Show Features

• Are you on email? (formerly Email Of The Species) - A segment of the show where Elis and John read out and respond to listeners correspondence via the increasingly popular medium of email.
• John's Shame Well - John reads emails from listeners confessing actions in the past that have caused anxiety and regret ever since.^[8]
• Made Up Games - Listeners send in details of games they have invented with family or friends and Elis and John play some of them live on air. The winner of the game wins the right to play a music track of their choice.
• Up Your Region - Elis reads his favourite local stories from newspapers.
• Unsung Hero - Elis and John interview a person who has done something extraordinary that would otherwise not have been reported in the media. During the Coronavirus pandemic, this was changed to individuals helping in some way during the pandemic.
• Ask John - Listeners ask John a question, such as the best way to fill a dishwasher. John will then answer these questions using only the power of his mind.
• Petty Parliament - Listeners offer up daily occurrences that annoy them, and a potentially suitable punishment. Elis, John, and Dave all vote on if it passes or not.
• Voicenote of the UK - An irregular feature launched in late 2021 in which listeners would send in voicenotes to the show via WhatsApp. The voicenote that Elis and John would deem to be the most impressive would then be played on the show. This feature was accompanied by a catchy jingle composed and sung by Producer Dave Masterman.

Retired features

• Edgy Elis - Elis would pick a controversial opinion at random from a bag of opinions composed by John. Elis would then enter into an often absurd rant as inspired by the chosen opinion.
• The Good-Deed Feed - Elis and John read out you good deeds that listeners send in to lighten up the COVID-19 lockdown.
• Potato Potato - John and Elis continually say the word Potato to each other like a game of tennis. The person to say, Birdseye at the correct time was declared the winner. The correct time to say, Birdseye was decided on the general vibe of the game. This would take place before playing a Made Up Game.
• The Potato Potato Years - In a mocking response to listener emails that Potato Potato was no longer funny and should be retired, Elis and John did retire the feature but replaced it by 'The Potato Potato Years' - playing recordings of old Potato Potato games multiple times while "analysing" them at deliberately extreme length, in a parody of British television programmes analysing past sports highlights.
• Clarkson's hyperbole - Elis selects and reads out excerpts of over the top passages written by newspaper columnists.
• Humblebrag Of The Week - Longest running feature in the show's history. John and Elis read out brags found on social media that are disguised as moans. The feature has been adapted to Humblebrag Of The Day when the duo have stood in for c on the weekday drive time show.
• Tick Off A Taste - Elis and John taste live on air a food item that has been sent in by listeners.
• The Light Hearted Paper Review with Elis James - Elis, backgrounded by muzak, reads absurd or pointless local, national and international news stories from the week
• John Googles The Traffic - A feature used during Elis and John's stand-in coverage of Johnny Vaughan's drivetime slot where John uses search engine Google to help listeners avoid traffic build ups on their commute home, interspersed with various absurd sound effects.
• John's Gig Diaries - Excerpts from John's diary from when he first started comedy (circa 2005–2006).
• Welsh Word of the Week - Elis picks and explains one of his favourite words from the Welsh language.
• Sacred Cow - A musical artist or band would be discussed for either entrance to the 'paddock of the sacred cow' and earn their right to be critically acclaimed, or be banished to the 'abattoir' for over hyped music acts.
• Winner Plays On - Elis and John would face 5 questions each on their chosen subject, with the winner awarded the right to play a music track of their choosing.
• Textual Healing - Listeners would email or call in with a comedic problem for the lads to solve. Calls were taken live on air and sometimes featured comedians in disguise.^[9]
• Teenage Fanclub - A short lived feature where Elis and John invited listeners to write in about tales of teenage bands and music fandom.^[10]
• John Reads Aloud From Tony Blackburn's Autobiography - John read excerpts from Tony Blackburn's autobiography Poptastic! My Life In Radio, mocking the book's pomposity, banality and lack of self awareness.^[11]
• A Robins Amongst The Pigeons - John read from his autobiography 'A Robins Amongst The Pigeons', a parody of Tony Blackburn's 'Poptastic! My Life In Radio'.
• Judge Robins - John assumes the character of Judge Robins and rules on a dilemma submitted by a listener, dispensing what he believes to be a suitable punishment.
• Elis' Gig Diaries - Excerpts from Elis' diary from when he first started comedy.
• Super Texts (and tweets) - John's naming of a segment to cover responses to tweets and texts with a jingle set to the theme tune of children's cartoon series Superted.^[12]
• Every Cloud - Tales of the small everyday things that had given listeners a reason to be cheerful (dubbed 'Silver Linings' by Elis).^[13]
• BetaBet - A replacement for long running feature 'Winner Plays On'. John and Elis compete to name as many examples of a chosen subject in alphabetical order in 30 seconds. Eventually retired due to John consistently winning.^[8]
• Anecdote and a Punchline - Spontaneous feature devised by John live on air but recurring several times. Elis begins telling an anecdote as part of a different segment of the show, loses his thread, loses confidence in the story or realises he's told the story before, and John plays a jingle mocking Elis' poor storytelling skills.
• Backing Britain - Listeners submit voicenotes in which they list things that are great about Britain. This feature is in response to Producer Dave Masterman, who was jokingly accused of not backing Britain.
• Riff Symposium - Occasional feature where Elis and John perform improv comedy around a topic given to them by Producer Dave.

How Do You Cope

In October 2019 Elis and John launched a new podcast "How Do You Cope?...with Elis and John" on 5 Live.^[19] It features Elis and John talking to celebrities about mental health issues they have faced.

A new series of this podcast was launched in Spring 2022.