Episode | Guest | Guest Best Known |
1 | Tim Minchin | N/A |
2 | Jonathan Ross | As the showbiz dad that most fathers identified with in 2004. |
3 | Francesca Martinez | N/A |
4 | Charlie Higson | As a Chortle Internet Comedy nominee. (RH won.) |
5 | Charlie Brooker | Contributed to the 1980’s magazine Oink. |
6 | Nick Frost | For Man Stroke Woman. He was in Casualty, before he was an actor, playing the character Fatso. |
7 | David Baddiel | As the 6th sexiest Jew. |
8 | Stewart Lee | As the star of BSkyB’s Up Your News. |
9 | Graham Linehan & Armando Iannucci | GL: He was that Irish bloke in Alan Partridge. AI: As the script editor from Radio 4’s The End of the Road Show. |
10 | Rob Delaney | N/A |
11 | Steve Pemberton & Reece Shearsmith | SP: As the vicar in Mr. Bean’s Holiday. RS: As Davey in Henry IV, Part 2. |
12 | Peter Serafinowicz | As the second henchman in the ITV movie of Jack and the Beanstalk. |
13 | David Mitchell | As Mitch from Phineas and Ferb. |
14 | Dave Gorman | As the presenter of The Top of the Form Story. |
15 | Adam Buxton | As Barry in Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased). |
16 | Russell Howard | As the second funniest person in the Radio 4 panel show Banter. He’s the second funniest person from the west country with the initials RH. |
17 | Chris Addison | His appearance in the television show Dot Comedy. |
18 | Stephen Fry | As the judge from Spice World, and of course Armitage Blair from Woof! |
19 | Mary Beard | As the best-known classicist in the country. |
20 | John Lloyd | For writing two episodes of Dr. Snuggles. |
21 | Russell Brand | As the Earth Guardian in Robbie the Reindeer: Close Encounters of the Herd Kind. |
22 | Edgar Wright | As the Deep Thought Technician in the disappointing Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy movie. |
23 | Mark Thomas | From Saturday Zoo. |
24 | Isy Suttie | For her appearance on Improvisation, My Dear Mark Watson. |
25 | Sean Hughes | Played the tapir in Robbie the Reindeer: Close Encounters of the Herd Kind. |
26 | Shappi Khorsandi | For her appearance on Nevermind the Fullstops. |
27 | Rufus Hound | As the narrator of Gladiators Ready! – The Gladiators Story. |
28 | Miranda Hart | As Mrs. Lily Lemon from Hotel Trouble. |
29 | Miles Jupp | As the weatherman who appears in the TV in a back-shot of one of the Harry Potter films – Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. He was also a shoe salesman in Revolver. |
30 | Dara Ó Briain | For appearing in the panel show Don’t Feed the Gondolas. |
31 | Ross Noble | For his work on I Love 1981 and I Love 1982, but not I Love 1983. Once Andrew Collins became involved he’d had enough. |
32 | Simon Pegg | For his appearance in Six Pairs of Pants. |
33 | Stephen Merchant | As Man with Broken Leg in Run Fat Boy Run. He was a CTU staffer in 24. |
34 | Adam Buxton | For appearing on Richard Herring’s Leicester Square Theatre Podcast, although only on audio. |
35 | Jenny Eclair | From appearing in the film In the House with Cleopatra & Friends, which I believe starred the pop group Cleopatra. |
36 | Helen & Olly | HZ: For writing the index of a book about the Marylebone Cricket Club. OM: For being the gadget correspondent of British Forces News. They have both written for Keith Lemon’s Lemonade. |
37 | Robert Llewellyn | As the Tory candidate from Birds of a Feather. |
38 | Alexei Sayle | As BacBac from the TV series Arabian Nights. |
39 | Greg Davies | As Hercules in Nelly Nut Live! Also best known for playing W. G. Grace in the ads for Channel 4’s short-lived coverage of the Ashes. |
40 | Danny Baker | As being the host of Sitcom Showdown, the 5-episode U.K. gold. He was also in the film Wimbledon. Probably just his voice, I’m guessing but I could be wrong. |
41 | Josie Long | Her work on GCSE Bitesize History. Or possibly you’ll know her from Improvisation, My Dear Mark Watson. |
42 | Harry Shearer | As the character Murray Sports in The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh. |
43 | Susan Calman | As the Sandwich Lady on Danny’s House. Although of course she was a Woman on a Bus in the TV series Legit. |
44 | Jon Ronson | Because he was the manager of the 1980’s indie band Man from Del Monte. |
45 | Nick Helm | From appearing in an Ikea advert in Poland. But he is also Ringer in The Day They Came to Suck Out Our Brains. |
Machynlleth Special | Mike Wozniak | As Greg Collitt in Tits. |
46 | Katherine Ryan | As the Saleswoman in Don’t Buy It. She was also the Tourist Woman in Count Arthur Strong. |
47 | Mark Gatiss | He played Jeremy in Sex Lives of the Potato Men. He is also best known as the voice of Greg Evigan from This Morning With Richard Not Judy. |
48 | Brendon Burns | As the voice of Tud in One Star, which I’m guessing is a show about the best review he ever got. He’s also best known, of course, for being in Spics and Specs, which sounds a lot more offensive than it actually is. |
49 | James Acaster | For his appearance in Spics and Specs. |
50 | Steve Coogan | As Tommy from The Indian in [the] Cupboard. You’ll remember him from the funny impressions he did in the WHSmith’s advert in about 1990. |
51 | Sara Pascoe | As playing the General Public in Hallo Panda. |
52 | Sarah Millican | For her three appearances on Richard Herring’s Edinburgh Fringe Podcast. |
53 | Rebecca Front | Being Amanda Snell in the fantastic ITV show You Can Choose Your Friends and Vicky Jackson in Time Gentlemen Please. She was in [unintelligible] and Fist of Fun. She was also the host of Rule of Three, a quiz show that I wrote for that never made it to series. And was in Shush, a library sitcom that I script edited that never made it to series. All of those famous things have a connection with me. |
54 | Josh Widdicome | For his appearance on Sunday Side Up. |
55 | Andy Zaltzman | For his appearance in episode 5 of Nevermind the Fullstops. Not Nevermind the Buzzcocks, Nevermind the Fullstops – the grammar-based quiz show hosted by Julian Fellowes, who went on to write Downton Abbey. |
56 | Richard Osman | As Heat magazine’s Weird Crush of the Year, 2011. |
57 | Michael Legge | For doing the warm-up on 8 Out of 10 Cats. He was also in the film Angela’s Ashes. |
58 | Milton Jones | In the 1990’s late-night sketch show Planet Mirth, a show so popular that they kept moving it around in the schedules to give the other sketch shows a chance. Put it on at 3:00 in the morning on ITV. |
59 | Victoria Coren Mitchell | For appearing on I Love 1980, also I Love 1988, but none of the other 1980 shows. |
60 | Sue Perkins | The voice from Don’t Scare the Hare. She was also of course in Live from the Lighthouse and Nevermind the Fullstops. |
61 | Ben Goldacre | Christmas cake’s Ben Goldacre. |
62 | Paul Putner & Trevor Lock | TL: As Charlie the Medic from Time Gentlemen Please. He also played Ian Snell in Excavating Rita. PP: From the ragu advert. |
63 | Stewart Lee | From the BSkyB News and for being Pliny in This Morning With Richard Not Judy. |
RHLSTPBATSSII | Sofie Hagen | From appearing on Alan Davies’s Après-Ski. |
64 | Bob Mortimer | As the host of the Radio 4 pilot Bob Says Who from about 1992. With script written by Richard Herring and Stewart Lee. |
65 | Lou Sanders | As the Suicide Pact Lady in Rest Stop. |
66 | Emma Kennedy | For her work on the seminal ITV stand up and sketch show Planet Mirth. |
67 | Romesh Ranganathan | For his appearance on 50 Greatest Plastic Surgery Shockers. |
68 | Robert Webb | Graham from Meaningful Sex. He was also Arvo in My Family. |
69 | Louis Theroux | As the Park Ranger in the film Take a Peek. |
70 | Roisin Conaty | For her appearance in The Angina Monologues. |
71 | Johnny Vegas | As Gully Sutherland from Tipping the Velvet. |
72 | Mark Watson | For the show Improvisation, My Dear Mark Watson. |
73 | Robin Ince | As one of the writers of the film Razzle Dazzle. |
74 | Rob Delaney & Sharon Horgan | SH: As Miscellaneous in Shoreditch Twat. RD: For appearing on Richard Herring’s Leicester Square Theatre Podcast. |
75 | Jessica Hynes | As Gail in Pudsey the Dog: The Movie. |
76 | Bridget Christie | She was on the all-new Celebrity Squares. |
77 | Brett Goldstein | For his appearance on Weekend Kitchen with Waitrose. |
78 | Paul Sinha | For coming 4th on proper Mastermind. |
79 | Al Murray | As the man who was visited by the urban men on the 1990’s TV show Fist of Fun. |
80 | Limmy | For this part of Zack Eastwood in Consolevania. |
81 | Joe Lycett | As being the Strange Man on the show Epic Win. |
82 | Stuart Goldsmith | As Caleb in CBBC’s Mission: 2110. |
83 | Diane Morgan | As Various from Robert’s Web. |
84 | Lee Mack | As the host of Gas. |
85 | Janey Godley | As Maris MacKinnon from River City. |
86 | Robert Popper | As the assistant to the director from The Glam Metal Detectives. And he’s also best known as being Not Janine in Hot Fuzz. |
87 | Luisa Omielan | As Samira from Crackanory. |
88 | John Finnemore | As the Narrator of the Dave programme 24 Hours to Go Broke. |
89 | Sarah Kendall | For her appearance on the sketch show Beehive. |
90 | Eddie Izzard | For his role of Reepicheep in The Chronicles of Narnia. |
91 | Phill Jupitus | As Tommo Thompson from Mike Bassett: England Manager. |
92 | Jack Whitehall | As Ben Wiston from Noah’s Ark. |
93 | John Robins | For his instructional Internet-only video for the Carling beer home draught system. |
94 | David Mitchell | For his appearance on Richard Herring’s Leicester Square Theatre Podcast. |
95 | Hal Cruttenden | He was, of course, a schoolboy in A Married Man. He was Young Hugh in Mrs. Dalloway, a proper film. And, of course, he was the Bearded Applicant in Shackleton. |
96 | Scroobius Pip | For his appearance on the short films The Corner Boys. |
97 | Aisling Bea | You know her as Amelia Warner from Holby City, or maybe as one of the panelists from the Radio Scotland quiz show Bad Language, hosted by Richard Herring. They actually went to TV but I am not in the TV version. |
98 | Ray Peacock | As Billy Taft from Doctors. |
99 | Cariad Lloyd | For appearing in Hallo Panda. |
100 | Richard Bacon | For his work on Behind the Scenes of Topless Dance on Ice on ITV. |
101 | Iain Lee | For the Channel 5 show Cats Make You Laugh at Loud. |
102 | Tony Law | For his weekly appearance on the quiz show Does Doug Know? With the woman off the 11 O’Clock Show. |
103 | Lauren Laverne | As the Narrator of 99 Ways to Lose Your Virginity. |
104 | Ben Bailey Smith | As Pithy Nom de Plume from Little Howard’s Big Question. |
105 | Marcus Brigstocke | From the TV show I Love Muppets. You may also have seen him on Hole in the Wall. |
106 | David Cross | As Dog 2 in Dr. Doolittle 2. |
107 | Vic Reeves | On the Virgin Atlantic Airlines’ onboard safety video. |
108 | Susie Dent | For her appearance on Nevermind the Fullstops. |
109 | Nish Kumar | For his appearance on Alan Carr’s New Year Specstacular. |
110 | Matthew Crosby | For being in the 1979 series Chopper Squad, which was a year before he was born. |
111 | Graham Linehan | As Gendarme 1 in Paris. |
112 | Sofie Hagen | For her appearance on Aftenshowet. She was also in – not a proper RHLSTP – the one we did in Slough, which you probably didn’t listen to, which is probably lucky because we’re going to talk about all the same things again. |
113 | Russell Kane | For his appearance on All Star Family Fortunes. |
114 | Tim Minchin | For his appearance in Ruth Jones’ Easter Treat. He was also, of course, as Tom in Two Fists, One Heart. |
115 | Tom Parry | From his writing work on Great Movie Mistake 2: The Sequel. |
116 | Elis James | For his appearance on 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Deal Or No Deal. |
Great Yorkshire Fringe Special | Dave Taylor | For the IT work he did in Warrington. |
Great Yorkshire Fringe Special | Mark Addy | For his appearance as DC Newley in Ghostbusters of East Finchley. |
Podcast Festival Extra | Dan Schreiber | As the executive producer of A Kitten for Hitler. |
117 | Armando Iannucci | He was the former classical music columnist for Gramaphone Magazine. |
118 | Hans Teeuwen | As Hartslag from Op leven en dood. |
119 | Dane Baptiste | For his appearance on Celebrity Squares. |
120 | Caitlin Moran | From being a guest on Página 2. But she was also on Sunday Brunch in 2012. |
121 | Will Smith | For playing Piers in Time Gentlemen Please. Also, playing Piers in the short film Womble. |
122 | Tony Robinson | As Titch from Big Jim and the Figaro Club. |
123 | Kerry Godliman | For her appearance as Emma in the hit short film Hard To Swallow. |
124 | Chris Addison | For being on Richard Herring’s Leicester Square Theatre Podcast. He’s probably actually best known for being a man who can be seen in the audience for the TV taping of Are You Dave Gorman? in 2003. |
125 | Ed Gamble | As the Young Man from Shih Tzu Bingo. |
126 | Deborah Frances-White | As the Party Guest in Lipstikka. |
127 | Dawn French | As Pongwiffy from Pongwiffy. She was also Mrs. Beaver in the The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. And, of course, the Baker’s Wife in The Adventures of Pinocchio. |
128 | Tom Davis | As Barry Gale from Southampton Football Club’s new kit promotion video series. |
129 | Susan Calman | For her appearance and – I think – narration of the show Disaster Chefs. Though you’ll also recognize her from Don’t Drop the Baton. |
130 | Jess Thom | For her appearance on Russell Howard’s Good News. |
131 | Sarah Millican | For her work as a runner on the TV show Our Friends in the North. |
132 | Simon Munnery | For his appearance in The Dumb Show, the 1992 Edinburgh show. |
133 | Lucy Porter | For her appearance on Clive Dunn: A Tribute. |
134 | Peter Serafinowicz | As the voice of Jacques Chirac from Spitting Image. |
Wells Comedy Festival | Bec Hill | As Additional Voices in the Mass Effect: Andromeda video game. |
135 | Paul Merton | As a panelist on the panel show Scruples from 1998. |
136 | Joe Thomas | As Paroles in All’s Well That Ends Well‘s 2004 Edinburgh Fringe student production. That’s a Shakespeare play. He was also in two episodes of Sunday Brunch. |
137 | Jessica Knappett | As the floor runner on Mischief Night. |
138 | Adam Buxton | As Louise from Takeover TV. |
139 | Zoe Lyons | For being in the pilot episode on Sky TV of Street Cred Sudoku. |
140 | Andrew Collins | For so many things. I don’t think I’ve ever had a guest known for so many things he’s best known for. It was so difficult to choose what he’s best known for. He’s obviously best known for being in every episode of I Love the 1980’s. He’s also of course best known as being the script editor of The Persuasionists, the BBC 2 sitcom. |
141 | David Baddiel | As playing the character Marc Alann in This Morning With Richard Not Judy. No memory of that at all. |
Great Yorkshire Fringe Special | Rahul Kohli | For being confused with the bloke from iZombie, who has the same name as him, and in fact when I got his name through I thought, Brilliant, that was a surprise. |
Great Yorkshire Fringe Special | Martin Barrass | For playing Graveney in Dramarama. |
142 | Brendon Burns & Craig Quartermaine | BB: For playing Gordon Irwin in the film Peacock Season. CQ: For making the Raw Comedy Final and literally doing nothing else. |
143 | Dan Skinner | For being Morton Frog on The Pinky and Perky Show revamp in 2008. |
144 | Katy Brand | For being the production assistant on Stakeout. |
145 | Julian Clary | For Let’s Do Lunch with Gino & Mel. He was a guest on that. |
146 | Limmy | As the Cockney in Pompidou. |
147 | Arthur Smith | As the Milkman from Filthy Rich & Catflap. |
148 | Robert Webb | As Maurice Wigglethorpe-Throom from the comparethemarket.com advert. |
149 | Ed Byrne | Another person who’s best known for his appearance on Street Cred Sudoku. |
150 | Sara Pascoe | For her appearance on The Nightly Show with Bradley Walsh. |
151 | Ellie Taylor | For the advert for Matalan dressing gowns. |
152 | Armando Iannucci | For his appearance on Comic Relief Does University Challenge. |
153 | Rachel Parris | As Chrissy the Unemployed Bee in Revolting and the Woman in Café in Count Arthur Strong. |
154 | John Moloney | From his appearance on the Die Harald Schmidt Show. |
155 | Jan Ravens | For playing the seductive voice of a can of apple Tango. |
156 | Ed Miliband & Geoff Lloyd | EM: The Chairman of Her Majesty’s Treasury’s Council of Economic Advisers. GL: As the Safe Word of Collings and Herrin in the Collings and Herring Podcast. |
157 | Greg Jenner | As the assistant producer of The Saint & the Hanged Man. |
158 | Simon Brodkin | For his appearance in The Morning After Show, which was a pretty bad This Morning with Richard Not Judy knock-off. |
159 | Richard Osman | As the executive producer of Ban This Film. |
160 | Reginald D. Hunter | As DJ Resplendent from Trexx and Flipside. He’s also, of course, in Channel 4’s Does Doug Know? |
161 | Johann Hari | For his appearance on I Love Celebrity Big Brother. |
162 | Katy Wix | For her appearance on Dick and Dom’s Funny Business, and there is no business funnier than Dick and Dom’s funny business. |
163 | Paul Chowdhry | As Henry in Swinging with the Finkels – yes – which is a major motion picture, so don’t you laugh at that. |
164 | Dave Gorman | For his appearance on episode 14 of Richard Herring’s Leicester Square Theatre Podcast. He was also a team captain on What the Dickens. |
165 | Kathy Burke | For her non-speaking role in a public information film about heroin addiction – citation needed. |
166 | Adam Kay | As the script associate on three episodes of the Very British Problems TV show, based on the Twitter feed “Very British Problems”. And sadly that is true. He also wrote one full episode himself. |
167 | John Robins & Elis James | For their two separate appearances on Richard Herring’s Leicester Square Theatre Podcast. |
168 | Danielle Ward | As the programme associate on one episode of Harry Hill’s TV Burp. |
169 | Trev & Simon | From their 60-second appearance on Comedy Rush at the Shaftesbury Theatre. |
170 | Jess Phillips | For serving on the West Midland’s Police and Crime Force. I don’t know if that’s what the last word says. |
171 | Mackenzie Crook | As the Man in The Man Who Fell In Love With a Traffic Cone. |
172 | All Killa No Filla | RF: For her appearance on Gary Delaney’s Panelbeaters. KPM: For her appearance on Dan Nightingale’s In the House Podcast. |
173 | Katherine Ryan | From her appearance on Tipping Point Lucky Stars. |
174 | Peter Baynham | As the man from the Pot Noodle advert. Though before that he did he was one of the writers on the Radio 4 pilot, [unclear]. |
175 | Brian Blessed | As Brod in Survivors. |
176 | Pippa Evans | For her appearance on Finders Keepers – that is not the Richard Stilgoe version that I remember. |
177 | Maria Bamford | She was the fiddler on one episode of Mystery Science 3000; we all remember that. She was also Button in Charlotte’s Web 2: Wilbur’s Great Adventure, which must be good because Charlotte died in the first film. |
178 | Sophie Willan | For doing a dance herself, in front of Rylan from The X-Factor on the TV show Up Late With Rylan. |
179 | Desiree Burch | For appearing on the show When Gameshows Go Horribly Wrong. |
180 | Al Murray | For his appearance on Dick & Dom in da Bungalow. |
181 | My Dad Wrote a Porno | AL: As the Narrator of Crazy Beaches. JC: As being a 19th-century shoe merchant who built James Cooper House. JM: As the son of Rocky Flintstone. |
182 | Mark Steel | As Ski Man from the “Timeslides” episode of Red Dwarf. And also he is the only semi-professional Andrew Collins look-alike working in the country today. |
Machynlleth Special | Jessica Fostekew | As the Woman in Timeholes. |
Machynlleth Special | Holly Burn | For playing a giant lobster in Harry Hill’s Tea Time. |
183 | Jonathan Ames | As the writer of the essay I Shit My Pants in the South of France. |
184 | Alex Horne | As the writer on The Games That Time Forgot: Cricket on Horseback and Other Forgotten Sports. |
185 | Ross Noble | For his appearance on It’s a Date, in which he had a date with Harold Bishop from Neighbours. |
Manchester Special | Toby Hadoke | For playing the character Alphonso Decker in Holby City. |
186 | Lou Sanders | For her appearance on the Richard Herring Fubar Radio show. |
Manchester Special | Glenn Wool | For his appearance in Lottie Bearshout ‘Good as Goaled’. Though he also played Glenn Wool in the short film The Brothel. |
187 | Alice Lowe | As Woman on Bench in Little Britain. Though you may also know her as Mother on Bench from the next episode of Little Britain. |
188 | Jess Robinson | For the portrayal of Smartysaurus in Noddy, Toyland Detective. |
189 | Drunk Women Solving Crime | CW: From her appearance – a very fabulous experience – on Pointless Celebrities. HG: As the writer of two episodes of Justin’s House. TG: As Lieutenant Davis in Brennan’s Sacrament. |
190 | Greg Davies | As Balloon Man in Teen Titans Go! To the Movies. |
191 | Rose Matafeo | For playing Detective Tickleberry in Crumbs. |
192 | Nish Kumar | Is probably best known for his appearance in Frost/Nixon,though you may know him from Word of the Year 2017. |
193 | James O’Brien | For his appearance on Red Dwarf: A-Z. |
194 | Amanda Abbington | Is well known from her not-yet-broadcasted appearance on Celebrity Games Night. She’s also Gwen from Dinopaws, which some of the dads and mums will have seen. |
195 | Joe Lycett | As Bungle – not what you’re thinking – it’s in Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps, 2002. Could that be him for real? |
196 | Fingers on Buzzers | LP: As the woman who bought the fridge in Being Sold. JR: For doing question verification on one episode of It’s Not What You Know. |
197 | Rick Edwards | You’ll know him from Doctor Who Live: The Afterparty and you’ll also know him from Hollyoaks, in which he played himself, which given those are the only two things he’s done that must have been confusing for the viewers. |
198 | Sanjeev Bhaskar | As Rodger Splodger in Grandpa in My Pocket. |
199 | Terry Hall | For appearing for two seconds on the Madness video for Driving in My Car. |
200 | Adam Buxton | As the second-best podcast involving a man walking a dog around a field. |
201 | Sathnam Sanghera | For being the News Bunny on L!VE TV. |
Slapstick Festival Special | Tim Vine | For being Eric in Jetpac Willy. |
Slapstick Festival Special | Damon Beesley & Joe Thomas | DB: As the assistant producer of two episodes of The 11 O’Clock Show. JT: Was Tom from Straw Donkeys. |
Slapstick Festival Special | The Goodies | GG: For being Man Who Walks to the Phone in Whoops Apocalypse. TBT: Robin from Roland Rat. BO: The host of the Saturday Banana. |
202 | Jon Ronson | For being in the audience for the Maria Bamford RHLSTP but nobody knew he was there except for me. But I actually saw just now he was also in – you’ll know him from Kidneys for Jesus. |
203 | Emily Atack | For portraying Slimer in The Keith and Paddy Picture Show, which is my favourite television programme. |
204 | Rob Brydon | For appearing on the Gus Honeybun Birthdays on Westward TV when he was two years-old. He was also in – you might be here because – he was the Man in Crowd in First Knight. You might not know, but he was the First Villager in A Knight’s Tale as well. He loves being a villager in knight-based films. |
205 | David Morrissey | For his role – this was really difficult because everything he’s done is really good. There’s that one thing that I want to talk to him about later. He’s probably best known for playing Little John in the wrong 1991 film of Robin Hood. |
206 | Peter Lord | For his additional voices in the film The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! |
207 | Kerry Howard | As the Party Girl in Peacock Season, the Richard Herring vehicle that you may be aware of. |
208 | James Acaster | For being William Strawberry, the drummer of the Capri-Sun Quartet. |
209 | London Hughes | For being the Woman in the Sex Shop in Fleabag. Come on, that’s a pretty good credit. |
210 | Suzi Ruffell | For being on the poster of the Richard Herring show What Is Love Anyway? That is why we’re all here. She’s one of the female scientists taking out my heart on the poster. |
211 | Joel Dommett | For being on Celebrity Lego Masters at Christmas. |
212 | Matt Forde | As the Pundit on Black Mirror, episode “Hated in the Nation.” |
213 | Les Dennis | From his appearance as an audience member at the British Soap Awards in 2014. He’s also known for hosting quite a famous game show – The Grid – I don’t know if you remember that from Channel 5. We all love The Grid. |
214 | Matt Lucas | For being a crowd member in the Vindaloo video. Remember that Vindaloo with Keith Allen? He was also Sir Oswald in Plunkett & Macleane. |
215 | Rosie Jones | As Christine White on Doctors, the daytime soap. |
216 | Tiff Stevenson | As Montana Mounds in Footballers Wive$ TV. |
217 | Adrian Chiles | As the sex party host in Sex Lives of the Potato Men. |
218 | Nicholas Parsons | Playing the Mayor in Bodger and Badger. |
219 | Do the Right Thing | DW: For writing additional material in one episode of Not Going Out. ML: For filling in for me in the Collings and Herrin 6 Music Show and appearing on this podcast once before when we couldn’t get a proper guest to turn up. MCS: For being the voice of a toilet on Things Talk. |
Long Division Festival Special | Kay Mellor | As the story editor of episode 100 of Albion Market. |
220 | Alice Roberts | For her thesis, Rotator cuff disease in humans and apes : a palaeopathological and evolutionary perspective on shoulder pathology. |
Long Division Festival Special | Rob Rouse | As Windy in The Day They Came Back to Suck Out Our Brains! |
221 | No Such Thing As A Fish | JH: As the person who did additional questions on one episode of Only Connect. AHM: As the writer of one episode of Newzoids. AP: As someone who appeared briefly in one episode of QI, bringing Sandi Toksvig a card or something. DS: As the producer of A Kitten for Hitler. I’m guessing I might have done that one last time he was on, so he is also the executive coordinator of one episode of Ghost Intervention. Together they are best known as the two-time Chortle Internet award winners. |
Great Yorkshire Fringe Special | Rebecca Callard | As the narrator of Greggs: More Than Meats the Pie. That is “meat” spelled m-e-a-t-s. |
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Special | Laura Lexx | For her part as Cass in Flamingo Close: Cass. |
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Special | Tony Law | For appearing in the adverts for Gala Bingo. |
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Special | Lucy Beaumont | For her performance as Sharon Starr in Doctors. |
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Special | Scummy Mummies | For the work they have done with Kleenex. And so am I. |
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Special | Jena Friedman | JR: For playing Katie in Carpeted Afterhours. |
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Special | Phil Wang | For his appearance on the 50 Funniest Moments of 2014. |
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Special | Sophie Duker | For being a second unit director on Balsa Wood. |
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Special | Vikki Stone | For her appearance on Britain’s Favourite Crisps. |
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Special | Jayde Adams | For being the make-up artist on Hunka Wunda. That’s why we’re here today. And she was also the still photographer on that as well. You may not know that; that’s something she keeps secret. She’s a woman of many talents. |
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Special | David O’Doherty | For his hit song Orange, which made number 30 in the Irish charts. |
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Special | Snjólaug Lúðvíksdóttir | For her appearance on the The Roast of Helgi Steinar. And I’ll tell you, it’s about time someone took him or her down, whoever that is. They’ve been asking for it. |
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Special | John Robins | For being the warm-up man for Queen on the 2014 New Year’s broadcast that they performed on. We’ll find out if Freddie Mercury was still with the band at that stage. I don’t know very much about them. |
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Special | Spencer Jones | As Dave from Hollyoaks Later. |
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Special | Janey Godley & Ashley Storrie | For being up against each other for the Herald Scottish Culture Award. But which of them was the winner and therefor the best of the two? They’re also best known for – they’re like Russian dolls. One of them came out of the other one’s vagina. During this show another one might come out of the other one’s vagina. |
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Special | Steph Tisdell | For being the winner of the Deadly Funny Grand Final, 2014. Her act killed over 500 people. But it’s alright; they were Australian so it didn’t matter. |
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Special | Jen Brister | For appearing in the play The One and the Many, by tiny-faced Trevor Lock. |
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Special | Isma Almas | For being the semi-finalist of the So You Think You’re Funny? competition, 2006. |
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Special | Tony Slattery | As the voice of the dispensing machine in Red Dwarf, in one episode. And that’s not all though. He was also Mr. French in Dodger, Bonzo & the Rest. |
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Special | Lauren Pattison | As Beth in Climaxed. |
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Special | Geoff Norcott | As one of the writers on All-Star Driving School. |
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Special | Richard Osman | For holding a Guinness World Record for naming the most countries from their capital in 30 seconds. He was also a nun in the 1960’s. |
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Special | Rob Auton | For his performance as Daniel in Everything is Like Sunday. |
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Special | Lost Voice Guy | For playing Dick Pounder in The Stagg Do. |
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Special | Bryony Kimming | For The Fanny Song. |
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Special | Arabella Weir | For being a backing singer for Bazooka Joe. Or you might know her as the Girl on Undercliff from The French Lieutenant’s Woman. |
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Special | Sunil Patel | As the Postman on Special Delivery. |
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Special | Daliso Chaponda | For his two appearances on Lorraine. |
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Special | Fern Brady | For being the Bathgate Rotary Club’s Young Musician of the Year, 2001. |
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Special | Josie Long | For her appearance on Improvisation, My Dear Mark Watson. |
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Special | Rich Wilson | For working at the bar at the Up the Creek Comedy Club. |
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Special | Sarah Kendall | For her appearance on Quote… Unquote on Radio 4, on the 21st of September, 2015. |
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Special | Sukh Ojla | For playing Renu Jussun in EastEnders. |
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Special | Tommy Tiernan | As Timmy in Angela Mooney Dies Again. |
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Special | Susan Murray | For her work as being camera assistant on Crapston Villas. |
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Special | Alice Fraser | For doing a stand-up show with a robot. At least, that is all I found and when I read that that was all I was interested in. And that is all we are going to talk about. |
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Special | George Egg | For appearing in the BBC show in 1994 called Two Golden Balls. |
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Special | Cally Beaton | For her guest appearance on Hoxton Radio. That’s right. The whole of Hoxton have heard this person. And they’re the most pretentious people in the world and they listen to the radio ironically. |
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Special | Thom Tuck | For playing Security at Skip in Drifters. |
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Special | Tom Rosenthal | For his appearance on England’s Top 53 Footie Goals. |
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Special | Flo & Joan | ND: As the composer on Christine and Christine. RD: For playing Rosie on Got Your Nose. |
Edinburgh Festival Fringe Special | John Kearns | For his role as John in Santageddon. He also has the honour of being the final guest. That is an honour that is bestowed. I bestow that honour on acts I feel are deserve it the most from their run at the Edinburgh Fringe. |
222 | Angela Barnes | For her appearance on The Body Shocking Show. |
223 | Stephen Grant | For his appearance on The Dan and Dusty Show. |
224 | Mark Charnock & Dominic Brunt | MC: As Duane from 2point4 Children. DB: As the Petrol Station Attendant from 2point4 Children. |
225 | Jimmy Cricket | For his appearance on Emu’s All Live Pink Windmill Show. |
226 | Sarah Millican | For her appearance on Richard and Judy, where Richard Madeley told her that no one had laughed at her to begin with. |
227 | Russell Howard | As the Tea Cup Sick Boy. That’s just what he was called at school. And you’re probably here because he used to play for Basingstoke Town F.C., in mid-field. |
228 | Sara Barron | For featuring repeatedly as an audience cut-away in the Jerry Springer: Too Hot for TV VHS release. |
RHLSTPGF | Siobhan McSweeney | For playing Nurse #2 in Emmerdale. |
229 | Michael Sheen | As the voice of the Ftones on Richard Herring’s Stone-Clearing with Richard Herring Podcast. |
230 | Ed Gamble | For his appearance on this series of Love Island. |
231 | Bobby Mair | As the third cousin of Justin Bieber. That is why you’re all here to see him – and you’re going to be disappointed when you see him, madam. Don’t get your hopes up; there is not much family resemblance. |
232 | Caroline Quentin | As Brenda in Dream Stuffing. She was also Norman’s Wife in Hale and Pace, of course. |
233 | Shaun Williamson | For playing a paramedic on the popular soap opera EastEnders. Sometimes people shout out in the street, “It’s the paramedic from EastEnders.” |
234 | Vic Reeves | For his appearance in the 1987 video for Shakin’ Stevens’s single, What Do You Want to Make Those Eyes At Me For?, for which he was paid £10. |
235 | Max & Ivan | MO: As the pottery teacher in Pompidou. IG: As Mustachioed John in Custom Love. |
236 | Grayson Perry | For his appearance on This Morning With Holly and Phil. |
237 | Annabel Giles | For being the narrator on Madame Tussaude’s: The Inside Story. |
238 | Ian McMillan | From his appearances on Nevermind the Fullstops. He was on twice, which is impressive. He was also, of course, the drummer in Oscar the Frog. |
239 | Simon Evans | For his portrayal of Richard Richard in The Way It Is. |
240 | Seann Walsh | For I would say a disputable Wikipedia entry saying he’s a suspected arsonist in The Bill. He also played Jesus of Nazareth in Little Crackers. |
241 | Jenny Eclair | For her performance as Hotel Worker in Auf Wiedersehen, Pet. |
242 | Graham Fellows | As the character Sinjun from the brilliant sitcom – the world’s best sitcom – Time Gentlemen Please. |
243 | Grace Petrie | For her appearance on The Chase, which is all I’m going to talk to her about. |
244 | Lucy Beaumont | For her performance as Suzy in Millie Inbetween. |
245 | Mark Olver | For his warm-up work on two episodes of For Facts Sake. That is why we’re here tonight. It’s actually quite hard to choose something for him and that almost is the best thing that he has done. |
246 | Jayde Adams | For being the only comedian in the world to play the Royal Albert Hall and my village hall on the same day. |
247 | Tape Face | For his appearance on the red carpet at the Lord of the Rings: Return of the King premiere. |
248 | Nick Frost | For his performance as Pornbroker Alan, uncredited, in Tomb Raider, the 2018 film. |
249 | Ahir Shah | As a reporter on The Premier League Show. |
250 | John Kearns | For playing Peter in The Weirdos Comedy Club reproduction of the film Hook. |
251 | Francesca Stavrakopoulou | For being the author of The Prophet Huldah and the Stuff of State. |
252 | Mike Wozniak | As the narrator in The Tale of the Upside Down Mermaid. |
253 | Dave Johns | For playing ‘Cheesy’ Alan Supple in Time Gentlemen Please. |
254 | Seymour Mace | For his role as Johnny Dee Hellfire in Zombie Women of Satan. |
255 | Robin Ince | For his being a programme associate on What’s the Problem With Ann Robinson? |
256 | Athena Kugblenu | For her appearance on Girl on Girl, which I’m guessing is not going to be what I’m hoping it is. |
257 | David Reed | For two things. He’s the second-most famous comedian who supports York City [F.C.]; and the level of the first-famous is quite low, so we don’t need to get too excited. And because he played Seb MacDonnell in Doctors. |
258 | Jon Parkin | For pooing in a bath in Magaluf. |
259 | Kate Robbins | For her portrayal of Joan in Sex Lives of the Potato Men. |
260 | Frank Cottrell-Boyce | For his role as Car Boot Dealer in Framed. |
261 | George Monbiot | For his failure to save a woodpecker when he was eight years-old. |
262 | Paul Sinha | For his appearance on Celebrity Catchphrase – surely the greatest ITV quiz show that there is, after Tipping Point obviously. |
263 | Tim Minchin | For telling students how best to live their lives while wearing a funny hat. |
264 | Sara Pascoe | She was an audience member in The Keith Barret Show. |
265 | Janice Connolly | As the occupational therapist in The Locksmith. |
266 | Bethany Black | For her appearance on The Chase, though she also played Pocahontas in No Offence, which I’m really excited about. |
267 | Rachel Parris | As the editor of India in a Day. She’s also, you’ll know her from Impossible Celebrities. |
268 | Charlie Brooker | As the pundit in the Games Republic with Trevor and Simon. |
269 | Olga Koch | For being the writer of These Women Wear Strap Ons to Work. |
270 | Konnie Huq | For her role as a schoolgirl in 2point4 Children. |
271 | Rev. Richard Coles | For his portrayal of Henry De Havilland in Holby [City]. |
272 | Steve McNeil | For being the future face of Bovril. |
273 | Fern Brady | For selecting the music for ITV programmes. |
274 | Limmy | For his Sky News tribute to Peter Stringfellow. |
275 | Michael Palin | As Gariiiiiii in Robbie the Reindeer in Close Encounters of the Herd Kind. |
276 | Aisling Bea | For her part as Elf in Inn Mates. |
277 | Adam Buxton | As the ghost of Prince Quintus in Stardust. |
278 | Michael Spicer | For his performance in The Last Seven Days of Quant. |
279 | Mark Watson | As being the engineer in The Lift. Who am I kidding? I never do the same one twice, but he is best known for his appearance as Mark Watson on Improvisation, My Dear Mark Watson. |
280 | Bill Burr | As Fitzey in Two Guys, a Girl, and a Pizza Place. |
281 | Robert Webb | As the narrator of Family Guy: Ground Breaking Gags. That’ s why we’re all here. But of course to most of us we’ll always remember him as the host of Robert’s Web, whatever else he tries to do. |
282 | Kiri Pritchard-McLean | For her appearance in the short film Hungover or Pregnant? |
283 | James Acaster | For being thanked in the credits of Tim Timinee Tim Timinee Tim Tim To You. |
284 | Richard Osman | For being a regular contributor to Turn It Up on BBC Radio Sussex. That was when he was about fifteen or sixteen years old. What’s he been up to since then? |
285 | Greg Jenner | For playing an historian in Horrible Histories: The Movie – Rotten Romans. |
286 | Lauren Pattison | For her appearance on ITV2’s The Great Christmas Rant. |
287 | Maisie Adam | For her appearance on The Chase. Not The Chase: Celebrity, whatever that one is called. The actual Chase. She was on the proper one. |
288 | Nathan Caton | For playing a compère in the television programme Casualty. |
289 | Daniel Sloss | For playing Lawrence Kirk in M.U.F.F. |
290 | Jo Caulfield | For her role as the Cloakroom Attendant in Get Real. |
291 | Bettany Hughes | For playing Maddie in Dirty Linen in the Burton Taylor rooms in 1987 at Oxford University. |
292 | Bilal Zafar | For appearing in the background of Hollyoaks – on at least three episodes of Hollyoaks. |
293 | Sophie Duker | For being in the audience of the 2016 Fringe show Come Look at the Baby. |
294 | Sindhu Vee | For playing the Chemist’s Wife in Sick Of It. |
295 | Maria Konnikova | For playing herself in a documentary called Mutant Menu. |
296 | Michael Fenton Stevens | For playing Mr. Sowergrapes on Hotel Trubble, though he was also Miles on Mike & Angelo. |
297 | Michael Ian Black | For dropping out of school to tour as a part of a two-man Mutant Ninja Turtle show in carparks and stuff. |
298 | Stevie Martin | For her appearance on So Beano. |
299 | John Kearns | For his appearance in Stand Up Hero, 2010. Series 1, episode 1, he was on. |
300 | Richard Herring (interviewed by John Robins) | For playing himself in series 1, episode 4 of Enough Rope with Andrew Denton. |
301 | Ed Gamble | For playing himself on Most Annoying People of 2010. But you’ll know him from his hilarious character Selsdon Krupp. |
302 | Nell Scovell | For writing the sitcom Three Girls and a Genie. |
303 | Arthur Mathews | For being the drummer in the Joshua Trio. |
304 | Kiell Smith-Bynoe | His appearance as the handyman in Noel Edmonds’s trailblazing game show Cheap Cheap Cheap. |
305 | Alistair Green | As the voice of the International Man in Richard Herring’s fantastic The Problem With Men book – the audiobook version; he’s not in the book. He’s not magic. But of course he was also Man on Street on series 3, episode 5 of The Mash Report. |
306 | Marek Larwood | For his portrayal of Bear in I Want My Hat Back, which is genuinely one of the best things I’ve ever seen. He was also – and I wanted to make this the thing he was best known for – he was in some kind of schools programme audio thing with me in 2004. I did talk to him about it beforehand because I couldn’t remember what it was called; and nor can he. And he had forgotten about it and I’d forgotten about it until I hear a bit of it somewhere on the radio or something. And his friend who’s a teacher told him that he was in it. And he’d forgotten it. We’d both forgotten it. |
307 | Rhod Gilbert | For being Wales’s sexiest man of 2010. |
308 | Lou Conran | For being one of the new team on the show Press Gang, one of my favourite TV shows of all time. |
309 | Alexei Sayle | As the heckler – it’s a political heckler – in a crowd in Walcott. |
310 | Catherine Bohart | For being the guest contributor on the Paper Review on talkRadio. |
311 | Nina Conti | From Channel 4’s The Feeling Nuts Comedy Night. She’s also been heralded as the UK’s second-best ventriloquist. |
312 | Dr Sophie Hay | As co-author of the paper Roman barrows and their landscape context: a GIS case study at Bartlow, Cambridgeshire. |
313 | Ashley Storrie | As the wee girl in the metal tea urn in the short film Alabama. |
314 | Danny Robins | For playing Brian O’Green on the seminal Radio 2 – I nearly said BBC 2 – Radio 2 sketch show that everyone quotes and talks about all the time, because it’s the greatest sketch show of all time: That Was Then, This Is Now. |
315 | Nish Kumar | For appearing on 50 Funniest Moments of 2013. He did so well that they asked him back for The 50 Funniest Moments of 2014, but he wasn’t as good on that so he didn’t come back for The 50 Funniest Moments of 2015. |
316 | Lou Sanders | For her appearance as a woman attempting to give oral sex to Richard Herring on As It Occurs To Me. |
317 | Iszi Lawrence | For being a producer of Rock and Roll’s Greatest Failure: Otway the Movie. |
318 | Alice Fraser | For her appearances on the “Knock Knock” episode of Whovian, which I think you probably are excited, all you Doctor Who fans out there. I don’t know what it is. |
319 | Mary Lynn Rajskub | For her appearance as an Oompa-Loompa in a community theatre production of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. |
320 | Jeremy Paxman | For being the Fishing Editor of Esquire magazine and appearing as himself in The Gay Daleks. |
321 | Brian Regan | As Wieb Lunk from the Looney Tunes Show. |
322 | John Oliver | As Dick Pants in The Love Guru. My favourite role, of course, is Felix Pardiggle in the 1985 BBC adaptation of Bleak House. |
323 | Dominik Diamond | As part of David Icke and the Orphans of Jesus. |
324 | Andi Osho | As Dr. Rogers in Footballers’ Wives: Extra Time. |
325 | Pippa Evans | As the face of Windows Live Search. |
326 | Anneka Rice | For her appearance on the television quiz show Heads or Tails. |
327 | Catie Wilkins | For her appearance on Stand-Up Hero. |
328 | Mae Martin | From her appearance on Word of the Year 2017. Though according to IMDB they were also the production assistant of Late Night with David Letterman in 1990, although that would have made them 3 years-old. |
329 | Felicity Ward | For appearing in episode 13, series 1 of the One series, Australian television show, The Squiz. |
330 | Jackie Weaver | For being the Chief Officer of the Cheshire Association of Local Councils. |
331 | Nigel Planer | For playing Laurence Didcott in the show Bonjour, la Classe. |
332 | Geoff Norcott | For his two appearances on The Dan and Dusty Show. |
333 | Sarah Kendall | For her appearance on Tractor Monkeys and she is, as you’ll know, a BAFTA Award-losing actress. |
334 | Jessie Cave | For her performance as a water nymph in the film Ink Heart. |
335 | Johnny Vegas | For playing Milky Pims in Grimsby, the least successful Sacha Baron Cohen film. |
336 | John Robins | As the host of Beat the Internet. |
337 | David Baddiel | For playing the Art Bidder in Filthy Rich & Catflap. |
338 | Isy Suttie | For playing Audition Judge in Genie in the House. |
339 | No Such Thing As A Fish | JM: For playing on the same five-a-side team as Tim Key, but forgetting him when he met him later. AHM: For his being a writer on one episode of Newzoids. AP: For her appearance on The One Show. DS: For co-hosting the cryptozoology podcast, The Cryptid Factor. NSTAAF: Together, they are best known for appearing on the hit TV show No Such Thing As the News. |
340 | Robin Askwith | For playing Ray Fay in Queen Kong. |
341 | James Acaster & Ed Gamble | JA: For playing Fizz Gambol in Grave New World. EG: For his voice-over for the Cazoo: Yeah, You Can advert. |
342 | Jay Rayner | For being Beard of the Year, 2011. |
343 | Matthew Holness | For playing Bob Fossil in The Mighty Boosh. |
344 | Stevie Martin & Tessa Coates | TC: For playing Camilla in Birds of a Feather. SM: For being Female Stevie in Peter Dibdin sketch on Twitch of Fun. |
345 | Barry Cryer | For playing a busker in Run For Your Wife; a very, very unsuccessful Danny Dyer film. |
346 | Bob Mortimer | For his appearance on Match of the Day 2. |
347 | The ParaPod | BD: As the winner of the Phones 4U Comedy. IB: For being the warm-up for the Channel 4 pilot Felix and Murdo. |
348 | David Mitchell | As Police Office Panda in Peppa Pig. |
349 | Tim Key | For his portrayal of the Toilet Attendant in The Harry Hill Movie. |
350 | Louise Wener | For playing a nagging girlfriend in a Jackie photo story. |
351 | Adam and Joe | JC: As the autograph-hunter in Notting Hill. But he was also the runner on Blue Juice. AB: For being the documentary voice-over in Attack the Block. |
352 | Katherine Ryan | For her appearance on the Canadian TV show Electric Circus. |
353 | Shaparak Khorsandi | For her appearance on Celebrity Antiques Road Trip. |
354 | Dave Gorman | For his appearance on South Today on the 8th of October, 2018. |
355 | Phil Wang | For appearing as McGockey on Top Coppers. |
356 | Ben Shephard | As the host of Who Dares, Sings! |
357 | Deborah Meaden | For her appearance in the audience of An Audience with Michael Buble. |
358 | Emma Dabiri | For her appearance on the Antiques Roadshow. |
359 | Miriam Margolyes | For her appearance on A Kick Up the Eighties. |
360 | Margaret Cabourn-Smith | For playing Chlamydia in Comedy Cuts. |
361 | Chris Lynam | For his appearance in Ohlala – Der Liebescircus. |
362 | Peter Baynham | As the traffic warden in Grimsby. |
363 | Laura Lexx | For her appearance on the Edinburgh RHLSTP in 2019. |
364 | Laura Jean Marsh | For playing Jewel Thistleton in Resting. |
365 | Gráinne Maguire | For her portrayal of Miss Gray in S-Band. |
366 | David Cross | As the voice of Ham Sandwich in Meltdown. |
367 | Ahir Shah | As Dr. Kulkarni in series 4 of Relativity. Radio 4’s – It hasn’t gone out yet, but that’s what he’s best known for. |
368 | Mark Watson | For his one appearance on Odd One In. |
369 | Jon Culshaw | For his appearance as Harry Taylor in Heartbeat. |
370 | Joz Norris | For playing Joz in Santageddon. |
371 | Rebecca Wheatley | For her appearance as Penny Latimer in A Pinch of Snuff, which sounds like it was made in the Victorian times, which it may have been. |
372 | Paul Chuckle | For his portrayal of Ronnie Hislop in Doctors. |
373 | Dr Janina Ramirez | For writing an article on the iconography of the Armarium on the Ezra Page of the Codex Amiantinus. |
374 | Charley Boorman | For his appearance on The Podge and Rodge Show. Though he was also, of course, Dungeon Master on Tucker’s Luck. |
375 | Terry Christian | For his appearance on The Podge and Rodge Show. You’ll also recognize him for a TV commercial for Auto Trader, which also featured June Whitfield. |
376 | Maria Bamford | For her portrayal as Brittany the Bankteller in the video game Escape from Monkey Island. |
377 | Jamie Demetriou | For his portrayal of Mikey Dawson in Hoff the Record. |
378 | Samira Ahmed | For her role as Juliette Destiny in Nebula-75. |
379 | Armando Iannucci | For writing on unknown episodes of Up to Something!, the 1989 sketch show starring Mike Hayley and – I think – Shane Ritchie. |
380 | Rosie Holt | For her role as Kissing Couple/Woman in Stake Out. |
381 | Deborah Frances-White | As being the writer of two episodes of Young Dracula. |
382 | Ardal O’Hanlon | As Robbie the Reindeer. He was also the Gentleman From East Chiswick in Moll Flanders. |
383 | Lazy Susan | As Steve T [FP] and Pete Lazarus [CD] from Smell Investigations. |
384 | Amy Gledhill | For playing Lindsay the Wizard in I Am Tim Helsing. |
385 | Dara Ó Briain | He’s the third guest in this series who is best known for their appearance on the Podge and Rodge Show. He was also on Lindmo, wasn’t he? |
386 | Alan Davies | For playing Phil in the film Dog Eat Dog. |
387 | Dick and Dom | DM: For their appearance in Choccywoccydoodah. DW: Although he was in Choccywoccydoodah, he’s not best known for that. He’s best known for All Star: Mr. and Mrs. |
388 | Bilal Zafar | For playing the Taco Guy in Catastrophe. |
389 | Seann Walsh | For being the associate producer of a short film about – I can’t even remember what it’s about. Hats. Is that what it says? He was also, of course… It wasn’t just that. He was also the audience wrangler on QI. |
390 | Kunt and the Gang | For being in the band Pubic Cube. |
391 | Meryl O’Rourke | For her appearance on Big Brother’s Bit On the Side. |
392 | Daliso Chaponda | For his appearance on The Wall. Not as a contestant, but as a friend of Sarah Millican and Gary Delaney. |
393 | Harriet Dyer | For her appearance on Dinner Date. |
394 | Kiri and Rachel | KPM: For her appearance on Richard Hammond’s Brain Reaction. RF: The narrator of The 30 Most Shocking TV Interviews… Ever! |
395 | Conrad Koch | For his appearance on The Dan Nicholl Show. |
396 | Vir Das | For playing Jabari in The Curse of King Tut’s Tomb. |
397 | Janey Godley | For her appearance on The 100 Greatest Christmas Moments of 2004. |
398 | Flo & Joan | As the Icelandic entry “Flo og Joan” from the Isolation Song Contest. |
399 | John Robins | For his portrayal of Jove in Funny Valentines. |
400 | Janeane Garofalo | For her appearance as Gallery Owner in Werewolf Bitches From Outer Space. |
401 | Ed Gamble | For coming in last place on Taskmaster: Champion of Champions. |
402 | Tim Key | For his portrayal of magic flute-playing monkey Timkey in the as yet unproduced cartoon series that I am going to produce if it kills me. |
403 | Sanjeev Kohli | As the presenter of 10 Things to Hate Most About the Edinburgh Festival. He’s also the voice of Tunnock’s; let’s not forget that. |
404 | Omid Djalili | For playing Guru Satchabigknoba in The Love Guru. As well as being the brownest person to appear in Notting Hill; the film Notting Hill. |
405 | Doug Stanhope | For playing the Hairy Bus in Aqua Teen Hunger Force. |
406 | Reece Shearsmith | As the additional Vogon voices in the disappointing Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy movie. |
407 | Eleanor Morton | For her appearance as the Lingerie Co-Worker in The Kronicles of Kirk. |
408 | Pierre Novellie | For playing Greg in Chubby Funny. |
409 | Sally Phillips | As the girl who smelled of spam from the TV, seminal sketch show, still celebrated today: Fist of Fun. |
410 | Bob Mortimer | As the Cockroach King. |
411 | The Socially Distant Sports Bar Podcast | MB: As Dougie in Down the Caravan. SG: As the narrator of Rocking Rugby Years. EJ: As the guitarist from the indie punk band Heck. |
412 | Sara Pascoe | For playing Glinda in The Wiz in a student theatre company. She was also – who could forget her as Janice in The Thick Of It? |
413 | Chris McCausland | For being the production assistant on Pete Smalls Is Dead; a movie starring Peter Dinklage and Steve Buscemi. |
414 | Ria Lina | For playing Perun in Xenoblade Chronicles 2. |
415 | Joe Lycett | For his appearance as Boyfriend in Neighbours. |
416 | James Acaster | For his appearance in 2014 on Big Brother’s Bit on the Side. |
417 | Anneka Rice | For her appearance on Roland Rat: The Series. |
418 | Victoria Coren Mitchell | For her appearance on Kilroy. |
419 | Philippa Perry | For her appearance on “Me, You, and Doctor Who” on The Culture Show. |
420 | Humphrey Ker | As the co-anchor of Log.tv. That’s why we’re all here. He was also an AD1 member in St Trinian’s 2: The Legend of Fritton’s Gold. |
421 | Mathew Baynton & Jim Howick | MB: As Roland in Bob the Builder. JH: As Corporal Matlin from Hellboy. |
422 | Sarah Keyworth | For her appearance on The Prickles with Tickles Show. |
423 | Rich Hall | For playing Street Punk (uncredited) in Police Academy 2. |
424 | Sikisa | For playing the Female Compère in Connie. |
425 | Paul Chowdhry | For his appearance on Celebrity Antiques [Roadtrip]. |
426 | Sophie Ellis-Bextor | For playing Rosie Jarrett in Frontiers. She was also, as many of our guests have been, in Robbie the Reindeer: Close Encounters of the Herd Kind. |
427 | Stephen Merchant | As Wheatley in Portal 2, although it turns out that is a really big deal. So he’s also known as the man with the broken leg in Run Fatboy Run. |
428 | Fern Brady | For her appearance on The Fifty Funniest Moments of 2014. |
429 | Josh Widdicombe | For being the editorial assistant on the Dora the Explorer magazine. |
430 | Tim Key | For his role as Steve in Angelo’s. |
431 | Zoe Lyons | For her appearance on Cats Make You Laugh Out Loud. She was also in The Greatest TV Christmas Ads. It was a very hard choice. |
432 | Joe Cornish | For his appearance on the Coke New Music Project – it might be Podcast – with Adam and Joe. |
433 | John Kearns | For his appearance on Top Coppers. |
434 | Nish Kumar | For the show Hello, America on Quibby. |
435 | Eshaan Akbar | For being a writer on Rob Rinder’s Good Year, Bad Year. Although he’s not just a writer, he’s also appeared in When TV Animals Go Horribly Wrong. |
436 | Al Murray | For having an honorary Doctor of Social Science from the University of Wolverhampton. |
437 | Kiell Smith-Bynoe | For playing Tarone Vincent in Death in Paradise. |
438 | Catherine Bohart | For being the writer of Revenge Prank with DJ Pauly D & Vinny. |
439 | Mark Gatiss | For his appearance as Teddy in Footballers Wives. |
440 | Jordan Gray | For her appearance on Colchester Zoo and Friends: Bringing the Zoo To You. |
441 | Suggs | As the co-presenter of Salvage Squad. |
442 | Rhys James | For his appearance on Love Island: Aftersun. Also, of course, famous for one of the many people on When News Goes Horribly Wrong. |