History Podcast / CheapShow

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Before establishing itself as a privately-recorded podcast, ''Cheap Show'' was originally a live performance held in a series of comedy venues, conventions, and festivals around the London area, stemming from Paul and Eli's previous work as stand-up comedians. The earliest episodes featured frequent guest hosts, live audience participation, and often had much poorer sound quality and (by the hosts' admission) comedy, as well as lacking many of the gags and segments that would later become series staples. Recurring guest Ash Frith was also considered one of the main hosts of the show, appearing and participating equivalent to Paul and Eli.

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''[[http://www.thecheapshow.co.uk CheapShow]]'' is a British comedy podcast starring Eli Silverman and Paul Gannon. While ostensibly an "economy comedy podcast", with features focusing on cheap or low quality goods (hence the name) in reality this is a hook on which to hang the main draw of the show - scatological humour and love-hate relationship between the two hosts, with the love usually expressed grudgingly and the hate expressed freely and profanely. NeedsWikiMagicLove.

''[[http://www.thecheapshow.co.uk CheapShow]]'' is a British comedy podcast starring Eli Silverman and Paul Gannon. While ostensibly an "economy comedy podcast", with features focusing on cheap or low quality goods (hence the name) in reality this is a hook on which to hang the main draw of the show - scatological humour and love-hate relationship between the two hosts, with the love usually expressed grudgingly and the hate expressed freely and profanely. NeedsWikiLove.

->''"The Economy Comedy Podcast. "''

* RunningGag: The 2017 Christmas Special saw the boys whisked away to another world. Towards the end of their quest to gather keys required to return to the real world, [[ItMakesSenseInContext they were forced by a dragon]] to eat Samyang Hot Chicken Ramen noodles in a short time limit. In later episodes during Eli's Country Noodle Kitchen, Eli would allude to this while Paul would claim to have no knowledge of this happening.

* '''Eli's [[CountryMatters Cpuntry Urban Noodle Testlab]] Kitchen''': Eli cooks some noodles either bought or sent in by a listener. He and Paul then review them. Formerly known as '''Eli's Country Noodle Kitchen''' and '''Eli's City Noodle Kitchen'''.

* '''Eli's [[CountryMatters City Urban Noodle Testlab]] Kitchen''': Eli cooks some noodles either bought or sent in by a listener. He and Paul then review them. Formerly known as '''Eli's Country Noodle Kitchen''' and '''Eli's City Noodle Kitchen'''.

* '''Tales from the Shop Floor''': A letter (or email) is read out of a listener's story about working in a shop, cafe or restaurant. The stories usually involve faeces, urine, vomit, masturbation or dead animals (or in one case, [[spoiler:an old man who had died in the shop]])

* MilestoneCelebration: The 100th and 101st (or "one hundred and oneth") episodes were recorded in front of a live audience at The Bill Murray pub in London, with special guests [[Series/{{Digitiser}} Mr. Biffo]], Ash Frith and WebVideo/StuartAshen.

* MilestoneCelebration: The 100th (and 101st, or "one hundred and oneth" episode) were recorded in front of a live audience at The Bill Murray pub in London, with special guests [[Series/{{Digitiser}} Mr. Biffo]], Ash Frith and WebVideo/StuartAshen.

* '''Silverman's Platters''': Eli plays three records he has acquired from charity shops; after which the pair pass judgment on what they have heard, and rate each record out of five Platters.

* '''Eli's City Noodle Kitchen''': Eli cooks some noodles either bought or sent in by a listener. He and Paul then review them. Formerly known as '''Eli's Country Noodle Kitchen'''.

* SoundEffectBleep: Some insults/arguments are occasionally edited out and replaced with sound effects (e.g. an explosion, cartoon fighting noises or the FamilyFortunes "wrong answer" buzzer), because they somehow managed to [[CrossingTheLineTwice go too far even for this podcast]]. On at least one occasion, the show bleeped out one of Eli's insults towards Paul to cut back to Paul's stunned reaction at just how far over the line he'd gone.

* '''Tales from the Shop Floor''': A letter (or email) is read out of a listener's story about working in a shop, cafe or restaurant. The stories usually involve faeces, vomit, masturbation or dead animals (or in one case, [[spoiler:an old man who had died in the shop]])

** A variant of the above is occasionally played called '''Bought, Gifted, Found''', where Eli has to guess which item Paul has bought, been gifted, or found at random.

* '''Ask Cheapshow''': Paul and Eli read out listeners' questions and attempt to answer them honestly. Formerly known as '''Ask Eli'''. Despite the name change, most of the questions are aimed at Eli anyway.

* SoundEffectBleep: Some insults/arguments are occasionally edited out and replaced with sound effects (e.g. an explosion, cartoon fighting noises or the FamilyFortunes "wrong answer" buzzer), because they somehow managed to [[CrossingTheLineTwice somehow go too far even for this podcast]]. On at least one occasion, the show bleeped out one of Eli's insults towards Paul to cut back to Paul's stunned reaction at just how far over the line he'd gone.

''[[http://www.thecheapshow.co.uk CheapShow'' is a British comedy podcast starring Eli Silverman and Paul Gannon. While ostensibly an "economy comedy podcast", with features focusing on cheap or low quality goods (hence the name) in reality this is a hook on which to hang the main draw of the show - scatological humour and love-hate relationship between the two hosts, with the love usually expressed grudgingly and the hate expressed freely and profanely. NeedsWikiLove.