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Now, on with the show.

Music H-O-S-T. Now, on with the show. Four seasons, over 30 incredible guests, hundreds of podcast recommendations.

I'm your host, Laura Whitmore, and in this special series of Castaway, we'll bring

you the best bits from our

back catalogue, sharing those golden castaway moments and throwing in those bingeable podcast

picks we're all hungry for along the way. Welcome to Castaway, the Best Bits. Hello, lovely listeners,

great that you've joined us for another castaway Best Bits episode.

Now, it's been said that laughter is the best kind of therapy.

And in today's roundup, we'll be sharing recommendations from our celebrity guests on

all things comedy.

And boy, did we have some great recommendations over the last four seasons.

From satirical style shows to overheard hilarious conversations with friends,

we'll be going over some of the shows that had our guests chuckling.

So, to kick us off, who better than my resident funny man, Ian Sterling,

as we throw it back all the way to season one's very first episode.

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