About this podcast
Six-time Olympic champion Chris Hoy and journalist Matt Majendie invite a comedian on each week to dissect his or her sporting misadventures from the sublime to the ridiciulous. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 86 episodes
- Hannah East · 60 min · Season 4 Episode 11Gladiators was this week's guest's first big break which spawned into a career as a TV presenter before taking on stand-up comedy. She joined the podcast to talk about her…
- Re-release: Andy Murray · 1 h 6 min · Season 4 Episode 10The Wimbledon fortnight is getting under way and what better than a trip down memory lane with one of our favourite former guests, Andy Murray. The two-Wimbledon champion is…
- Darren Walsh · 56 min · Season 4 Episode 9The punmaster is in the hot seat this week hitting us with joke after joke in quick succession from the pole vault to acupuncture. By his own admission, not a natural sportsman…
- Knees up in the Pyrenees · 26 min · Season 4 Episode 8This week Chris has found himself in the wars again with a torn meniscus in his knee. Despite that, he's still cycling from San Sebastian to Barcelona with five-time Tour de…
- Michael Spicer · 1 h 4 min · Season 4 Episode 7Joining us from The Room Next Door is this week's guest, who leapt into our lives during Covid as our favourite political advisor. Put off sport growing up by roaring older…
- Chris McCausland · 1 h 3 min · Season 4 Episode 6This week former Strictly Come Dancing champion Chris McCausland pirouettes onto the podcast to talk training to be a spy, his lifelong passion for Liverpool FC, the Strictly…
- Hearts heartbreak and faulty farm gates · 30 min · Season 4 Episode 5This week, Chris finally has a new Hearts tale to tell - alas, again not a joyous one - and we hear from you with your own sporting misadventures from clipping in disasters to…
- Tim Vine · 1 h 4 min · Season 4 Episode 4We've got another world record breaker with us this week in Tim Vine, who once told 499 jokes in an hour and shares a few on the pod. There's topless darts, a football hat-trick…
- Rashes and bike rides · 17 min · Season 4 Episode 3Chris has a bit of a health setback in the lead-up to this latest episode but is fit and firing in time to join Matt to talk rashes, Lando Norris and the Luke Littler effect…
- Alan Davies · 57 min · Season 4 Episode 2Our first guest of season four is none other than the star of QI, Jonathan Creek and much more, who is touring for the first time in 10 years with Think Ahead. He joined us to…
- Chris and a sporting misadventure · 45 min · Season 4 Episode 1Chris and Matt are back for season four of Sporting Misadventures and this time its Chris in the hot seat following a particularly calamitous bike crash in Wales. Follow Sporting…
- Seann Walsh · 59 min · Season 3 Episode 30Lifelong QPR fan Seann Walsh joins us to talk through his dream turned nightmare of playing at Loftus Road, amateur dramatics in Sunday league football and his odd reaction to…
- Tour de 4 · 31 min · Season 3 Episode 29This time it's Chris in the hot seat to give an update on his health and two months out from the Tour de 4 to talk about his ride in September aimed at raising £1million for…
- Danny Wallace · 1 h 8 min · Season 3 Episode 28In terms of sporting success, few have achieved higher status than this week's guest, the 1987 Hotel Azur French boules diploma winner in Malaga. Danny joined us to talk being a…
- Steve Pemberton · 58 min · Season 3 Episode 27We're both massive League of Gentlemen fans so what a privilege to have Steve Pemberton in the hot seat this week. He talked all things Royston Vasey, his love of Blackburn…
- Alastair Campbell · 1 h 4 min · Season 3 Episode 26Not many people can claim to have had a private kickabout with Diego Maradona at Old Trafford but this week's guest has. The former No10 spin doctor turned co-host of the Rest is…
- Rhys Darby · 1 h 1 min · Season 3 Episode 25We may not have laughed as much with a guest as this one. Ahead of his UK stand-up tour, Rhys joined us from the US to talk climbing mountains with an Olympic champion, working…
- Jason Kenny and Jamie Staff · 1 h 10 min · Season 3 Episode 24It's our first ever surprise guest and it's two for the price of one as the Team GB's gold-medal-winning cycling team sprint reunite. Jason joins us from Cheshire fresh from the…
- Suzi Ruffell · 1 h 9 min · Season 3 Episode 23This week's guest has a new book out - Am I Having Fun Now? - as well as an upcoming tour. She joined us to talk Olympic fandom, sea swimming and upright bikes. Follow Sporting…
- Andrew Cotter · 1 h 1 min · Season 3 Episode 22Andrew Cotter's voice has become synonymous with the big sporting occasions. The commentator came on the pod to talk golfing yips, vomiting on air and how his dogs, Olive and…
