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Richard Herring: this week I'm
Comedian Richard Herring shares his cultural week ahead.
Hollie Higgins, The Telegraph, 18th February 2013Interview - Richard Herring
Freeview comedy channel, Dave will be sponsoring the Leicester Comedy Festival next month. Amongst the festivities is an exciting competition judged by veteran comedian and king of internet comedy, Richard Herring. I got the chance to speak to Richard about the upcoming competition, as well as how he uses the internet as a medium for comedy and how it has changed the way people make us laugh.
Jack Pelling, The Huffington Post, 19th January 2013Richard Herring on possibly working with Stewart Lee
Richard Herring has said that he and Stewart Lee will likely reunite when they are old men.
Mayer Nissim, Digital Spy, 26th December 2012Richard Herring interview
Kate Bush may have 50 words for snow, but that's nothing compared to the thousands of synonyms Richard Herring has for the humble penis.
Mayer Nissim, Digital Spy, 26th November 2012BBC censor Fist of Fun DVD
BBC bods have censored the DVD release of Nineties comedy Fist Of Fun - removing references to Princess Diana and a joke about a comedian having sex with a child.
The Sun, 24th November 2012Richard Herring's podcast sends woman into labour
A woman has given birth after listening to Richard Herring's latest podcast with guest comedian Adam Buxton.
Tim Clark, Such Small Portions, 24th November 2012Pub Landlord Al Murray is your host in the first of a new series of the stand-up show, and after a whirlwind bus-top tour of London - "Covent Garden! Not a single nun, not a single flower, a complete lie" - he takes to the stage in Shepherd's Bush, celebrating the Jubilee, Pippa Middleton's rear and taking the mickey out of the poor souls in the front row. Also on stage: Richard Herring deconstructs children's hand signals, while Andy Zaltzman transcribes his involvement in his child's birth.
Gill Crawford, Radio Times, 14th November 2012The fourth series of this reliably funny stand-up comedy show opens with a bang tonight, as Al Murray's Pub Landlord embarks on an open-top tour of the capital. "The whole world looks to London," he says proudly, "and then sends its slack-jawed teenagers to chain-smoke and shoplift in the Trocadero." The tone set, Murray proceeds to give a fine, typically provocative performance in front of a paying crowd at the Shepherds Bush Empire before introducing support performances from Richard Herring and Andy Zaltzman.
Pete Naughton, The Telegraph, 13th November 2012Richard Herring's favourite TV
The comedian and writer on his viewing habits, from Community to The Peter Serafinowicz Show.
Gwilym Mumford, The Guardian, 10th November 2012Richard Herring - review
The show is a rallying call, then, for realism and honesty about the male member - and a great platform for Richard Herring's brand of pedant humour.
Brian Logan, The Observer, 21st October 2012