Late to the Game, with Peter Beare

Joining Luke in The Reject Pile this episode is writer Peter Beare with his comedy sketch Late to the Game. Luke starts the episode with his traditional podcast intro where he calls back to the previous episode featuring the sitcom ‘Stuck’ with writer Annabel Edmonds, before giving a shout-out to Nik Ilukkumbere and Robbie Fox, whose work has previously been featured on the show, for their credits on the episode of Breaking the News broadcast on 3rd July 2026.Luke then introduces this episode’s guest, Peter Beare. Peter is a massive fan of comedy, who mainly does work as a writer but has also been known to perform.Peter started out as a regular submitter to an online weekly comic creation challenge called ‘Stripfight’ (now defunct, but some of his entries can be seen at dangnabbit.com), before having work from his very first submission featured on Newsjack, and going on to accrue more credits during the Nish Kumar and Angela Barnes eras.Fascinated by the mechanics of creativity and humour, Peter’s approach to structured sketch ideation can be found as a mnemonic called ‘SOUP RECIPE’ on the British Comedy Guide website - which was referenced by James Docherty on a previous episode of The Reject Pile.Peter’s sketch Late to the Game was performed by Jonathan Amphlett and Alexis Coward, with Rob Stephenson helping to source the sound effects.After the performance of Late to the Game, Peter joins Luke and The Reject Pile’s script editor Phil Stewart for a discussion about the sketch as well as the writing and development process. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lredwards.substack.com