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CheapShow
Description

CheapShow is a comedy podcast all about getting the very best out of the worst! Be it Poundlands, Charity Shops, Car Boot Sales or Bargain Bins, hosts Paul Gannon & Eli Silverman poke around in the corners of the high streets and internet to find treasure in the trash. One week it could be a studio based show, the next, a live comedy event. It could even be a location report or a scripted adventure! A few things it is, however, is rude, crude, silly and drizzled in pop culture, nostalgia and plenty of verbal violence! It has guests, videos, songs, reviews, games and dares. We apologise in advance! www.thecheapshow.co.uk

Episodes
  • 2025 / 6 / 13
    Ep 440: The 10th Birthday Office Party

    Somehow, someway, CheapShow has lasted a full decade. Ten whole years of tat and treasure, rants and raves, and adventure and abhorrent behaviour across 440 wonderfully mucky episodes! To celebrate the past...

  • 2025 / 6 / 6
    Ep 439: Boffalongo

    There is only ONE WEEK left until CheapShow turns 10 years old! A magnificent achievement considering Paul and Eli didn’t think the show was last 50 episodes. All they have to do this week is survive one very...

  • 2025 / 5 / 30
    Ep 438: A Box Of Delights

    Sometimes the CheapShow PO Box is full of all sorts of horrors and shocks, but this week on the economy comedy podcast, there is a refreshing change of pace. A MASSIVE PO Box delivery offers a wide range of...

  • 2025 / 5 / 23
    Ep 437: Eli's Contrition

    The award winning podcast returns for another episode packed with cheap thrills and cheap laughs! This week, Paul and Eli are dipping their toes into the murky waters of “Silverman’s Platters” to review three...

  • 2025 / 5 / 16
    Ep 436: The Award Winning Podcast

    Somehow, against all the odds, CheapShow has finally won something! Paul & Eli are in high spirits this week as they celebrate their recent “Golden Lobes” podcast awards win! It was a fantastic moment that...

  • 2025 / 5 / 9
    Ep 435: Chekhov's Gum

    It’s been a month of walkabout adventures, game shows and another character retrospective, so it’s about time that Eli and Paul got back into CheapShow HQ for another 75 minutes of cheap laughs! It’s a “back...

  • 2025 / 5 / 2
    Ep 434: Cemetery Men (Mono Edition)

    MONO EDITION When the sun is shining this brightly in the London sky, Paul and Eli refuse to stay cooped up inside CheapShow HQ… So, they are out and about (yes again!) to go on an aimless wander through...

  • 2025 / 5 / 2
    Ep 434: Cemetery Men (Stereo Edition)

    STEREO EDITION When the sun is shining this brightly in the London sky, Paul and Eli refuse to stay cooped up inside CheapShow HQ… So, they are out and about (yes again!) to go on an aimless wander through...

  • 2025 / 4 / 25
    Ep 433: CheapShow TV 2025 (Part Two)

    Coming Up, This Week on CheapShow TV Friday 24th April 1800 Food Musings with John Gunty In his first proper TV special episode, John takes us on a tour of his kitchen… Hopefully! 1830 CheapShow TV 2025...

  • 2025 / 4 / 18
    Ep 432: CheapShow TV 2025 (Part One)

    Coming Up, This Week on CheapShow TV Friday 17th April 1800 High & Low: With Wide Travelling Rob Rob is back, ready to tackle the most epic journey of his lifetime… attempting to leave his...

  • 2025 / 4 / 11
    Ep 431: The (Not Very) Geocaching Picnic (Mono Edition)

    MONO EDITION The sun’s out so Eli and Paul decide to escape CheapShow HQ and head back to Hampstead Heath for another barely acceptable picnic adventure. This time out, they have a reason for roaming around...

  • 2025 / 4 / 11
    Ep 431: The (Not Very) Geocaching Picnic (Stereo Edition)

    STEREO EDITION The sun’s out so Eli and Paul decide to escape CheapShow HQ and head back to Hampstead Heath for another barely acceptable picnic adventure. This time out, they have a reason for roaming around...

  • 2025 / 4 / 4
    Ep 430: The Cost Of Crud

    After two weeks away in America, Eli arrives back in one piece and ready to go with a grab bag of tat and tasty treats to foist upon his co-host. He’s brought with him a few snacks to wrap their tongues...

  • 2025 / 3 / 28
    Ep 429: Grumpy's Showreel

    It’s another week, it’s another familiar episode packed with tat, snacks and … Pardon? Who’s that at the door. Who? Grumpy Sessions you say? Why has he got a big box of VHS tapes with him? Fine. Let him...

  • 2025 / 3 / 21
    Ep 428: The Podcast Killaz

    Cor Blimey, it's another "real time" episode of the podcast as Paul & Eli try to cram a meaty Price of Shite game into 60 mins. Eli is off to America to celebrate his 50th birthday and so Paul has requested...

  • 2025 / 3 / 14
    Ep 427: Non Stop Noodles

    Oh Boy Howdy have we got noodles for you this week! Eli is frothing with anticipation because he’s got three cup noodles to blitz through AND he’s managed to get his little claws on two new noodle/pasta...

  • 2025 / 3 / 7
    Ep 426: Donna Egg & The Bad Boys

    After last week’s epic walkabout/Gannon’s Golden Games hybrid episode, it’s time to calm things down again. What this episode doesn’t need is violent meltdowns, stupid new characters, an appalling improvised...

  • 2025 / 2 / 28
    Ep 424: The Candy Cave

    Sometimes Paul and Eli make mistakes, and that’s fine. That’s part of the cut and thrust of making CheapShow. However, sometimes they need to ask themselves just how many mistakes they should really be making...

  • 2025 / 2 / 28
    Ep 423: Stop Pointing!

    With Special Guest: Nick Helm Holy F***! Comedy starlet Nick Helm is back on CheapShow and he isn’t messing about. He joins Paul and Eli at the Soho Radio Podcast Studios for what turns out to be 90 minutes...

  • 2025 / 2 / 28
    Ep 425: The Great Takeshi's Castle Caper

    With Special Guest: Stuart Ashen They didn’t mean this episode to be as long as it was. This wasn’t meant to be the epic episode it became, honest! They just thought they’d pop into Norwich, record a bit of a...

  • 2025 / 2 / 7
    Ep 422: Tat Hunt: Scrumptious Tat

    Last week, Paul and Eli gave themselves the challenge of finding six typical pieces of CheapShow tat in just a few hours, in the charity shops of Watford High Street. This week… they are going to share and...

  • 2025 / 1 / 31
    Ep 421: Tat Hunt: Watford High Street

    It’s time for another “Tat Hunt” episode, we think. It’s been too long, that’s for sure. This week, Paul and Eli take to the mean streets of Watford to scour the charity shops for 6 items to bring into next...

  • 2025 / 1 / 24
    Ep 420: Four Twenty

    It’s been promised for a long time, but as it’s episode 420, it makes sense for Paul and Eli to finally tackle a topic that celebrates the joy and pain of enjoying weed. Whatever you call it, Weed. Marijuana....

  • 2025 / 1 / 17
    Ep 419: Genital Snacks

    It’s Snack Time again on CheapShow and Paul and Eli have been luckily gifted with some treats from Austria! They have multi-flavoured wafers, garlic crisps, gummies, chocolate treats and fizzy drinks to...

  • 2025 / 1 / 10
    Ep 418: Congas, Crocs & Wallys

    It’s been a while since Paul & Eli grabbed their 7 inches and pleasured your ears with their meaty musical musings. It’s time to see what odd audio discoveries they’ve found in another vinyl Platter...

  • 2025 / 1 / 3
    Ep 417: Nightbussin' SL7

    Paul and Eli are still recovering from their New Year’s celebrations so, to give you a Friday fix of CheapShow, they’re opening up the Patreon vault to deliver another thrilling edition of “Nightbussin”. It’s...

  • 2024 / 12 / 31
    Ep 416: New Year With The CheapShows

    NOTE: PLAY @ 22:57 to sync up with the New Year celebrations at Midnight! OK, so we lied! It turns out THIS is the final episode of 2024! We thought it would be fun to record a “real time countdown” episode...

  • 2024 / 12 / 20
    Ep 415: The 6th Annual Office Christmas Party

    It’s the FINAL episode of 2024 and it’s time for the 6th Annual Office Christmas Party! Paul and Eli want to end the year in style so have decided to rent out a room in the newly decorated “Spoff & Pickle”...

  • 2024 / 12 / 13
    Ep 414: Joy To The Walk (Mono Edition)

    There is only one week until the 6th Annual Office Xmas Party and Paul & Eli are in desperate need of supplies! They venture out into the real world to get a bit of shopping done and pick up a few prezzies...

  • 2024 / 12 / 13
    Ep 414: Joy To The Walk (Stereo Edition)

    There is only one week until the 6th Annual Office Xmas Party and Paul & Eli are in desperate need of supplies! They venture out into the real world to get a bit of shopping done and pick up a few prezzies...

  • 2024 / 12 / 6
    Ep 413: Another Noodle Pot Blitz

    Before we end 2024, Eli has been itching to do another Noodle Pot Blitz episode and now is his time to shine! He’s brought along four examples to slurp down and review and it’s quite the mixture. There’s a...

  • 2024 / 11 / 29
    Ep 412: Utterly Random

    It’s another bag of random nonsense this week, as Paul and Eli bravely dive into a troubling world of second hand treats and terrors. As donated to us by Ash at the October live show (viewable on YouTube...

  • 2024 / 11 / 22
    Ep 411: A Liquid Crystallized Display

    Following the successful live show back in October, Paul and Eli have been graced with an assortment of gifts and items for the podcast to enjoy! There is quite a lot to get through, and the Cheap Chaps have...

  • 2024 / 11 / 15
    Ep 410: Hot Gesture Avocado

    Paul is back from his week away in Los Angeles. It was a chance for him to actually unwind and enjoy himself, free from the burden of his podcast duties. However, he wasn’t completely “off the clock” as he...

  • 2024 / 11 / 8
    Ep 409: Mustard Bully

    Following the shocking events of Episode 407, Paul has been in the care of our resident supernatural expert “Gareth”. It was Gareth who found him and exorcised the demon from his body, but Paul was badly...

  • 2024 / 11 / 1
    Ep 408: Live At The Cheerful Earful Podcast Festival 2024

    CheapShow is LIVE! Or rather, WAS live on Oct 19th when Paul & Eli performed to a packed house at the Cheerful Earful Festival! Joining them on stage for 90 minutes of carefully organised havoc and horror is...

  • 2024 / 10 / 25
    Ep 407: Talk To Us

    It’s that spooky time of the year again and Paul and Eli are celebrating Halloween a little earlier than usual! On this week’s episode, it’s going to get ghoulish with a range of spectre-adjacent gummies and...

  • 2024 / 10 / 18
    Ep 406: All Water Under The Bridge (Mono Edition)

    MONO EDITION: There’s a pointless, nagging question in Paul & Eli’s minds… How many bridges span the whole length of the Regent’s Canal in London? A popular YouTuber suggested around about 40, but the Cheap...

  • 2024 / 10 / 18
    Ep 406: All Water Under The Bridge (Stereo Edition)

    STEREO EDITION: There’s a pointless, nagging question in Paul & Eli’s minds… How many bridges span the whole length of the Regent’s Canal in London? A popular YouTuber suggested around about 40, but the Cheap...

  • 2024 / 10 / 11
    Ep 405: Return To The House of Pickles

    Due to circumstances beyond Paul & Eli’s control, they’re recording this week’s episode from inside the original House of Pickles… And Eli couldn’t be happier! To “celebrate” the Cheap Chaps are going back to...

  • 2024 / 10 / 4
    Ep 404: Superlative Decay

    It’s an old school episode of CheapShow this week as Eli has collated the “Silverman’s Platters” and Paul has crafted a “Price of Shite” challenge. There is plenty of tat to sift though and some of it happens...

  • 2024 / 9 / 27
    Ep 403 An Invisible Touch

    Paul is not in the mood this week. He isn’t in the mood to be a podcaster. He isn’t in the mood to have a laugh. He isn’t in the mood for Eli. He isn’t in the mood for Eli’s vocal “chuntering” and all he IS...

  • 2024 / 9 / 20
    Ep 402: Tea 2: Judgement Tea

    When the call goes out, we answer! A recent which.com article looked into whether a posh cup of tea is any better than a cheap builder’s brew. When it comes to Tea, Paul and Eli are self-proclaimed experts...

  • 2024 / 9 / 13
    Ep 401: How Many Chevys?

    After all the excitement of 400, it’s back to the usual audio nonsense this week as Paul and Eli are joined by returning guest, Tom Mayhew! In a “much longer than expected” recording session, the terrible...

  • 2024 / 9 / 6
    Ep 400: This Is NOT Episode 400

    This is not Episode 400. It’s not an episode of CheapShow and it’s not the 400th. The 400th episode is on YouTube. We did a proper thing for 400, this is not that thing. This is a waste of your time. It’s...

  • 2024 / 8 / 30
    Ep 399: Rambling On (Mono Edition)

    In a change to their usual fortunes, Paul and Eli are getting to talk about CheapShow in a proper TV show. They’ve been invited to the studios of London Live near the centre of London for a quick chat about...

  • 2024 / 8 / 30
    Ep 399: Rambling On (Stereo Edition)

    In a change to their usual fortunes, Paul and Eli are getting to talk about CheapShow in a proper TV show. They’ve been invited to the studios of London Live near the centre of London for a quick chat about...

  • 2024 / 8 / 23
    Ep 398: Don't Get Got (Stereo Edition)

    It’s a big old busy week at CheapShow HQ, as Paul and Eli are going to be spending most this week FILMING episode 400. However, this means that Paul doesn’t fancy doing a full proper editing job on the...

  • 2024 / 8 / 23
    Ep 398: Don't Get Got (Mono Edition)

    It’s a big old busy week at CheapShow HQ, as Paul and Eli are going to be spending most this week FILMING episode 400. However, this means that Paul doesn’t fancy doing a full proper editing job on the...

  • 2024 / 8 / 16
    Ep 397: Two Hot Men

    Sometimes it’s just too hot to record the podcast indoors. On the hottest day of the year, Paul and Eli take the episode outside to craft some sun-baked economy comedy content. However, this is not a...