129. Life's Curveballs with Richard Dryden

129. Life's Curveballs with Richard Dryden

From Ruddle Me This! with Taylor Ruddle by TapeDeck Media

July 10, 2025 · 38 min · Episode 129

About this episode

Taylor Ruddle chats with comedian Richard Dryden about his life experiences, including health challenges and his career in comedy and music.

Today's guests is one of my favourite people, Richard Dryden. I know him primarily as a stand up comedian but he's lived a whole life before we even met. The long and short of Richard's story is that he had a kidney transplant at 17, and tongue cancer resulting in a very hefty muscle transplant. He's worked in radio, he does stand up and music, and he's genuinely one of the sweetest guys I've ever met in comedy, even though he refers to himself as a grumpy curmudgeon. Great chatting with Richard agian, hope to share the stage again soon! Check out Richard's TedX Talk here telling his whole story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ucv5DXVnFSY Follow Richard Online: https://www.facebook.com/RichardDrydenComedian https://www.instagram.com/r_b_dryden/ https://www.youtube.com/@rd4breakfast -- Increasingly uneasy about the American oligarchy's rapidly tightening grip on social media? Me too! Join the mailing list on Substack and together we'll escape the clutches of tyrany but you'll still be able to check out cool shows I have coming up and secret events available only to newsletter members. Ruddle me this now has a proper website! Visit www.ruddlemethis.com to check it out! Watch my…

People in this episode

Host: Taylor Ruddle

Guest: Richard Dryden

Topics covered

  • stand-up comedy
  • personal stories
  • health challenges
  • radio
  • music

Keywords

  • Richard Dryden
  • stand-up comedian
  • kidney transplant
  • tongue cancer
  • TedX Talk

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Organizations: TapeDeck Media

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