Ep. 500 - Josh Widdicombe
My Time Capsule
Cast Off Productions
4.8 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Our guest in EPISODE 500!! is the comedian Josh Widdicombe. Josh appears regularly on QI, The Last Leg, Fighting Talk, Mock the Week, 8 out of 10 Cats, Have I Got News For You and Hypothetical. He wrote and stared in his own sit com, Josh, won the first series of Taskmaster, has co-hosed Pointless with Alexander Armstrong, appeared on Strictly Come Dancing’s Christmas episode and filmed Who Do You Think You Are? where he discovered some extraordinary things about his ancestry. His autobiography Watching Neighbours Twice a Day... How '90s TV (Almost) Prepared Me for Life, was a Sunday Times bestseller. Josh also makes the twice weekly podcast Parenting Hell with Rob Beckett which is one of the UK’s most successful podcasts. Josh is currently in the middle of a massive UK tour which continues through to May 2026 .
Josh Widdicombe is our guest in episode 500 of My Time Capsule and chats to Michael Fenton Stevens about the five things he'd like to put in a time capsule; four he’d like to preserve and one he’d like to bury and never have to think about again .
For Josh’s tour tickets, visit - https://www.joshwiddicombe.com .
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Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions .
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| 0:00.0 | To mix a perfect mojito this summer, all you need is some ice, some rum, and then top up with zesty, refreshing, fever tree mojita mixer. |
| 0:14.3 | Finish with a splash of sunshine and some good friends and enjoy. |
| 0:21.0 | Mmm, maybe you don't need the sunshine. |
| 0:24.6 | Viva tree majita mixer. |
| 0:26.7 | Mix with the best. |
| 0:28.4 | Please enjoy responsibly. Hello and welcome to the 500th episode of my time capsule. |
| 0:48.0 | I'm Mike Fenton-Stevens, and my time capsule is, as it has been for the past 499 episodes, the podcast where people |
| 0:55.9 | tell me five things from their life they wish they had in a time capsule, four things |
| 1:00.7 | that they really cherish, and one thing they'd like to forget forever, by burying it in the |
| 1:06.1 | ground and never thinking of it again. |
| 1:08.9 | My special guest in this episode is the TV star, writer, podcast king, stand-up comedian, |
| 1:15.1 | and bloody good bloke, Josh Whittickham. |
| 1:18.5 | Josh has been on our screens for the past 20 years, |
| 1:21.8 | appearing regularly on QI, The Last Leg, Fighting Talk, Mock the Week, |
| 1:26.6 | hold the front page, Eight Out of Ten Cats, |
| 1:29.0 | Have I Got News for You, Hypothetical, and Insert Name Here, |
| 1:33.0 | along with loads of other things, including writing and appearing in his own sitcom, Josh, |
| 1:37.8 | which he co-wrote with comedian Tom Crane, and which was directed by David Schneider, |
| 1:43.1 | winning the first series of Taskmaster, |
| 1:45.4 | co-host and Pointless with Alexander Armstrong, making one-night in with his last-leg co-presenter |
| 1:51.4 | appearing on Streetly Come Dancing's Christmas episode, filming Who Do You Think You Are, |
| 1:57.1 | where he discovered some extraordinary things about his ancestry and being in Rob Beckett's smart |
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