Tonight on CheapShow TV:
5pm: Detective Biscuits
Detective Jimmy Biscuits is up to his neck in trouble this week when his Boss demands results and his wife is kidnapped by Mr Big!
6pm: CheapShow TV 2020 Part Two
(Main Feature)
Mr Biffo joins Paul and Eli for an another evening of TV Game Show, Board Game fun. This week, the chaps play Strike It Lucky, Britain's Got Talent and prepare themselves for a horrid Double Dare Jelly Bean finale!
7pm: Exploring The Actor's Cube
Graham Tractor speaks to another actor about their career timeline.
8pm: Around The World In 80 Plops
Madam Ladyplops and Squishy JIm take us to another popular holiday destination for more fecal squelchings.
9pm: Gaffs
Another rich and famous celebrity opens their doors and allows us around their "gaff" to see how they live and work.
10pm Programme Ends
(Special thanks to Pat Sharp for his guest appearance)
171 - CHEAPSHOW TV 2020 (PART ONE)
Tonight on CheapShow TV:
5pm: Brandoff's Cage
Richard Brandoff returns to fund more new business ideas. As long they are not from women.
6pm: CHEAPSHOW TV 2020
(Main Feature)
Mr Biffo joins Paul and Eli for an evening of The Wheel of Fortune and Just A Minute. Who will win and who is racking up the Beans?
7pm: Critical Mass
Theatrical reviews from 2 pseudo-intellectual idiots
8pm: Tumpy
The nation's favourite market stall conman is in trouble again! Oh no!
9pm: Beanus
Comedy whimsy with Beanus in his silly House of Beans
10pm Programme Ends
(Special thanks to Pat Sharp for his guest appearance)
170 - HOLLYWOOD SWINGING
Every now and then, it's good to just take a step back and have a nice and relaxed episode of CheapShow... and this is the closest we are going to get. This week on CheapShow Paul & Eli decide to have a nice and chill episode. That means the usual collection of rants, mad ideas and disgusting tangents. The cheap chaps tackle a few tales from the dance and shop floor, Paul refuses to stop singing his own made up disco track and we get a Gannon's Golden Games double feature... Which is a bit underwhelming!
169 - FROTHTOPIA
There are strange things afoot in the HoP this week! Paul & Eli focus carefully on the economy comedy content... By talking about how to get rid of a dead body, the practicalities of cannibalism and the fact that Paul may be seriously considering starting up a cult (just as long as he doesn't give away the final destination for all of his followers)! What exactly is Frothtopia? Eventually, the cheap chaps get back on track and deliver a retro video games based edition of The Price of Shite and a thoroughly interesting biscuit based edition of Off Brand/Brand Off. It's choc-tastic!
168 - UNRESOLVABLE SENTENCES
This week, we are sad to announce that Paul Gannon is broken. Whether it's the hard grind of his usual day to day existence or whether it's just because he is an old fart, who knows? All Eli knows, is that he finds this highly amusing. Paul obviously doesn't. It's a show packed with cheap eats and a Price of Shite that we can assure you is all above board and chock full of p-twings!
We'd also like to apologise for Eli's new terrible character. You'll find out why soon enough!
167 - PEEYOBOCKSINTREETSANAOLDDONG
What’s in the box? This week, we take a cautious peek into the CheapShow PO Box and see what’s inside. Luckily there are no severed heads, but there IS a rubber duck, a collection of dusty albums, a selection of European candy, a collection of lesser known gross out cards and, in a shocking twist, our greatest enemy gifts the podcast with something actually kinda awesome! And if it’s your 18th Birthday, he also has a message for you too. Lucky you!
(Yes, we know the episode title is stupid, but there is a reason! Honest!)
166 - BETRAYAL IN THE HOUSE OF PICKLES
It was turning out to be a lovely episode, it really was. It begins with the most epic Sauce Report ever reported. Not only do Eli and Paul enthusiastically discuss McDonald's Big Mac Sauce, but plan to make their own. Eli also brings an amazing sauce discovery to the show, and it's a discovery that could blow the whole segment apart! A little later on, Eli is gifted two delightful treats that brings smiles to everyone's faces...
And then they played The Price of S**** and it all went wrong. Badly wrong.
This is why they can't have nice things.
165 - BAD JACKFRUIT
It's a blast from the past on CheapShow this week. After the cancellation of a planned guest, Paul had to reach out to a face that, although familiar to Eli and Paul, will be unknown to YOU! But who is this person? Why is he here and why has it taken 5 years to get that person on the show? Once the mystery is solved, it's another case of the usual CheapShow shenanigans, with a sweet Cheap Eats, a rather scat heavy Tales from the Shop Floor and a shouty take on Family Fortunes. Join us in the Tudor Crypt! (Soho Radio)
164 - HOW TO BE A COMPLETE INCH LORD
If there is one thing that Paul and Eli know how to be, it's how to be a bastard! Over the past 160-odd shows, the cheap chaps have been shouting, screaming, arguing and causing trouble for each other without any assistance or guidance. However, this week, they explore the world of "Bitches" and "Bastards" by looking at two books and two board games based on the "How To Be A Complete Bastard" brand. Elsewhere this week, there is a "chunderingly" good edition of Tales of the Shop Floor and we can finally announce the debut of a brand new character, "Inch Man". We're very sorry!
163 - NO CHARACTERS GUARANTEED
After last week's thrilling murder mystery epic, it's back to basics for Paul and Eli on this week's economy comedy podcast! There is a strict "NO CHARACTERS" policy this week as a result, but who knows what happens when push comes to shove. Luckily there is plenty to discover this week when we get a mini Winkie update, reply to some reader emails, dip into the PO Box, tackle a Price of Shite that becomes a "peh-twing" fest and ends with a reveal so demented, so stupid and childish, that one of the cheap chaps will have their reputation in tatters! But who?
162 - MURDER ON THE CHEAP EATS EXPRESS
All aboard for a train trip you'll never forget! Although the "Cheap Eats Express" looks luxurious enough, it hides a deadly secret. This week, Paul & Eli board the train, thinking they are in for a nice, relaxing journey... But instead, they will come face to face with a gruesome murder! Who will be that tragic victim? Who is the killer? It's going to be one hell of a journey for the Cheap Chaps, as they meet a cast of CheapShow "favourites", dodge bullets, battle to the death atop the train itself and maybe, just maybe, find out "whodunnit". Somehow... they also manage to cram in a Price of Shite and a Cheap Eats Segment too.
161 - SEX EGGS & SAUSAGE SQUASH
The truth can now be revealed, one that Eli has been hiding for far too long. What is it? Well, let's just say you won't be able to look at Breakfast the same way ever again. CheapShow returns for its first proper new episode of 2020 and it's packed with all the usual mad, engrossing, unusual and occasionally informative larks. Paul's takes us to his new pizzeria this week to test some cheap frozen pizza in "Off Brand Brand Off", Eli tosses off a Price of Shite and we get two very opposing tales of woe and wonder on the dance floor. It's a packed show, so get comfy, you're going in!
160 - IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS
It's a strange old episode is this! It seems like the whole episode is teetering on the edge on its own barely stable sanity. Will it be Eli's face explosion? Will it be because of the late night recording session that gets to them? Is it thanks to an awful board game based on a terrible TV show? Could it be something to do with the truly demented song choices in Silverman's Platter? Who knows... But maybe listen to this episode with a trusted, neutral party.
159 - TEA STAINED EGGS
It's the start of a new year at CheapShow HQ. Rather than dive straight in to a new episode packed with tat, cheap eats and segments, Paul and Eli have decided to put together a "relaxed fit" episode, where they can take stock of the past 12 months. However, if you think this is going to be a contemplative reflection on 50 odd episodes of he podcast, you are sorely mistaken. In fact, pretty much from the start, things go off on a tangent and it rarely finds its way back. Expect way too many new characters, random thoughts and quite a lot of pointless singing. It's quite the show!
158 - A CHEAPSHOW CAROL
It's only taken 5 years, but the economy comedy podcast is FINALLY doing it's own knock off version of Charles Dickens' yuletide classic "A Christmas Carol". Expect a reasonably troubling and certainly unique interpretation of the source material. Grumpy old Eli gets the Scrooge treatment this year when Paul decides he needs a visit from 3 ghosts. It's definitely not just Paul dressed up in awful costumes. Not at all. Eli is sent whizzing back to the 80s for a retro Christmas morning, hurled into a present day candy store and plays a deathly important game against The Ghost of Christmas Future. His very life is on the line! In fact, Eli's whole reality could be at stake!
Merry Existential Christmas!
157 - THE SKIDS STAY IN THE PICTURE
It's a cornucopia of crap this week as stakes are heightened, tat is donated and voices are raised. In a surprising turn of events, Paul upgrades The Sauce Report to a full, proper segment. It's a decision he soon learns to regret. Eli gets carried away and things get messy. There is a special Price of Shite this week, donated to our POP Box. It would have made for a great head to head... had Paul not read the prices! Along the way, Paul and Eli meet a vengeful Uncle Grumbly, create a new surveillance system and somehow get into another noodle based argument!
156 - MAXIMUM THWOPAGE
Stop us if you have heard this one before... Eli is unwell and in a mood and he... OH you HAVE heard this before? Well how do you think Paul feels? Paul is also not happy with Eli's constant use of the word "Thwopage" so Eli needs to up his game. That does not happen this week. Instead, you are treated to a new Tales from the Shop Floor, an amusingly underwhelming Cheap Eats and a return to Paul's Page Turners, featuring two charity shop books, one definitely more interesting than the other! Same Tat, different day!
145 - SPOFF MY JOSH OFF (SORRY)
Another week, another CheapShow and this one may peak too early... We blame Paul's story about a "Birthday Cocaine Guinness World Record Attempt" that we're pretty sure is utter lies. Also, once again, we apologise for the title of this week's episode. It makes sense when you hear it, promise guv'nor! What else can you expect? Well, it's the third and final part of our "care package" trilogy... that wasn't meant to be a trilogy thing at all. This week, the package has some glorious culinary highs as well as a few repulsive, barely edible lows. To cap it all off, we present the worst song to feature on Silverman's Platter (possibly - there has been a lot of rubbish in the past)
144 - POO POO OUT OF MY BUM HOLE (SORRY)
We had no choice. We had to call the episode this. Blame Eli. It will all make sense. Outside of that embarrassment, it's business as ever. Well, that and it's Paul's birthday! Which Eli has already managed to ruin. This week, we dive into another care package from the USA which is packed with delightful candy and unusual truck stop snacks. The only worry is if Paul ODs on sugar. There is also a return to "Paul's Page Turners" that gives Gannon the chance to talk about a few charity shop bought books. Want to know what Paul and Eli think of Richard Osman's "World Cup of Everything"? Desperate to get a super quick whistle stop tour of the Satanic Panic of the 1970/80s? Dive right in, buddy!
143 - THE LOATHING OF THE CONTENT MONKEY
The economy podcast attempts this week to give you a classic Price of Shite (No Stings Attached Edition) as well as a deep dive into Eli's box of Trader Joe goods... Sadly, you get a whole feast of loud, sweary and maddening interruptions and diversions instead. Teen Yeti and Adolescent Sasquatch turn up the heat in their rivalry, Paul begins to wonder if Eli is losing his grip on reality and Eli declares himself an infallible Content Monkey. So Paul may have a point! Somehow, they manage to get the through the show without killing each other. Just, but only just!