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A comedian’s week, caught before it behaves.
Justin Moorhouse records a roaming comic diary from backstage rooms, journeys, festivals, family interruptions, and odd pockets of ordinary life. The pleasure is in the detours: support acts, skiing-and-comedy travel, Glasgow train chaos, award shows, and jokes that arrive sideways.
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Justin Moorhouse About 30 Minutes No More Than 45 is a comic audio diary with scuffed shoes and a backstage pass. Justin Moorhouse carries the microphone through the working week of a comedian, catching travel, gigs, family admin, venue chatter, and whatever minor crisis has arrived first. The format is loose by design. Episodes often begin halfway through a conversation, then wobble into the official subject once the jokes have cleared a path. Austria, a skiing and comedy festival, Glasgow train trouble, Manchester, Gateshead, Dubai, Edinburgh, and petrol-station life all become usable material. The show is not trying to sound polished. Its charm sits in the restarts, interruptions, wrong turns, and affectionate complaints that make the recording feel freshly lifted from the day. Izzy Morehouse brings a family counterweight, especially when stories drift toward Glasgow, theatre logistics, football, or the habit of making everything personal. Alfie Joey adds the old-friend pressure of someone willing to argue, riff, and be dragged into bits like What’s It All About Alfie. Rachel is often present at the edge of the machinery, cueing music or silently observing while the room keeps moving. Comedy itself is a recurring subject, but usually from the practical side. Support acts, cold audiences, disposable improv, awards scripts, Edinburgh shows, and the odd status anxiety of being a working comedian all come up without turning into a lecture. The show also has a domestic streak. A coffee trailer, a 20-year-old Land Rover Defender, family catchphrases, and people pretending to listen to the podcast can become as important as a festival booking. Its irreverence is warm rather than cruel. Even the darker jokes tend to be framed as panic, embarrassment, or a blunt attempt to keep the week moving. The result is a fast, rambling, highly personal record of comic life in motion. It suits listeners who enjoy the space between the gig and the journey home. It is less a showcase than a running conversation with a comedian who keeps finding another tangent before the last one has cooled.
Made for: For listeners who like stand-up culture, backstage stories, family banter, and road-life digressions more than polished interview formats. It suits fans of quick, informal comedy with a diary feel.
What sets it apart: The show stands apart by treating the ordinary logistics of comic life as the main event: support slots, travel, illness, family interruptions, and half-formed riffs all stay in the frame. Its looseness is the point, not a flaw.
Each week Justin Moorhouse takes a microphone with him where ever he goes. Listen in to hear his thoughts and meet some of his mates along the way.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Justin Moorhouse makes backstage comedy life legible through family teasing, performer talk and a sharp ear for ordinary social friction.
Justin Moorhouse turns his working life into a loose audio diary, moving between backstage conversations, family exchanges and encounters gathered around comedy gigs.
Support acts get the cold crowd; you get the candid chat about surviving it.
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An Austrian comedy trip turns into a warm, untidy conversation about improvisation, friendship and letting a joke go.
Justin Morehouse arrives at an Austrian ski-and-comedy festival feeling ill, far from home and in no mood to ski. The best material comes when the comics talk shop: letting a joke die, giving another performer room and accepting that an improvised scene vanishes the moment it…
A loose backstage chat turns support-act nerves and a Keir Starmer vape setup into affectionate comic chaos.
Justin Moorhouse is short one Izzy backstage, so a Monday recording in Austria turns into a loose handover with Alfie, recently sacked from What's It All About Alfie and brought back for the intros and outros.
A landing that does not stay landed sends the conversation through Gibraltar, football, and Justin's gift for making the detour the point.
Justin Morehouse's episode 364 builds from a travel scare with a neat comic shape: a plane lands, takes off again, and leaves him wishing he had been watching a Netflix documentary on 9/11 instead.
Episode 361 turns a BAFTA critique, old-TV detour, and backstage looseness into an easy comic rhythm.
Episode 361 gets its shape from the untidy business of starting: Alfie is already in the room, Rachel says nothing, and a quick run through favourite clips opens out into Gay Byrne, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, and the bright surface of old television.
A co-host fee dispute gives way to family teasing, coffee-trailer trouble and a painfully slow Land Rover.
Family favouritism and podcast pecking orders give this episode its easy comic tension. Izzy and guest co-host Alfie Joey haggle over titles and fees, then drift into Shrove Tuesday wordplay, a determined hog-roast seller and the practical trouble that comes with buying a…
A relaxed diary entry on keeping the podcast free, pushing the tour, and sharing things worth seeing.
Justin Morehouse gives the episode a clear purpose early on: the podcast will remain free, ad-free, and out every Tuesday, with extra features taking the place of a paid Friday Patreon episode.
Family recording chaos gives way to sharp crowd work and a dark final turn.
Justin Morehouse's episode starts in the mess of recording with his daughter, Izzy Morehouse, where failed headphones, "Juzzerini" and a kept false start give it a loose diary feel.
Justin Morehouse and his daughter Izzy discuss a stressful week in business and life.
Comedian Justin Moorhouse hosts episode 281 with his 18-year-old daughter Izzy.
Justin Moorhouse announces podcast changes, keeping it free but urging listeners to spread the word due to stagnant growth.
Guest host Max Rushton joins for a casual chat about chicken tenders, tagine, and radio show memories.
Justin and Izzy banter about recording a podcast episode, with Justin mentioning a hospital appointment and teasing a story about a show.
Justin and Izzy Morehouse start their podcast late, discussing their morning routine and producer Rachel's busy day.
Episode 387 of About 30 Minutes No More Than 45 has Justin Moorhouse reporting that he has lost 14 kilos on Monjaro and is no longer diabetic according to his latest blood results.
Justin Morehouse opens episode 366 by saying he feels ill, then frames a Mayhofen, Austria trip to the Altitude Comedy Festival as the week behind the recording.
Justin Moorhouse records episode 365 from Austria for the Altitude Comedy Festival while Izzy is in Glasgow for Hamlet rehearsals, and he opens by saying Alfie has been sacked from the podcast.
Justin Moorhouse episode 364 jumps from Gibraltar Airport landings to an MMA-gym set in Keighley and a later Andy Burnham Q&A.
Justin Mohawk chats with his daughter Izzy about a vape shop fire in Glasgow that caused travel disruptions.
The hosts discuss current global uncertainties, the war in the Middle East, and personal reflections on safety and geopolitics.
Episode 361 of 'About 30 Minutes No More Than 45' opens with Justin Moorhouse giving a personal emotional check-in, describing crying as 'leaking sideways like a cartoon' during a difficult week as he adjusts back to routine.
Episode 360 of 'About 30 Minutes No More Than 45' brings together host Justin Moorhouse, his daughter Izzy, and Newcastle comedian Alfie Joey for a Sunday-evening chat recorded on Shrove Tuesday.
The host announces the podcast will remain free and ad-free, asks listeners to spread the word on social media to boost growth.