About
RICHARD HERRING is one of the UK's most prolific comedians. It has been an incredibly busy year so far for Richard. He took the Edinburgh Festival 2011 by storm with his new show What Is Love, Anyway? and begun the nationwide tour of the same show this October. In May this year Richard finished touring the country with his critically acclaimed Edinburgh Fringe show, Christ on a Bike: The Second Coming, as well as wrapped the latest season of his Chortle Award Winning . Richard finished the latest series of his Chortle Award-winning and Sony-nominated audio podcast and sketch show As It Occurs To Me. His new book How Not To Grow Up was published in May and Richard also released his second DVD, this time of Christ On A Bike, following last year's release of Hitler Moustache. Richard also wrote and performed a second series of his Radio 4 series Richard Herring's Objective this autumn.
Richard's recent TV appearances include Argumental (Dave), Genius** (BBC Two), Have I Got News For You (BBC One) and Never Mind the Buzzcocks. He currently co-hosts the Saturday morning breakfast show on Radio 6Music with Andrew Collins and they continue to record their weekly Collings and Herrin Podcast on a laptop in Rich's attic. The podcasts get up to 50,000 downloads per episode.
Richard has established himself as a leading playwright at Edinburgh, penning and appearing in several critically acclaimed plays including Punk's Not Dead, Excavating Rita and It's Not the End of the World. His one-man Edinburgh shows include Talking Cock, Someone Likes Yoghurt, ménage a un, Oh Fuck I'm 40 and The Headmaster's Son. Richard's blog Warming Up has gained a cult following since he began writing it in November 2002 and has written an entry for every single day, well over 3000 consecutive entries.
As one half of the prolific comedy duo Lee & Herring, Richard Herring enjoyed phenomenal cult success as a writer and performer with shows such as Lionel Nimrod's Inexplicable World, Fist of Fun (BBC Radio 1/BBC Two) and This Morning with Richard Not Judy (BBC Two).
With Al Murray, Richard devised and wrote 37 episodes of the sitcom Time Gentlemen Please (Sky One/Paramount) for Al's alter ego The Pub Landlord. Richard also wrote and starred in the comedy drama You Can Choose Your Friends (ITV1).
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"Herring is a superior comedian… hilarious.”
The Guardian
