Ardal O'Hanlon

Russell Howard’s Five Brilliant Things

Avalon

Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.5 • 566 Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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One of the best comedians to ever come out of Ireland, Ardal O’Hanlon is a complete treat. He is brimming with excellent stories from his extraordinary life of stand-up comedy, acting and amateur tennis; illicit late-night oysters, holidays in Ireland back in the day, footballing heroics on exotic islands. This episode that is like a hot bath of delights. Get those clothes off and get on in. As mentioned in the show Ardal is about to embark upon a major tour of the UK and Ireland, beginning this September. He’s going to be appearing all over the place. The show is called ‘Not Himself’ and it’s a brand-new stand-up show from Ardal, who is seriously one of the best in the game. Visit Ardal’s webpage HERE to find out when he’s going to be in your area, then follow the links to book tickets for a fantastic night out. That concludes this day’s play. We’ll be back next week with more action from centre court, but until then please stay dry and enjoy the strawberries. Best to eat them today or they’ll go mushy. Producer: Dan Atkinson Line Producer: Daisy Knight Exec Producer: James Taylor Composer: Fat Lady Music Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:48.5	Hello, my friends. Welcome on the show today. I've got an amazing comedian and one of Ireland's most beloved comic actors. It's Ardalo Hanlon and these are his five brilliant things.
0:57.0	Aldo. Hello. It's lovely to have you. It's just great to be here. It's very hot outside. Yeah. How do you react to heat? Not well. Not well.
1:02.0	Because I was thinking that, but you had that TV show where it was murdering...
1:08.0	It was death in paradise. Death in paradise. I solved 25 murders in my career.
1:13.6	Which as an Irish man in the heat is fantastic.
1:16.2	I know, it's unprecedented.
1:18.9	But what was that like if you're not a massive fan of the heat being in paradise?
1:24.6	It was horrendous.
1:27.3	I mean, people just wouldn't believe you.
1:30.3	But you're under such pressure.
1:33.3	Like I learned, I literally, this is actually true, I literally learned to shut down my organs.
1:39.3	The ones that I wasn't absolutely using at the time.
1:43.3	Right. The inessential organs. I don't know which one's there. So you're like an acting whim-hoff. Yeah. And how did you learn? I had to do that because otherwise I would have died from over-over-eat. Is that the way of putting it? Yeah, so you kind of like, you know, so I could slow my heart down. Wow.
2:01.6	Yeah, because you sweat so much.
2:02.6	So like you would do a little scene and as soon as you shot the first take, you would have to go off and change all your clothes and be dried.
2:13.6	So you had almost a full time person drying you.
2:16.6	Yeah. I had my own dryer.
2:18.5	I was thinking the makeup must be so difficult. So difficult. Because you're just dealing
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