Fast tea, sharper tangents.
Tea With Me turns comedian-led chat into a rapid run of jokes, interruptions, and half-serious life audits. Recent episodes move from London cycle lanes and sober birthdays to rattlesnake panic, soap talk, holiday rituals, and awkward new-friend chemistry.
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Tea With Me is a comedy conversation show that treats ordinary situations as if they deserve a full courtroom hearing and a punchline by the end. It has the pace of people talking over tea, except the tea keeps getting interrupted by stories about scooters, airports, tour dates, birthday restraint, holiday bread, and bad decisions made near wildlife. The show’s centre is Shane Todd, identified in the metadata as a comedian, with recent episodes built around named guests and their shared appetite for riffing. It is loose. That looseness is the point. A simple question about making a new friend with Rhys James becomes a mock-serious compatibility test. A London travel story turns into cycle-lane authority, phone-snatching anxiety, and the weird thrill of being correct in public. With Foil, Arms and Hog, the conversation slips easily between group timing, London nerves, and a joke about their name that gets treated like a usable bit. The birthday episode with Tim McGarry and Mickey Bartlett starts in sober self-improvement and swerves toward intervention jokes. Paul Hughes brings the kind of everyday detail the show likes best: a dropped soup, a compliment from a stranger, a father’s sudden brand loyalty. Jamie Hutchinson’s episode moves through airport directions, pranks, soap crossovers, and the strange private logic of long-running TV. Sean McComb’s appearance stretches holiday relaxation into a comic argument about whether anyone can actually sit still. Lianne McCooey and Soupy Campbell bring a brighter, more chaotic guest energy, including a rattlesnake story that is funny because the regret arrives one morning too late. The show is not a polished interview format. It is more like a comedian’s table where the topic keeps changing because the better joke is always slightly off to the side. Listeners get local turns of phrase, quick callbacks, teasing pressure, and stories that feel lived-in rather than packaged. It can be blunt, rowdy, and casually crude, but the appeal is social warmth under the slagging. Tea With Me works best for people who enjoy comedy podcasts where chemistry matters more than structure and a tiny observation can carry ten minutes if the room is sharp enough.
Made for: For fans of Irish comedy, stand-up-adjacent chat, and guest episodes where the funniest moments come from interruption, exaggeration, and social discomfort. Best for listeners who like loose conversation with a bit of bite.
What sets it apart: The show’s edge is its conversational momentum: it lets tiny, local, almost throwaway details become running jokes before snapping back into guest banter. It feels less like an interview and more like sitting near comics who forgot to lower their voices.
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Based on 4 episodes we listened to · September 2026
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Tea With Me turns ordinary catch-ups into elastic comic arguments. Shane Todd gives guests room to bring in stray stories, then keeps worrying at the smallest detail until it becomes the conversation's main event.
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An airport pickup turns into a loose, funny run through bad directions, pranks, ghost tours, and soap-opera continuity.
The episode makes a simple airport pickup feel like a small social trap, turning directions into the kind of argument that only gets funnier the more carefully everyone tries to solve it.
A holiday glow leads to Brian Slavin, supermarket bread, and a pint alone.
Tea With Me gets its laugh from the slightly awkward afterglow of a holiday, where the idea of coming back refreshed runs straight into Brian Slavin, a local bar, and the news that a casual podcast mention has made its way to his daughter.
A 2:37 a.m. Instagram check leads to Bud Lights, a rattlesnake, and a morning-after fear.
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Career highs, Prime confusion, and a San Francisco comparison no tourism board would rush to print.
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A casual conversation about traveling in London, using line bikes, and a humorous anecdote about a friend falling off a scooter while drunk.
Tea With Me 364 features Foil, Arms and Hog discussing physical pranks, including a water trick called “meniscusing” and a bathroom gag involving shoes under a cubicle.
Comedians Micky Bartlett and Tim McGarry discuss Micky's first sober birthday and his new lifestyle changes.
Paul Hughes and Joe discuss a spilled soup on Hollywood High Street, a compliment about being 'good value', and Paul's dad's preference for Monterex gym gear.
Jamie Hutchinson turns a TV night into a fantasy where he is a 16-year-old orphan pitching on Dragon's Den.
Sean McComb and Tea With Me cover his Monte Carlo fight week, where three friends — Victor, PJ, and Chucky — were arrested for drinking and singing in the street.
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