Why is Jon Richardson sleeping in a stranger's boxer shorts?
White Wine Question Time
Biscuit Jim
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Jon Richardson will not like this podcast description - as you'll hear!
Whether you know Jon from 8 out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, his stand-up specials, playing 'himself' in Meet The Richardsons or from his Saturday morning show on Absolute Radio - you'll know one thing... he's extremely funny.
Behind the humour is a man as complicated as he is kind - someone who hoards everything (he still has a copy of the newspapers from the day of the 1999 Solar Eclipse), but who values friendships from every stage of his life. We were delighted when Jon agreed to talk about his new acting role as a drug-taking ex-Marine-turned-Creative Arts teacher in Waterloo Road. It was fascinating to see how uneasily Jon takes a compliment, for someone so used to the validation of a live audience he struggled to watch the Gogglebox clip we played him.
Modest, sincere and painfully funny - it turned out to be a great conversation.
We hope you enjoy it!
Cheers.
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| 0:00.0 | John, a comic. I want you to be brutal about me. I want you open by saying this guy needs to up his game. |
| 0:09.1 | I've never had anyone in the almost seven years that I've been doing this podcast. Come with that approach, John. |
| 0:14.9 | Go on. See if you can do it. See if you can do it. I do an intro now about my physical appearance and the state of me and how long it took me to get connected to this format that everybody has been using for years. |
| 0:27.8 | Joining me now, wearing a hoodie looking borderline homeless |
| 0:31.5 | with what looks like some teenage boys gaming headphones. |
| 0:36.1 | John Richardson, welcome to the show. |
| 0:37.9 | Hi. So that's great. Now I can only impress you. |
| 0:43.9 | Coming up on this episode of White Wine Question Time. |
| 0:48.0 | The tweenies became to me hiding from university, so I watched it every day. |
| 0:52.6 | I became obsessed with the characters. I love Jake. I got wrong, I had a lot of time for Fis and Bella. But Jake was the one I identified. I thought, I wish I could be more Jake. What I've realised is I'm a hoarder, and I've tried to deal with that. I don't know that you need to hold on to the cycling proficiency test. I think we would all believe that you passed. But what if I get pulled over on my bike? Are you not carrying yours |
| 1:15.4 | round with you the whole time? You wear somebody else's pants and have done for 25 years. |
| 1:23.3 | I think there's a very big chance you'll never have sex again after this. |
| 1:30.3 | Let me just put my night night undies on and then we'll have a cracking time. |
| 1:34.2 | I'm going to get that bottle of chinsano open and we'll have a right laugh. |
| 1:36.9 | Did you take it with lemonade or tonic? Oh, you've gone. |
| 1:43.6 | Hello and welcome to white wine question time. The podcast that asked its guests three thought-provoking questions over three glasses of wine. |
| 1:49.4 | And my guest today is one of the country's sharpest, funniest and most relatable comics, a man who's turned the stresses of modern life into the punchlines we all need. |
| 2:00.3 | Born in Lancaster in 1982, he grew up a self-confessed warrior, plagued by what-ifs |
| 2:06.1 | and worst-case scenarios, but also determined to turn those nerves into something meaningful. |
| 2:12.2 | Comedy quickly became his outlet, first testing out material on his long-suffering mum, |
| 2:17.0 | sister and his beloved |
| 2:18.1 | Nana, Elsie, who he says were his toughest and first audience. After dropping out of Bristol |
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