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Richard Herring film scoops international award
A short film starring Richard Herring in a rare acting role has scooped an award at Europe's biggest independent cinema festival. While You Were Away, which also stars comic Rachel Stubbings, won the audience award at the ECU festival in Paris.
Chortle, 11th April 2016Richard Herring crowdfunds new As It Occurs To Me series
Richard Herring has raised over £100,000 through Kickstarter to make a new series of his internet sketch show As It Occurs To Me.
British Comedy Guide, 5th April 2016Is depression 'endemic' among stand-up comedians?
Did you hear the one about the suicidal stand-up at the Glasgow Comedy Festival? It's no laughing matter.
Jay Richardson, The Scotsman, 7th March 2016Interview: Richard Herring
After years of being a wandering singleton, Richard Herring has finally settled down with a wife and tiny baby.
Patrick Grafton-Green, Richmond and Twickenham Times, 2nd March 2016Richard Herring's ten best interviews
Lorcan Mullan celebrates 100 RHLSTP episodes.
Lorcan Mullan, Chortle, 23rd February 2016Richard Herring: Happy Now? - The Lowry, Salford review
You will not come out of this show with sore ribs or an aching face but you will leave with a new-found appreciation of the small things in your life that you may have taken for granted or forgot they make you happy.
Jay Nuttall, The Reviews Hub, 21st February 2016Review - Richard Herring, Happy Now?
Compared to previous shows it feels more like a series of routines than a fully formed whole, too scattergun to ever feel really coherent as, say, Headmaster's Son or Hitler Moustache.
Paul Fleckney, London Is Funny, 17th February 2016This week's new live comedy
Previews of Richard Herring, Lolly Adefope and Adam Hills.
James Kettle, The Guardian, 12th February 2016Live review: Richard Herring, Leicester Square Theatre
Richard Herring has been developing his new show, Happy Now? for a while. An embryonic version of it was performed last summer when he did all of his past shows in one epic run at the Leicester Square Theatre. So it's interesting that the show isn't about quite what I initially thought it was going to be about.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 12th February 2016New documentary film about prejudice in comedy
Stand-up Catie Wilkins is directing her first film, about sexism, racism and class prejudice in comedy. Finding The Funny features comics Tiff Stevenson, Richard Herring, Janey Godley, Brendon Burns, Ava Vidal, Nish Kumar, Grainne Maguire, Andrew Watts, Suzi Ruffell and former stand-up Christina Martin.
Jay Richardson, Chortle, 10th December 2015