Ep. 560 - Andy Hamilton Returns! - Writer and director of Outnumbered and Drop the Dead Donkey
My Time Capsule
Cast Off Productions
4.8 • 842 Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2026
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Andy Hamilton returns for his second time capsule!
Andy Hamilton is the writer and director of Outnumbered and Drop the Dead Donkey, a regular panellist on Have I Got News for You, The News Quiz and QI, and the voice of Dr Elephant in Peppa Pig.
Andy Hamilton is our guest in episode 560 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 .
Andy Hamilton is a part of Smelt from Lead Mojo. Smelt is a place for brilliant audio comedy writers to list projects they would like to make, and for you to fund them via pre-sales. To donate to fund Andy Hamilton’s latest idea and idea from many other other amazing writers, visit - https://mirlo.space/leadmojo/releases .
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to my time capsule. My name's 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 |
| 0:21.3 | capsule, four things they cherish and one thing they'd like to bury and forget. And that's it. |
| 0:27.3 | My guest in this episode is the wonderful writer, director, producer and performer, and quite good |
| 0:32.8 | footballer, Andy Hamilton, while this country's greatest contributors to comedy over the last 40 years. |
| 0:39.6 | Andy not being Sir Andy can only be attributed to the fact that he's a Chelsea supporter, obviously. |
| 0:45.7 | Still, I'm delighted to say that after a gap of only five years, Andy returns to my time capsule |
| 0:50.8 | with a new set of things from his life he'd like to put in a brand new |
| 0:54.9 | time capsule. And it's been involved with such classic comedies as not the nine o'clock news, |
| 1:00.3 | Shelley, Who Dare's Wins, Alas Smith and Jones, Drop the Dead Donkey, Underworld, Trevor's World |
| 1:06.3 | of Sport, Ballot Monkeys, Kate and Cogee, and of course, outnumbered. |
| 1:11.3 | On radio, he's written old Harry's game, revolting people, |
| 1:14.6 | and contributed to the news headlines and weekending. |
| 1:18.0 | He's a regular on the news quiz, I'm sorry I haven't a clue, |
| 1:21.1 | and have I got news for you? |
| 1:22.7 | And he made, alongside his off-time writing partner, Guy Jenkin, |
| 1:26.7 | the film What We Did on Our Holiday, |
| 1:29.1 | starring Rosamond Pike, David Tennant and Billy Connolly. |
| 1:33.2 | Now, due to the cut-in budgets for scripted comedy in all areas, |
| 1:37.3 | and is joined a consortium of great writers, for example, Philomena Cunx co-writer Joel Morris, |
| 1:43.0 | and ghost writer and star Ben Wilbond, |
| 1:45.9 | who are trying to get new shows made through crowdfunding, something we should all be contributing |
| 1:51.0 | to, surely, if only to say thanks for all the free laughs. Anyway, I'll let Andy tell you about it, |
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