

Performing at the Kings Head pub in Crouch End, London
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In 2005, he presented a chat show called Heads Up with Richard Herring on the Pokerzone channel, in which he interviewed professional poker players and celebrities about their careers and their love of the game.
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He also contributed to the third series of Little Britain as script editor. For television he wrote Al Murray's sitcom Time Gentlemen Please. A Herring show typically starts with a run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, continues with an extensive UK tour and ends with a recorded performance for DVD.įor radio, Herring co-wrote and presented the history based sketch show That Was Then, This Is Now. Herring has written and performed in thirteen one-person shows, eleven of them consecutively.

Solo work Richard Herring performing his show Someone Likes Yoghurt at The Pleasance Theatre, during the 2005 Edinburgh Festival Fringe A final television partnership with Lee, This Morning With Richard Not Judy, ran for 18 episodes over two series was eventually cancelled "as a result of BBC management reshuffles". They hosted a series on Radio 1 in 19, called Lee and Herring. For Radio 1, they wrote and performed one series of Fist of Fun in 1993, remaking it for television in 19. In 19, they wrote and performed Lionel Nimrod's Inexplicable World for Radio 4. Lee and Herring wrote material for Chris Morris and Armando Iannucci's On the Hour in 1991 and the duo contributed to the creation of the character that was to be Alan Partridge. Their television work included Fist of Fun and This Morning With Richard Not Judy, and they had been collaborating on stage and radio projects since the 1980s. Career Lee and Herring īetween 19, Richard was half of the stand-up comedy double act with Stewart Lee. Herring was a student at St Catherine's College, Oxford, where he wrote and performed for a comedy troupe known as the Seven Raymonds as well as the Oxford Revue. Some of the same characters later featured in the Radio 4 series "Relativity". The 2007 ITV comedy drama You Can Choose Your Friends, which he wrote and also starred in, was based on his family. This later formed the basis of his 2008 stand-up show, The Headmaster's Son. He attended The Kings of Wessex School, where his father was the headmaster and maths teacher. Richard Herring was born in Pocklington, East Riding of Yorkshire, and grew up in Cheddar, Somerset. His blog is archived by the British Library for purposes of UK documentary heritage. He has maintained a daily blog called Warming Up without a break since 25 November 2002. Herring is recognised as a pioneer of comedy podcasting, initially with broadcaster Andrew Collins on The Collings and Herrin Podcast and subsequently with high-profile comedians and celebrities such as Dawn French, Michael Palin and Stephen Fry on Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast. His 2016–17 show was a 'best of' tour, drawing from these shows.

Herring has created thirteen of these stand-up shows since 2004, performing them for eleven consecutive years at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, with annual tours and a final performance recorded for DVD.

After Lee and Herring went their separate ways he co-wrote the sitcom Time Gentlemen Please, but quickly returned to performance with concept-driven one-person shows like Talking Cock, Hitler Moustache and Christ on a Bike as well as regular circuit stand-up. Towards the end of the double act, Herring also worked as a writer, producing four plays. He is described by The British Theatre Guide as "one of the leading hidden masters of modern British comedy". Richard Keith Herring (born 12 July 1967) is an English stand-up comedian and writer whose early work includes the comedy double act Lee and Herring (alongside Stewart Lee). Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast
