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Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast (RHLSTP)

RHLSTP 457 - Markus Birdman

Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast (RHLSTP)

British Comedy Guide

Tv & Film, Arts, Comedy, Performing Arts

4.75.8K Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

#457 Platinum Heart - Rich is back in New Milton to continue his Edinburgh Fringe without going to Edinburgh run and is a bit perplexed by a T shirt that Twitter has been trying to make him buy. His guest is veteran stand-up and cheater of death Markus Birdman. They chat about his journeyman status on the circuit, whether being at a school where your dad worked propelled both Rich and Markus towards comedy, Markus' decision to go on Britain’s Got Talent and whether Simon Cowell understands comedy, how Markus has turned two strokes and a heart operation into comedy, a scary ghost story and why two motorcycle accidents was enough to stop Markus getting on a bike again (not Rich though - he loves motorcycling).


Book tickets for Platinum at the Fringe here https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/markus-birdman-platinum-free


Check out Markus’ tour dates here https://www.markusbirdmantour.com/book-tickets


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0:00.0

Hello my fine friends, welcome to the Richard Herring Rehullister per feed. I hope you're enjoying the Edinburgh podcasts or whatever you are planning to listen to.

0:10.6

As always, I'm going to tell you about the tour, which is coming up starting very soon on the 8th of September in Birmingham.

0:17.6

We've got some fantastic guests coming up, including, well Joe Lysett and Adil Ray at the first one. There's a few tickets left for that. It is selling very fast.

0:26.6

Newly added, Lee Maxx is going to be an older shot on the 20th of October, Davina McCall, Leicester Square Theatre, 30th of October.

0:35.2

Steve Pemberton from the League of Gentlemen, and inside number 9, night of October Leicester Square Theatre.

0:40.8

We're at Tombridge Wells, where there's a lot of tickets to sell. We've got wonderful Robert Bathurst from Cold Feet, Joking Apart. He's been in everything. Let's face it.

0:49.8

And looking far into the future, we have guests for the Canterbury now, which is Jim Moyer and Nancy Sorrow, Jim Moyer, the artist, formerly known as Vic Reeves and his partner, Nancy Sorrow, and also Nick Wilty, who's a brilliant ex-soldier, stand-up comedian, who will be a terrific guest.

1:08.8

New guest being added all the time, go to richtown.com slash rhalestapa, and buy your tickets quickly. Some of them are selling out. Some of them really aren't.

1:19.8

And the more people who come, the more fun we can have. Let's sit back and relax and enjoy another podcast.

1:25.8

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1:33.8

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1:54.8

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3:07.8

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