Richard Herring

Acting

Richard Herring

Born July 12, 1967 · Pocklington, Yorkshire, England, UK (age 59)

British comedian best known for being one half of 90s comedy double act Lee and Herring, with Stewart Lee.

Known For

You Can Choose Your FriendsYou Can Choose Your Friends · 2007
You Can Choose Your Friends
★ 6.02007
MovieComedyDrama
Comedy drama about a family reunion written by and starring Richard Herring. It's Ken and Margaret Snell's 45th wedding anniversary and their children and grandchildren along gather to celebrate. For Ken and Margaret's children, it's a day to revisit childhood arguments and to paper over present-day fractures in their relationships.
Manilla EnvelopesManilla Envelopes · 2006
Manilla Envelopes
2006
MovieCrimeComedy
Also known as The Battersea Ripper, this is a comic crime thriller set in London concerning a young girl's kidnapping and the hapless police and reporters trying to get to the truth. It has never been released to DVD and has only ever had a limited theatrical screening in 2006.
Meeting DadMeeting Dad · 2023
Meeting Dad
2023
MovieComedy
Bilal introduces his strange Dad to his new girlfriend.
Doctor Who: Real TimeDoctor Who: Real Time · 2002
Doctor Who: Real Time
★ 6.72002
MovieAnimationScience Fiction
The Doctor and his companion Evelyn investigate a series of mysterious disappearances on the planet Chronos and once again encounter the dangerous Cybermen.
Giddy StratospheresGiddy Stratospheres · 2021
Giddy Stratospheres
★ 3.52021
MovieDrama
Loss and love in the storm of guitars and broken glass that was the 2000s UK indie music scene​.
How The Young Ones Changed ComedyHow The Young Ones Changed Comedy · 2018
How The Young Ones Changed Comedy
★ 7.02018
MovieDocumentaryComedy
This documentary explores the legacy of one of the most notorious British sitcoms of all time. Launching alternative comedy onto our screens, the show made household names of its performers and writers and proved to be a huge influence, despite the BBC reportedly being baffled by what they'd commissioned back in 1982. Never before had a flagship comedy show contained so much violence, depravity and anarchy - it was a shot across the bow to mainstream comedians that things would never be the same again.
Real Love (Yes, It's Real Love!)Real Love (Yes, It's Real Love!)
Real Love (Yes, It's Real Love!)
MovieComedyDrama
Written & directed by Jamie Adams
Peacock SeasonPeacock Season · 2010
Peacock Season
★ 7.02010
MovieComedy
The Edinburgh Festival is a funny place to be... When you're not funny.

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Richard Herring: Happy NowRichard Herring: Happy Now · 2016
Richard Herring: Happy Now
★ 6.02016
MovieComedy
After years of drifting aimlessly and alone, Richard Herring is now settled down with a wife and a tiny baby. Is he finally happy now? Or does responsibility for the lives of others come with its own terrors? In his twelfth solo stand up show, Richard examines whether we can ever hope to be or are meant to be truly content. If we were never unhappy would happiness have any meaning? Why do our brains force us to envision the worst possible outcomes even on a day when everything seems fine. How likely is it that Richard's baby will be skewered by a stalactite of frozen urine falling from a plane and is it really worth him wasting his time thinking about it? Does being happy mean a comedian loses his edge and true belly laughs only come from depression? How much pressure was there on Happy the dwarf to live up to his name? Is there any system that will guarantee us eternal bliss or should we just embrace the fact that life is a vale of tears and our only option is to laugh in its face?

Writer

RHLSTP Kickstarter DVDRHLSTP Kickstarter DVD · 2015
RHLSTP Kickstarter DVD
2015
MovieComedy
"This is the most self indulgent thing I have ever done', says Richard Herring as he bounds on to the familiar stage of the Leicester Square Theatre. And who are we to argue - for the guest on this week's show is none other than Richard himself. With a combination of swagger and poor camera tricks we will finally get to see what makes the mysterious Herring tick. This DVD is a document to the kindness of the 2000 contributors to our recent KickStarter campaign to film every episode of the 8th series of Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast. It's also a joke that has got out of hand. As well as the hour long special RHLSTP with Rich, there's a backstage tour of the Leicester Square Theatre, every backstage interview from series 7, and hidden somewhere amongst the rushes is a short video of Rich before the camera trickery was added. He doesn't look very well.

Director

Fist of FunFist of Fun · 1995
Fist of Fun
★ 7.01995
SeriesComedy
Fist of Fun was a British comedy television and radio programme, written by and starring Lee and Herring. A lot of the show's comic material was adapted from Lee and Herring's radio programme Lionel Nimrod's Inexplicable World. Each episode of Fist of Fun featured several disparate sketches and situations. Fist of Fun began as a BBC Radio 1 series in 1993, before becoming commissioned as a television series on BBC Two in early 1995. It was broadcast at 9pm on Tuesday nights, and was successful, but not a major ratings-winner. The second series was aired on Friday nights, and although its ratings were relatively good, the show suffered from a lack of preparation and poor promotion. The show was not given a third series, and Lee and Herring went on to write This Morning with Richard Not Judy, for BBC Two. Many other comedians who appeared in the series went on to fame themselves, including Kevin Eldon, Peter Baynham, Ronni Ancona, Alistair McGowan, Al Murray, John Thomson, Rebecca Front, Mel Giedroyc, Sue Perkins, Ben Moor and Sally Phillips.

Writer

This Morning with Richard Not JudyThis Morning with Richard Not Judy · 1998
This Morning with Richard Not Judy
★ 7.01998
SeriesComedy
This Morning With Richard Not Judy or TMWRNJ is a BBC comedy television programme, written by and starring Lee and Herring. Two series were broadcast in 1998 and 1999 on BBC2. The name was a satirical reference to ITV's This Morning which was at the time popularly referred to as This Morning with Richard and Judy. The show was a reworking of old material from their previous work together along with new characters. The show was hosted in a daytime chat show format in front of a live studio audience, although it featured a small proportion of pre-recorded location inserts. It was structured by the often strange obsessions of Richard Herring; examples include his rating of the milk of all creatures and attempting to popularise the acronym of the show. The show featured repetition, with regular and vigilant viewers being rewarded by jokes that would make no sense to casual viewers. The show seemed to oscillate between the intellectual and puerile. However, irony was often used, even though the citing of irony as an excuse was mocked by the show's stars in one of many self-referential jokes.