Richard Herring

Comedians like Lee and Herring, who write their own jokes, tend to watch a lot of terrible afternoon television. Somehow it's a very effective form of fertiliser. [...] Fist of Fun is highly concentrated comedy. It'll go a long way.

Sometimes Herring and Lee sound too much like clones of their generation - their opening jokes might have come from The Mary Whitehouse Experience - but there are undoubtedly some inspired sketches, like the recent skit on the University of Life, whose graduates have learnt how to write letters to the Daily Star saying that all criminals should be castrated.