Stephen Merchant (Retro) - "Retribution"
Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast (RHLSTP)
British Comedy Guide
4.7 • 5.8K Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2026
⏱️ 68 minutes
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#427 Retribution - Richard is hoping to get a bridge named after him in Great Yarmouth and hopefully his fans will do better than they did in getting him nominated for a British Comedy Award. It’s an incredible guest to start the new series, making his first appearance in almost 10 years, Stephen Merchant. Stephen has some questions for Richard about his first stint on the podcast and Richard doesn’t really have any answers. But after a bit of squirming the pair get talking about meeting your heroes, your parents meeting your heroes, how an omelette was the clincher in getting Christopher Walken on to The Outlaws, the KLF style destruction of a Banksy, the Herring’s Eye, the surprising news that drugs can be quite good fun, how Stephen made an impression at a Sarah Silverman party and his move into serious acting. Are they friends again by the end? I guess we’ll find out in ten years time.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, my fine friends. Welcome to my podcasts. Thank you very much for downloading another podcast. |
| 0:06.5 | I've got a few Rahalasper's coming up. We've got Harry Shearer coming on the 1st of July at the |
| 0:12.4 | Lester Square Theatre from The Simpsons and Spinal Tap. Is that not enough for you? There'll be other guests as well. |
| 0:17.8 | There's another Rahalospon, the 8th of July at Les Square Theatre do come along and we've |
| 0:22.6 | recently announced some more for September, November, October and November. Actually I've put the |
| 0:27.4 | November one in twice in the gig guide so I'll change that. That's just a note to myself. Also, |
| 0:31.6 | I'm doing a few gigs starting to work up material. Some of them are sold out but I'm doing the 20th of |
| 0:36.4 | May. I'm doing a benefit for |
| 0:38.3 | bollocks to cancer at Bethnal Green, at Rich Mix. Do come to that if you can. That will probably |
| 0:44.2 | be mainly testicle-based material. And the other gigs have sold out. This one in Joy, which one |
| 0:49.9 | in St. Albans? That's no good to you. And remember I'm at the stand three for the first 12 |
| 0:56.4 | nights of the Edinburgh Fringe this year. Links at richartaring.com slash Rahalesterper, |
| 1:02.9 | richargetarian.com slash gigs. And there is a couple of bonus gigs in the Edinburgh |
| 1:06.7 | fringe as well, which we don't have full details for yet. So 14 chances to see me in the Edinburgh |
| 1:11.7 | Fringe. Uh, please come along if you can. Richetering.com slash gigs, richetering.com slash |
| 1:17.0 | ralustapur. You can support my substack. You can support the badges. Go fast astripe.com |
| 1:22.0 | slash badges. Or just listen to the adverts in this podcast. That will be enough. Thank you for |
| 1:27.0 | your time and enjoy this podcast. That will be enough. Thank you for your time and enjoy this |
| 1:28.7 | podcast. Hello, my finest friends. Welcome to another retro Rohalis Tava. We're back to series |
| 1:34.5 | 26. It's the first episode of series 26. It was recorded on the 20th, sorry, the 30th of January |
| 1:41.0 | 2023. That does not mean it went out then, though, because sometimes we did things well in advance. |
| 1:46.1 | But it's some time ago, my fan is friends. And this is the return of Stephen Merchant. The first time I spoke to him, you can find that video somewhere or that podcast somewhere. |
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