2012 #04: Andrew O'Neill and Juliet Meyers

08/05/12 • 60 min

Richard Herring's Edinburgh Fringe Podcast

2012 #4: Andrew O'Neill and Juliet Meyers. After 2 days of nearly lost podcasts can we make it 3 in a row? All seems fine with the desk, but who would believe that workmen in the street would drill through cables and disrupt it all again? Well they did, but luckily Rich had switched on the Tascam as we get an 'interesting' chat with Steam Punk transvestite O'Neill (who manages to be funny sometimes too!). Jack the Ripper, Ian Huntley and the people of Sutton turn out to be comedic topics, as does the generally distracted nature of comedians and sex with Doctor Who monsters. Lots more besides and some great stand-up from Juliet Meyers.

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2012 #03: Marek Larwood and Doug Segal

2012 #3: Marek Larwood and Doug Segal - After yesterday's disaster (though if you missed it there was a non-Dalek bootleg version which went up later) Richard has left nothing to chance, recording the show through the desk and on his Tascam and wearing two pairs of pants. His guest Marek Larwood, stalwart of silly children's TV and silly adult comedy alike is concerned about how people judge him on his looks and Richard is happy to wade in with his own judgement. Some new TV gameshow ideas are workshopped, the sense of humour of top Olympian Steve Redgrave is dissected and a one-time winner for Countdown is in the audience - that's right, look impressed because it is impressive. And Margaret is back in the audience trawling for young men. Hopefully Harry is still alive. With stand-up from mind reader Doug Segal.

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2012 #05: Simon Munnery and Mary Bourke

2012 #5: Burns Baby Burns - Simon Munnery and Mary Bourke. After three days in a row of different audio failures one begins to suspect that the podcast is cursed. Today the desk finally recorded the show without a hitch, but that's not much use when the main guest hasn't shown up. ITV2's Brendon Burns was nowhere to be seen and couldn't be contacted and so the call went out for a replacement comic who didn't arrive until ten minutes into the show. Luckily for us all we had true comedy legend and Great British eccentric Simon Munnery as a super-sub to tell us all about his dining experience with no food, Cluub Z and the time he had a quarter of a million pounds to spend on hats. Margaret is back in the audience trawling for young men before returning to Durham and we get to find out which Dr Who monster she'd most like to have sex with. Richard lets us know why he loves Barry Cryer more than his own dad and explains his arch rivalry with the penguin and is no way treading water until a guest arrives. Mary Bourke has bothered to turn up and impresses with her stand-up. Burns later revealed he was asleep and will now be a guest on 14th instead- why do I have a feeling this might become like the boy who cried wolf?