The Comedy Store
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Oct 20, 2026
Andrew RyanGUEST
Yeah.
Andrew RyanGUEST
Like two, three months ago, I'm hosting the comedy store and Quentin Tarantino's on the fourth row.
Andrew RyanGUEST
Are you joking? I heard about it.
Andrew RyanGUEST
Yeah.
Andrew RyanGUEST
Comedy store.
Andrew RyanGUEST
Did you hear about it? Yeah.
Andrew RyanGUEST
Yeah.
Tim LewisHOST
Yeah, it was Michael Adewale, wasn't it, or something?
Helen ThornHOST
And you've probably got some upcoming gigs you can... yeah I
Thanyia MooreGUEST
mean just come and see me I'm normally at Comedy Store or one of the Soho houses because I just think anywhere else is treacherous
Ellie GibsonHOST
so just follow me on Instagram I fucking love that though I love that you're at your point in your career where you can just go I just do the Comedy Store or Soho house yes
Thanyia MooreGUEST
I'm also in Anglia in the Anglia there's an Anglia comedy he does he does great gigs they run on time he pays on time it's lovely to be around him I just do like a handful of gigs I just think
Ellie GibsonHOST
Self-employed.
Adam RoweGUEST
That's called Club Comic.
Adam RoweGUEST
That was just a night at the Comedy Store.
Adam RoweGUEST
And when I filmed that, I didn't know what I was going to do with it.
Adam RoweGUEST
I was just filming loads of sets at the time because I was like, this is the thing to do.
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Adam RoweGUEST
Like, if you look at certain tweets I've put out to them when they're talking shit, it drives me mad.
Adam RoweGUEST
Like, I don't like publicly slagging people off.
Adam RoweGUEST
But when they're talking absolute nonsense, like the lads who do that Trigonometry podcast, right? When they went on Joe Rogan and they were sat talking to Joe Rogan going, oh, in the UK, you know, if you're too offensive, like the comedy store won't book you.
Adam RoweGUEST
You can't do the Glee.
Seann WalshHOST
But... could be a teaser come on let's you wanted to talk about you wanted to talk about disasters alexi we can talk
Alexei SayleGUEST
about disasters i think in the 90s this is my own kind of self-pitying reading of my career really which may not may or may not be true but that i just catastrophically went out of fashion because people you know the the kind of the the the comedy store was 1979 the comic strip was 1980.
Alexei SayleGUEST
And so by the 90s, 10 years later, people have realized that they can go out and see a comedian without being screamed at by a fat Marxist in a suit.
Alexei SayleGUEST
And they're not at that point interested in the historical background.
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Seann WalshHOST
And I couldn't work out the logic of, well, I can't do it because I'm not famous.
Seann WalshHOST
You have to be famous to do it.
Seann WalshHOST
So was there a sense? then before you know before the comedy store was there a sense of how you would end up doing it
Alexei SayleGUEST
um not really well i mean the way that i did it was that the other thing which i think was very influential on me was when i was at chelsea was that this was the start of um performance art and you got people like me in the states people like vito anconi who um who would he lay under a ramp at a gallery masturbating and made comments over the pa system about people who were looking at the exhibition and he also i think it was also
Mike Fenton StevensHOST
The show's been running for 15 years and has a residency at the Vaudeville Theatre in London's West End, as well as touring, of course.
Mike Fenton StevensHOST
She's also improvised with the Comedy Store Players and with Paul Merton in Paul and Suki's improv show, all at the Comedy Store in London.
Mike Fenton StevensHOST
Rachel co-hosted the podcast How Was It For You with her husband, Marcus Brigstock, a comedy review show.
Mike Fenton StevensHOST
The podcast came about following their cult online show, Tuesday Night Club, which ran every week for a year and a half, broadcast from their home across lockdown during COVID.
Mike Fenton StevensHOST
Yes.
Mike Fenton StevensHOST
And of course, the great thing is that like with many of the things that you do, if you say, oh, I'm going to pop it, I'm going to do it on Sunday.
Mike Fenton StevensHOST
You know, I'm going to do ostentatious or yes, I'm available for the comedy store.
Mike Fenton StevensHOST
You can pop in and do it.
Russell HowardHOST
We
Catherine BohartGUEST
have gigged together exclusively at London's Comedy Store.
Catherine BohartGUEST
That's right.
Catherine BohartGUEST
Yes.
Russell HowardHOST
Exactly.
Catherine BohartGUEST
Yeah.
Russell HowardHOST
The only thing that's bad about the Comedy Store is that the toilet is so close to the backstage.
Russell HowardHOST
And, you know, people get nervous doing a gig.
Sam CarringtonHOST
Good.
Ian MooreGUEST
And also because, um, before the smoking ban indoors came in, I was in the dressing room at The Comedy Store, which is a tiny, tiny little corridor thing.
Ian MooreGUEST
Tiny.
Sam CarringtonHOST
Yeah.
Seann WalshHOST
Today's class clown is a, if not the, pioneering member of the alternative comedy scene.
Seann WalshHOST
Growing up in a Communist Party family in Liverpool, he became the original emcee at the legendary Comedy Store, before starring in game-changing sitcom, The Young Ones.
Seann WalshHOST
Now, he's just released his brilliant new memoir, How I've Tried To Change The World.
Seann WalshHOST
This is, of course, the formidable Alexei Sayle.
Mark McConvilleHOST
On the other side of the world, these are actually being prescribed.
Mark McConvilleHOST
You know, in the UK, who are world leaders in the field of social prescribing, recently the NHS has funded Men's Minds Matter, which is a, a ten-week stand-up comedy course for men at risk of suicide, and it is run at the Comedy Store with a, a Rethink Mental Illness created by a lady called Angie Belcher of Comedy on Referral in Briston-- Bristol.
Mark McConvilleHOST
And, and it actually won a gold HSJ Award in twenty twenty-four, and which is incredibly cool, you know.
Mark McConvilleHOST
It gives me, it gives me encouragement to know that somewhere in the world this is happening, you know, right now.
Shane ColmanHOST
Take us back to your, your first gig.
Shane ColmanHOST
It was The Comedy Store in Leicester Square, is that right?
Jack DeeGUEST
Comedy, Comedy Store in Leicester Square, and I, I, I go down there in 1986, and, uh, I sort of discover that the whole comedy scene, uh, had started without me, really.
Jack DeeGUEST
I'd, I'd been ...
Jack DeeGUEST
It was quite late at night, about 1:00 in the, at night by then.
Jack DeeGUEST
And, um, I just, I got a little bit of a chuckle out of the audience, and the aud- I, I tell the story in my, in my new show, actually.
Jack DeeGUEST
Um, but the, the guy who ran The Comedy Store was there and said, "Look, do you want to come back next Friday? I'll put you on again if you want, give you five minutes." And, uh, and that was it, kind of.
Jack DeeGUEST
You know, it was great.
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