Sporting Misadventures with Chris Hoy

Joining us this week is the star of stage and screen Katherine Parkinson, with roles in the IT Crowd, Doc Martin, Here We Go and much much more. She talks water polo confusion, football frustration and egg-and-spoon races. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sportingmisadventures/ And let us hear about your own...

We've once again dipped outside the comedy world for this week's guest, Geraint Thomas. Tour de France winner, Olympic champion and podcast host in his own route, he chats winning the Tour de France, naked saunas and much more. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sportingmisadventures/ And let us hear about your...

This week's guest started off as a stand-up comedian and somehow ended up finding a football club for Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney. Wrexham FC executive director Humphrey Ker joins us to talk about the backstory to Welcome to Wrexham, his other footballing love of Liverpool and his sporting exploits as a 6ft 7in schoolboy. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/Sporting...

Jack Whitehall likes to play down his sporting successes but he's a hurdler, barefooted kicker of a rugby ball and goal assist king to former England striker Jermain Defoe. Plus, he's this week's guest with a seemingly endless list of sporting misadventures. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sportingmisadventu...

Stand-up comedian Ross Noble joins us this week to talk about his love of motorbikes and two-wheel sporting misadventures involving being attacked by dogs in Transylvania and being chased by a man in a bear suit. Ross has just embarked on a fresh UK Tour, Jibber Jabber Jamboree and tickets are available from https://www.rossnoble.com/#/shows . Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twi...

This week Vittorio Angelone joins us in the hot seat to talk Italian football, rugby injuries and stand-up gone wrong. Vittorio's excellent new tour Who Do You Think You Are? I Am got under way this week. To get tickets, go to https://vittorioangelone.com/tour . Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sportingmisadv...

For the first time, we're joined by a non-comedian as the England fast bowler (and funny man) took time to talk ahead of England's tour of India. Ahead of the first Test on Thursday, the World Cup winner talked about that super over, sledging and his bizarre reason for not supporting his local Newcastle but a lowly London side. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/Sportin...

We're back from a break for season 2 and joining us first of all is the superb Rob Auton ahead of his UK tour. He talks everything from sports you shouldn't play in a conservatory to poetry imagining a stationery store worker is treated like a Premier League footballer. Plus, Chris receives a letter from one of his comedy icons. Rob's brilliant tour gets under way at the Soho Theatre in London on...

Six-time Olympic champion Sir Chris Hoy and sports journalist Matt Majendie are gearing up for season 2 of the podcast with a number of great comedic guests to talk about their sporting calamities and triumphs. Episode one of the new series goes live on January 17. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sportingmis...

Actor, comedian and cricket lover Miles Jupp talks concussions on the field of play, pretending to be a sports journalist on an England tour of India and a chance encounter with one of the Scottish-singing brothers gone wrong. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sportingmisadventures/ And let us hear about your...

Sport helped kickstart Kieran Hodgson's career with an unlikely stand-up show about the disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong. So, this week's guest talks about his love of cycling, fallen idols, and a pre-rowing competition speech from the Hollywood actor. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's three for the price of one as Irish comedy sketch trio Foil, Arms and Hog pop along ahead of their UK tour and relive how they combined together to pull off their own collective sporting misadventure. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sportingmisadventures/ And let us hear about your own sporting misadven...

The brains behind Taskmaster is the perfect creator of new sports and comes up with one on the podcast. He talks us through his song 'Chris Hoy loves a saveloy', equine cricket, the 4x400m relay with a twist and much more more. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sportingmisadventures/ Hosted on Acast. See acast...

This week we go Down Under where we're joined by Aussie brothers Miles and Archie Shepherd, whose lip syncing of sports commentary has taken off massively globally. They talk about their desire to become sports stars and how a love for performing all began in school assembly. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/...

To mark our 20th episode, Chris and Matt turn the questions on themselves to find out their own sporting misadventures from naked laps of the velodrome to arse splinters. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sportingmisadventures/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Milo McCabe is a stand-up comedian and presenter whose character Troy Hawke has become a viral hit. Between them, they have been knocked out in the ring, and twice left Manchester City and England midfielder Jack Grealish in a state of confusion. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sportingmisadventures/ Hosted...

Ahead of his new TV show, Grow Another Foot, the stand-up comedian and Last Leg presenter joins us to talk all things Paralympics, Ashes cricket and his ever-growing list of rugby league injuries. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sportingmisadventures/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informati...

Fresh from a cycle ride across Europe, Germany's comedy ambassador to the UK hops out of the saddle to discuss his epic biking and having royal approval from the new king before turning quizmaster on Chris. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sportingmisadventures/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more...

Glenn Moore takes time out from the breakfast show he co-hosts on Absolute Radio and preparing for another Edinburgh Fringe festival run to entertain us with embarrassing himself with Jessica Ennis-Hill, a goal-line miss that still haunts him and the sporting creation Dom Ball. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - https://www.instagram.co...

Simon has made a name for himself pranking the likes of Sepp Blatter, Theresa May and the Manchester City football team. Now he's performing a new show, Xavier, as himself at the Edinburgh Fringe. He joined us to talk about the difference between the Swiss and Liverpool prison systems and being sworn at by Boris Johnson. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadv...

Just before heading to the Edinburgh Festival with her new show, stand-up comedian and lifelong Crystal Palace fan Chloe Petts comes on to talk split trousers, suddenly turning her back on goalkeeping and her sporting invention 'Hit This'. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sportingmisadventures/ Hosted on Acas...

The star of Ghosts and Stath Lets Flats joins us on the pod to talk about egg throwing, disappointing his cricket-mad dad and how he came up with the term Platty Joobs for the Queen's Platinum Jubilee. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sportingmisadventures/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more info...

Spurs fan Rhys James comes on the pod this week to discuss the agonies of following Harry Kane's future, how a holiday strop saw him seek tennis revenge over his family and the time his Winter Olympic aspirations ended with a split chin in A&E. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sportingmisadventures/ Hoste...

This week's guest swapped a career as a pharmacist to become a stand-up comedian, and joins the pod to talk dashed football dreams, basketball sendings off and going head-to-head with our host for a dartboard in Richard Osman's House of Games. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sportingmisadventures/ Hosted on...

This week's guest is a Leeds football fan, who went from her wedding day to playing Soccer Aid in the space of 24 hours. She talks everything from maiming pigeons to her own sporting creation. Follow Sporting Misadventures on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SportingMisadvn - and Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sportingmisadventures/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.