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Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast (RHLSTP)

Retro RHLSTP 129 - Rich Hall

Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast (RHLSTP)

British Comedy Guide

Tv & Film, Comedy, Performing Arts, Arts

4.75.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2026

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

#423 Do Sniglets! - Rich is delighted about the new comedic discovery that his daughter has discovered and her enthusiasm for expressing it. His guest is comedy legend and unique brained Rich Hall. They talk about why Rich’s appearance (or non-appearance) in a movie is an indicator of its failure, how he started his comedy career on the streets baptising dogs, trying to take that level of performance into clubs, working alongside Seinfeld and Larry David and making up 90 minutes of comedy every morning for David Letterman. How a successful TV appearance become an albatross round his neck, the freedom of coming to the Edinburgh Fringe and recreating national monuments out of cornflake packages, going to a funeral in character and having another success that came with negative effects, what it’s like to be immortalised on the Simpsons and whether being a rebellious, self-sabotaging comedian is possible any more. Or desirable. This is an absolutely cracking chat with a master of the form and you should not miss it!


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0:00.0

It's 2026. Hello, my fine friends. Welcome to my podcast feed. I hope you're having a great new year so far.

0:10.0

It's great. You admit it. You thought I wouldn't live this long. Here I am. 26 still to go. I'm not making any

0:16.3

predictions for my health at the end of this year, but I've got this far and that's delightful. Look, there's a few things going on. There's some live Rahaluskimos coming up, as you probably know. I'm in Leicester on the 8th of February with Fatsy El-Gori is one of my guests. She is fantastic. Don't miss that. We're up against Stephen Fry, but he's sold out out so hopefully you'll be forced to come and see us now

0:38.3

18th of february i'm in chelmsford with victoria angeloni and someone else and then there's

0:44.6

gigs in the 23rd of february in less square theatre 16th of marked at the square

0:49.1

theatre with david mitchell 20th of april hitler's birthday we be celebrating. Lester Square Theater. Do come along

0:56.6

if you can. Richard Herring.com slash Rahalesterpur for all those things. And do remember,

1:01.3

write bollocks. Autobiography, 5,000 words long, is available to pre-order at go fasterstripe.com.

1:09.0

All the money from that will go to make more podcasts as well.

1:13.3

Do become a badger.

1:14.5

Gofaststerstripe.com slash badges if you want loads of benefits and add free podcasts

1:18.6

and get to know the guests earlier than everyone else and so on.

1:22.3

You know the drill by now.

1:23.6

Anyway, thanks for your time.

1:25.7

Thanks for your effort.

1:26.9

Now listen to a podcast.

1:28.7

Hello, my finest friends. Welcome to Rahalasthapa. It's a retro one. It's from the past.

1:34.2

This is one of my favorite ones I've ever done. I really love this guy. This is Rich Hall.

1:38.6

I think we've got some really interesting stories out of him. He's got had quite the life and quite the career. We're putting up these retro Rahalistipers again. If you missed them the first time, or if you want to watch the full video for free on YouTube, just head to my YouTube channel if you're not there right now. And you can watch the whole thing without payment. If you want to pay us, you can go to go fastestripe.com slash badges and give us a little bit of money every month. Or just go to go fastestripe.com and get a download or a book, then that helps us as well. Or if you feel like it, you can come and buy a ticket to see the show because it's very important to have a good audience there. It's a lot of fun. I think the audience really helps its show and makes it different than most of the other podcasts. But also we make a small amount of money from that as well. You know, and we have to live. Unfortunately, I have to stay alive so that I can podcast more.

2:30.5

Anyway, go fast to strike.com slash badges for the badges, richartarian.com slash Rahalostepa

2:35.4

for all your gig needs.

2:38.5

Hopefully we'll keep on going.

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