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#217 - With Thor Stenhaug - Hot Water’s Green Room w/Tony & Jamie

·1 hr 3 min·4 clips

Thor got a call while eating fish and chips and had to replace Gus Khan in front of 1,000 people.

The episode opens with a tour plug and a sponsor read before the chat really gets going. The guest gets dropped into a room that already sounds like it has three conversations running. The hosts ask about favourite shows, and Scotland comes up quickly. The crowd there gets praised without much ceremony. Working-class towns and cities get the same treatment. London is framed as bigger, more scattered, and less like one shared community. They move on to how long he has been on the stand-up floor. He says five years, maybe six. He started just before the pandemic, so he still has that slightly new-comic energy. The worst gig stories come next, because they always do. Norwich gets the first proper hammering. A brand-new set in a strip club, with nobody told comedy was happening, leaves him on a tiny stage while the room stares back. The crowd is made up of middle-aged men who seem more confused than impressed. The joke about him not having tits gets dragged through the mud until it becomes its own bit. Liverpool comes up too. The old Hot Water room on Hardman Street sits there like comic folklore. The conversation keeps turning these memories into bigger and uglier laughs. There is plenty of quick agreement, interruption, and instant disbelief. No one tries to make the guest sound precious or formal. He gets pulled into the same messy, crowded rhythm as the hosts. Near the end, the admin starts spilling out in the middle of the nonsense. Patreon, live shows, early access, and the tour all get shouted out in the same breath. The whole thing ends on the sort of throwaway praise this show seems happiest with.

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A loose tour chat episode with its sharpest stretch in a Norwich strip club story.

This episode settles into tour talk and crowd comparison, with a running case for working class towns over London and Scotland coming off especially well. The Norwich strip club story is the piece that sticks.

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For when you want stand-up war stories that spiral into messy comic banter.

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