RHLSTP 592 - Paul F Tompkins

RHLSTP with Richard Herring

British Comedy Guide

Comedy, Performing Arts, Tv & Film, Arts

4.8 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

RHLSTP #592 - Smell My Suit - It’s another Leicester Square Theatre podcast and Rich is wondering if he’s already got to the point where his kids are funnier than him (low bar). His guest is the multi-talented and almost ubiquitous Paul F Tompkins. They chat about the practical drawbacks of acting with a claw, why Mr Peanut Butter in Bojack Horseman has the same voice as Paul, the unique confidence of starting stand-up at 17 and assuming you’re the best, why Paul wears a suit on stage and whether Rich should check it for freshness, the amazing Beatles-like fandom behind the long running show The Thrilling Adventure Hour and how Paul has successfully bridged old and new comedy in what he does, whether it’s better to be in one episode of everything or all episodes of one thing, an exemplary display of how to answer emergency questions and one of the possible reasons why Richard isn’t a more successful actor.

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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.
0:57.6	Thank you so much for downloading and enjoy this offering
1:06.4	hello everyone welcome to the lester square theatre please welcome a man whose testicle has written autobiography is Richard Herring.
1:21.6	Thank you. You're not as good as last week's audience. They were lovely. My testicles written in autobiography. There it is. I write bollock. I don't like, I had testicular cancer. I don't
1:26.9	really like to talk about it. It's a Kickstarter award. I don't like, I had testicular cancer, I don't really like to talk about it.
1:29.7	It's a Kickstarter reward.
1:31.3	I mean, to call it, Otto, but it's a pamphlet.
1:34.9	I promised 5,000 words and that's what you got.
1:38.0	So, that's kept writing.
1:41.3	I mean, my testicle did, until... Welcome to Richard Herings' Lester Square Theatre podcast.
1:47.0	I was talking to Bernie Clifton the other day.
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