In our Season 4 finale, we meet the Devil in the Home Counties and discover why self confidence is so important, which paint colours look best in the hall, what sleep deprived ambulance drivers get up to and why Tom Hiddleston wants your cash.

This week, we find out: What Vegetable Welfare Officers do, how not to teach primary school kids, what happens when serial killers call the police, how to sell lightbulbs and which is the most successful family business in Hampshire.

If you want Morgan Freeman's quiet dignity, a Tesco delivery that would excite CSI, a mathematical Father of the Bride speech, a new road safety slogan and a trip to the old west with the Metaphor Kid, then sit back and get an earful of this!

We find out what happens when superhero team-ups go wrong, how to set a password, how to defend a hill, how you are really and what is the most dangerous factory in the world...  and Hampshire.

We go into the future to look at the past with the Future Time Team, play an embarrassing game of charades, turn left, tune into the QAnon Shopping Channel, turn right and get slightly distracted. Simple!

Ever wondered what Bez from the Happy Mondays has been putting his talents to? Or the best way to do nude portraiture? Or what's the most organic dinner solution? Or what the latest reality TV show will be? Then you're in the right place! Sit back, relax and let the answers dance across the airwaves to your ears.

The world wide smash hit police drama Line Of Duty starts a new series. We pay tribute to it with this. And they still haven't caught us... Mwahahahaha!

Got a writing implement based problem, but don't know who to call? Fear not! The Ink-credible Penman is here! As are some competitive doctors, crazy conspiracy theorists and a couple of ziggurat sales persons. Just another dull day in lockdown...

Change your life with vinegar! Have a cuddle with the world's dirtiest dog! Listen as two unfunny funny men try to revive their careers! Unpack the majesty of Stonehenge! All in this week's show!

What happens at Horror Villain self help groups? Can paramedics save lives on the cheap? What would a middle class charity appeal sound like? What does Tom Hiddleston really sound like? What are all the stations between Hatfield and King's Cross? And is there something important that Bono and The Edge have forgotten? Find out right now by listening to this podcast!

In a packed show, we've got wine tasting for dentists, intense competition between Britain's finest actors, a chance for you to buy a bunch of Covid Lockdown tat and we answer the question "What activities are fit for ladies?". 

Do superheroes need their mummies? Can politicians answer questions? What's Vladimir Putin's fave hotel? What's the best podcast subscription service? And is green the best colour for speaking? Find out in this week's humdinger of a show.

It's your second helping of festive fun! With incompetent Kings bearing gifts, crackers cookery tips, grumpy innkeepers, a peaceful Christmas war film, garbled Christmas messages, pouting elves and a CatEnders Christmas! 

Ready for a sackload of festive fun? Unwrap our Christmas extravaganza, packed with Drunk Santas, Covid Crimbo Hits, the wonders of an austerity Christmas, Brexit Christmas Carols and the nightmare that is... Panto!

Season 4 kicks up with a bumper episode of brand new sketches. We've got everything from sodding hobbits to daft kiddie craft, disgruntles wizards, confused columnists, dire dating, a woman who has it all and a miserable Dark Lord. Yeah, in your face, Pandemic!

Season 3 Closes with a Zombie apocalypse, Welsh Irish women, a soothing trip around the unexploded device museum, a gentle police interrogation and injury lawyers for toffs, all sprinkled with chats to the lovely writers and performers.

How do you buy your own castle? What's the best way to take your standup routine to a comedy festival? How do you get rid of sofa surfing superheroes? How do you make your female characters more convincing? We have the answers! Join us as we listen to some cracking sketches and chat to some of the writers and performers who created them. Especially Joanna Tilley, whose new service to help writers create more vibrant female characters can be found here... https://www.joannatilley.com

It's a spooky Halloween Compilation with bullet proof vampire piranha bats, evil mobile libraries, disgruntled witches, Mad Scientists and bilious zombies. It's a scream! Also starring Dan Willis and Barnaby Edwards, who Nick forgot to mention in the credits, cos he's a bit forgetful sometimes.

It's a very special episode, showcasing the work of some of our writers around the country. We've got cheeky exorcisms, a house party for screwed up deities, a hopeless robbery, a crime fighting granny, little piggies and the best thing since... well, you know.

We've got wizened witches snogging, crap reporters, social distancing at the swimming pool, a threesome with Adam, Eve and God, and dubious double acts. All that plus an interview with their creators, the brilliant Phil Nice and Martin Hyder.

We've got a TV special this week with a full schedule of kids' programmes, horse racing with Boris Johnson, Minimalism, Gung-ho war journos, a world of sheds, citrus-based cop dramas and Nantwich. There's so much in it!

We've got Gerbils getting jiggy, Slapdash chefs, Victorian correspondents, a fistful of puns and ridiculous Egyptologists all in the company of their writer and performer, the legendary Phil Whelans.

Enjoy a Fake Christmas, a slice of Skype Surgery and lashings of cow pats, mad elephants, bizarre book lovers and Bill and Ted as we talk comedy with their writer Karen Morden. Includes exclusive behind the scenes stuff! 

This week we meet and enjoy the work of Simon Littlefield, the writer who gave us CatEnders, nonsensical wizards, foul-mouthed tortoises, pompous poetry and Dada-esque kittens. Oh yes, and he wrote for BBC Radio 4's NewsQuiz for 17 years, too.

It's a special, packed with angry Hare Krishnas, Mafia sheep, celebrities doing brain surgery, horny parrots, Pontefract, kedgeree, muffins and filet mignons... Plus a chat to the writer to find out why.

With all the conspiracy theories surrounding Huawei and 5G, we thought it would be good to allow the company to explain what the heck's going on and make their position clear.

We've got incompetent detectives, engine trouble with villains, spacemen and wizards, slut-dropping Yorkshire folk, desperate actors, evil in Mordor and Bill Shakespeare. With exclusive commentary from their writer, Alex Marion.

It's the 10th anniversary of the release of the mother of all heist films Inception. So on that flimsy framework, we're hanging a special re-issue of our very own Heist Gang Fails.

This week we're awash with Glastonbury crusties, Medical Vending machines, WOKE and Alt-Right radio stations, Mafia nursery rhymes... and we get a glimpse into the cutthroat world of trouser presses.

We've got a bumper crop of tuffets, Know it alls, humble bragging celebs, live World Cup Football, over-zealous paramedics, bondage, bizarre bereavement counselling and Bono and The Edge being naughty... again.

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Jonathan Livingstone Seagull, we've got a Hollywood blockbuster special. Cry 'Havoc' and let slip the gulls of war! 

Have you been invovled in a podcast that wasn't your fault? Then you need this week's episode of Release The Clowns, crammed with dodgy injury lawyers, three legged racers, Aussie unboxers, odball gamblers, elephant interrogators and sewage PR.

We've got kids in space, Carry On Brief Encounter, Lockdown Horoscopes, mind-bending Jedi mind tricks and the shattering conclusion to our Zombie Apocalypse Saga. Phew! You might need a lie down after this one...

We're celebrating the release of Mel Gibson's Braveheart by delving back into the Release The Clowns archive for a very important pre-battle health and safety briefing. Written by Phil Whelans, this epic is 27% more factually accurate than the film. In your face, Hollywood!

We're grappling with zombies, wrestling weathermen, runaway ducks, more zombies, vindictive ex-boyfriends, teen movie stereotypes, amorous parrots and yet more zombies. Phew! And all socially distanced!

Well it's just been Bill Shakespeare's birthday, so we thought we'd celebrate by mangling one of his beloved speeches. It's what we do.

More lockdown lunacy that makes injecting sunlight seem sensible. We've got difficult deities, Mafia spiders, maverick detectives, chainsaws, men falling off ladders, Government announcements and... is Sarah about to get jiggy with a zombie?

Laugh in the face of lockdown with the students at the Estate Agent School, remember how much harder life used to be in bygone times, learn chemistry with The Godfather, discover the real joys of marriage and get tailoring tips for a zombie apocalypse.

It's the mid-point between James Caan and Al Pacino's birthdays (belated happy birthday to you, Mr Caan and early one to you, Mr Pacino). So to celebrate, here is our take on Francis Ford Coppola's classic film, The Godfather.

Clowns In Lockdown! To keep you diverted in isolation, we've got pushy charity ladies, special deals on chainsaws, killer coconuts, a trip to the unexploded device museum and dating in a zombie apocalypse. Stay safe. Stay home. Stay listening. We've had 2 of the Clowns team in isolation, so to them and any of you who are unwell, we hope you get better very soon. Big virtual hug from all the team.

It's ten years since Professor Brian Cox burst onto our screen with his Wonders of the Universe. To celebrate, we're delving back into the archive to enjoy his baby-faced wisdom once more.

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GuruSmackingLifeHacking... Release The Clowns! This show is packed, stacked and is one of the few things that won't run out if there's a panic. Enjoy and good health!

Gormless coppers, WOKE criminals, annoying people you meet at parties, misleading nurses, self-diagnosing psychiatric patients and a somewhat disgruntled Hobbit all fight it out for the spotlight this week. Is this show silly? You betcha!

It's a sci-fi/science special! Get your popcorn for a bumper selection of sciency sketches including Alien road trips, smoking dogs, feral hamsters, mad scientists, fashion conscious Daleks, hamfisted probing and the wonders of professor Brian Cox!

What's it really like to be a senior operative of an evil organisation hell bent on taking over the world? Is it all pools of piranhas, launch countdowns and weird facial scarring? Or is there more? We're celebrating the release of the latest James Bond film with a glimpse into how the other side lives.

Relax with Psychiatrist Pete and discover how to whistle again, solve kitchen nightmares, calm people in a nosediving plane, nail job interviews, run comedy scientific experiments and get to heaven. It's a public service we're offering here, I tells ya!

Poetical mafia bosses, straight talking padres who'll damn you to hell, angry football dads, insurance doctors who want to make you sicker and all the news from the future about a bloke called Tim... It can only be another cavalcade of whimsy from RtCSCP!

It's 12th Night, so your last chance to get a final dollop of Christmas cheer with a show packed full of perfect pressies, Mafia Christmas greetings, gritty police drama in Santa's Grotto, Edwardian ladies with surprises under their skirts, Xmasists and Christmas with Google Translate.

So this is Christmas and what have we done? We've packed a show with incompetent Kings, perfect pressies for overstressed mums, drunk Santas, baffled innkeepers and fistfuls of rootie-toot-toots and rummie-tum-tums. Merry Christmas to all...

We've got strange impressions, fat bastards, historians with bad energy, fools trying to see their GP and the nightmare scenario of what to do when the Luftwaffe unexpectedly come to tea. Yes, it's another cavalcade of foolishness!

Barnaby Edwards (Dalek and acting legend) joins the team to celebrate the start of Season 3! Yes, we're starting a new year of fun, foolishness and occasional bafflement with a right corker. It's packed with culinarily challenged Greek Heroes, celebs doing brain surgery, protesters with duck tape, Banksy getting kidnapped, incompetent sports commentators... and the Sound of Music. 

In the run up to the launch of Season 3 on Monday 25th November, we've decided to revisit the very first sketch on our very first show. Enjoy!

We get playful with Shakespeare, Cyclonic with Wagner and we have a U2 moment with Bono. But only after crossing Niagara Falls, listening to train announcements and debating the problem of office pets. To coin a phrase, it's a packed programme!

Halloween Special: No scary clowns guaranteed! Yes, we've got spooky laughs galore with tired Devils, annoying aliens, bilious zombies and sinister children... but no scary clowns. Not one. Not even an ironic post-modern one.

What happens when spells go wrong? Was St Patrick Welsh? Which is worse - FOMO or MOFO? Does a flame that burns twice as brightly burn half as long? Marlon Brando? And are kids really the future? Does this show answer any of these questions? You decide!

This week we discover what happens when Police catering goes wrong, when historical figures play practical jokes, when you try to put a stitch in time, when the Mafia get poetical and what happens behind the doors of Sidcup World of Sheds!

What happens when keeping up with social media takes over your life? Is it really possible to get a 5 quid plane fare? What do the Mafia do to people they catch wearing a wire? Line Dancing - fun or lethal? And should Mary Poppins be allowed near kids? We've got the answers, so dive in now!

Criminal masterminds and copper's narks abound in our law and order special. From Dogtectives to Poundland robbers, we tickle the underbelly of crime to make it laugh until it goes straight.

From Gerbil maternity wards to Edwardian maladies, this show gathers the very best of our health sketches and puts them in a bed for you to visit. They say laughter is the best medicine... let's see if they're right.

Star Wars, Bizarre book lovers, the Huawei Way, bent coppers with drink problems, ad exec tossers, gritty film makers and Mafia nursery rhymes all jostle for attention this week. But the big question is, what the heck did Claude do to Evangeline? If you think you know, Tweet us @clownshq

Dog-obsessed babysitters, Mafia sheep, God breaking Adam's ribs, over-zealous policemen, stupidly wealthy gym bunnies and interns taking over the world... it's just another normal, humdrum week at ClownsHQ.

And if you've got a mo', we'd love it if you could go to www.podcastawards.com and vote for us in the Comedy and People's Choice Award categories. That way we can share the silliness with even more people. Thanks!

We are 50! To celebrate, we've got 12 other podcast crews on the show! They're reviewing the films behind such film trailer sketches as Murder on the Orient Express Replacement Bus Service and Bill and Ted's Excel Adventure. Prepare for mayhem! Starring our usual cast plus these amazing Podcasters: Comedy Geeks, Rough Giraffe, Gamma Radio, Varmints, Murder Mile True Crime Podcast, Epic Film Guys, Gravity Beard, 2 Girls on a Bench, Sitcom Geeks, ABCD-Bagz, RagBag Podcast featuring Frank Burton, and Politics With Dummies.

Download this podcast if you love: snotty beermats; thieving medical students; defrauding the National Trust and bullet proof vampire piranha bats. Yes, they exist! Be amused... be very amused!

Is laughter the best medicine? We find out this week with 200cc’s of startled cats, Grimm fairy tales, footballers’ wives, Mafia nursery rhymes, phone phobias and crime fighting dogs. Yes, our public service ethos knows no bounds.

See the funny side of epigenetics experiments going wrong; idiotic gameshow contestants; finding out about the birds and the bees; forming a new Government; ship building for little people... and more in this irresponsible episode of RtCSCP.

Vampire health and safety. Kate Moss versus a Rolling Stone. Little Piggies causing a domestic. Minimalism for millennials. Bridal base-jumping. A pussy in a well. This show makes no sense whatsoever, but it's a bucketful of laughs. Grab your Speedos and dive in!

The latest cow-based beauty product, competitive noughts and crosses, chicken mad kids, poetic mafiosi, phonetically challenged cops, grizzled journos and liquorice eating Yorkshire folk jostle for position in this week's jumble of nonsense.

Uneven dog fights, sinister nappy mats, Mafia nursery rhymes, coffee enemas, unlucky TV presenters and the latest scourge in Mordor. What other show in the world packs so much nonsense into so little time? No other show! We are the champions of silliness!

The wonders of time travel, God's exciting new book, a surprising antique, a disappointing robbery, an incredibly detailed baby scan, and a unique once in a lifetime offer that's not for you. It's all wrapped up in our April Fool's Day bundle of fun!

We had a vote and these were the issues YOU wanted us to solve: marriage guidance counselling for vampires; anti-birdite protests in Somerset; the Emperor Caligula on holiday at Centre Parks; classically trained actresses VS chimps; sword size and how it affected medieval knights. We live to serve.

How do you get rid of a sofa-surfing superhero? Were Medieval peasants passionate about their work? Intonation Blindness - real or nonsense? Did the Victorians know anything about anything? Why do babies dribble and fall over so much? Can these skills be put to good use? And do we really need to be told that hot tea 'might be hot'? Answers please!

Life begins at 40, so let's get living with or 40th episode! This week we've got a psychotic kitty up a tree, bickering robbers, piratical verbiage, dodgy amateur dramatics, a supply teacher in a school for insects and a heroic quest for fresh coriander. Yes, 40 is the new 39.

Are you ready for your childhood annual appraisal? Want to complain about drab nurses? Meet a demi-goddess? Find out what's happening in aisle 4? Or hire a crack team of stereotypical Yorkshire folk? Then pop the kettle on, settle down and get stuck in... Champion!

This week we're overrun with action hero seagulls, Aztec PR teams trying to spin ritual sacrifice, kids demanding orange crayons, disgruntled office workers and elderly sleuths trying to explain their theories. Rhyme and reason? Overrated!

It's a second helping of Christmas with an extra dollop of New Year as we answer the BIG questions: What do you get for someone who has everything? Is Dim Towelling's tortoise a ghost? Can we have jelly AND ice cream? And is Donald Trump The Jabberwocky?

Christmas Special Part 1: We gear up for a fake Christmas as Santa goes to the doctor, we put up and turn on the fairy lights, we catch a Christmas disorder, go loco with a tortoise and Jesus Mitchell saves the Eastenders Christmas! Ho ho ho! And a big Merry Christmas to you all.

Join our quest for laughs this week! Can you endure the terrors of automated phone calls? Will you go toe to toe with Germaine Greer in the French version of Woman's Hour? Or survive the mighty Kraken and tea with elderly parents? All for National Trust membership and a kiss from Sweet Sally Wainwright of Mafeking Terrace, 13B above the sweet shop?

Season 2 of Duluth's favourite sketch comedy podcast has landed! It's stuffed with handy tips on how to: help lighthouse keepers chill out with elephants, pitch terrible movie ideas, catch killers, create Dada-esque movie trailers, take thought showers and create an abyss of madness in your garden. What a way to celebrate our first birthday and kick off season 2!

Foul-mouthed tortoises and Biblical heroes? Organ lessons and angry double glazing salesmen? Lazy medics and killers dressed as apes? What other sketch comedy podcast on earth can offer all that? None. Only Release The Clowns! The home of peak UK silliness.

Are you: A) Ovulating; B) Tied to a table made of gold; C) Tracking a ruthless killer; D) A witch with attitude; or E) Looking for the perfect Biblical quote? If you answered 'yes' or 'no' to any of those, then this week's sketch comedy podcast is for you. If you're not sure of the answer and would like to discuss any of the issues raised in this show description, then simply listen to the show and all will be explained. Or not.

Ever wanted to go to a fantasy realm for a stag do? Or cycle with Edwardian ladies, rob a bank, blow up an asteroid, or cast spells to defeat the armies of evil? You can do all that and more in this week's mind boggling sketch comedy podcast! This week with added dogs. Yes, we guarantee 100% more dogs in this episode than last week's. But no cats. If you want cats, download episodes 1 and 7. For gerbils, you want episode 14, for zombie pigeons, episode 21.

This week we invited film legend Brian De Palma to direct our comedy sketch podcast and boy, what a show we've got! We wrap up warm for a polar expedition, undergo a medical 'procedure', pay our respects to a deceased kleptomaniac, invade other people's personal space, get away with murder and have a prostate exam. Typical week, really...

In this week's delicious comedy sketch podcast, we discover that the first casualty of war is hair; that you don't cross the Hare Krishnas; that beekeepers need exercise too; that there are few things worse than ending up in Runcorn and that even the Lord of Darkness should be careful what he wishes for.

The Web's favourite comedy sketch podcast is back from the summer break with a hatful of brand new silliness: Jesus on Eastenders, parents who get everyday phrases wrong, straight men being funny, the toughest check out lady ever to wield a pricing gun in the mean aisles of the roughest supermarket in Britain & more!

What happens when a comedy sketch podcast goes wrong? Find out in our out-takes special. Hear some of our favourite sketches and then hear how we royally cocked them up in the studio in early takes. It's an insight into how much fun we have making the show, even when our brains and mouths have stopped working in harmony. We've got fluffs, flubs, profanity and a cat ensemble. Yes, a cat ensemble!

Get ready for a historical comedy sketch bonanza! It's all our favourite historical Release The Clowns sketches in one place. That's right, we've opened up our archives in the hope that we may educate, illuminate, elucidate and inform. From Medieval emojis to off-key Hieroglyphics, from the humble Tommy to the valiant Suffragette, from the darkest hours to the dazzling genius of Leonardo and Freud,  we capture the grand sweep of human development, and filter it through the prism of peak UK sketch silliness.

In this week's comedy sketch podcast extravaganza we get our street slang dictionary out for a great new holiday destination, we get hassled by fat-shaming babies, Daleks relax, there's a ruined climax in a fringe theatre, two straight men try to be funny and we road test the new Diabolical Disintegrating Death Ray. All good family fun!

This episode of Scandinavia's second favourite comedy sketch podcast has everything - Budgie wrangling, home operations, a way of solving all your relationship problems through extreme violence, the whole of world history with Lucy Worsley, crap war reporting, the entire universe with Brian Cox and, of course, the World Cup. Yes, it's coming home!*

*Release The Clowns cannot guarantee that this is the football World Cup, or that it will actually come home.

As the Release The Clowns comedy sketch podcast hits the 10,000 downloads per episode mark, we head to Liars Anonymous via the King's Fringe Theatre costume department. On the way we meet the unfunniest men in comedy, Edwardian ladies with a serious case of moustache envy and a bunch of *rseholes. Then we've just got time for tea - but woe betide you if you don't offer to make it for your colleagues!

It's Episode 22 of THE comedy sketch podcast. If you love sequins and gimp masks, easily baffled news reporters, romantic dates with hunky Russians and a quarter pound of what you fancy from the cornershop, then this week's titanic episode of Release The Clowns should be right up your alley... although we can't guarantee the appearance of Leonardo di Caprio, Kate Winslet or the French Canadian musical stylings of whatsherface. Sorry.

What do you get when you cross killer pigeons with ancient Egyptian curses, patronising shop assistants and insufferable yuppies? You get this week's episode of the Release The Clowns comedy sketch podcast. Carefully crafted at our secret base on the Isle of Wight, it's paraben free and now has added anti-oxidants - yummy!

It's show 20! Yes, we've reached onother milestone on the road to absurdity. Yet again, Lincoln Nebraska's most downloaded comedy sketch podcast is answering the questions people need answered: is Batley a better place to live than Malaga? Can you just make up your own sayings? Should you work during your wedding? And golf - why? Really, why golf?

It's an artistic extravaganza in our comedy sketch podcast this week! We've got Yorkshire miners busting moves, achitects working in crayon, sensual pottery classes, and a magazine helping you create your own desecration of nature. All that plus horse racing and deeply distressed damsels thrown in! It knocks OK and Grazia into a cocked hat.

It's not often that a comedy sketch podcast tackles major questions of existence, but that's what we're gonna do! This week, we're asking: Why did the chicken cross the road? Can you get off an assault charge because you had your fingers crossed at the time? And what won't Bono do for charity? Prepare for enlightenment!

In this week's comedy sketch podcast, we're on a quest with wizards, feminists armed with mashed potatoes and actors with trousers. Can we discover how to defuse a timebomb with a mercury switch while thinking up clever puns about the weather? Why would we even want to try that? Find out here!

Why do vampires hate Springtime? Was Freud a plagiarist? Should people from Yorkshire be allowed to recite poetry? All these questions and more are at least somewhat answered in this rip-roaring episode of Release The Clowns - the greatest comedy sketch podcast never to appear on iTunes New & Notable.

Okay, so it's 2 weeks since your last fix of Release The Clowns, but fear not! Episode 15 of the world's 5th loudest comedy sketch podcast is here to save your Monday. It's packed with nostalgia, ennui, Shakespeare, poetry, mountains and Bill & Ted - all at 10% off! Confused? It's a clown thing.

And look out next Monday (the 12th) for a sneaky peek at Episode 16, which will be landing on March 19th. You'll find the teaser sketch on our Facebook page, Youtube channel and Twitter feed.

And the 3rd most talked about comedy sketch podcast in Australia is back! Yes, Show 14's stuffed full of brand new sketches about everything from gerbils giving birth to emergency rescue cleanliness etiquette. Want to know how to get your own castle? Then jump in and find out! The answers are right here.*

*Terms and Conditions apply. Release The Clowns cannot guarantee that the answers are indeed here. Or anywhere. Or that there are even any answers at all and not, in fact, just even more questions spiralling off into an infinite morass of pointless questions, none of which have any answers.

13 - unlucky for some, but not for you, because Release the Clowns Episode 13 features the very best of episodes 1 to 5. That's right, as Nick and Alex are both enjoying their birthdays, we decided to free up some time for partying by allowing you to relive the very best moments of the formative shows of what is fast becoming the most popular comedy sketch podcast in Sidcup.

GASP! at the ferocity of a medieval siege

QUAIL! before the wrath of God

WONDER! at the audacity of marketing executives

REMEMBER! what a letter is

MIAOW! with the soap opera kittys

All this and much, much more as Release the Clowns delivers 30 minutes of peak silliness, specially selected to delight, titillate and surprise.