BRIAN BLESSED!!!! - Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast  

Haha

Wekk to be fair, I don't think anyone ever managed to actually interview Brian Blessed...

​@@stefanejegod8644 it's true

Ian Grey I think that Richard fellow won a “fan gets to sit on the stage” type contest

you made me lol. Good on ya.

Ian Grey haaaa

"BUHBUHLUHSTUHPUH!"

The lengths some of these people will go to, just for a little publicity beggars belief.

An enagaging, interesting, hillarious, inspiring tsunami.

More like a giant hairy avalanche.

@@maxximumb HAHA!

20 seconds in and...here we go!

Or as the cool kids are calling it, Bubalistapa!

🤣🤣🤣🤣

There's even an episode where Grampa claims to have died climbing the highest mountain in Springfield. "I fell 8,000 feet onto a pile of jagged rocks. Of course, folks were tougher in those days."

Apart from he tells the truth. His autobiography is brilliant

Blessed has actually climbed mt Everest many times.

that's really funny Matty :)

Once the switch is flipped, he goes on like a Duracell bunny.

He's not a spaceman, he's a Hawkman!

He makes my 74 year old father-in-law look 174!

he got genetics to live very very long :) God bless him

Yeah but "So you haven't seen a ghost, then?" has to be one of his greatest lines!

@@Steve157Oh Could have been much, much worse. "So you've never tried to suck yourself off then Brian?'

@@Steve157Oh I just listened to this for the first time today and I spat tea everywhere at that line

@@Steve157Oh RHLSTP's equivalent of "I'll have what she's having."

That was great and I also like the bit where Brian spoke for ages, then turned to Rich and politely said "Hello," as if he'd just realised he was there. Completely brilliant.

omg are you the actual Andy McH from off of RHLSTP? Hello!

He was the ghost in Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet.

Or at least 10% of the life Brian has claimed to live!

Thanks

His life is very impressive. Has some amazing achievements. Absolute legend

He's still got to get Jerry Sadowitz; that's an even bigger challenge.

Ultimately, I _think_ Richard was as well.

@@MontyCantsin5 The Cherry on the cake. He's such a fucking purist, there's a whole generation at least, who don't know him from a hole in the ground. That just isn't right. A great man once wrote "Extraordinary fellow, like Mr Punchinello He's the kind of geezer who must never be abused When you're in town and Ebeneezer is around You can sense a presence in the sound of the crowd" and I think that could have easily been written about the great Rabbi Burns himself. Gallows humour? More like Guilletine humour. Chop, chop, chop, no head too sacred, he put the "rave" into "depraved" he didn't lower the bar, he's buried it so deep, Tony Robinson and Time Team couldn't find it. To call him "inappropriate" does him a diservice, because it suggests circumstances where he IS appropriate. Maybe if he reigned in his devoted taskforce of litigation lawyers from getting every bit of footage of him on the internet pulled, and instead, accepted Richard's invite, he could demonstrate what a real fucking comedy monster does. It's savage, it's brutal, and it's not pretty. But comedy's purpose isn't just to make us laugh. It's supposed to make us squirm, it's supposed to make us feel uncomfortable, it's supposed to address subjects so taboo, that nobody wants to look at them. Comedy has a cultural function, in that its the first way we can begin to address the horror of something like a War. WWII ended what, 70 years ago, and only recently Hitler's comedic value been embraced by mainstream comics. But Sadovitz would have been right there with the troops when those camps were liberated cracking on about how big Hitler's gas bill must have been. He would not have turned away. He would have witnessed the horror and processed it, then forced his audience to start laughing about it. Which is pretty much what he does. He's not there to entertain his audience, his audience is there for him to abuse, offend, outrage, and appall, all at such a breakneck speed, by the time you've realised what he just said, he's off on some vitriolic rant about something else. "Omg, did he really just. . . . . . " He was working on his 9/11 material before the second plane hit. He outed Rochdale's child abusing councils way back in 1988 when Cyril Smith was running things. He suggested that the best way to get to the bottom of it, was to get Jimmy Savile on the case, because "He's a fucking paedophile, who better to head up the investigation?" Which, in hindsight was pretty much what happened.

Omfg yes that's the perfect way to describe it

Maxx B Brian Blessed for Christ!

President of the Universe!

He's got my vote

Seconded!

I'm not gonna be the one to try and stop him.

id love to see someone try and stop him.

DunnCarnage I don't think we could stop him.

If anyone could herd a pissed rhino with a flyswat, Brian could.

@@smoog I believe he has done. The drunk, pregnant rhinoceros gave birth and Brian bit clean through the umbilical cord.

@@smoog He'd give it a bloody good try. And now I can't un-envision that. Brilliant.

Yep, Tom Baker would be astounding, you'll get him if Vic Reeves puts in a good word for you!!! ;-)

Watch the 1999 wine & dine interview, the "In Confidence" interview with Laurie Taylor and the Who on Earth is Tom Baker audiobook (all are on RU-vid right now). An RHLSTP interview would have a hard time topping that.

God, how amazing would a Blessed/Baker podcast be? The two of them just yammering back and forth about anything.

Love your podcasts Rich they keep me company while I'm working in the vineyard in NZ - it's like having a piece of home with me 💕tears streaming and wetting my pants from laughing 🤣🤣🤣 bloody funny!!.....Brian Blessed OMG what a crack up he's as mad as a snake 🐍

It was a "I caught my white whale" face.

He said hello. Once.

Lived and earned every story!

Why give them that pleasure? That's not a punishment.

This.

Lol