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Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast (RHLSTP)

Chris Cantrill - "Daily Branch Whack Punishment"

Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast (RHLSTP)

British Comedy Guide

Performing Arts, Comedy, Arts, Tv & Film

4.75.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2026

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

RHLSTP #619 - Daily Branch Whack Punishment - It’s another remote RHLSTP, with another Edinburgh bound member of the SNL UK writing team, Chris Cantrill. They chat about working with the delightful Amy Gledhill, the relentless process of writing Saturday Night Live and how it might not live up to the coke-fuelled ego-fest of the original American series, Chris’ new stand up show Rewilding, which centres around the appalling act of vandalism at the Sycamore Gap, why he likes performing at lunchtime and why the Fringe has never been the booze-fuelled holiday that it was for Rich in the 1990s. Plus getting to play small parts in hit sitcoms and an overhaul of our judicial system.


Tickets for Chris’ Edinburgh show here https://www.edfringe.com/tickets/whats-on/chris-cantrill-rewilding

Tickets for RHLSTP at the Ed Fringe here http://richardherring.com/rhlstp


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Audio mix by Ben Evans (NTO)

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0:00.0

Hi, Richard Herring here. Thanks for downloading my podcast. Now, you may have heard on the grown-up news that I've not been very well. I'm feeling fine. I'm sort of in the middle of treatment for very minor cancer. It's not curable, but it's completely treatable. So please don't worry about me. In the meantime, if you want to become a badger, this is an excellent time to support us at gofastestripe.com slash badges. If you would like to buy a thank you Moriati t-shirt from Rich and Alley's Craven Newsround, then head to go fasterstripe.com. And you should be able to find them on there. They're only going to be available for a couple of

0:37.6

weeks and we'll print them all up at once when we find out what the demand is. But if you enjoy

0:42.5

that podcast, particularly, that's a great way to pay us back for that. Look, I'm still coming to the

0:48.0

Edinburgh Fringe unless something goes horrifically wrong. In August, from I think the

0:53.8

sixth to the 16th, go to richardine.com slash for

0:59.1

Hellasper. You can see all the dates and the guests confirmed so far who are Mike Wozniak,

1:05.8

Susie McCabe and Flo and Joan. There are some big names to come, I'm sure. I'm aiming very high with this.

1:13.0

And I will be giving some recommends of people you should be going to see at the fringe through

1:17.2

interviews over the next few weeks as well. Anyway, thank you very much. Let's sit back.

1:23.2

Thanks to all the lovely messages I've had from you guys and it's lovely to know how much these

1:26.6

podcasts mean to you.

1:28.5

And that's worth more than money. I mean, obviously, it doesn't keep us going. But thank you very much for the love you've been giving us and very much appreciate. And I'll do my best to carry on doing these until I get bored.

1:39.6

Anyway, sit back, relax and enjoy another podcast from the head and mouth of RK. Herring.

1:49.1

Hello, welcome to another remote Rahalas the Pha. This week's guest is probably best known for playing real, Real Gull Latter Day, on Nelly Kooter, the Fowl Fleet. My God. A credit so, a credit so, like, I forgot. I didn't know when you were talking. Is this a bit? Are we doing it? No, no, I was in that. Yeah. What was, it's a video game, right? It's Alistair Beckett King's video game. Oh, wow, okay. Which he basically asked me to do it only because he can do quite a mean impression of my voice, and he got us playing two characters that were, you have to figure out which was the real, something like that. It was just an excuse for him to be mean to me. Oh, that's, I'm sorry to have brought it up again.

2:35.8

Classic Alistair Beckett King, though, a bully. People don't think he's a bully because of how he looks,

2:41.6

but he's the worst on the circuit. What if you had to choose what you were best known for in an

2:46.8

ironic fashion, which of your many credits would you have selected if you were me?

2:51.9

I think it's probably, I think it's probably like me and Amy Gladill did a double act for a

2:56.5

number of years. And I think that's probably the thing that it's certainly like, that we,

3:04.6

known for feel, known for feels a real stretch. stretch but we did we did some stuff and that was where some other stuff's come out so we did like four shows at the finish yeah yeah so whether you know about it but we did do a lot of it I think that's you did do a lot of it and it was very good is that definitely is that definitely finished? Or you might be returned to the two of you together? I think our Edinburgh Fringe days are behind us. I think they got like the intensity for the reward. She's a busy, I said to someone, I mean, we're still, we talk all time, we've worked on bits and pieces of that, but in terms of Edinburgh fringe i said to someone i think the only way that i get her back to do an Edinburgh fringe

3:46.3

show is if she's like something mad about her comes out and she loses all of her work

3:50.8

yeah we we still work on we basically we work on a radio show that's still in progress,

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