Who remembers Spangles?

Green Room Special: Scott Adams Scott Adams is back from Edinburgh and straight into the Green Room hot seat. This week, it's all about the juggling act — how do you run a business, manage a family, and still chase the comedy dream without losing your mind? We get into time poverty, the Edinburgh Fringe grind, Scott's new Van Man character, his ongoing (one-sided) feud with Jack Whitehall,...

From winning a televised comedy talent show with a £100,000 prize to warming up studio audiences for sitcoms filmed at Elstree — Patrick Monahan has done it all, and he's done it with a grin you can hear through your speakers. In this Spotlight Special, Patrick sits down with us to trace the unlikely path from open-mic nights in grotty flat-roof pubs to prime-time TV. He unpacks the craft behind c...

Recorded just days before our massive marquee shows with Russell Kane, former co-host Ross Downes makes his return for an unmissable Green Room Special! ​This week, we’re stepping out of the spotlight and taking a seat in the crowd to count down the Top 10 Comedy Night Sins—and we aren't holding back: ​Front-Row Fatalities: The hidden dangers of sitting up front, attention-seeking audience members...

This week, Paul is joined by comedian, pub obsessive and beer evangelist James Dowdeswell for a proper chinwag about British boozers, comedy and the sacred art of standing at the bar. Having grown up above a pub, James explains why the great British boozer matters more than ever — and why he took to the TEDx stage to defend pub culture. Inside this episode: The Extras audition: How chair-humping i...

Including such dramas as employing acts no one wants to work with, promoters who are crooks, not getting paid, bringer gigs, bad tech, bad vibes and the deluded promoter who was running a gig in between collecting trolleys from Morrisons. You're an act with a beef? Well here's your gravy!! Who Remembers Spangles? is hosted by 'Comedy Buoys' promoter Paul Dunn (Pablo) and Lowestoft-born comedian Sc...

How does a Welsh accent end up sounding Bengali — and can one driveway video really change a comedian’s entire career? This week, Paul Dunn meets Wilson Milton: comedian, promoter, social media sensation and part-time carpet fitter whose brutally accurate accent videos have racked up millions of views. Wilson reveals how a spontaneous clip filmed while reversing down a driveway exploded to 7.5 mil...

What do Marc Bolan, David Bowie, George Martin, Eric Clapton, and Elton John all have in common? They’ve all crossed paths with the extraordinary Steve Jameson! Before he was tearing up the comedy circuit as the legendary old-school comic Sol Bernstein, Steve lived a dozen lives in show business. In this episode, Steve sits down to share mind-blowing, unfiltered tales from a career that spans deca...

A pub fight, a shattered kneecap and a bloke off his face in a train station at 8am — and that's before the Top 5 even starts. Paul and Scott count down the Top 5 times the nation stayed up late, demand the return of alpha football managers, tackle manscaping etiquette at PureGym and revisit a Millennium Eve story that should never be told in polite company. Oh, and Prince. Obviously. Who Remember...

Paul is joined by fellow northern comedian, MC, and promoter Stevie Gray for a candid chat about life at the circuit level. They work through Paul's Top 10 list of the things that quietly get an act crossed off the booking list — think getting shirty over directions, turning up late, tech demands revealed only on arrival, bringing an uninvited entourage, and spending half your set road-testing mat...

What happens when you cross a former stand-up, an IT data nerd, and a genuine comedy obsessive? You get Tony Dunn — and this is one of our best guests yet. Tony is the brain behind Comedy IQ, a subscription data platform giving promoters real intelligence on which acts are actually worth booking in 2025 — tracking social stats, podcast reach, touring history and more. If you've ever wondered how c...

What happens when a stand-up comedian amd a Comedy promoter sit down to celebrate history’s greatest shockers? You get a masterclass in nostalgia, chaos, and why getting older is beautifully liberating. ​This week, Paul is joined by comic Justin Panks to count down the Top 5 Underdog Moments of All Time. Inspired by Cape Verde matching Spain on the pitch, the boys dive into the legendary moments w...

The World Cup is supposed to be the greatest show on earth. In reality, it has always involved a surprising amount of absolute rubbish. This week, we revisit the footballers’ records nobody asked for, England failing to qualify and forcing the country to pretend to support Scotland, sticker albums abandoned after two packets, and those cheap Woolies footballs that could be launched into orbit by t...

Scott and Pablo are back, and this week they've made a solemn vow: fewer swears, more sensitive listeners. That lasts about six minutes. Between debating whether "bollocks" counts if it was used in the Sex Pistols' defence at the Old Bailey, and coining the term "ring cheese" (don't ask — actually, do ask, it's brilliant), the lads somehow manage to make a new leaf feel entirely pointless. There's...

There is no Kier Starmer in this episode. Some comedian gossip included and not limited to Bob Monkhouse, Spiderman's Dad, Marcus Brigstocke's sexy dancing and find out who Scott Adams nearly had a fight with. Subscribe and follow. Go on. Who Remembers Spangles? is hosted by 'Comedy Buoys' promoter Paul Dunn (Pablo) and Lowestoft-born comedian Scott Adams. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy fo...

This week we're recording live from the dressing room of the iconic Britannia Pier in Great Yarmouth, and we've got a very special guest — Shea, the man behind the bookings at one of the UK's most beloved seaside venues. We chat about what it's like to programme a 1,300-seat pier theatre, the acts that refuse to die (think Jim Davidson, Roy Chubby Brown, Joe Pasquale and Mick Miller), and the show...

World exclusive. We sat down with Matt Price to talk about a stand-up special that looks like it’s on the verge of collapse — bad lighting, chaotic crowd, and a man who probably shouldn’t be anywhere near the tech. And somehow… it works. See here.https://youtu.be/iiZnljvMpAc?si=bR8H_6n7IilsDlyB We get into chaos vs control, why polished specials might be missing the point, and whether this kind of...

This week we’re diving into the moments where laughing will get you judged, cancelled, or quietly asked to leave. From real-life disasters to the kind of situations where you really shouldn’t laugh (but absolutely do), we count down our Top 5 inappropriate laughs. We also get into the rise of shows like Last One Laughing UK – why watching comedians try not to laugh is so addictive, and what it say...

Episode 77 of Who Remembers Spangles? heads back to the kind of pub that would never survive today… This week’s Top 5: Retro Pub No-Nos 🍺 From jukebox abusers to bar blockers and some seriously questionable Saturday lunchtime behaviour — it’s a proper trip back to when pubs were chaos, smoky, and completely unregulated. You’ll definitely recognise a few of these… and there’s a fair chance you wer...

This week we count down the Top 5 audience crimes against comedy — the things that make comedians groan and promoters quietly lose the will to live. From late arrivals and mid-set chatter to spectacularly badly timed heckling, we’ve seen it all. Paul also reveals the one audience behaviour that drives promoters absolutely mad during the interval. Plus: kebab shop hacks, carvery hacks, and more sto...

The stage might be polished. The green room rarely is. Episode 75 slips backstage and takes a look at the unspoken rules of comedy’s most volatile space. The power plays. The awkward energy. The desperate attempts to “just have a quick word”. The stories that aren’t really stories. There’s the comic who vanishes minutes before they’re due on. The surprise entourage that no one agreed to. The “netw...

Episode 74 – Do Dogs Shit Due North? Science. SatNavs. Labradors. We’re getting dangerously close to the truth this week as we investigate whether dogs genuinely line themselves up with the Earth’s magnetic field before dropping the kids off. Yes, really. Elsewhere, we’re demanding answers from AI after ChatGPT’s image generator once again turns Paul into Russ Abbott and Scott into Wilfred Brambel...

There is absolutely no talk about the Beckhams in this episode. None. Spurred on by Arsenal once again finding an impressive new way to bottle it, this episode of Who Remembers Spangles? turns to elite-level self-sabotage with a Top 5 titled: Five Times Someone Had It All… and Completely Fecked It Up. The list ranges from reality-TV certainties and Hollywood royalty to comedy giants and a jeweller...

This week on Who Remembers Spangles? we spiral cheerfully through Britain’s favourite pastimes: overreaction, nostalgia, and finding comfort in things that cost £7.99. There’s talk of snap political certainty, knee-jerk opinions, and why everyone is always absolutely sure about everything. That leads neatly into a nostalgic Top 5 Times Everyone Got Hysterical About Some Bullshit — including the Ic...

This week’s episode begins in the most glamorous of settings: Scott broadcasting from a Premier Inn lounge in Sunderland , asking the big questions life throws at a man surrounded by patterned carpet and unlimited coffee refills. From there, it’s straight into a Top 5 of celebrity deaths that genuinely stopped us in our tracks — from outright murder, to cultural immortals we all foolishly assumed...

Which comedian, who is now a household name, didn't pay their fuel contributions in shared car journeys?! Scott’s back this week after going suspiciously AWOL last episode — complete with a dubious sick note scrutinised by Spangles HR. Surprising snow falls and New  Year’s resolutions immediately start to fade like a politicians promise. Whilst leaning into comedy industry gossip this we...