The Stand
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Chatting to some of the UK's best comedians at the world famous Stand Comedy Club The Stand Comedy Club Podcast is sponsored by WEST Brewery
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Club-room interviews turn practical comedy talk, personal candour and spontaneous riffs into a lively portrait of performers at work.
The Stand Comedy Club Podcast often starts in comic disarray, then lets each guest turn that disorder into a loose, revealing interview. Matthew Gallagher spins speculative riffs from everyday remarks, while Tamsyn Kelly moves between place, performance and touring plans.
The question of whether Jesus could jog up rain is your cue to stay.
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Stage reflexes, soap nostalgia, and a warmly messy comic drift.
Des Clarke keeps the conversation moving with a knack for turning throwaway remarks into something funnier than they should be. Stage reflexes, accidental karate chops, comic physicality, capoeira, and soap opera detours all end up in the mix, with Neighbours, Home and Away, and…
A loose gripe session that keeps turning small annoyances into better jokes.
It opens with complaints about construction upstairs, loud jazz, and that familiar frustration of a solo that has outstayed its welcome. The pace stays brisk, with interruptions and shared jokes giving the exchange a loose, lived-in feel without letting it drift too far from the…
A scrappy comic chat that turns a freestyle mishap, regional identity, and London travel into lived-in material.
Tamsyn Kelly opens with a freestyle-riff joke that slides into a correction over the word pod, and that wobble gives the chat its shape. The best stretches stay close to lived detail: Cornish roots, being read as anti-English up north, the grind of London travel, and the odd…
A cramped backstage hangout that keeps turning detours into the joke.
Stuart McPherson lands in a cramped new green room at a new venue, and the squeeze shapes the mood from the first beat. The charm is in how unpolished it feels: half-finished sentences, quick course corrections, and an easy laugh about the backstage mess, including the previous…
A loose best-of built on pop nostalgia, sharp club banter and live mic chaos.
The Stand Comedy Club Podcast uses this best-of to give the show a fresh look, with producer Chris setting the frame and noting that Fraser, Molly and Lottie are away after getting the new Glasgow venue up and running.
A loose, funny chat that turns language and animals into riffs.
This episode leans on Thor's easy, digressive chat with the hosts, drifting from Gaelic and language identity to the odd satisfaction of trying to learn something difficult on Duolingo.
A cold, funny chat that turns stage graft, karaoke, and comic memory into a loose, lived-in conversation.
Karen Dunbar's Stand Comedy Club podcast appearance is a cold, loose, funny chat that keeps circling back to the small realities of performance: biscuits, free bits, karaoke, stage graft, and the patience needed to carry long pieces.
A warm best of that leans on club memory, quick banter and a wide spread of clips.
The Stand Comedy Club Podcast keeps this part two best of loose and easy, with clips from Tom Stade, Gareth Mutch, Paul McDaniel, Jay Lafferty, Mark Nelson, Chris Forbes, Raymond Mayer, Trey Bradshaw, Mark Jennings, Ada Camp and Kate Hammer giving it plenty of range.
Matt MacDonald talks through first-date food choices, including burgers, fajitas, spaghetti, salad, and dessert with two spoons, before the conversation swerves into a fruit-phobia bit about oranges and Tesco mixed fruit pots.
Darren Cunnell drops into the Stand Comedy Club podcast for a chat that starts with drinks, gains, and bad choices.
Season two opens with a bit of fanfare.
Stevie Martin talks about touring a 54- or 55-date stand-up show, tracking each performance in a notebook with smiley-face codes for herself and the audience.
The Stand Comedy Club Podcast retrospective part 2 pulls clips from Tom Stade, Paul McDaniel, Mark Nelson, and Jimmy Carr-related club stories, with the conversation moving from housing bills to backstage games and party memories.
Karen Dunbar talks about fame, public recognition, and why she calls it "fame tax," including being filmed by strangers and shouted at for catchphrases in the street.
The Stand Comedy Club Podcast closes the year with a double-length holiday special featuring Matthew Gallagher.
Thor Stenner drops into The Stand Comedy Club Podcast for a loose, chatty guest spot.
Stephen Buchanan joins Chris for a chat that begins with a technical mishap: they had recorded for about 20 minutes before noticing the mics were off, so that camera audio is tucked on as a bonus at the end.
Chris Rutter recalls being caught watching porn at school at 14, using a French computer-lab assignment on Triple X as cover and getting confronted by an IT worker and his teacher.
Scottish comedian Des Clarke joins The Stand Comedy Club Podcast for a wide-ranging conversation about his career, from his first nervous gig at The Stand to hosting BBC Scotland's 'Breaking the News' for over a decade.
Comedian Nick Helm joins the podcast for a wide-ranging conversation covering his career, mental health diagnosis, sitcom experiences, and creative process.
Comedian Tamsyn Kelly joins the podcast for a chaotic and humorous conversation covering her Cornish roots, travel disasters, early career struggles in London, and shocking personal anecdotes from the comedy world.
Scottish comedian Stuart McPherson joins The Stand Comedy Club Podcast for a wide-ranging conversation about his comedy career, from his first gig at Red Raw to creating his Fringe show 'Crisps and a Lie Down'.
Compilation best-of episode from Stand Comedy Club podcast features Susie Ruffell and guest comedians sharing personal stories.