Three Bean Salad
comedy podcast
Three Bean Salad is a British comedy podcast launched in April 2021 by Benjamin Partridge, Mike Wozniak and Henry Paker. It was voted Best Comedy Podcast at the Chortle Awards in March 2024.
Format
The show is a conversational podcast in which the three comedians "riff on a different theme" each episode, the themes being submitted by listeners. Topics have included biscuits, urban myths, whales, pencils, and time travel. While the episode's content is theoretically determined by the theme, it is not uncommon for conversation to drift, often dramatically, from the listener's suggestion.
The podcast is interspersed with jingles created by Partridge, which mark recurring segments, such as listener emails or frequently used topics such as Nigel Havers and flightless birds. Many episodes end with a different listener-submitted cover version of the show's theme tune with the regular jingles occasionally replaced by listener cover versions.
The podcast has staged a number of live performances, including at the Machynlleth Comedy Festival,, the London Podcast Festival and a 2025 UK tour.
Critical response
The podcast has been described as "whimsical, cutting and downright hilarious" escapism, with "easy rapport between its likeable hosts" and a "variety of impressive jingles". Writing in November 2022, Patricia Nicol in The Sunday Times described it as a "Pythonesque cult comedy show" and called it a "shaft of daft light amid the gloom." India Rakusen in The List in July 2023, described it as "absolute nonsense; it’s utterly ridiculous and wonderful for it." Praise has come from fellow comedians with Rufus Hound telling Pod Bible Mag in January 2024, that it has him "regularly laughing inappropriately on public transport", and John Robins writing in The List magazine that "getting to hear their brains all working together on zeitgeist topics such as submarines or flightless birds always makes me howl".
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