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RHLSTP with Richard Herring

RHLSTP Book Club 161 - Robert Ross

RHLSTP with Richard Herring

British Comedy Guide

Comedy, Performing Arts, Tv & Film, Arts

4.85.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

RHLSTP Book Club #161 - Seriously Silly - The Life of Terry Jones - Richard chats to renowned comedy historian Robert Ross about his fabulous new biography of actor, writer, director and Python, Terry Jones. The topics includes what it’s like to befriend a Python and how that friendship affects the writing of a biography, how comedy history can be a map for future comedians, how Jones’ influence in the sketch group is perhaps underestimated, how the Python members could never have imagined that the sketch show they were embarking on would bind them for the rest of their lives, what a fine movie director he was, how he helped Rich get an A in his A level English, how his dementia affected his later years and how the new naked statue of Terry will be viewed by the people of the future.


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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.

0:55.4

Thank you so much for downloading and enjoy this offering hello welcome to another rahalustra book club this one is hot off the press

1:05.9

the chat anyway the book's been out a little while it's uh serious seriously silly the life of

1:13.1

terry jones by robert ross who joins me now hello robert hello how's it going rich are i'm very

1:19.3

very well i'm very i've got a copy here as well in fact you can probably see quite a few copies on

1:23.9

my shelf behind me so if you want to sign copy, get in touch.

1:34.4

Okay. We'll provide that service. Robert, I mean, I know you well and I know what you do,

1:39.9

but tell us a little bit about the, tell the listeners a little about yourself and who you are and what you do. Well, I was very proud that the late great Barry Cry, who was a friend of yours as well, I know,

1:45.4

called me Britain's Comedy Historian.

1:48.6

So it's a shoulder that I have to sort of, you know, it's a burden I have to shoulder, rather.

1:53.5

But basically, I've been writing about comedy, but mainly British comedy

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