Richard Herring performing his show Someone Likes Yoghurt at the Pleasance Theatre, Edinburgh, during the 2005 Edinburgh Festival Fringe

Richard Keith Herring (born July 12, 1967) is a British comedian and writer formerly best known as part of Lee and Herring, a double act with Stewart Lee. Other notable works include the radio series, That Was Then, This Is Now and various live shows including the acclaimed Talking Cock and the resulting book of the same name. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 399 × 600 pixels Full resolution (681 × 1024 pixel, file size: 124 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) (All user names refer to en. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 399 × 600 pixels Full resolution (681 × 1024 pixel, file size: 124 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) (All user names refer to en. ... The Pleasance Courtyard during the 2006 Edinburgh Fringe Pleasance is a street in Edinburgh, Scotland, which is the location for one of the largest and most popular venue at the Edinburgh Fringe, hosting mainly comedy shows. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Categories: Festival stubs | Edinburgh ... July 12 is the 193rd day (194th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 172 days remaining. ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ... A comedian, or comic, is an entertainer who amuses an audience by making them laugh. ... Lee and Herring are a British standup comedy double act consisting of the comedians, Stewart Lee and Richard Herring. ... This article is about the comedy duo. ... Stewart Lee (born April 5, 1968 in Solihull) is an English stand-up comedian, writer and director probably best known for being one half of the 1990s comedy duo Lee and Herring, and for co-writing and directing the critically-acclaimed and controversial stage show Jerry Springer - The Opera. ... Ticket for a recording of the show That Was Then, This Is Now is a BBC Radio 2 history based comedy sketch show co-written and presented by Richard Herring. ...

Herring was born in Yorkshire but grew up in Cheddar, Somerset, and was educated at St. Catherine's College, Oxford, where he wrote and performed for a comic troupe known as the Seven Raymonds as well as the Fringe favourites the Oxford Revue. Look up Yorkshire in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Statistics Population: 5724 (as of 2002) Ordnance Survey OS grid reference: ST458535 Administration District: Sedgemoor Region: South West England Constituent country: England Sovereign state: United Kingdom Other Ceremonial county: Somerset Historic county: Somerset Services Police force: Avon and Somerset Fire and rescue: {{{Fire}}} Ambulance: South Western Post office and telephone... Somerset is a county in the south-west of England. ... St Catherines College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. ... The University of Oxford, located in the city of Oxford in England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... A comic review troupe founded by various Oxford University undergraduates in 1987. ... A street performer on the Royal Mile, with volunteer (2004). ... The Oxford Revue is a sketch comedy group featuring students from Oxford University. ...

With Stewart Lee, Herring wrote material for Chris Morris and Armando Iannucci's On the Hour (1991). It was during this time that the duo came up with the initial concept for the character Alan Partridge. In 1992 and 1993, they wrote and performed Lionel Nimrod's Inexplicable World for Radio 4. For Radio 1, they wrote and performed one series of Fist of Fun (1993), which was later remade for television. They also hosted a series on Radio 1 in 1994 and 1995, simply called Lee and Herring. A final television partnership with Lee, This Morning With Richard Not Judy, was a victim of BBC management reshuffles. Chris Morris (b. ... Presenting the Election Night Armistice in 1997 Armando Iannucci (born 1964, Glasgow, Scotland) is a Scottish comedian, satirist and radio producer. ... On The Hour double cassette cover featuring Chris Morris, 1992. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Alan Gordon Partridge is a fictional television and radio presenter portrayed by English comedian Steve Coogan. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... A BBC Radio comedy series starring Stewart Lee and Richard Herring, and narrated by Tom Baker as the titular character, Lionel Nimrod, a comically exaggerated version of Baker himself. ... Fist of Fun was a popular British comedy television and radio programme, written by and starring Lee and Herring (the comedians Stewart Lee and Richard Herring). ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Lee and Herring was a British radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 1 in 1994 and 1995, named after the comedy double act who hosted it, Lee and Herring. ... This Morning With Richard Not Judy or TMWRNJ was a British comedy television programme, written by and starring Lee and Herring (the comedians Stewart Lee and Richard Herring), made and broadcast by the BBC. Two series were broadcast in 1998 and 1999 on BBC2. ... The British Broadcasting Corporation, usually known as the BBC, is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the United Kingdom alone and with a budget of more than GB£4 billion (US$7. ...

In 2002 Herring played the role of Renchard in the Doctor Who Webcast Real Time, together with Stewart Lee as Carey and Colin Baker as the Doctor. For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... Doctor Who is a long-running British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC, (and a 1996 television movie). ... The word webcast is derived from web and broadcast. ... It has been suggested that Real-time computing be merged into this article or section. ... Colin Baker (born London, June 8, 1943) is an English actor who is best known for playing the sixth incarnation of the Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who, from 1984 to 1986. ...

Since cordially ending his informal partnership with Stewart Lee, Herring has written and performed thought-provoking one-man shows to critical acclaim. Most noteworthy of these shows was Talking Cock – released as a book in 2003 – which The Guardian described as "man's answer to The Vagina Monologues." Like Patrick Marber (a long-standing rival who was described as "curmudgeonly" or "a cornish curmudgeon" in Fist of Fun), he has also written and produced several plays. The Guardian is a British newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Patrick Marber (born 19 September 1964) is an English playwright, director, actor and Academy Award nominated screenwriter. ...

Richard co-wrote and presented the history based sketch show That Was Then, This Is Now (Or TWTTIN), a 6 part series produced for Radio 2. A second series was commissioned and aired in September and October 2006. On the broadcast of 2nd September, he urged listeners to edit Wikipedia's Mother Teresa entry to suggest that she grew up with the middle name "Gonk". It took a whole 3 months before someone carried out his dastardly plan,^[1] although his own page had been edited in the same manner within days of the broadcast.^[2] Ticket for a recording of the show That Was Then, This Is Now is a BBC Radio 2 history based comedy sketch show co-written and presented by Richard Herring. ... September 2 is the 245th day of the year (246th in leap years). ... Wikipedia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Mother Teresa (born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu IPA: ) (August 26, 1910 – September 5, 1997), was an Albanian Roman Catholic nun who founded the Missionaries of Charity and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her humanitarian work. ... A 1970s Chad Valley red gonk. ...

He has also written for television, most notably penning a large portion of Al Murray's sitcom vehicle, Time Gentlemen Please, on which Stewart Lee worked as script editor. Herring has also contributed to the third series of Matt Lucas and David Walliams' popular TV sketch show, Little Britain, as script editor. Al Murray (born May 10, 1968) is an English comedian best known for his stand-up persona, the Pub Landlord, a stereotypical xenophobic public house licensee, and indeed earlier in his career he performed in pubs as though it were genuinely his gaff. Murray has toured with other comedians (including... Time Gentlemen Please is a British sitcom. ... Matthew Richard Lucas (born March 5, 1974) is an English comedy actor. ... David Walliams, (born David Williams) August 20, 1971 in Surrey, is an English comedy actor, best known for his partnership with Matt Lucas in the sketch show Little Britain. ... Little Britain is a character-based BBC radio and television sketch show written by and starring Matt Lucas and David Walliams. ...

On 25 November 2002 Herring started his blog Warming Up as a way to overcome writer's block. He has kept the blog updated regularly ever since and as of 1st May 2007 has not missed a single day. It's estimated that he has a regular readership of over 3000. Some of the ideas from Warming Up were used in his 2005 Edinburgh show Someone Likes Yoghurt and in his 2006 Edinburgh show ménage à un. November 25 is the 329th (in leap years the 330th) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Writers block is a phenomenon involving temporary loss of ability to continue writing, usually due to lack of inspiration or creativity. ... (Redirected from 1st May) May 1 is the 121st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (122nd in leap years). ...

In 2005 he presented a chat show called Heads Up with Richard Herring on Pokerzone (Sky channel 843) in which he interviewed professional poker players and celebrities about their careers and their love of the game. There were ten episodes in total. A talk show (U.S.) or chat show (Brit. ... Richard Herring Heads Up with Richard Herring or HUWRH, is a British celebrity chat show written by and starring Richard Herring (the comedian formerly of Lee and Herring) and featuring professional poker players and celebrities talking about their lives, their careers and their love of poker. ... A channel dedicated to poker, broadcasting on satellite channel 226 since 2005. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... A game of Texas holdem, the most popular form of poker, in progress. ...

Richard also made weekly appearances on Andrew Collins' BBC 6 Music radio show on Saturday afternoons, where the two would discuss the weeks papers. He occasionally hosted the show in Collins' absence and joined him for the whole of his final show on 31st March 2007. Herring is also a panellist on BBC Radio 4 gameshow Banter, which is presented by Collins. Andrew Collins Andrew John Collins (born March 4, 1965, Northampton, United Kingdom) is a British journalist, scriptwriter and broadcaster. ... BBC 6 Music is one of the BBCs newest radio stations, launched on March 11, 2002 and originally codenamed Network Y. It is only available via digital media - DAB radio, the Internet and the various forms of digital television. ... March 31 is the 90th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (91st in Leap years). ... 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station which broadcasts a wide variety of chiefly spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history. ...

In January 2007 Richard's live stand-up show Someone Likes Yoghurt was filmed in Cardiff and released on DVD on May 16th by the independent distributor Go Faster Stripe. A recording of an earlier show, The 12 Tasks of Hercules Terrace, was released on 5 March 2007. Richard will return to Cardiff in June to film his third DVD. March 5 is the 64th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (65th in leap years). ... 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ...

In February 2007, filming began on Herring's new comedy drama You Can Choose Your Friends. As well as writing the script, Richard also plays one of the characters alongside Gordon Kennedy, Claire Skinner, Rebecca Front, Sarah-Jane Potts, Robert Daws, Anton Rogers and Julia McKenzie.^[3][4] The show will be broadcast on ITV1 on 7th June 2007. Gordon Kennedy (born ????) was the guitarist of Christian rock band White Heart from 1985 to 1989. ... Claire Skinner (born 1965) is an English actress who works in Film, TV, Theatre, Radio and voice-overs. ... Rebecca Front (born June 28, 1965) is a British comedian and actress. ... Sarah-Jane Potts (born August 30, 1976 in Bradford, West Yorkshire) is a British actress, who is best known for her role as Saint in Sugar Rush. She also appeared as Molly in the 2001 series Felicity and as Ashley in National Lampoons Barely Legal. ... Robert Daws is an English actor born in 1959. ... Anton Rodgers (born 10 January 1933, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire) is a British actor. ... Julia McKenzie (born 17 February 1941, Enfield, Middlesex, England) is a British actor and theatre director. ... ITV1 is the name, in England, Wales and the Scottish borders, for a terrestrial, free-to-air television channel, broadcast in the United Kingdom by the ITV network. ... June 7 is the 158th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (159th in leap years), with 207 days remaining. ... 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ...

Personal Life

Beyond saying he is often taken by actresses, Herring generally keeps quiet about his love life. One of the few exceptions to this is his former relationship with the actress Julia Sawalha. According to the Telegraph: Julia Sawalha (born 9 September 1968) is an English actress who is best known for her roles of Lynda Day, editor of The Junior Gazette in the childrens drama series Press Gang, Saffron Monsoon in Absolutely Fabulous and Lydia Bennet in the 1995 miniseries of Pride and Prejudice. ...

'So taken was he that the Oxford-educated stand-up comedian even set up a shrine to her on Fist of Fun, the television programme he wrote and acted in with Stewart Lee. "My ideal woman has the head of Julia Sawalha attached to the body of Julia Sawalha," went the running gag.' ^[5]

References

1. ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mother_Teresa&diff=92580013&oldid=92525160
2. ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard_Herring&oldid=74013321
3. ^ Warming Up 29 January 2007
4. ^ Warming Up 19 February 2007
5. ^ 'They told my parents I was dead', The Telegraph, September 2000.

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External links

• RichardHerring.com
• fistoffun.net
• Interview with BBC Somerset (March 2007)
• pokerzone.tv
• Richard Herring at the Internet Movie Database