Yawp Mag ISSUE 19 Getting Ready for the Comedy Festival | Page 28

Adam Richard
There is an old saying ‘never work with children or animals.’ But that saying is not relevant here so I’ll
move on to talk about Adam Richard. And when I say ‘Adam Richard’ I mean Adam Richard. I do not
mean somebody else. The fabulous Adam Richard arrived early for a cup of tea (lipton tea, with milk,
no sugar) and his booming, infectious laugh can be heard before he enters the room. He’s naturally
After ten years on breakfast radio, and moving on to becoming a team captain on Spicks and Specks,
zombies are coming, and they’re fabulous.

As a veteran…
Stop
Oh yes. I had seen a lot of very homophobic
stand up and thought ‘well somebody needs to be
redressing the balance…’

Yeah it was a constant battle over content versus
delivery…
(Laughs) Well I could do that show now…but it
was really hard work. It was called ‘tragedy’ and it
was very sad. There were at least three deaths in
that show…one of them in the audience. (Laughs)

minute set in a week!
Yes, I mean, I did do a few shows while I was
I did a full hour eighteen months after.
on breakfast radio. I would just rock up to a tech
rehearsal with what looked like a set list for a
band…just topics. Some of them weren’t even
Mad. Absolutely insane. It wasn’t even a full fully formed jokes…and then I’d look at my watch
eighteen months before I did it either. I had a after almost an hour and that was the show. By the
end of the second week it was a really good show.
performer in me knew how to do the show…but I’d get home about 11 then sleep for four hours
the writer in me had things he wanted to say that and get up for radio.
the performer wasn’t very good at saying.