Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast - with Victoria Coren Mitchell
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
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Richard is gifted a front row audience member who is not only wearing red glasses but is also called Aanth (that is not a typo) and vents as much as he can whilst in a position of strength, knowing his guest should be able to wipe the floor with him, it's record-breaking poker player and the stern host of Only Connect, Victoria Coren Mitchell.
She has the requisite disdain for the emergency questions and Richard's foolishly competitive nature and there are fun chats about her attempts to make a porn film, how she faced up to and exposed some weirdo funeral crashers, who puts the bins out in the Coren Mitchell household and how different the Universe might have been if Richard had realised that there was a possible flirtation beneath their first ever meeting. Richard also considers the Universe in which he now has £4 million and Victoria has some good advice about gambling.
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Her story about the "Funeral Crashers" at 33:20 is absolutely brilliant. A poker player thinking the whole scheme up is perfectly apropos. The forgiveness at the end is a fine reminder of her kindness.
It's been a while since I watched this.
A double interview with Victoria and David needs to happen.
52:00 The way Victoria said that just so perfectly invoked David's cadence :D
Incidentally, the reason I moved seat from "last week" is that I was quite convinced I would need to have a wee at some point., and was trying to avoid embarrassment. So that worked.
You are a legend Andy McH!
On that topic... I went to see Richard during his 'Talking Cock' tour. I also had to pee midway through the act. Unfortunately I was in the middle of row in the middle of the theatre and thus became an easy target of ridicule as I made my exit.
Great interview, I get the strange feeling that Richard was quite hyped up and disarmed by Victoria, or possibly fancied her just a tiny bit … so much smiling and giggling from him!
Who wouldn't be?
I think Richard has never gotten over how the two of them didn't get together in the 90's. (Richard was out to impressive - he wore a suit. Hint. Hint.). But this podcast was many things: cute, creepy and rather weird.
She’s like Nigella - all men fancy them!
It’s obviously not a huge leap, but Richard’s idea of Victoria as a dominatrix figure for nerdy types is spot on.
Can't believe I haven't found these sooner! Perfect way to spend a Sunday
"There's a limit to how amazing a finger can be. And I don't want that quote taken out of context." --Victoria Coren Mitchell
:)
Hahaha
I always knew I'd be better at finger blasting than David Mitchell
Victoria is great as i knew she'd be. Rich was super on form. Great episode!
thanks
Richard,
You need to invest in some wireless lapel Microphones. It will improve the quality of your program. Holding microphones seems extremely unprofessional.
Cheers!
thing is it gives you something to do with your hand, a prop. On lapel 'phones can have their own issues. Personally as a performer I prefer a microphone. Just my view of course.
AndyRossism Find me one other talk show on earth which uses a hand held microphone. Every TV program that's ever been aired has been with the use of lapel mics. Late night talk shows, news rooms, etc. It makes the sound quality far more consistent, and allows the guest to be free, and gesture naturally. With a hand held mic you're trapped in a monotonous behavior. It's much more professional, and freeing for the guest to use a lapel mic.
+AllisterBlack although you might not agree with the decision, i'm fairly certain they've purposely bought handheld microphones as opposed to a lapel microphone. personally i don't at all mind, as i also prefer holding microphones when it comes to performing, but y'know :)
I loved this! One of my favourites this season. I don't understand why you don't have millions of views on these. Must come to see you at some point.
My greatest ever celeb spot was when I was sat with my girlfriend in the cinema (BFI) at xmas to see a screening of the classic 'Meet me at St Louis'. I suddenly notice in the immediate row in front of me, within hair-sniffing distance, charlie brooker. I nudge my gf who starts to text a friend. I lean over to look and it says 'we are sat directly behind Kenneth Branagh...I quickly amend her mistake...and she is even more excited. I then notice brooker chatting to someone to his left - it's KONNIE HUQ. I then notice Huq chatting to someone on her left. It's VICTORIA COREN. I then notice Victoria chatting to someone on her left - yep, DAVID MITCHELL. It was a double date of England's comedy couple royalty at that time (probably 9 years ago now). Brilliant. We dined out on that story for months (well, I'm still telling it aren't I?)
I was once on a cinema date and we happened to spot Limmy while walking up the aisles. He spotted us spotting him, and as soon as the credits started he bolted for the door. I like to think it's because he was trying to avoid the possibility of talking to us specifically. Claim to fame.
That gate-crusher story is one of the most impressive stories I've heard.
Love how ingenious this woman is.
It was a thing in the 70's in S.E. London......
Best way to make a million at poker for Richard, start with 2 million and quit when you get to one. Victoria is superb, with well thought out answers, even too the oddest questions. This is a funny, fun episode.
That is losing a million, not making a million.
For a married man, a lot of his theoretical space-time continuum flights of fancy sure seem to revolve around Victoria and other women... Absolutely beautifully handled
Thanks Richard, i enjoy your podcast as you seem to get the best out of your guests by asking such randomly strange questions. Keep up the good work.
Think this was my favourite episode. Work really well together
Best one for a while. Proper job!
So fun learning more about Victoria!
Brilliant. Thoroughly enjoyed this.
Lol i like the way he dressed up a bit for her, usually hes in a tshirt and jeans
She’s brilliant, a true & pure fast talking dame, what a treat that interview was..
My ex father-in-law is called Pat McDonagh but I don’t think that you and he are the same person.
@@delightfullydotty7130 I think you’re right Penny, I do have two kids but neither are of a marrying age (they’re 4 & 6..!)
@@patmcdonagh8939 hehe🙂
Just started rewatching this, it’s sooooooo good
I've went from thinking "I don't have a clue who this guy is ):
Now I kinda want to see David Mitchell interview Catie Wilkins
50:40 in a recent WILTY he said he had an alarm to take the bins out
If ever my dream interview was to take place, HERE IT IS.
Yeah Richard was on top form for this one .a great re watch
They have good chemistry, a good watch.
Can't believe I've only just seen this one. One of the best definitely!
What's not to like about Victoria? A wonderfully clever and attractive woman.
lmao i like that richard remembers there's a character on house who's name is a number, but doesn't remember the number
her name is thirteen for the record, played by olivia wilde, and yeah richard is correct that olivia wilde as thirteen is roughly the idealized sexual partner
Victoria always takes her purse with her. Love her
It’s got a flapjack in it
I appreciate how Richard Herring can ask ludicrous questions about a giant cock man and can also be quite acerbic. Better than pap that's on TV, he allows the guest to speak and elaborate then interjects with flights of surreal fancy some of which has a dark hue to it.
David Mitchell is a very fortunate man.
He tells himself that too.
Would we all have someone love us, as he does her, if only once in our lifetime
Richard sounds so much like Alan Davies at times
Yes, he does sound like a talentless, arrogant fuckwit, doesn`t he?
YES ABE!!! I have had an inkling in my head hearing him make the intros, the last 5 I have listened to, and only just realised it this time! Then I saw your comment!
@@rowbearly6128 I think faced with Victoria Coren many of us would become fuckwits and certainly here Richard is unable to hide his besottedness, but only Alan Davies is a talentless, arrogant fuckwit full time. I cringe when I hear him attempt a joke on tv. I found Richard a tad embarrassing here, but spent all my viewing time adoring Victoria anyway.
She's absolutely gorgeous!
So I could either listen to this or watch this?? Damn I'm going to watch it..
Victoria is just so, so Perfect 😍 David Mitchell is the most luckiest man alive..
mrs. coren-mitchell is "a bit sexy"... like, "the atlantic ocean is a bit wet...."
She's great, i really enjoy her on tv. So smart and funny.
Love Victoria,nice rapport between you.Its a shame there are not more subscribers to this channel,he outs so much work and effort into these and you'd think more would at least show their appreciation by subscribing.There are lots of views though.
The best thing in this is how she destroyed the logic behind the ham hands.
I expected Aanth's friend to go by Aand
First time I’ve heard anyone else speak of funeral crashers, we also had one at my father’s funeral. Our crasher also hit up one of the guests for cash 🙄
this was one of the best, great girl.
And i thought i was the only person to have bought a Sony PJ-200 with built in projector! Last of the camcorders.
I'm one of the fucking idiots who paid for these shows via Kickstarter and being a badger (you're welcome) but I'd forgotten the pained look on VCM's face when trying to understand Rich's multiverse theory. Classic.
Man, she does a really good job of selling her movie, it sounds amazing.
Her how-we-made-a-porno story was funny af. The bit about the long-term partners, bitching and sniping at each other, was the icing on the proverbial cake.
It killed me.
I doubt I'd be the first one to mention Richard dressed up for this one. |
Look at me going on like Big Billy Porridge Bollocks!
I love how she comes on with her handbag-like she's just got home from work!
It's strange how the RHLSTP audience are sometimes not terribly receptive then other times great. Fabulous audience reaction on this show. You should be laughing like this every week people! Come on! RH is fantastic.
I remember the funeral story from "Have I Got News For You".
cymruisrael I think it was very honourable to not deliberately turn away gatecrashers.
Leave human consciousness or (if you believe in God) God to deal with these people.
Why does everyone always refer to Kevin Eldon as "the actor, Kevin Eldon"?
CowLunch its a joke Kevin Eldon made up years ago on Fist of Fun I believe, like TV's Ian Lee
Because that's what he is.
So you didn't confuse him with the other one!
You know the Satanist...
01:17:15 What's funny about this part is the character on House in called 13, not 12. 12 was an old dude pretending to have graduated medical school, if I remember correctly.
If my family had had Spike's autograph he would have come to visit and found it framed.
Fear of flying counsellor dying in a plane crash, actually ironic. Damn it, just heard him say that...
I love. Love. Victoria Coren Mitchell. David is a lucky man - giving nerds hope everywhere.
Victoria also appeared in “I love 1984” talking about her love of video nasty horror films.
Richard says he gets the obscure credits from whatever IMDB says.
Pretty funny up to a point, untill you get the feeling Herring is trying to advertize himself to her. He asked way too much about her married life.
After that is was just a load of bs questions and it was up to Victoria to keep the audience entertained.
53:10 is so cute!
"Moross"
"Richard Moross?"
"Yes, what? What's wrong with that?"
"It's stupid"
😂😂😂
Does the badge have "I like fist of fun" written on it
I'm interested to know what the business model of this was because the product was very good.
Well, this podcast took a strange left turn. A BIG left turn.
I got an Only Connect on the first one once, the clue was Peter Gabriel and I guessed Peter Gabriel, Peter Gabriel and Peter Gabriel, the first four albums of Peter Gabriel. I will live by this victory forever as ordinarily the quiz makes me feel like a dribbling simpleton. Peter Gabriel.
+bulletproofblouse Would you have had the bottle to buzz in after the first one though?
lMashingMashMash Why not, I get everything, literally everything, else wrong on that show I might as well have taken a punt on it. :)
bulletproofblouse Haha i got it on the first one once as well, the first clue was "Well boiled icicle" and i guessed that all of them would be spoonarisms. Like you, I shall forever treasure the moment.
This anecdote is straight out of Partridge
Victory is sweet, no? Congratulations.
This lady is the perfect women.. OMG !!!
Fair play David Mitchell is the luckiest bastard on the planet.....I think Victoria is stunning.
Definitely the Thinking Man's Crumpet!
Agree 100%
Unfortunately I think my husband agrees too 🤣
Good old big billy porridge bollocks.
Does anyone have a copy of The Naughty Twins? Anyone in the world?
I adore Victoria.
I think she's so hot. Her looks and her mind.
She's amazing.
I think she'd be so sexy in a cat suit and she's way too humble about her looks.
I feel that this was a partially wasted opportunity. Ok he got some great reactions from Victoria but he was embarrassing t times. He used the word adorable and I think that is a great description of Victoria. She is SOOOOOOO adorable it hurts.
48:38 From July 2020 Oh if only you knew Victoria
Which was better, Murphys Mob or Jossys Giants?
For me, Jossys Giants, mainly because I don't remember Murphys Mob but also because the legendary Sid Waddell wrote it and I fancied the main girl in it. Operation Yewtree need not be alerted, I was 9-10 in '86.
Cheers for these uploads Mr Herring
what's herring's beef with patrick marber
Playing a hand of 7 and 4 while throwing away the 7 and 5 is the least Chinese poker strategy I've ever heard...
Of course David Mitchell lost that bet. Michael York isn't even in "Death on the Nile":
Michael York was in the film Murder on the Orient Express, the 1974 version. lol
who is 12 from house?
He meant 13. Played by Olivia Wilde
She sounds so much like her father sometimes, but still, what a fabulous woman. Sigh!
I thought 'Glenn madieros' just before Victoria said it!
Lovely
I Respect her as a person whom I would Love to meet! So choice a human being❤️
Rich is wearing a brace/retainer?
I watched all of this and it was really long.
If only there was some clue about how long it was going to be BEFORE you started watching it.
I put tape on the bottom of the screen so I get a surprise.
I think the comment might have actually been intended as complementary, but simply far too sparsely punctuated to be parsed accurately.
You watched it and all you took away from the experience was the length?
marcel911 Yes, I was humming throughout to make sure I didn't hear anything.
He’s like a wee boy talking to his teacher. Funny guy though. Love the show.
the funeral story would have been perfect for WILTY..
I love Victoria, David Mitchell is great too. Charlie and Konnie in the mix l, no wonder someone else was having the same dream.
This makes me want to go to AO3
A Neanderthal walking in wouldn't require time travel! Just an alternate world in which they never became extinct, which is perfectly plausible.
I know you wrote this three years ago, but that is exactly what I thought, too.
PS. That and the fact that he got 'an infinite universe' and 'an infinite number of parallel universes' confused.
As a kid, i wanted to be like Richard O'Sullivan
Funeral crashers story 32:40
That's not how Schrödinger's cat works. It's not whether the thing is in state "X" or "not X", it's that the thing is in state "X" *and* "not X" (ex., dead and alive) _simultaneously_.
Yeah, but that's only a semantic thing: as we don't know if it's dead, we can say it occupies both states until the box is opened and we are certain. So it IS that the cat is either X or not-X but the uncertainty means we can't say either way. There's quite some leap to saying it occupies both states at once. Clearly it can't in a rational universe. I always thought it to be a daft notion, really (but what would I know?!).
@@jamesdeanlovespunk The theory does say it exists in both states at once. The physics really is that bizarre. When we observe the cat we change its state (collapsing the probability waveform) and so only *after* it has been observed is it actually either dead or alive; before that it's both. It's an analogy for how particles behave so quite hard to grasp when you're thinking about living things. But that's an issue with the analogy and we need to get past that issue to understand the actual theory. Dead/alive isn't actually anything to do with the physics.
I feel bad for this guys wife
what a beautiful lady Victoria is inside and out
The Thinking Man's Crumpet
What is the origin of the actor Kevin Eldon?
The Actor Kevin Eldon was always called The Actor Kevin Eldon on TMWRNJ
@@tchmilfan ahh, I should really watch more of that show
But before that, Mrs Eldon and Pat Mustard.
You got all dressed up for Victoria!
Is that a Slytherin notebook?
My wife's aunt and uncle go to strangers' funerals!
Not S.E. Londoners are they?
For the food
very funny man and very clever and sexy woman - what is not to love
I've been wondering why she brings her handbag on set everywhere these days.