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The Variety Show Podcast from Studio:Channel84Running since 2021, hosted by Rob and TJ, The Variety Show is a comedy podcast that mixes pop culture, films, TV, gaming, music, nostalgia, parenting, strange news, quizzes, taste tests and whatever else grabs our attention that week.One minute we're debating classic movies or reviewing the latest cinema releases. The next we're arguing over ridiculous snacks, reliving growing up in the 80s and 90s, or trying to make each other laugh with bizarre games and challenges.Nothing is off the table for long. Expect honest opinions, plenty of laughs, questionable decisions and the occasional tangent that somehow becomes the best part of the episode.If you enjoy conversations that feel like sitting in the pub with two mates—funny, unfiltered and never taking themselves too seriously—you'll fit right in.New episodes are released every other Monday.Formerly The Channel 84 Variety Sh
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- Today1h 23m
We Can Cancel Our Own Show, Thanks
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Can a potato crisp justify being roast potato flavoured? Rob and Tom have questions. Episode 93 of The Variety Show from Studio:Channel84 brings another round of snack testing, 90s nostalgia, questionable listener contributions and arguments that probably didn’t need to happen.This week’s Snack Sack features Lay’s beef grilled ribs crisps, limited edition Creme Egg Oreos and maple flavoured Aero Scoops. There are strong expectations, suspicious sniffing and plenty of debate over whether the flavours deliver what’s written on the packet. Can an Oreo win over two reluctant biscuit critics? Will maple chocolate live up to its smell? And can anyone make sense of our scoring system long enough to put the results in order?Do You Remember brings Original Silly Putty back to the table. There’s stretching, snapping, a questionable scent and an experiment involving a Beano. It’s all connected to Christmas stockings for the CheapShow boys, which comes as something of a surprise to Rob.For the quizzes, a £1.50 90s trivia book from Aldi takes over hosting duties. Rob faces a round of sci-fi film questions before Tom gets tested on children’s cartoons. Play along as confidence, memory and the reliability of the book itself come under scrutiny. Knowing the answer and agreeing with the quizmaster may turn out to be two different things.Listener feedback sends us back into the school junk art debate: should children’s creations come home, or could making something be enough? An envelope-related confession also gives us considerably more to discuss than anyone reasonably expected.Meanwhile, Teddy submits a samurai sword hypothetical that immediately needs a disclaimer. Rob raises a deeply unpleasant question about public toilets, and Captain Picard inspires a discussion about foreign-language swearing before the watershed. Naturally, a Star Trek tangent follows.Finally, Was It Best Left in the 90s? returns with two tracks from 1995, including PJ & Duncan’s U Krazy Katz. One gets to stay, one gets left behind, and the conversation somehow finds its way to the Teletubbies.Listen, tackle the quizzes and decide whether our snack opinions deserve defending. Then send your questions, voice messages and suggestions through thevarietyshow.co.uk. We’re always happy to have somebody else take responsibility for the next ridiculous conversation.#TheVarietyShow #UKComedyPodcast #90sNostalgia #SnackReviews #PopCulture
- 2 weeks ago1h 12m
Whats wrong McVities, are you and Jaffa ok?
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!McVitie’s, are you and Jaffa okay? This week, Tom and Rob put Jaffa Cookies, Club Mint Digestives and white Hobnobs through the Snack Sack. There are high hopes, missing flavours and a level of biscuit disappointment that feels deeply personal.Rob celebrates another birthday with a box of Maltesers, while our non-BBC-affiliated Question Time tackles envelope licking, what every modern cinema needs and whether schools should keep the junk modelling they send home with our kids.Do You Remember takes us back to handwritten Game Boy level codes and knowing phone numbers off by heart. Then it’s your turn to play along: can you identify ten children’s and family TV theme tunes played backwards?Finally, the Smurfs take on The Prodigy’s “Firestarter” in Was It Best Left in the 90s? What could possibly go wrong?How did you score in the quiz, and have you tried the Jaffa Cookies? Send us your verdicts, questions and snack suggestions at thevarietyshow.co.uk. Follow the show, leave a review and share this episode with your favourite biscuit critic.#TheVarietyShow #ComedyPodcast #BritishPodcast #SnackReviews #JaffaCakes #McVities #90sNostalgia #RetroGaming #GameBoy #TVThemeQuiz #TheProdigy #StudioChannel84
- 4 weeks ago1h 18m
Before Smartphones, We Read Toilet Duck
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Welcome back to The Variety Show, where Tom and Rob are asking the important questions in life. How do you get out of paying a restaurant bill? Are social media influencers becoming unbearable? And can you identify a classic video game from nothing more than its sound effects?Having survived Blackpool, the pair return with another helping of questionable opinions, retro nostalgia, ridiculous conversations and the sort of arguments that really shouldn’t require this much thought.Question Time (but definitely not the BBC version) kicks things off with a restaurant bill dilemma and listener questions. As usual, what should be a straightforward discussion takes a few unexpected turns.Then it’s time for Do You Remember?, the nostalgia game where Tom and Rob attempt to drag forgotten memories back into the daylight. Expect a trip through the sort of things you haven’t thought about for years, alongside the usual arguments about what counts as a proper memory.There’s also a rant about modern influencers, the joys of wandering around St Albans with a camera, and Tom’s plans for a new YouTube series called Lunch Break. Because apparently having several podcasts isn’t enough to keep him occupied.The Snack Test returns, and this time the humble Jaffa Cake gets dragged into the world of digestive biscuits. Is combining two British biscuit favourites a stroke of genius, or have we created something that doesn’t quite satisfy either craving? Tom and Rob put their taste buds to work and deliver their usual unnecessarily specific verdicts.For the main quiz, it’s Guess the Video Game from the Sound Effect. Ten games spanning the late 1980s, early 1990s and 2000s, with Rob challenged to identify each one using only its familiar noises. How much gaming knowledge has survived the decades, and how much has been replaced with completely useless information?And, naturally, there’s more 1990s music nostalgia before the episode wraps up, with some familiar names from the era making an appearance.It’s another episode of The Variety Show from Studio:Channel84. British comedy podcasting with retro gaming, snack reviews, pop culture, nostalgia and two blokes who can turn absolutely anything into a debate.New episodes every other Monday at https://thevarietyshow.co.uk#TheVarietyShow #UKComedyPodcast #RetroGaming #90sNostalgia #PodcastE-mail Us:podcasts@channel84.co.uk (Both)tj@thevarietyshow.co.ukrob@untitledscifishow.co.ukFind out more about the Studio:https://channel84.co.uk
- Sep 27, 20261h 16m
One Pringle or Four? This Is Apparently an Argument
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!A nostalgic Transformers cinema trip should be straightforward. Book the tickets, watch some robots, explain why everyone needed the toys. Instead, Tom gets a PG-versus-12A headache and a son who’s spotted a useful opening in the ongoing Spider-Man negotiations.In Episode 90 of The Variety Show from Studio:Channel84, Rob and Tom dig into Tom’s experience booking the Transformers 40th anniversary screening through Cineworld, the conflicting age-rating information he found, and the bonus footage they missed because someone needed a wee. Would you complain, leave, or spend the opening minutes frantically checking the BBFC on your phone?Listener questions send the film chat in several directions. Tom wants Pierce Brosnan to have had a shot at Casino Royale, Rob wants six-hour Lord of the Rings films, and Jurassic Park briefly gets a Care Bears makeover. Then there’s the cinema snack debate: McDonald’s at the door, nachos in the auditorium, disappearing ice cream counters and the entirely reasonable ambition to watch a film with a Chinese takeaway.Rob’s car also has opinions, mostly expressed through alarms and unexpected braking. Cue a rant about parking sensors, automatic full beams and touchscreen controls that turn switching on the fan into a small administrative task. Bring back the bloody buttons.In the Snack Sack, three tubes of Pringles face judgement: baked cheese and garlic, Burger King Bacon Double Cheeseburger XL and the Fallout mystery flavour. There’s disagreement over garlic, a surprisingly convincing burger aftertaste, and a separate argument about whether normal people eat one Pringle or a stack. The Fallout verdict? Leave it in the vault.Fancy testing your film knowledge? Play along with eight rounds of a five-clue movie quiz featuring IMDb ratings, release years and some baffling five-out-of-ten reviews. Apparently, a film can make you laugh, cry and punch the air while still being aggressively average.Finally, the 90s music showdown pits Guns N’ Roses’ November Rain against Westlife’s I Have a Dream. First, though, Rob and Tom need a word about a greatest rock songs list featuring Britney Spears, TLC and Dr. Dre.Movies, music, snack reviews, parenting and everyday irritations. New episodes every other Monday.#TheVarietyShow #StudioChannel84 #UKComedyPodcast #MovieQuiz #Pringles
- Sep 13, 20261h 5m
Microwave Chips, Movie Swearing and a Weaponised Fart
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Episode 89 begins with a simple question: what happens when tap to pay stops working and you’ve left your wallet at home? After a £99.98 Lidl close call, Tom takes aim at Sky Mobile’s Roy Keane advert, Rob reveals that he had no idea who Roy Keane was, and the pair establish that repeatedly smashing a phone against a card reader is not a convincing demonstration of modern technology.Then it’s time to decide how much swearing belongs in a PG film. Inspired by Star Trek IV, Coyote vs Acme and the BBFC’s wonderfully vague definition of “mild bad language”, Tom and Rob work through the acceptable uses of bloody, bugger, piss, bitch and several other words you probably weren’t expecting to hear during a discussion about children’s films.Gaming brings the arrival of Nintendo’s new Zelda remake, a rare pre-order from Tom, an Ocarina pin badge and another furious encounter with online scalpers. With consoles appearing on eBay before anyone has received them, the proposed solution involves Nintendo accounts, activation restrictions and considerably more common sense.The Snack Sack returns with a microwave chip showdown. McCain’s Quick Chips — formerly the far better-named Microchips — face Birds Eye Express Fries. One is soggy yet somehow dry; the other resembles day-old McDonald’s chips and provides an unexpected jaw workout. The salt does most of the work, Fries to Go remain missing, and the air fryer wins by default.There’s also unfinished business from the Foley challenge. Trains, whales and warp-speed spacecraft are recreated using plates, mouths, audio effects and one heavily manipulated fart. Rob misunderstands the assignment, Tom’s wife unknowingly votes for the fart, and dignity quietly leaves the studio.Finally, a movie-franchise quiz makes everyone feel ancient as The Hunger Games, Cars, Shrek, Pokémon, Jurassic Park, Terminator, Alien, Star Trek, James Bond and Quatermass are placed in order. Then Pretty Green Eyes battles Stop the Rock in a sweat-soaked burst of 90s club nostalgia.Main website: www.thevarietyshow.co.uk Studio: www.channel84.co.uk E-mail your questions: tj@thevarietyshow.co.uk#TheVarietyShow #UKComedyPodcast #MoviePodcast #GamingPodcast #90sNostalgia
- Aug 30, 202647 min
Amazon, Adverts and 90s Dance Anthems
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Rob wins £750 and immediately assumes he's being scammed. Surprisingly, he isn't. Unfortunately, that's where things start going wrong.This week, Rob & Tom return with an Amazon delivery nightmare involving a Nintendo Switch 2, a missing parcel, Evri, endless AI customer-service loops and an A-to-Z refund process that takes two weeks to escape. Eventually, Rob gets his Switch 2 — but not before having to use AI to help him argue with AI. Welcome to the future.Tom, meanwhile, has achieved perhaps his greatest Dad Win yet. A treasured 3D-printed dragon suffers a catastrophic tail injury, and somehow a questionable purchase from the middle aisle of Lidl saves the day. Turns out buying tools you don't need really can pay off eventually.Then we're heading back into classic British TV advertising for a new quiz. Tom plays the original songs behind ten famous advert parodies, while Rob has to work out which products stole the tunes and rewrote the lyrics. Expect forgotten jingles, questionable memories and the disturbing realisation that advertising from thirty years ago is still occupying valuable space in our brains.Finally, Was It Best Left in the Nineties returns with two huge but very different 90s dance tracks fighting for survival. One gets another chance. One gets sent back to the decade it came from. Naturally, Rob and Tom completely disagree, leading to old arguments resurfacing, The Poddington Peas entering proceedings and Pokémon itself ending up on trial.Plus Nintendo nostalgia, microwave chips, Cornetto memories, old-school UK adverts and the usual collection of completely unnecessary tangents.The Variety Show with Tom & Rob from Studio. Rude. Fun. Unfiltered.#TheVarietyShow #90sNostalgia #NintendoSwitch2 #90sMusic #UKPodcast
- Aug 16, 202658 min
The One Where the Fire Marshal Started a Fire
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!This week, The Variety Show is doing things a little differently. Rob and Tom aren't even in the same room, the audio has had a few adventures of its own, and instead of the usual games, taste tests and nostalgia, they're answering five questions designed to reveal far more than anyone really needed to know.What food deserves to be permanently wiped from existence? Which country would we pack our bags for tomorrow? And, from decades of British comedy, which show could we happily sit down and watch again and again?Those fairly innocent questions lead to arguments about offensive condiments, questionable genetics, time travel, retro gaming, dream holidays and an enormous wander through British comedy. Red Dwarf, Fawlty Towers, Dad's Army, The IT Crowd, Bottom, The Young Ones, Shooting Stars, The League of Gentlemen, Friday Night Dinner, Derry Girls and plenty more get dragged into the conversation.Then things get considerably more personal when we ask for the most embarrassing thing that's ever happened to us at work.Rob's answer somehow involves a hospital, surgery, a student nurse and an extremely unfortunate interruption. Tom, meanwhile, recalls the day he arrived at a business as the professional responsible for teaching everyone about fire safety.The actual fire brigade subsequently turned up.We'll let you work out how well the training went.Finally, after more than 86 episodes, countless quizzes, questionable snacks, Christmas specials, nostalgia, Melody Pops, murder walks, prison pigeons and all manner of other nonsense, there's one deceptively difficult question left: what's the best thing we've ever done on The Variety Show?For once, things even get a little bit wholesome.Five questions. Two separate recordings. Several stories that probably shouldn't have been told. And one fire marshal who will forever have to live with the fact that the fire brigade turned up to his fire safety course.Pretty standard, really.#TheVarietyShow #UKPodcast #ComedyPodcast #BritishComedy #StudioChannel84Find out more at the website:https://thevarietyshow.co.uk
- Aug 2, 20261h 13m
It Wasn't Moby
Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!It wasn’t Moby. That much we can tell you.Episode 86 begins with Tom and Rob discussing the show’s new searchable name, audio experiments and whether a broken Dell laptop can be fixed by punching it. Naturally, this leads to neighbour disputes, hosepipe bans, major water leaks and sewage-filled rivers. Nice and cheerful, then.Next, familiar songs are stripped of their melody, rhythm and dignity in Guess the Song from the Speed-Read Lyrics. Inspired partly by William Shatner’s unique approach to music, Rob must identify well-known tracks from a completely monotonous reading. Play along and see if you fare any better.Snack Sack returns with crispy chicken skin, Aldi vindaloo-flavoured crunchy sticks and onion bhaji-flavoured rings. Expect pet-shop aromas, questionable textures, curry debates and a surprisingly detailed discussion about what makes the perfect chipstick. No scores spoiled here.Finally, Was It Best Left in the 90s? It’s a battle of massive power ballads, movie soundtracks and musical nostalgia—but only one can survive.Rude. Fun. Unfiltered. It’s The Variety Show with Tom and Rob.Pictures can be found here plus results from other episodes:https://thevarietyshow.co.uk/episode/s4e86#TheVarietyShow #UKComedyPodcast #MusicQuiz #SnackReview #90sMusic
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The Variety Show Podcast from Studio:Channel84Running since 2021, hosted by Rob and TJ, The Variety Show is a comedy podcast that mixes pop culture, films, TV, gaming, music, nostalgia, parenting, strange news, quizzes, taste tests and whatever else grabs our attention that week.One minute we're debating classic movies or reviewing the latest cinema releases. The next we're arguing over ridiculous snacks, reliving growing up in the 80s and 90s, or trying to make each other laugh with bizarre games and challenges.Nothing is off the table for long. Expect honest opinions, plenty of laughs, questionable decisions and the occasional tangent that somehow becomes the best part of the episode.If you enjoy conversations that feel like sitting in the pub with two mates—funny, unfiltered and never taking themselves too seriously—you'll fit right in.New episodes are released every other Monday.Formerly The Channel 84 Variety Sh
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