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Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast (RHLSTP)

Matt Forde - "Comedian Cancer Frankingstein"

Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast (RHLSTP)

British Comedy Guide

Comedy, Performing Arts, Arts, Tv & Film

4.75.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2026

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

RHLSTP #609 - Comedian Cancer Frankingstein - Rich hasn’t got much to say at the start (hooray) and even then he is not as funny as a man in the audience. His guest is impressionist, comedian and podcaster Matt Forde. They talk about Rich’s Mastermind failure (again?), working on Spitting Image and how weird it is that out of all the characters that show has done, it’s the puppet of Paddington that has got them into the most trouble, working with the divine genius Alice Levine, interviewing the Prime Minister and other dodgy political figures, why there’s a better option than going back in time to kill baby Hitler, plus a long chat about the negatives and surprising positives of having had spinal cancer, why it’s helpful to talk about this and why cancer isn’t as bad as the possibility of Nottingham Forest getting demoted. Another really special podcast. Don’t miss this one.


See Matt on tour - https://www.mattforde.com/live-shows

Listen to the CRUK podcast with Matt, Rich and Mark Steel https://shows.acast.com/rhlstp/episodes/special-episode-in-partnership-with-cancer-research-uk


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Audio mix by Ben Evans (NTO)

Thanks to Chris Evans (NTO) and Ben Walker

Recorded at the Leicester Square Theatre


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, my fine friends. Welcome to my podcasts. Thank you very much for downloading another podcast.

0:06.5

I've got a few Rahalasper's coming up. We've got Harry Shearer coming on the 1st of July at the

0:12.4

Lester Square Theatre from The Simpsons and Spinal Tap. Is that not enough for you? There'll be other guests as well.

0:17.8

There's another Rahalospon, the 8th of July at Les Square Theatre do come along and we've

0:22.6

recently announced some more for September, November, October and November. Actually I've put the

0:27.4

November one in twice in the gig guide so I'll change that. That's just a note to myself. Also,

0:31.6

I'm doing a few gigs starting to work up material. Some of them are sold out but I'm doing the 20th of

0:36.4

May. I'm doing a benefit for

0:38.3

bollocks to cancer at Bethnal Green, at Rich Mix. Do come to that if you can. That will probably

0:44.2

be mainly testicle-based material. And the other gigs have sold out. This one in Joy, which one

0:49.9

in St. Albans? That's no good to you. And remember I'm at the stand three for the first 12

0:56.4

nights of the Edinburgh Fringe this year. Links at richartaring.com slash Rahalesterper,

1:02.9

richargetarian.com slash gigs. And there is a couple of bonus gigs in the Edinburgh

1:06.7

fringe as well, which we don't have full details for yet. So 14 chances to see me in the Edinburgh Fringe. Please come along if you can. Richetering.com slash gigs, richetering.com slash raelisterpur. You can support my substack. You can support the badges. Go fastorstripe.com slash badges. Or just listen to the adverts in this podcast. That will be enough. Thank you for your time and enjoy this

1:28.8

podcast. Hello London. Welcome to the Leicester Square Theatre. Please welcome a man who thinks

1:37.0

he's come in greater volume than he's cried. I hope you listened to last week's show. Well,

1:41.8

that's a weird way to start it. It's Richard Herring.

1:51.3

Thank you very much.

1:52.2

Love to see you all.

1:53.0

You're much better than last week's audience and so on.

1:57.6

And I think, like, when I cry cry now there's more fluid than

2:01.2

David, do you think?

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