The Variety Show

Welcome to Tea Break. These small bonus downloads are the place to find all our random brain farts and other improv moments. Brought to you by our management company, Business Incorporated. This time Tom is looking for his Summer Aesthetic. All recorded on our phones, so sorry for the quality. Find out more about all the shows at https://channel84.co.uk .

The Variety Show Podcast returns with one of our most ridiculous episodes yet as Rob and Tom tackle everything from podcast SEO frustrations to Melody Pops musical disasters. We kick things off with a rant about another podcast using a confusingly similar name, why discoverability matters, and the realities of building an independent podcast in 2026. Then Tom shares his spoiler-free thoughts on Su...

James Gunn’s Supergirl Review | Is Social Media Getting It Wrong? In this bonus episode of The Variety Show from Studio:Channel84 , Tom heads straight from the cinema to give his immediate, spoiler-light thoughts on James Gunn’s Supergirl and asks one big question: have online film reviews become more harmful than helpful? After seeing the latest DC Studios release, Tom shares why he believes Supe...

The Variety Show is back and this episode somehow manages to cover football, children’s TV, floppy disks and fake hazelnuts in the same conversation. Rob and Tom kick things off by trying to work out why the World Cup feels strangely invisible this year. Where are the flags, the mascots, the wall-to-wall coverage and the endless football hype? Is it just us, or does this tournament feel different?...

Welcome to Tea Break. These small bonus downloads are the place to find all our random brain farts and other improv moments. Brought to you by our management company, Business Incorporated. This time Rob tests Tom's Genius. All recorded on our phones, so sorry for the quality. Find out more about all the shows at https://channel84.co.uk .

Welcome to Tea Break. These small bonus downloads are the place to find all our random brain farts and other improv moments. Brought to you by our management company, Business Incorporated. Find out more about all the shows at https://channel84.co.uk .

Tom and Rob are back for Episode 82 and, after the emotional ADHD special, normal service has resumed. This week the lads dive headfirst into the wonderful chaos that is Eurovision. Was Sam Ryder robbed? Is the voting system completely broken? Should countries stop awarding points to each other and leave the whole thing to the public? And how did the UK’s entry become annoyingly catchy despite eve...

This week’s episode of The Variety Show from Studio:Channel84 is a little different. No usual chaos. No Rob. No ridiculous debates (well… mostly). Just Tom, out on a late-night walk, talking honestly about something that’s shaped far more of life than he ever realised: ADHD . After being diagnosed with adult ADHD at 42 , Tom opens up about what the process actually looked like — from NHS Right to...

Barclays tech support apparently runs on spreadsheets. Pearl Jam may or may not be speaking English. One child becomes emotionally invested in the tragic fate of fictional people who “didn’t want to die.” Just another normal week on The Variety Show. This episode spirals through customer service rage, impossible-to-understand song lyrics, and one of the strangest debates we’ve had yet: if X-Men mu...

Episode 79 of The Variety Show from Studio:Channel84 is what happens when nostalgia, snacks, and absolute nonsense collide. The long-running cap gun saga finally gets its “satisfactory ending” — involving a suspiciously realistic cheap plastic gun, Russian/Ukrainian caps, and the discovery that modern versions are somehow louder, smokier, and more likely to explode the toy itself. Along the way, R...

This week on The Variety Show from Studio:Channel84 , things start weird and somehow get even stranger. The episode opens with an unexpected Peppa Pig monologue that turns into a full-blown character assassination of Daddy Pig, Peppa, and the entire family dynamic. It’s not the Peppa Pig take you were expecting. From there the chaos continues with The Chipmunk Challenge , introducing a brand new g...

In this episode of The Variety Show , Rob and Tom dive head-first into the chaos of misheard song lyrics , questionable 90s nostalgia , and the kind of dangerous childhood experiments that would absolutely get you arrested today. It starts with a nostalgic trip down memory lane with cap bombs — those plastic missile-shaped toys loaded with paper caps that produced a satisfyingly loud bang and that...

Episode 76 of The Variety Show is here and it might be the strangest mix of topics we’ve had in a while. Tom and Rob start with movies, including the Netflix sci-fi action film War Machine , which unexpectedly turns into a full appreciation segment for Alan Ritchson . There’s also a chat about the different eras of Spider-Man films , why Andrew Garfield might be underrated, and how modern blockbus...

Episode 75 is chaos by design. With less than 24 hours before release, Rob and TJ hit record and commit to a raw 60-minute, no-edit episode. No music. No safety net. Just parenting exhaustion, 90s nostalgia, snack reviews, and an unexpectedly furious Peppa Pig rant. Yes. We’re talking about Daddy Pig. The episode spirals (in a good way) through Peppa Pig’s portrayal of dads, questionable Bluey boo...

This week on The Variety Show , it’s Cream Eggs & Coping Stones — and yes, it’s exactly as unhinged as it sounds. Rob drills into his wall and discovers a soggy brickwork nightmare thanks to porous coping stones (because nothing says fun like unexpected water damage). Meanwhile, Tom discovers his robot vacuum has been secretly sabotaging him with a “Do Not Disturb” mode that basically means “D...

We’re recording Episode 73 of The Variety Show LIVE , and it’s an absolute rollercoaster of nostalgia, snacks, questionable adverts, and childhood trauma. This episode starts with the usual nonsense before Tom absolutely loses it over a baffling Wickes “Proud as a Peacock” advert , followed by a full-blown Guess the Company, Guess the Slogan quiz featuring iconic campaigns from Gillette, Toys R Us...

It finally happened. One innocent snack chat. One unfortunate Freudian slip. And suddenly Rob has offered the nation a Choc Dick . In Episode 72 of The Variety Show, Tom and Rob return for another round of nostalgic nonsense, snack-based investigations and passionate rants that spiral wildly out of control. There’s a new season taste test format, a deep dive into modern Lego ruining childhoods, qu...

Welcome to 25 Days of Advent: The Christmas Number Ones Edition — our festive countdown where Tom and Rob celebrate the holiday season by digging through the #1 box office films from every December between 1984 and 2008 . Each day, we pull one film at random and decide where it belongs on our growing festive leaderboard — from “so Christmassy it jingles” all the way down to “absolutely no tinsel i...

Welcome to 25 Days of Advent: The Christmas Number Ones Edition — our festive countdown where Tom and Rob celebrate the holiday season by digging through the #1 box office films from every December between 1984 and 2008 . Each day, we pull one film at random and decide where it belongs on our growing festive leaderboard — from “so Christmassy it jingles” all the way down to “absolutely no tinsel i...

Welcome to 25 Days of Advent: The Christmas Number Ones Edition — our festive countdown where Tom and Rob celebrate the holiday season by digging through the #1 box office films from every December between 1984 and 2008 . Each day, we pull one film at random and decide where it belongs on our growing festive leaderboard — from “so Christmassy it jingles” all the way down to “absolutely no tinsel i...

Welcome to 25 Days of Advent: The Christmas Number Ones Edition — our festive countdown where Tom and Rob celebrate the holiday season by digging through the #1 box office films from every December between 1984 and 2008 . Each day, we pull one film at random and decide where it belongs on our growing festive leaderboard — from “so Christmassy it jingles” all the way down to “absolutely no tinsel i...

WARNING - We tested out a walkabout recorder rather than the Lavaliers. I know it's not as bad as I think but I still want you to know, this isn't the normal quality!! We are working on it, I promise! For the final episode of the year, Tom and Rob leave the studio behind and take a festive wander through two familiar towns to answer one important question: which one actually feels like Christmas?...

Welcome to 25 Days of Advent: The Christmas Number Ones Edition — our festive countdown where Tom and Rob celebrate the holiday season by digging through the #1 box office films from every December between 1984 and 2008 . Each day, we pull one film at random and decide where it belongs on our growing festive leaderboard — from “so Christmassy it jingles” all the way down to “absolutely no tinsel i...

Welcome to 25 Days of Advent: The Christmas Number Ones Edition — our festive countdown where Tom and Rob celebrate the holiday season by digging through the #1 box office films from every December between 1984 and 2008 . Each day, we pull one film at random and decide where it belongs on our growing festive leaderboard — from “so Christmassy it jingles” all the way down to “absolutely no tinsel i...

Welcome to 25 Days of Advent: The Christmas Number Ones Edition — our festive countdown where Tom and Rob celebrate the holiday season by digging through the #1 box office films from every December between 1984 and 2008 . Each day, we pull one film at random and decide where it belongs on our growing festive leaderboard — from “so Christmassy it jingles” all the way down to “absolutely no tinsel i...