Rowland Rivron

Goon Pod

This week a slight departure as we go back forty years to the alternative comedy landscape of the 1980s and Tyler chats with Rowland Rivron, that difficult-to-define Swiss army knife of a man who has done a bit of pretty much everything: musician, comedian, actor, writer, voice-over artiste, panel game captain, television presenter, dancer and at least a dozen other things.

Rowland was partly responsible for one of the funniest hours of British television: The Comic Strip Presents Mr Jolly Lives Next Door, starring Rik Mayall & Adrian Edmondson. Tyler was keen to discuss this in particular with him in a conversation which also covered:

• Interviewing Spike Milligan
• Sharing a flat with Rik Mayall
• Raw Sex and The Idiot Bastard Band
• Money for old rope voiceover work
• Interviewing Tony Blackburn in the middle of the Thames
• The Groovy Fellers and Set of Six
• Working with French & Saunders
• Winning Let’s Dance For Sport Relief doing Weapon Of Choice
• Getting drunk with Kevin McNally
• Shooting Stars & Jack and Jeremy’s Real Lives
• Caravanning around Europe

… And a whole lot more!