I cannot thank you enough, Richard, for introducing me to Simon via this incredible episode. I feel like it has irreparably changed my brain. This is my favourite interview in all the world and I treasure it. What a beautiful archive of comedy you've created. Sorry for all the earnestness.
Absolutely one of the best episodes. I was properly laughing out loud even though watching alone and even clapping at some points! What a brilliant guy. Did Richard even get an emergency question in? I can't remember now. Thank you :) x
Superb. I was crying with laughter at the arm wrestle. You have to have him back on Rich and TRY to get more out of him, Simon must have enough stories for you to have him on every week lol.
Simon Munnery: Proper _comedian to the bone!_ very enjoyable.....I wasn't sure at first, but ended up laughing all the way through this! - He's utterly, _genuinely_ unique, it's kinda like 'intellectual / punk-rock comedy' 😹_👍
@@rudimentaryganglia Yeah, he's just a total original, comedian AND Human being!.......Just fantastic stuff! - I think the only other _complete_ original comedy mind I can think of (but with an entirely different flavour) would have to be the amazing Johnny Vegas Here's Johnny's RHLSP: 😹_👍 ua-cam.com/video/pJpVOfUg9N8/v-deo.html
Very very good, I actually enjoy it more when a guest slightly unsettles Mr Herring or they allow Richard to sit back and let them get on with the surreal flow of it all; Munnery did both; more a fan of this type of podcast than the cosy chats, or the ones where people abandon the comedy and get on their political soapbox.
That was a lot of fun! I loved the unexpected "physical challenge" towards the end. I'm pretty sure Munnery used it to get the crowd behind Richard after he'd given the host a bit of a rough ride. Anyway, the episode was something a bit different and there were some good anecdotes, especially enjoyed the Mark Lamarr one. Good stuff!
"You're better than last weeks audience" I finally know where you got it from :) still watching the Fist of Fun DVDS. On series 2 the study recordings.
You know he films 2 pod casts in one live show with a break, right?A lot of the laughs make more sense when you realise that.And /or I'm a stupid twat.
The joke is that instead of it being the first time you met your wife, in the joke you're pretending that you already know her but weren't expecting to meet her in Melbourne. Hope I've explained it well enough- often explaining jokes makes them not funny.
We usually say "I met my wife" to describe the FIRST time you met. The joke upends that social convention by using the word "met" as we would normally use it (i.e. "I met Mr Bowler the butcher in The Red Lion"). So, "I met my wife in Melbourne. I said "What are you doing here?!"" becomes the story of a man meeting in his wife, presumably of many years, in an unusual place, the happenstance of which suggests a highly dysfunctional relationship. Pull back and reveal, innit.
Pretty weird and awkward. I loved The League Against Tedium, but I was slightly taken aback to see someone so obviously pissed on the podcast - I guess that that's the beauty of it - it's unfiltered. Sometimes you get a combative show, like Steve Merchant, sometimes you get a love in, sometimes you get a confession about suicide, sometimes you get a great comedian who's had a few too many...
Watching this in 2024, not sure if I remembered Munnery's early computer game stardom, but my first ever computer was a VIC-20 and Jeff Minter was a god amongst Llamas (and Camels, and Sheep) at the time. Was he really pissed or is he always like that? Anyway, very entertaining ep from years back.
I actually bought Bugbyte Asteroids and it was terrible, cost £7. Met him 20 years ago but I didn't know it at the time. He's obviously drinking way too much, common problem for comics.
Been stated that Ayoade isn't comfortable in interviews. Richard has asked, according to his (many) replies to this question. I'd love to see him as well, just to hear his normal voice for around an hour if nothing else.
Colm Dunne he's sounding alcoholic here. He wasn't like this before. Don't spose it's much fun having that damaged arm, poor bloke. Met him once, very nervy character
*Definitely* one of RHLSP's best, for me! 😹_👍 - I SO wish that someone had properly video'd those many long-ago-and-forever-gone nights at the *Cluub Zarathustra* - each one its own unique, anarchic comedy experience! \😓/ And, you'd think. particularly given Si's early background in 1980s computing etc, that *The League Against Tedium* (multi-media comedy thing Munnery did back in the day) would fit just perfectly into some kind of latter-day online experience, with like a surreal TLAT app (or somesuch, idk) The WWW. just seems to me like _such a natural fit_ for Munnery's selfmade pre-net multi-image-interactive comedy format!
I was one of those little scallywags! I can vaguely remember doing the same to the next few acts, expecting them all to pay me off, and getting livid when they didn't. Used to love heckling comedians at the comedy and cabaret tents at Glastonbury. If I met my younger self now I'd want to clip him on the ear but just quietly fume away instead as I'm too liberal to hit a child, even if it's me. Still, I am proud of this lightning quick response during, I think, a Sadowitz set: "Now, pretend this apple is a grenade---" "GRENADEY SMITH!"
Thanks Sam, hope life is good, out in your little 'country escape' cabin.... ;) I DO remember the fire : Thing with that era Glasto - they've all blended together somewhat... (not that that's so bad a fate) - that's about the time when the travellers had their own parallel 'free festival' just outside the walls, eh?
I found this really difficult to listen to. Simon's enunciation was so frustrating. Working class Rowley Birkin. I was caught in that place where it was impossible to tell if his interstitial speech was noise & wordless mumbles or he was actually saying words that I couldn't understand. Very slurry, like he'd had a stroke. I'm going to have to try again with this one and make sure I'm somewhere quiet.
I got the impression he wasn't as pissed as he was pretending to be - near the end sometimes he was slurring and sometimes as sharp as a knife- I thought his mind was working very clearly and he was winding R.Herring up.
I cannot thank you enough, Richard, for introducing me to Simon via this incredible episode. I feel like it has irreparably changed my brain. This is my favourite interview in all the world and I treasure it. What a beautiful archive of comedy you've created. Sorry for all the earnestness.
this is my favourite episode of any podcast
Absolutely one of the best episodes.
I was properly laughing out loud even though watching alone and even clapping at some points!
What a brilliant guy.
Did Richard even get an emergency question in? I can't remember now.
Thank you :) x
I could listen to munnery all day
Superb. I was crying with laughter at the arm wrestle. You have to have him back on Rich and TRY to get more out of him, Simon must have enough stories for you to have him on every week lol.
Simon Munnery: Proper _comedian to the bone!_
very enjoyable.....I wasn't sure at first, but ended up laughing all the way through this!
- He's utterly, _genuinely_ unique, it's kinda like 'intellectual / punk-rock comedy' 😹_👍
My very favorite
@@rudimentaryganglia Yeah, he's just a total original, comedian AND Human being!.......Just fantastic stuff!
- I think the only other _complete_ original comedy mind I can think of (but with an entirely different flavour) would have to be the amazing Johnny Vegas
Here's Johnny's RHLSP: 😹_👍 ua-cam.com/video/pJpVOfUg9N8/v-deo.html
Very very good, I actually enjoy it more when a guest slightly unsettles Mr Herring or they allow Richard to sit back and let them get on with the surreal flow of it all; Munnery did both; more a fan of this type of podcast than the cosy chats, or the ones where people abandon the comedy and get on their political soapbox.
What a naturally funny bloke, and clever with it. Enjoyed watching this.
Alan Parker - Urban Warrior used to be a great character... was it on Blue Jam (Chris Morris's radio programme)...?
Easily one of the best.
I've had enough now.
Munnery is probably the brightest mind of his generation.
Probably my favourite episode so far.
Jerry Sadowitz would be amazing... Could it still happen, Richard?
Munnery shadowing Herring during the programming bit is top drawer. The man (Munnery) is impeccable.
That was a lot of fun! I loved the unexpected "physical challenge" towards the end. I'm pretty sure Munnery used it to get the crowd behind Richard after he'd given the host a bit of a rough ride. Anyway, the episode was something a bit different and there were some good anecdotes, especially enjoyed the Mark Lamarr one. Good stuff!
Absolute class watching Rich try to get a coversation out of Simon ....
"If the crowds behind you, you are facing the wrong way"
Always fancied having a drink with Simon Munnery and this is the closest I've got so far...best RHLSTP ever thank you.
Dutch courage? Either way, best episode ever, please get him back on!
Love him, he's a brilliant stand up if you haven't seen him
You should get Mark Lamarr on.
Just Lamarr and Munnery tho.
"He was quick stew, like the wind he was, quick stew"
He come out Stew
One of the most awkward RHLSTP and yet one of the funniest at the same time. Brilliant.
Yeah,
Munnery to me, is just utterly, _genuinely_ unique, it's kinda like 'intellectual / punk-rock comedy'
Well, I never knew Simon Munnery was Alan Parker, Urban Warrior. But I do now.
"You're better than last weeks audience" I finally know where you got it from :) still watching the Fist of Fun DVDS. On series 2 the study recordings.
Actually, Bruce Forsyth used to say it on Play Your Cards Right back in the '80s.
Yes, that's what Richard tells the audience on a Fist of Fun, I should of added that.
You know he films 2 pod casts in one live show with a break, right?A lot of the laughs make more sense when you realise that.And /or I'm a stupid twat.
Absolutely wonderful
"The point is, I'm not Mark Lamaar!"
This guy is a genius at comedy :D
get Kevin Eldon on!
kev! kev! kev!
What, you mean the actor?
Still waiting
Love this. Brilliant.
This is glorious
THIS IS MY FAVOURITE ONE
I met my wife in Melbourne. I said "What you doin' 'ere?" - huh?
The joke is that instead of it being the first time you met your wife, in the joke you're pretending that you already know her but weren't expecting to meet her in Melbourne. Hope I've explained it well enough- often explaining jokes makes them not funny.
We usually say "I met my wife" to describe the FIRST time you met. The joke upends that social convention by using the word "met" as we would normally use it (i.e. "I met Mr Bowler the butcher in The Red Lion"). So, "I met my wife in Melbourne. I said "What are you doing here?!"" becomes the story of a man meeting in his wife, presumably of many years, in an unusual place, the happenstance of which suggests a highly dysfunctional relationship. Pull back and reveal, innit.
Thanks for the replies. Ah Jaysus. Can't believe I needed an explanation.
my fave so far - blokes a genius - simon that is :-)
Rich is just happy his hair isn't quite as grey as it could be 😋
Love him! Have him on again!
Pretty weird and awkward. I loved The League Against Tedium, but I was slightly taken aback to see someone so obviously pissed on the podcast - I guess that that's the beauty of it - it's unfiltered. Sometimes you get a combative show, like Steve Merchant, sometimes you get a love in, sometimes you get a confession about suicide, sometimes you get a great comedian who's had a few too many...
Rich's shows just keep on getting better and better. This is one of the best episodes so far. Its about time this show was on the telly!
Brilliant!
Really good!!!
Clicked like before watching. I merely assumed it'll be another belter.
Watching this in 2024, not sure if I remembered Munnery's early computer game stardom, but my first ever computer was a VIC-20 and Jeff Minter was a god amongst Llamas (and Camels, and Sheep) at the time. Was he really pissed or is he always like that? Anyway, very entertaining ep from years back.
I actually bought Bugbyte Asteroids and it was terrible, cost £7. Met him 20 years ago but I didn't know it at the time. He's obviously drinking way too much, common problem for comics.
This is just fucking brilliant.
get richard ayoade.. .plz it is very important to me
Been stated that Ayoade isn't comfortable in interviews. Richard has asked, according to his (many) replies to this question. I'd love to see him as well, just to hear his normal voice for around an hour if nothing else.
I love this show but I don't want to pay for it because it makes me feel dirty when I pay for things I love.
I feel this should be subtitled 'Simon Munnery: A cry for help'
Colm Dunne he's sounding alcoholic here. He wasn't like this before. Don't spose it's much fun having that damaged arm, poor bloke. Met him once, very nervy character
@@pigknickers2975 he's not an alcoholic, I've seen him twice and he wasn't drunk, as a rule alcoholic comedians are usually drunk on stage
Good stuff
I love Steve Runnery
_"I've had enough now...."_ > > > 😐 1:05:00
🤣 🤣 Brilliant exit.
Anarchic drunken, tangential brilliance. Cheers.
*Definitely* one of RHLSP's best, for me! 😹_👍
- I SO wish that someone had properly video'd those many long-ago-and-forever-gone nights at the *Cluub Zarathustra* - each one its own unique, anarchic comedy experience! \😓/
And,
you'd think. particularly given Si's early background in 1980s computing etc, that *The League Against Tedium* (multi-media comedy thing Munnery did back in the day)
would fit just perfectly into some kind of latter-day online experience, with like a surreal TLAT app (or somesuch, idk)
The WWW. just seems to me like _such a natural fit_ for Munnery's selfmade pre-net multi-image-interactive comedy format!
10/10
Hahaha amazing
Rich interviews Rowley Birkin
Simo! Pay attention! North Wales soon? Taaaa x
Sadowicz would be interesting to say the least.
Ra-Hell-Esta-Pah! Ra-Hell-Esta-Pah! (Yes, I'm a cool kid)
Simply Brilliant!
Any chance of getting Joe Wilkinson or Sean Lock or Mark Heap?
Just the right side of drunk...
Greatest punchline to a story 26:30
Non dining restaurant. Brilliant
Still remember Alan Parker getting heckled by two children at Glastonbury
Ended up dropping out of character and giving them a fiver to bugger off.
I was one of those little scallywags! I can vaguely remember doing the same to the next few acts, expecting them all to pay me off, and getting livid when they didn't. Used to love heckling comedians at the comedy and cabaret tents at Glastonbury. If I met my younger self now I'd want to clip him on the ear but just quietly fume away instead as I'm too liberal to hit a child, even if it's me. Still, I am proud of this lightning quick response during, I think, a Sadowitz set: "Now, pretend this apple is a grenade---" "GRENADEY SMITH!"
So you did - Phil Kaye was so 'wired' he seemed to think you were part of his hallucination.
Happy days
May I ask what year this was? Was it '92? (my memories of the time are.... modestly squishy)
1995 year after the pyramid burned down.
Thanks Sam, hope life is good, out in your little 'country escape' cabin.... ;)
I DO remember the fire : Thing with that era Glasto - they've all blended together somewhat... (not that that's so bad a fate)
- that's about the time when the travellers had their own parallel 'free festival' just outside the walls, eh?
Tommy Cooper meets Dada
prelude to the comedian wwe
I thought I couldn’t like him anymore until he mentioned that he broke the leg of a celebrity Arsenal supporter.
I am genuinely surprised that this ran to over an hour
Marvellous - Tommy Cooper lives
I like the bit where he mumbles...
Take it easy Rich!
Farage in the garage, ha
I wish either/or still existed. many years ago comedy actually got a chance
Get Mark Lamarr on Richard
Yeah, what happened to Lamarr?
I'm guessing he's a radio DJ now, in some capacity somewhere.
Bill Nighy has let himself go.
whats wrong with simon's right hand?
You're the one of eight who pull focus
Left hand- he has nerve damage affecting his left arm apparently.
Brain Stormer. awww poor guy. i only noticed it when watching this video.
In terms of energy this is the exact opposite of the brian blessed episode
I found this really difficult to listen to. Simon's enunciation was so frustrating. Working class Rowley Birkin.
I was caught in that place where it was impossible to tell if his interstitial speech was noise & wordless mumbles or he was actually saying words that I couldn't understand. Very slurry, like he'd had a stroke.
I'm going to have to try again with this one and make sure I'm somewhere quiet.
He's drunk in this
Drunk!
Bbbbut I just got home from work, in Fleet....
Is he pissed or is he always like this?
timcritt Both! And neither!
I got the impression he wasn't as pissed as he was pretending to be - near the end sometimes he was slurring and sometimes as sharp as a knife- I thought his mind was working very clearly and he was winding R.Herring up.
I wish Simon Munnery didn’t keep interrupting himself all through the interview
62:00 A vein man
Who's that? Artery-Man's sidekick?
this is the first RHLSTP that i've had to turn off....his slurring is tiresome, he's possibly a better storyteller without a drink, but i doubt it.
why does RH laugh at the very beginning when nothing is funny? weird. i think hes a deeply insecure man
To bury deep into your mind. Then he feeds off your reaction. At a guess.
lol doubt it
Yeah I think he is.
He just wants to be on the telly.
I think he's a shallowly insecure man.
Was looking forward to this one but it's crap. He's drunk and boring.
I thought it was a brilliant one
Pish.
I presume he did after going backstage.
Didn’t he used to do a thing called The League Against Tedium?