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Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast (RHLSTP)

Tim Minchin - "You’re Already Grown Up"

Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast (RHLSTP)

British Comedy Guide

Tv & Film, Arts, Comedy, Performing Arts

4.75.8K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2026

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

RHLSTP #614 - You’re Already Grown Up - Rich talks to musical genius, actor and comedian Tim Minchin. They discuss the possibility of a reboot of another kids’ classic and Tim’s possible involvement in it, how Ernie Herring responded to Matilda, the technical changes made to the film version of the musical, the gentle pivot into more serious songs, what the devil is up to and the incredible sacrifice of Judas, Richard’s favourite ever guest and why Rich shouldn’t judge his colleagues too harshly, some Shrek based content and a promise from Tim to compete the circle, how silence can be golden in comedy and creative wonderful art and return for the final episode of RHLSTP (as he was the first ever guest). Plus his plans for the next couple of years.


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Audio mix by Ben Evans (NTO)

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0:00.0

Hi Ratfans, thanks to down during the podcast. Thanks to everyone who came to the

0:03.4

Droit Witch and St. Albans gigs, which were fantastic. Look, the big news is coming up,

0:08.8

we're at the Edinburgh Fringe doing Rahalasdapur from the 5th of August to the 16th of August.

0:14.4

There's two shows on the 8th and 9th. They're all at Stand 3 except for those later shows at

0:19.6

530, which are at W Edinburgh, which is another stand venue.

0:23.9

The regular shows at 2 o'clock. Tickets are available. Go to Richshane.com slash Rahalustapa.

0:29.9

And book now, especially if you want to come to the weekends where tickets are selling fast.

0:34.3

I am going to start booking guests this week and you'll be able to see the confirmed

0:39.0

guests on that website as well. So book ahead. It's lots of fun. We had loads of fun last year

0:45.2

and we should be creating enough podcast to see us through to the end of the year. After that,

0:51.4

what's going to happen? Not sure, my fan friends. I'm not too sure.

0:57.2

Anyway, sit back, relax. Enjoy another episode of whatever flicking podcast you're listening to.

1:08.2

Hello, welcome to another studio-based for Hollister Perl. My guest this week is probably best known for being the blue wiggle on Orange is the New Brown. Remember that? Yeah. You look like you don't remember it. Interestingly, I saw a bit of that recently and I was like, I don't remember that. It's like, I don't know what was going on in my life but yes I have recently be reminded I was the blue wiggle and orange is the new brown I'm kind of slightly obsessed There's a lot of colours in that sentence it's confusing I kind of obsessed with I used to be obsessed with the wiggles and I got to the point where one of the main wiggle guy who's been doing it all the whole time was tweeting me because I was tweeting about the wiggles so much but it's been a while since I've watched the wiggles. They're nice guys. They're a big Australian institution if you're not aware of them and they're very, very good and I like the yellow wiggle who was a girl. Yeah, she's gorgeous and she left too too. She left, too. And now does her own Emma, Emma, Emma.

2:02.6

Yeah.

2:03.8

But Orange's New Brown was a sketch show by my friend Nizim Hussein, who's hilarious.

2:09.9

And gorgeous, gorgeous guy.

2:11.7

Okay.

2:12.1

And just like, he had a duo called Fear of a Brown Planet.

2:15.6

And then he just gone off on his own and it's just ridiculous.

2:21.3

Properly ridiculous.

2:23.1

Good. I only did it because I like the blue wiggle.

2:25.8

So look, I'm going to talk to you about some of the things you've been up to, what I'm excited about, what you're going to be up to.

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