RHLSTP 575 - Zainab Johnson
RHLSTP with Richard Herring
British Comedy Guide
4.8 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
RHLSTP #575 - Creepy Gandhi - It’s Richard’s second live Edinburgh podcast and he’s got some berry facts that will astound you. His guest is US comedian, actor and writer Zainab Johnson. They chat about whether her name is unique, growing up with 12 siblings, the terrible accident that changed her life, whether having one ball counts as a disability, pretending to be stupid to attract (maybe stupid) men, getting to work with Greg Daniels and annoying him at lunch, the terrific sitcom Upload and whether eternal life is all it’s cracked up to be, first impressions of Scotland and why a comedian should aim for silence and embrace failure.
See Zainab’s show https://www.pleasance.co.uk/event/zainab-johnson-toxically-optimistic
Check out her special on Amazon https://www.amazon.co.uk/Zainab-Johnson-Hijabs-Off/dp/B0CGZYS18Q
Come and see RHLSTP live (in Bewdley) http://richardherring.com/rhlstp
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, my finest of friends, and thank you again for downloading my podcasts. Hope you enjoy them. |
| 0:06.6 | We're in Edinburgh still. It's going very well. Thanks to everyone who's come. We've sold enough tickets to pay for our accommodation. |
| 0:13.5 | Hooray! Come and see Katie Wilkins at 445 at Stand 2 until the 10th of August. And coming up on Rahasthapa at the stand 3 at 2pm on the 5th we've got |
| 0:25.8 | Anya Magliano I've got to learn how to say a name before I interview her and the 6th we've got |
| 0:32.0 | David O'Darty 7th the cryptid factor which is Rees Darby Dan Shriver and buttons uh eighth we've got timki it's sold out |
| 0:39.2 | ninth we've got nina conti and the 10th is nish kuma uh all of those uh pretty much sold out so be |
| 0:46.1 | very quick for those last five especially there's plenty of tickets for tuesday which is a notoriously poor |
| 0:52.4 | day do come along if you can uh there's also, we're doing a gig in |
| 0:55.9 | Bewdly on the 16th of October. Come and see that if you're in the West Midlands. And I'll be back |
| 1:02.4 | home soon. And I love you all. Some fantastic podcasts already recorded in Edinburgh. |
| 1:07.1 | Thanks to everyone who's come and seen them. Sit back, relax. Pellar pre-lapse, |
| 1:13.0 | a prolapse and enjoy another Richard Herring ridiculous podcast. Thank you so much for listening. |
| 1:19.5 | You don't know how happy it makes me. |
| 1:23.5 | The second season of My Life with D for dementia is out now. |
| 1:30.6 | It's presented by me, Marianne Jones. |
| 1:35.7 | I'm a journalist, podcaster, and ambassador for dementia UK. |
| 1:41.1 | I'd heard about dementia, but I'd never thought, oh my God, it's going to affect someone in my family. |
| 1:43.0 | It was like fighting a war, really. |
| 1:46.1 | You know, you'd put a fire out there, and then something else would start. |
| 1:47.3 | She's still a mum. |
| 1:49.5 | That's the thing I see now. |
| 1:53.9 | Subscribe to My Life with Dementia in your podcast app. |
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