RHLSTP 591 - Richard Ayoade

RHLSTP with Richard Herring

British Comedy Guide

Comedy, Performing Arts, Tv & Film, Arts

4.8 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

RHLSTP #591 - Grolsch - Richard is back at the Leicester Sq Theatre and has a new moral dilemma to rival the Trolley Problem. How guest is actor, presenter, film director, author and philosopher Richard Ayoade. They discuss Ayoade’s impressively varied career, why he wrongly doesn’t see himself as an actor, the sleeper cult show Garth Merenghi Darkplace, being the only one of the British/Irish cast who went to America to do the IT Crowd pilot, trying not to laugh at Bob Mortimer, why there should be more 40 minute films, his fabulous book of comedy wisdom “Afterthoughts” and whether anyone watched “The Watch”.

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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.
1:17.6	Thank you so much for downloading and enjoy this offering hello everyone welcome to the lester square theatre please welcome a man who ran 10 kilometres yesterday why not it's It's Richard Herring. Thank you.
1:18.4	Oh, Lester Square.
1:20.3	I'd love to be back.
1:22.5	Thank you.
1:23.9	Feels like ages.
1:24.9	I mean, it's not that long,
1:25.6	but it just feels like a long time.
1:26.7	Love me to be here.
1:29.2	Welcome to the show. This Rich Changes Lester Square
1:31.1	Theatre podcast
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