The sketch comedy podcast that's a bop on the head with an inflatable mallet.
Episodes
Monday Oct 15, 2018
Monday Oct 15, 2018
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.
Monday Oct 01, 2018
Monday Oct 01, 2018
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...
Monday Sep 17, 2018
Monday Sep 17, 2018
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.
Monday Sep 03, 2018
Monday Sep 03, 2018
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!
Monday Aug 20, 2018
Monday Aug 20, 2018
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!
Monday Aug 06, 2018
Monday Aug 06, 2018
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.
Monday Jul 23, 2018
Monday Jul 23, 2018
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!
Monday Jul 09, 2018
Monday Jul 09, 2018
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.
Monday Jun 25, 2018
Monday Jun 25, 2018
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!
Monday Jun 11, 2018
Monday Jun 11, 2018
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.
Monday May 28, 2018
Monday May 28, 2018
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!
Monday May 14, 2018
Monday May 14, 2018
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?
Monday Apr 30, 2018
Monday Apr 30, 2018
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.
Monday Apr 16, 2018
Monday Apr 16, 2018
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!
Monday Apr 02, 2018
Monday Apr 02, 2018
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!
Monday Mar 19, 2018
Monday Mar 19, 2018
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.
Monday Mar 05, 2018
Monday Mar 05, 2018
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.
Monday Feb 19, 2018
Monday Feb 19, 2018
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.
Monday Feb 12, 2018
Monday Feb 12, 2018
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.
Monday Feb 05, 2018
Monday Feb 05, 2018
In this week's episode of Kuala Lumpur's 5th most popular comedy sketch podcast, we're searching for answers to the important questions of our time: what the heck's going on at the Olympics? What happens if you turn left at the roundabout? What makes dolphins disgruntled? Is there a discernible difference between Bruce Willis and Jason Statham? Will we find the answers? Does that even matter? If a bath is filling at 13 cubic litres an hour and emptying at 270 millilitres a minute, when is someone going to remember to put the plug in? Find out now!