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Richard Herring
Richard Herring

Richard Herring

  • 57 years old
  • English
  • Actor, writer, stand-up comedian and podcaster

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Chortle Awards 2018 results

The results of the Chortle Awards 2018 have been revealed.

British Comedy Guide, 19th March 2018

How Lee and Herring subverted TV and bewildered the BBC

Picture the scene: it's a gentle Sunday lunchtime in the late 1990s. Some dreary politics show has just finished on BBC One. The smell of roast potatoes wafts through the house. Grandma's dozing in the armchair, a neighbour's out washing their car, and the wholesome warbling of Radio 4 hangs in the air. Ahhh, Sunday.

Then you turn over to BBC Two, where a grown man wearing fake breasts is squirting milk into the face of a Prince William effigy.

Tom Fordy, The Telegraph, 14th February 2018

Chortle Awards 2018 nominees

The nominees for the Chortle Awards 2018 have been announced. Mat Ewins, Hannah Gadsby, John Kearns and Joseph Morpurgo are up for Best Show.

British Comedy Guide, 7th February 2018

When comedy double acts split

David Baddiel, Andy Zaltzman, Richard Herring and other comics on fame, failure and friendship.

Simon Parkin, The Guardian, 27th January 2018

Britain's Hardest Working Comedians of 2017 announced

Gary Delaney has been announced as Britain's Hardest Working Comedian of 2017, in data analysed by Ents24. The full top 20 is in this story.

British Comedy Guide, 5th December 2017

Podcast review: Richard Herring podcast

Just think. In a parallel universe Richard Herring could have been asking the Prime Minister if he had ever tried to suck his own cock.

Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 1st December 2017

Richard Herring: how podcasting gave me a new audience

Richard Herring could claim to be the busiest comedian in the UK right now.

Alex Nelson, i Newspaper, 11th October 2017

Profile: Richard Herring's podcast

The interviews often hit a lull before coming back to life again; emergency questions (absurd and/or lewd questions rolled out to avoid uncomfortable silences) are repeated across episodes, then forgotten about, before being welcomed back like old friends.

Brian Cloughley, The Skinny, 14th September 2017

Quick quiz: Richard Herring

Today King Of The Fringe Richard Herring.

ThreeWeeks, 8th August 2017

How Edinburgh changed British comedy

Comedy did not feature at all when the Edinburgh Fringe began but over the past three decades it has become the "spiritual home" of Britain's funny folk.

Steven Brocklehurst, BBC, 6th August 2017

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