Sporting Misadventures with Chris Hoy
Episodes
Seann Walsh
16 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Lifelong QPR fan Seann Walsh joins us to talk through his dream turned nightmare of playing at Loftus Road, amateur dramatics in Sunday league footbal...
Tour de 4
09 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This 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 a...
Danny Wallace
02 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In terms of sporting success, few have achieved higher status than this week's guest, the 1987 Hotel Azur French boules diploma winner in Malaga. Dann...
Steve Pemberton
25 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We'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,...
Alastair Campbell
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Not 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 t...
Rhys Darby
04 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We 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...
Jason Kenny and Jamie Staff
28 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It'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 f...
Suzi Ruffell
21 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This 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 upri...
Andrew Cotter
14 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew 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...
Mathew Baynton
07 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This star of stage and screen has delighted us in Horrible Histories, Ghosts and much more. He joins us to talk about his love of Spurs, being squared...
Andy Zaltzman
30 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Stand-up comedian, The News Quiz chair, podcaster and cricket statistician, this week's guest is a man of many talents. He's short circuited a cricket...
Richard Coles
23 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week's guest may have been a latecomer to sport but has grown to love it from the magic of Kevin de Bruyne to Australian breakdancing at the Pari...
Josh Berry
09 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we're joined by tennis fan and the man of many voices Josh Berry as he skips between the Murray brothers, John McEnroe, Roger Federer, Loui...
Gabby Logan
02 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A former competitive gymnast, Gabby Logan is long established as one of the leading sports broadcasters. She came on the podcast to talk about when li...
Tim Key
26 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week's guest is the co-creator and co-star of The Ballad of Wallis Island, which is out in the UK in May. Tim talks us through his impressive ser...
John Bishop
19 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Once a semi-professional footballer, John Bishop brings the mindset of an elite athlete to his stand-up comedy. He's still more nervous playing footba...
Mark Simmons
12 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week's guest began life as a taekwondo athlete and argues those skills are directly transferable to stand-up comedy. He joined us to talk about t...
Richard Ayoade
05 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week's guest was a keen footballer growing up until pushed into rugby and loved spending his summers watching cricket. He joined us to talk being...
Russell Kane
26 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week's guest took a break from his current tour to talk everything from keeping in shape and Mrs Doubtfire to fake tan and moments when lifting w...
Dave Gorman
19 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What better guest to chat cycling with Chris than Dave Gorman, who once pedalled across the UK to a variety of stand-up gigs after an early medical mi...
Andy Murray
12 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The three-time Grand Slam winner and double Olympic champion joins us fresh from the golf course to talk about his new sporting love, his dreadful sta...
Josh Widdicombe
05 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week's guest began his career as a sports journalist live blogging and writing football transfer rumours for the Guardian before switching to com...
Neil Forsyth
29 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week's guest began life as a football journalist with a passion for Dundee United but then turned to TV creating the hilarious Bob Servant, starr...
Peter Serafinowicz
22 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Serafinowicz would sit out PE and hated football despite growing up in Liverpool. But then this week's guest became a convert of the beautiful g...
Asim Chaudhry
15 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What makes a person support a football club? For Newcastle fan Asim Chaudhry, it was zebras. This week's guest joins us to chat about his affinity wit...
Brian Conley
08 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The multi-talented Brian Conley - actor, comedian, singer and TV presenter - comes on the podcast as the first guest of 2025 to chat about his sportin...
Sporting Misadventures season 3 trailer
24 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Six-time Olympic champion Sir Chris Hoy and sports journalist Matt Majendie return for season 3 of the podcast as week by week guests join them to tal...
Richard Herring
18 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Running, rowing with Steve Redgrave and Matthew Pinsent and being flattened by a fast bowler, this week's guest, Richard Herring, has seen it all in t...
Mark Steel
11 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Steel is a sports fanatic be that playing table tennis as a teenager or using sporting analogies in his recent battle with cancer. He joins the p...
Mark Webber
04 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we're joined by an actual sportsman in nine-time F1 race winner Mark Webber, also a champion at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. He chats brushes w...
Jason Manford
27 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Season 3 kicks off with the wonderful Jason Manford who joins Chris and Matt to cover a rich tapestry of sport. There's padel tennis, a love of Manche...
Milton Jones
31 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Joining us on the podcast on the eve of his show at the Edinburgh Fringe is none other than Milton Jones. He talks running after a rabbi, keeping up w...
Jason Byrne
22 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
An hour didn't quite seem enough time to cram in all this week's guest's sporting misadventures. From barefoot running to BMX jumping rivers gone wron...
Grayson Perry
15 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Grayson Perry is a world-renowned artist and winner of myriad awards from the Turner Prize to a Bafta but has long had a passion for sport alongside h...
Nish Kumar
01 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
He may have once won a cricket trophy but this week's guest is better known for his sporting calamities than successes from cricketing failings to his...
Fin Taylor
17 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Fin Taylor went viral with his diatribe on the NFL. He joins us this week to chat American football, his love of cricket - from bin to Test - and outs...
Joel Dommett
03 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The comedian, actor and presenter joins us for this week's hour ahead to chat about his quest to clinch a world record at the London Marathon in the M...
Mark Watson
27 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Squash player, snooker podcast host, and football programme collector, this week's guest might just be our most sports-obsessed yet. He joined us for ...
Adam Peaty
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Adam Peaty is a three-time Olympic swimming champion and will again be bidding for gold at the Paris Games this summer. He joined the podcast to talk ...
Andy Hamilton
13 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week's guest is Andy Hamilton, the creator of such hit shows as Drop the Dead Donkey and Outnumbered, a regular comedy show panellist and even th...
Katherine Parkinson
06 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 t...
Geraint Thomas
28 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 hi...
Humphrey Ker
21 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 exe...
Jack Whitehall
14 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Ross Noble
07 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Vittorio Angelone
31 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 W...
Mark Wood
24 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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. Ahea...
Rob Auton
17 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 sho...
Sporting Misadventures season 2 trailer
14 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Miles Jupp
27 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Kieran Hodgson
20 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Foil Arms and Hog
13 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Alex Horne
06 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Shepmates
30 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 massi...
Chris and Matt
23 Aug 2023
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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 velodrom...
Milo McCabe/Troy Hawke
16 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ri...
Adam Hills
09 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 h...
Henning Wehn
02 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 approv...
Glenn Moore
26 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Simon Brodkin
19 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 sho...
Chloe Petts
12 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Kiell Smith-Bynoe
05 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Rhys James
28 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 reven...
Ola Labib
21 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 sending...
Maisie Adam
14 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 mai...
Josh Pugh
07 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
With more than 50 caps for England's partially sighted football team, we've got genuine sporting talent this week to talk international call-ups, host...
Justin Moorhouse
31 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Young Kenny from Phoenix Nights, aka Justin Moorhouse, has two Olympic Games appearances to his name and is a crack shot. He joins us on the podcast t...
Laura Checkley
24 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Football's loss has been acting and comedy's gain after this week's guest forewent a budding sporting career. The King Gary star talks rounders red ca...
Ellie White
17 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our latest guest, Katia from Stath Lets Flats and Cathy from The Other One was born into a sporting household. She joins us to discuss her love of foo...
Greg McHugh
10 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The star of Fresh Meat, Gary: Tank Commander and Guilt joins us to reminisce about his sporting high turned agonising low, camp tennis with Tim Henman...
Joe Wilkinson
03 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The stand-up comedian, actor and writer Joe Wilkinson admits he would rather have been a sportsman than a comedian as he talks trying to topple Three ...
Lloyd Griffith
26 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week's guest has brushed shoulders with Lionel Messi and sung the national anthem for the King at Brentford FC but, as a goalkeeper, has been der...
David O'Doherty
19 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Irish comedian David O'Doherty is a sports star in his own right. He joins Sporting Misadventures to chat outsmarting Irish rugby players, angling tri...
David Earl
12 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Six-time Olympic champion Chris Hoy and journalist Matt Majendie invite a comedian on each week to talk about his or her sporting misadventure. The op...
Sporting Misadventures trailer
24 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Six-time Olympic champion Chris Hoy and journalist Matt Majendie invite a comedian on each week to talk about his or her sporting misadventures from t...