Episodes

  • Mark Simmons

    Mark Simmons
    Mar 12 2025
    This week's guest began life as a taekwondo athlete and argues those skills are directly transferable to stand-up comedy. He joined us to talk about the sport-comedy crossover, one-liners and hitting comedy gold in Edinburgh. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sportingmisadventures/ and let us hear about your own sporting misadventures by emailing sportingmisadventures@gmail.com.

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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • Richard Ayoade

    Richard Ayoade
    Mar 5 2025
    This week's guest was a keen footballer growing up until pushed into rugby and loved spending his summers watching cricket. He joined us to talk being the fastest man on the planet, riding his Brompton bike and The Crystal Maze as an Olympic sport. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sportingmisadventures/ and let us hear about your own sporting misadventures by emailing sportingmisadventures@gmail.com.

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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • Russell Kane

    Russell Kane
    Feb 26 2025
    This week's guest took a break from his current tour to talk everything from keeping in shape and Mrs Doubtfire to fake tan and moments when lifting weights have gone awry. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sportingmisadventures/ and let us hear about your own sporting misadventures by emailing sportingmisadventures@gmail.com.

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    1 hr and 6 mins
  • Dave Gorman

    Dave Gorman
    Feb 19 2025
    What better guest to chat cycling with Chris than Dave Gorman, who once pedalled across the UK to a variety of stand-up gigs after an early medical mishap. He joined us to push Taskmaster as an Olympic event, and to talk supporting Liverpool and a new batch of Modern Life is Goodish. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sportingmisadventures/ and let us hear about your own sporting misadventures by emailing sportingmisadventures@gmail.com.

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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • Andy Murray

    Andy Murray
    Feb 12 2025
    The three-time Grand Slam winner and double Olympic champion joins us fresh from the golf course to talk about his new sporting love, his dreadful start to his post-retirement skiing career, coaching Novak Djokovic and when drug tests go horribly wrong. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sportingmisadventures/ and let us hear about your own sporting misadventures by emailing sportingmisadventures@gmail.com.

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    1 hr and 6 mins
  • Josh Widdicombe

    Josh Widdicombe
    Feb 5 2025
    This week's guest began his career as a sports journalist live blogging and writing football transfer rumours for the Guardian before switching to comedy. He joined us to chat how London 2012 changed his life, getting hooked on sport watching Grandstand and the days he shone in the bottom PE group at school. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sportingmisadventures/ And let us hear about your own sporting misadventures by emailing sportingmisadventures@gmail.com.

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    1 hr
  • Neil Forsyth

    Neil Forsyth
    Jan 29 2025
    This week's guest began life as a football journalist with a passion for Dundee United but then turned to TV creating the hilarious Bob Servant, starring Brian Cox, Guilt and The Gold. He joined us to talk scoring an overhead kick at Tannadice, tennis exploits against a junior Wimbledon star and winning three football caps at international level. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sportingmisadventures/ And let us hear about your own sporting misadventures by emailing sportingmisadventures@gmail.com.

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    1 hr and 6 mins
  • Peter Serafinowicz

    Peter Serafinowicz
    Jan 22 2025
    Peter Serafinowicz would sit out PE and hated football despite growing up in Liverpool. But then this week's guest became a convert of the beautiful game via his son and joins us to talk playing, watching and commentating on the sport as well as his idea for a merger of Merseyside's two football giants. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sportingmisadventures/ And let us hear about your own sporting misadventures by emailing sportingmisadventures@gmail.com.

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    45 mins