RHLSTP 604 - Bilal Zafar
Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast (RHLSTP)
British Comedy Guide
4.7 • 5.8K Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
RHLSTP #604 - Elephant Trunk - It’s another studio RHLSTP with Richard’s occasional collaborator Bilal Zafar. They talk about the amazing viral Instagram clip of one of their sketches, why Bilal wanted Ally Sloper to play his dad, whether we should be surprised by life, but not death, meeting Labour politicians on the tube, how can Bilal get on the telly, his return to Edinburgh and Rich’s plan to never leave his venue, some new emergency questions and a nice chill vibe as the boys use up their full hour as best they can.
Listen to Bilal’s podcast Got A Problem Mate? here (or wherever you get your podcasts) - https://open.spotify.com/show/1jjEaZiF1lcGJtVUjSwRcG
Watch Meeting Dad here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVmcddcVnvs
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, monkey fiddlers. It's me, Richard Herring. Thank you for downloading my podcast. Please keep listening if you can. The big news is 20th April, Lester Square Theatre. One of the guests has been announced. It's Natasha Hodgson. One of the geniuses behind and in front of Operation Mincemeek the Musical. Sorry, my cat's running around the kitchen, making a ringing sound hook. That's not disturbing you. Once the Operation Mincemeat fans hear about this, it's going to sell fast. So get your tickets now. Go to richsharing.com slash Rahalesterpur. And you can see all the dates. There's a couple in July as well. I'm doing a great which Rick Mail Festival as well, |
| 0:39.8 | but that is sold out. |
| 0:42.1 | Become a badge at go fastestripe.com slash badges if you want to help us continue to make |
| 0:47.3 | these bloody things. |
| 0:48.7 | Anyway, sit back, relax and enjoy another episode of one of my podcasts. |
| 0:53.9 | You little fiddly monkey fiddler. |
| 0:56.3 | Stop ringing those bells. |
| 1:00.7 | Hello, welcome to another Rahalista coming from the podcast rooms. |
| 1:04.8 | My guest today is probably best known for playing the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire video game for an hour and a half on YouTube. It's got 4,348 views and one of them is mine. It's Bill Al Zafar. Hey, how you doing Phil Al? Yeah, good, thank you. I also played the weakest link PS2 video game. For some that got loads of views that got like 20,000 |
| 1:28.2 | views I mean it's just literally I thought you might take the Mickey a bit more but it's literally |
| 1:32.8 | just you playing with the help of your yeah cheating yeah and well did I do I do I do I watch |
| 1:39.3 | an hour of it and that's all I've watched in preparation you actually watch an hour of that I. I watched two, you're attempting like two or three times to win and failing. Do you succeed in the end for people who come? And it's not that good when you do it. I really like two wants to be a millionaire. The Chris Tarant one. I think Jeremy Clarkson can't do it. I concur. Well, I haven't really, I don't, I won't watch it. |
| 2:34.6 | Chris Tarant's done, in fact, Chris Tarant is not this studio because it was when we were at Great Porn Street, but he came in to do. Oh, did he? He wrote a book about bears, and so I had to talk to him about bears. Is this true? It's true. He wrote a book about bears. And I told him, I mean, I don't had said this to him before, I said, Did You Think About Calling It? Who Wants to See a Million Bears? That's good stuff. He should have called it, but he didn't. He called for the love of bears, I think it's called. It was all right. You read the book? Yeah, I've always read the books. Yeah, no, you do. |
| 2:35.2 | You read a lot of books. |
| 2:36.5 | And, yeah, and he's nice. He was a very nice guy. Oh, that's good. He seems nice. He rang me up the day before, confused. He had just my name and phone number in his diary, I think, from his publicist. And I was driving my car and he went, |
| 2:47.8 | It's Chris Darren here. |
| 2:48.7 | What's the? |
| 2:49.6 | I've got your name. |
| 2:50.2 | What is? |
| 2:51.3 | Right. |
| 2:52.1 | And I was driving my car. |
| 2:53.1 | I went out with the... and I was driving my car and he went, it's Chris Barrett here. What's the? I've got your name. What is? |
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