documentary that inspired him to rip up the rulebook, how audience participation became his superpower, the challenges of the industry, how Sean Bean's Dungeons 'n Bastards reignited a creative spark and is Adam Riches happy…
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| 0:00.0 | Stu here. Episode 500 is somehow fast approaching. It's already in the cat. I can't wait for you to hear it. |
| 0:06.4 | I need your feedback. I want to gather some data on your favourite episodes, your best moments, see if there's any fun anecdotes I can uncover along the way. |
| 0:14.5 | Something must have happened in your life in nearly 500 episodes of podcasting. |
| 0:17.9 | And as a thanks for taking part, myself and producer Callum will be gifting an Insider's Insider 12-month membership on Patreon to one lucky respondent. You can pay this forward if you're already one. The survey's super short, all the questions are skippable, and this would mean a lot if you could just take five minutes out of your day to go and fill the thing in. Head to Stuartgoldsmith.com slash survey, or the link is in the show notes. |
| 0:40.5 | There's going to be a very short break in September before we approach that milestone, |
| 0:43.9 | but lots of exciting stuff in the works. I'm very pleased today to be bringing you an amazing interview with Adam Riches. I say an amazing interview. It's amazing because he's amazing. Not bigging myself up here. My skills remain as ever humble. I'm just thrilled to have Adam on the show. |
| 1:15.7 | He's a brilliant, brilliant comic, an amazing actor, a really innovative and fierce and unafraid, |
| 1:22.7 | sort of engager of audiences, and it does the spectacular crowd work as you will hear. |
| 1:29.3 | He is a pretty private person and he's very unusual for him to do a podcast. So I'm really |
| 1:34.1 | grateful for him for kind of taking a chance on me. He says in the early part of this recording |
| 1:38.3 | that he kind of listened to a few episodes of the show and that kind of came up with some |
| 1:42.5 | reasons that he might want to do it. |
| 1:50.8 | So I'm very grateful for him and his bravery in kind of stepping out of his comfort zone. |
| 1:57.7 | And also he's got an incredible show coming out, which I will tell you more about in the middle bit, which is transferring to London, as well as you |
| 2:01.6 | might know him as Sean Bean from Dungeons and Bastards, which is one of my favourite things I've |
| 2:06.1 | ever seen. You might have seen Coach Coach, which we will hear about. It just sounds incredible. |
| 2:11.2 | I can't believe I missed that one. And with John Kearns, he was Michael Ball in Bowen Ball, |
| 2:16.9 | which was another sort of unalloyed delight, |
| 2:19.3 | really, that I will probably remember forever. In the first half of this episode, we're going |
| 2:23.0 | to discuss why Edinburgh should be seen not just as a three-year project, not a five, but a seven-year |
| 2:28.9 | project, and not the Olympics. We're going to know about his early career chaos. We'll find out about that, |
| 2:34.7 | where he was known for taking revenge on the audience |
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