Retro RHLSTP 127 - Rob Reiner

RHLSTP with Richard Herring

British Comedy Guide

Performing Arts, Tv & Film, Comedy, Arts

4.8 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

#477 Magic Bullet - Here’s a bonus remote podcast (because we’re not doing enough at the moment) with superstar actor and director and now podcast documentary (if you will pocumentary) maker, Rob Reiner. With limited time, they discuss which of his films is the greatest of all time, what you need to make a perfect improvised movie, the first toilet flush on US Prime Time TV and appearing in the Batman TV series. But mostly they talk about Rob’s fascinating new podcast series “Who Killed JFK?” and the flimsiness of the official account of the assassination, why it means so much to Rob and why it’s important to get to the truth. Plus what it was like sharing a duplex with Albert Brooks and the moving story of remaking the Princess Bride with his dad, Carl.

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0:00.0	Hello IT nerds and anyone else who's chance to cross this by accident.
0:03.5	Welcome to my podcast feed.
0:05.4	The big news is we have guests for the 1st December, Rahalasthapa, at the Leicester Square
0:10.1	Theatre, where I'll be talking to Richard Osmond, best-selling author and nascent podcaster.
0:17.0	He thinks he can do podcasts.
0:18.4	What does he know?
0:19.4	And also Matthew Bainton, who's shortly appearing in the champion, a champion's edition of Taskmaster and from ghosts and everything. It's an amazing bill. The tickets are selling really fast. I think there might be a couple of £18.50 tickets left if you're quick, but then it goes up to something like 21. So book quickly. Go to rich herring.com slash Rahalisterpa for the links for that.
0:40.0	And all the upcoming Rahalashtabas in Leicester, Chelmsford and London.
0:44.8	There's three or four more in the Leicester Square Theatre in the new year.
0:47.5	Anyway, look, let's sit back, relax.
0:49.4	Richard Herring.com slash Rahalisterpah. Go there now.
0:52.0	Sit back, relax and enjoy the podcast.
0:55.4	Thank you so much for downloading and enjoy this offering hi there by now i'm sure you've heard the tragic and unbelievable news
1:02.6	about the death of rob reiner and his wife um very he's one of my absolute comedy heroes
1:10.1	and um i'm of course directed and starred in He's one of my absolute comedy heroes.
1:16.1	And I'm, of course, directed and starred in This Is Spinal Tap,
1:20.8	which I consider to be the best film of all time, I would say,
1:22.2	certainly the best comedy film.
1:27.1	And obviously, like most comedy fans and film fans, I'm very cut up about this surprising and unexpected and awful news.
1:34.6	As always, when someone we've had on Rahalasdaba dies, it feels nice to put out the episode again as a tribute.
1:48.2	One of the nice things about Rahalasdaba, for me,
1:54.4	personally, is that I get to often talk with people who are my absolute comedy heroes and tell them how much they meant to me, which I'm very grateful now that I got to do with Rob.
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