Ep. 522 - Nick Helm Returns!
My Time Capsule
Cast Off Productions
4.8 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2025
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
Nick Helm returns for his second time capsule! Nick Helm is a comedian, actor and writer known for his larger-than-life stage persona and a mix of stand-up and music. He rose to fame with his Edinburgh Comedy Award-nominated shows and went on to star in 3 series of the hit BBC Three sitcom Uncle. On television, he’s appeared on 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, Live at the Apollo and Russell Howard’s Good News, as well as fronting his own series Nick Helm’s Heavy Entertainment. Nick’s latest standup tour, No One Gets Out Alive, will be performing around Britain from September to November 2025.
Billy Boyd is our guest in episode 522 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 .
Tickets for Nick’s tour, No One Gets Out Alive, are available here - https://www.nick-helm.co.uk .
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Produced and edited by John Fenton-Stevens for Cast Off Productions .
Music by Pass The Peas Music .
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| 0:24.4 | Hello and welcome to my time capsule. I'm Mike Fenton-Stevens and my time capsule is the podcast where people tell me five things from their life they wish they had in a time capsule. They pick four things that they love and one thing they'd like to bury and forget. And that's it. And my guest in this episode is Nick Hull. |
| 0:56.9 | Now, Nick has been a guest on my time capsule before |
| 0:59.5 | and was so delightful that when we were asked if we'd like to talk to him |
| 1:03.3 | prior to his UK tour this autumn, we jumped to the chance. |
| 1:07.3 | Nick is one of this country's most unique and, in my opinion, funniest stand-up comedians. |
| 1:13.0 | Nick first took to the stand-up comedy stage in 2007 and quickly became a circuit legend. |
| 1:19.1 | Nick has become a firm TV favourite, having appeared on multiple shows, both acting and as himself. |
| 1:24.7 | He was nominated for a Royal Television Society Award, |
| 1:28.0 | for his starring role in the critically acclaimed BBC 3 sitcom Uncle, |
| 1:32.2 | and also played the adorable Wotto in Channel 4's Loaded. |
| 1:36.5 | He's fronted his own food travelogue show, |
| 1:39.1 | Eat Your Heart Out with Nick Helm on Dave, |
| 1:41.7 | and his own high-octane variety show, |
| 1:44.1 | Nick Helm's Heavy Entertainment on BBC high-octane variety show, Nick Helm's Heavy Entertainment |
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