Since February 2008, esteemed broadcaster and star of I Love 1983* ANDREW COLLINS has been coming round to the house of scatological comedian, and ‘Percy the Shepherd’ from BBC ONE’s Servants, RICHARD HERRING on a weekly basis to record an unscripted, unrehearsed and unabashed podcast. Once recording begins they transform into Collings and Herrin.
Collings is an oat milk drinking, woolly liberal with an obsession with the Mitford sisters, who is exactly the same as ANDREW COLLINS in every way. Herrin is a foul-mouthed, sex obsessed, lovelorn fool, who regularly pushes back the boundaries of comedy, only to discover why the boundaries were put there in the first place. The result is one hour, six minutes and 35 seconds (a time set because that is when their software chooses to end the recording) of banter, bickering and homoerotic tension which is sometimes funny, sometimes offensive, sometimes illuminating and sometimes just awful rubbish.
Now they bring the podcast out of Richard’s attic and into the Underbelly for five performances only, in front of a live audience. It will be different every day. Yet strangely the same. (And downloadable from iTunes and the British Comedy Guide later that day for those too lazy to make the trip.) Anything could happen, but probably won’t. But about five or six things will happen. And there’s no way of knowing what they will be!
* Andrew would like to point out that he was actually only on I Love 1980, I love 1981 and I Love 1982. Methinks the lady doth protest too much.
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What the press has said about The Collings & Herrin Podcast:
“You can clearly hear echoes of Pete and Dud's devils in the podcasts by Richard Herring and Andrew Collins. If the bile count is lower, their extreme take on the news feels similarly unrestrained.”
Bruce Dessau, The Guardian
Some customer reviews from iTunes:
“Incisive, opinionated and very, very funny.”
“Irreverent, rambling and hilarious.”
“They make you feel like you’ve landed in the middle of one of the best pub conversations ever.”
“I almost fell off the treadmill.”
“Stick to Adam and Joe.”
LISTINGS INFORMATION
Venue: Underbelly - Belly Laugh
Date: 19th - 23rd August 2009
Time: 12:20
Box Office: 08445 458 252
For more information and press tickets, please contact: Jo Cross, Ben Nolan, Jenny Stewart or Dan Lloyd. Tel: 020 7598 7222 [London office]. Email: joc@avalonuk.com, benn@avalonuk.com, jenny.stewart@avalonuk.com or danl@avalonuk.com
BIOGRAPHIES
ANDREW COLLINS
ANDREW COLLINS is an author and Sony Award-winning broadcaster whose TV writing includes Not Going Out (BBC ONE) and Grass (BBC THREE). He is the Film Editor of Radio Times, occasional presenter of The Film Programme on Radio 4 and regular contributor to Front Row. He currently writes for Word, The Times and Radio Times. Starting his radio career on the original Radio Five, he was nominated for a Writers' Guild Award for his first series with Stuart Maconie, Fantastic Voyage. He won a Sony Gold for Collins & Maconie's Hit Parade on Radio 1 (where the pair also co-hosted coverage of the Brits and the Mercury Prize) and went on to co-present Collins & Maconie's Movie Club on ITV. He has most recently presented topical comedy show The Day The Music Died on Radio 2 and the panel game Banter on Radio 4. In addition to a trilogy of humorous memoirs Where Did It All Go Right?, Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now and That's Me In The Corner, Andrew is the author of Still Suitable For Miners, the official biography of Billy Bragg, and the official story of Friends Reunited.
RICHARD HERRING
In the 1990s RICHARD HERRING was in the prodigious double act LEE & HERRING, who created the cult hit BBC TWO shows Fist of Fun and This Morning With Richard Not Judy. He was one of the team behind the award-winning BBC Radio 4 series On The Hour. More recently he has written and starred in ITV1’s hit comedy drama You Can Choose Your Friends, and BBC Radio 2’s That Was Then, This Is Now. A busy year has seen RICHARD: take his critically acclaimed, Chortle Award nominated show The Headmaster’s Son on a hugely successful national tour and two-week London run; present a new documentary series Bad Habits on BBC Radio 4; continue to host the Collings and Herrin podcast with broadcaster and writer ANDREW COLLINS, which entered the iTunes top 20 podcast chart when released; and appear as a panellist on BBC TWO’s Never Mind the Buzzcocks. A Fringe veteran, his previous hit live shows include: Ra Ra Rasputin, Punk’s Not Dead, Excavating Rita, Christ on a Bike, Talking Cock, Someone Likes Yoghurt, ménage à un, Oh Fuck, I’m 40! and The Headmaster’s Son. He will be performing his brand new stand-up show Hitler’s Moustache at the Underbelly this August.
AVALON PROMOTIONS
Avalon Promotions Limited is one of the leading promoters of live comedy in the UK. Productions include: NEWMAN & BADDIEL in the first comedy show ever to be staged at Wembley Arena; FRANK SKINNER’s record-breaking performance to an audience of 6,000 at the Battersea Power Station; Jerry Springer - The Opera at the National Theatre, at the Cambridge Theatre in London’s West End, on national tour and at New York’s Carnegie Hall; HARRY HILL at the Palace and Dominion Theatres in London; and Dave Gorman’s Googlewhack Adventure at the Sydney Opera House, at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, on national tour and at the Village Theatre, New York (nominated for Drama Desk Award 2004).
The last 12 months has seen Avalon Promotions: present multi-award winning comics JENNY ECLAIR, RICHARD HERRING, RUSSELL HOWARD and FRANK SKINNER on sell-out runs; produce AL MURRAY, THE PUB LANDLORD live at the O2, and RUSSELL HOWARD at Wembley Arena; introduce some of the fastest-rising stars in comedy such as RUSSELL KANE, KRISTEN SCHAAL & KURT BRAUNOHLER and ISY SUTTIE; produce stage shows, such as Frank Skinner’s Credit Crunch Cabaret and Grumpy Old Women Live, which has toured the UK three times and performed a highly successful run in Australia; and present 23 acts at the Edinburgh Festival, where it has promoted a total of five Perrier Award winners and 17 Perrier Award/if.comedy Award nominees in just 20 years.
