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Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast (RHLSTP)

RHLSTP 607 - Andy Hamilton

Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast (RHLSTP)

British Comedy Guide

Tv & Film, Arts, Comedy, Performing Arts

4.75.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2026

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

RHLSTP #607 - Next Stop: Very Green Park - Richard has written his one joke for 2026, so don’t miss it. His guest is writer, performer, wit and possible Satan, Andy Hamilton. They chat about why the dentist in Peppa Pig never does any dentistry, how Andy got on to the writing team of Not The Nine O Clock News, why his first sitcom taught him some important lessons (whilst not being the most remembered of his work), how the BBC bodged getting Drop The Dead Donkey and the incredible casting story of the kids from Outnumbered, the incredible story of the man who pretended to be Andy Hamilton, Rich’s attempt to turn Andy’s life into a musical and why actors like to get some input from writers


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0:00.0

Hello, rap fans. Thanks for downloading my podcast. Come and see Rahalasdipa live at the Leicester Square

0:05.8

Theatre on the 20th of April. It's one of the best lineups we've ever had and unbelievably there are still

0:10.7

tickets left. It is Natasha Hodgson, one of the geniuses behind the fantastic Operation

0:16.6

Mincemeat musical and much, much more as well. And Michelle Wolfe one of the greatest stand-ups in the

0:22.7

world do come along richardherring.com slash for hullister perp for all details

0:26.8

edinburgh dates are also now on sale would love to see you at the edinburgh fringe there's a

0:32.0

couple more london dates in july as well and i'm doing joint which in June, but that has sold out. Please do come see us

0:39.9

live or tell your friends about this podcast or become a badger at go fasterstripe.com slash badges. The

0:45.7

future of this podcast is far from certain. If you like it, please support us. If you don't,

0:51.7

we'll go away quietly. And thank you for your time. It's been okay, hasn't it?

0:57.0

All right. Sit back, relax and enjoy another wonderful episode of whatever shitting podcast you have downloaded.

1:07.7

Hello London. Welcome to the Leicester Square Theatre.

1:15.2

Please welcome a man whose incredible odds are 11 to 2 to win Bake Off.

1:16.5

It's Richard Herring.

1:24.8

Hello, thank you, my five friends.

1:26.2

You're worse than last week's audience.

2:01.7

I barely got the microphone for you to stop. That's terrible. Audience. Well, good, Rich Hades, Lester Square Theatre podcast. I was talking to most of the band Darts earlier, who are literally in the room. Do you remember Darts, everyone? Say yes. Yeah, good. They call it Rahalasthabas, thank you. They're up. Thank you guys. It's a good one. So welcome, yes, it's great to be back. You may have heard the news that I did Bake Off Stand Up to Cancer, which is out at some point. They've told me not to reveal the date, and they've made that quite easy to do because they haven't told me the date. It's going out. So it might have gone out by the time you're doing

2:05.8

a website called gambling.com. I mean, how did they get that? That's pretty amazing. Is gambling.com

2:13.8

available? Yes. As given odds. And I'm quite upset about this odds to win they know that

2:18.6

who the people are in mind because jojo soa my friend you know jojo suer um she because she

2:24.4

she didn't she uh she tweeted a photo of us all together she said i'm on 11 to 2 to win there's

2:30.9

only four people in it my chances are five and a half to one of winning

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