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Richard Herring 2024

Started by lauraxsynthesis, April 15, 2024, 11:08:20 PM

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Twilkes

Mark Lamarr tempered the laddishness a bit, and Simon Amstell was Simon Amstell.

Been reading Warming Up for about a decade now, plus during the odyssey that was Consecutive Number Plate Spotting - it's sometimes a bit family heavy these days and I do sometimes wonder about the level of disclosure, but it's always genuine and sometimes has some decent ideas in it.

Subscribed to Substack because he needs the money more than me; well, his kids do, when they take up their first show to the Fringe, Herring Snr will be redundant.

Red82

Buzzcocks was pretty entertaining for its time.  Although some would argue Lamarr was overly mean to guests at times.  Sean Hughes was on it whom I've always found likeable and later Bailey, Fielding and Amstell.

Mobbd

Herring's been podcasting for 17 years as of yesterday and he posted some nice reflections of Collings & Herrin, where it all began. It's especially nice to see Tina Wiseman get a mention.

QuoteWhen I started putting out weekly shows with the journalist Andrew Collings, many comedians asked me why I was doing it. Why was I giving out so much material for free?

But I was struggling to get my stuff on TV and radio and if I managed it then I'd usually have to wait months for broadcast and get censored by nervous channel chiefs. So the autonomy and the immediacy of the medium was all I needed. Also there weren't many people podcasting - We Need Answers, Peacock and Gamble and Ricky Gervais were the major comedy podcasters that were going before me (that I remember anyway), so it was a fairly open market place. Albeit a market place where everything was given away for free.

I think Collings and me vaguely thought that if we did OK we might get asked back to do a 6 Music show (and that did come to pass after a couple of years) and I vaguely thought it might encourage people to come and see my stand up shows (and again, my live audience doubled within a year, but that was starting from very modest sales). Ultimately though we were doing it to try stuff out, to be as rude as we wanted and have fun. Earning money from it was not on our radar at all. And aside from the occasional pound pressed into my hand by a stranger we didn't directly make any money from it until we had the idea of doing the shows in front of an audience. Which we only did a handful of times - plus an Edinburgh run or two, which given the nature of the Fringe were not for profit.

It was a funny show and without us expecting anything of it led to lots of opportunities - I got on some TV panel shows as a result (finally appearing on Have I Got News For You?) and the podcast sparked ideas for stand up shows, most notably Hitler Moustache and Secret Dancing, but the shows were an achievement in themselves, filthy and rude at a time when TV had got overcautious with a loyal band of listeners, who joined in, made friends with each other, remained virgins nonetheless and were genuinely affected by the loss of one of our number. RIP Tina, we won't forget you.

I am so glad we took the plunge because this was a very creatively fecund period for me, but no one else was really interested in employing me and it led to As It Occurs To Me and then, in the final collapse of the double act, RHLSTP.

Red82

He's announced that he is touring next year.

Mobbd

Quote from: Red82 on October 27, 2024, 03:51:37 PMHe's announced that he is touring next year.

It's just the ball show again though.

Red82

I assumed it was a new show.

madhair60


Mobbd

You know in Time Gentlemen Please, right? Jason Freeman's character (Steve?) often says "I'm cheeky, me!" and makes a gesture with his hand like lifting a little flap on his head.

That can't be a reference to Rich's vent dummy, Ally Sloper can it?

Maybe it can. Rich used Ally and Sally in his very early performance days; Seven Raymonds and the likes.

But, if it's a reference to Ally, how was the audience meant to interpret/relate to that? Can anyone remember why, in-world, that was Steve's catchphrase? Was it something to do with Fact Hunt?

Magnum Valentino

Quote from: Mobbd on November 01, 2024, 08:50:53 PMYou know in Time Gentlemen Please, right? Jason Freeman's character (Steve?) often says "I'm cheeky, me!" and makes a gesture with his hand like lifting a little flap on his head.

That can't be a reference to Rich's vent dummy, Ally Sloper can it?

Maybe it can. Rich used Ally and Sally in his very early performance days; Seven Raymonds and the likes.

But, if it's a reference to Ally, how was the audience meant to interpret/relate to that? Can anyone remember why, in-world, that was Steve's catchphrase? Was it something to do with Fact Hunt?

Yeah I think he was obsessed with the presented of some tv show, was that it, Fact Hunt?

Every character on that show had at least catchphrase, I'm not sure interpretation or relation were high on Rich's agenda.

Cold Meat Platter

Yeah it was the presenter of Fact Hunt who was played by Frank Skinner IIRC

Mobbd

Quote from: Magnum Valentino on November 01, 2024, 10:59:56 PMYeah I think he was obsessed with the presented of some tv show, was that it, Fact Hunt?

Quote from: Cold Meat Platter on November 01, 2024, 11:26:26 PMYeah it was the presenter of Fact Hunt who was played by Frank Skinner IIRC

That'll be it. Thanks. The presenter of Fact Hunt.

I bet Rich was writing his scripts so fast though, that he was looking around the room for Keyser Soze-style inspo. And Ally was right there. Lazy goit.

Mobbd

"I'm cheeky me!"

"Sit on it, Barbara. Sit on iiiiiiit."

Twilkes

When did Frank Skinner film for Time Gentlemen please?

Coincidentally Herring just put up on Substack a pilot script from 2001 he'd written for Frank Skinner, which was ready to be filmed and broadcast until Frank said no:

"So ironically the script that I think is possibly my worst one would actually have got on TV if it wasn't for Frank deciding against it. And I don't think his problem was with the script but with me personally. But I'll maybe go into that another time!"

"The sitcom he did instead - Shane (I think) - didn't really set the world alight, but there's a chance that Jammy Bugger might have done and my life could have turned out very differently. I made a potentially very costly mistake!"

No doubt he'll spill the beans at some point.


Cold Meat Platter


Mobbd

Whatever Rich did to foul the relationship probably explains why Fun Time Frankie has never done RHLSTP. I've always wondered.

"Day of the Trivheads" though. Bloody hell, Rich.

Anyway, here's the complete episode for anyone who wants to see Frank:


Ferris

I've never seen TGP so watched the first 10 minutes of that. Fucking hell, Rich.

Mobbd

Quote from: Ferris on November 02, 2024, 02:15:09 PMI've never seen TGP so watched the first 10 minutes of that. Fucking hell, Rich.

He was never confused.

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