Richard Herring
Also Known As: not available
Biography: British comedian best known for being one half of 90s comedy double act Lee and Herring, with Stewart Lee.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Pocklington, Yorkshire, England, UK
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Richard Herring: Someone Likes Yoghurt
Overview: In his excellent Someone Likes Yoghurt, Herrring shares with us his world of gonorrhoea-transmiting magpies, his attempts to become successor to Pope John Paul II, and his local supermarket's utterly humiliating new checkout service: the grocery interrogation.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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Richard Herring: Menage a Un
Overview: Richard Herring is getting desperate. At 39 years old, he's still making jokes about monkey semen, is wilfully nose-diving into middle-aged pedantry and what's more the love stakes are looking decidedly low. The makings of a midlife crisis? Yes, we thought so too, but - well you don't like to say do you? Still, a life of misanthropic singledom doesn't have to be all doom and gloom - at least his misogyny is postmodern and ironic, unlike Bernard Manning's (actually, is that a good thing?). And he can always take heart in his experience with the carwash company rather carelessly name 'The hand job centre'...
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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Richard Herring: Oh Fuck, I'm 40!
Overview: Rich is single, never been married, has got no kids. Has he wasted his life? Is it time to finally grow up and get out the pipe and slippers and await the blessed release of death? Or does life really begin at 40, giving him the excuse to go around in nappies and make jokes about poo and wee for a good three years to come?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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Richard Herring: The Twelve Tasks of Hercules Terrace
Overview: Richard Herring shares with us his mission to make something of his sad comedian's existence through a catalogue of seemingly impossible challenges. So will he succeed in running the London marathon, going skydiving, and dating 50 women in 50 nights? Or will he fail in his vain attempt to prove his superiority to the Greek demi-god? And does stealing Germaine Greer's bra strictly count as a Herculean task? Yes, I suppose it does...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-03-05
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Real Love (Yes, It's Real Love!)
Overview: Written & directed by Jamie Adams
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
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Lee and Herring Live
Overview: TV Comedy from radio award-winning writers Stewart Lee and Richard Herring.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-04
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Richard Herring: Hitler Moustache
Overview: Has Adolf Hitler ruined that little moustache for everyone? The only time you'll see it these days is carved into the pubic hair of a naughty lady. Is it possible to reclaim the toothbrush moustache (as it should be called) for comedy? After all, Chaplin had it first. In the critically acclaimed "Hitler Moustache," comedian Richard Herring determines to find as well as discovering how people will respond to this contentious face furniture when it's growing out of his face. Will they assume he's crazy or a fascist or both? Will they spit at him, punch him or just laugh in his face?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-25
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Richard Herring: The Headmaster's Son
Overview: In The Headmaster's Son, a nostalgic and faintly disturbing juvenile romp through the 1980s, Richard Herring considers what could possibly be worse than being a podgy, swotty, virginal schoolboy. What if your dad's the headmaster too?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-02-11
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Richard Herring: Christ On A Bike
Overview: Jesus Christ - Son of God! Saviour of mankind! Superstar! Richard Herring - Son of Keith, a retired headmaster! Once saved a spider that had become trapped in his bath, only crushing three of its legs in the process! Hosted 10 episodes of a chatshow about poker on a satellite channel which subsequently closed down! At first sight they have little in common. Or do they? Join Rich as he answers this question, substantially reworking his first and favourite solo work, Christ on a Bike. Now ten years older than the Messiah when he died, has Herring achieved as much with his life?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-10-31
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Peacock Season
Overview: The Edinburgh Festival is a funny place to be... When you're not funny.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-08-12
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Richard Herring: What Is Love, Anyway?
Overview: 'What is love, anyway?' is a heart-warmingly honest and personal examination of the romantic (and not so romantic) adventures and misadventures of the UK's most prolific comedian, as well as a genuine attempt to define this mysterious, debilitating, evil and wondrous emotion.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-08-12
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Richard Herring - Talking Cock (The Second Coming)
Overview: It's an object of shame and pride; it can inspire laughter and fear; it's a symbol of power, yet it's incredibly fragile and weak; it can be a pound of flesh or an ounce of winkles, it can be used to express both love and hate; it creates life, it can condemn us to death... and it can do wees as well. How can one tiny flap of sponge and sinew be all these things? Though men may brag and exaggerate about their little chap, they rarely talk honestly about it or their insecurities. Whilst women celebrate their sexuality in worldwide smash The Vagina Monologues, men are twisting their genitals into the shape of hamburgers in Puppetry of the Penis. Isn't it time for the twisting to stop and the schlong celebration to begin. Isn't it time for a Vagina Monologues with balls?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-08-08
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You Can Choose Your Friends
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-06-07
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Scrabble: A Night on the Tiles
Overview: Scrabble is experiencing a renaissance. The younger generation have rediscovered the game online - through the copyright busting Scrabulous - and they're having night after night on the tiles. Alan Yentob sets out to discover why the word game leaves us spellbound, tracing its surprising history, meeting the American tournament Word Freaks, and paying a visit to the SAS-style training camp that the Nigerian government trains their players at.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-12-22
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Offensive: The Real Derek and Clive
Overview: Documentary charting the Derek and Clive phenomenon. The two foul-mouthed toilet attendants were the creations of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore and were responsible for some of the filthiest comedy to come out of Britain. Despite being banned from radio and television the duo achieved great success and a cult status, but the act broke up one of the greatest comedy partnerships of recent years. Featuring excerpts from the actual records and video footage of Cook and Moore.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-12-25
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Lee and Herring's Reasonably Scary Monsters
Overview: Stewart Lee and Richard Herring, lacking the food and drink required to watch association football, end up instead watching a video tape in which Carol Vorderman counts down the 9 scariest horror creatures.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-07-11
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Richard Herring: Lord of the Dance Settee
Overview: After covering weighty issues like death, love, religion and spam javelins, the 'King of Edinburgh' (6 Music) is in a frivolous mood with this show about daftness, whether the term cool comedian is an oxymoron, bouncing joyously on the sofa and how Herring's whole career is a failed attempt to top a piece of visual slapstick comedy he came up with at 16. Can he revisit the joke thirty years on, or will it smash his old bones?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-12-11
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A Very British Cult
Overview: A Very British Cult tells the story of David, a cult leader with a problem. He knows Jesus is returning but he forgot to confirm the date. His disciples are leaving in droves for another cult in Dorset with better facilities, his wife is thinking of leaving him and his remaining followers are more interested in Chocolate Hob-Nobs than the Almighty. But God is about to send David a message, if only he can figure out what it means?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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While You Were Away
Overview: ECU Audience Award winning short film starring Richard Herring and Rachel Stubbings. While You Were Away is the story of a normal husband and wife having a far from normal argument.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-04-11
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Richard Herring: Happy Now
Overview: 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?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-11-16
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Fisted
Overview: Two friends try to track down their old nemesis Richard Herring to try to find out why on earth he is successful when they are not. The film is set against the madness of the 1995 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, was shot entirely on Super 8 film and was inspired by the films of Chris Marker and Nick Broomfield.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-03-08
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Hard to Swallow
Overview: Three couples spend an afternoon lunch together.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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Robin Ince: Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People
Overview: 'Welcome to my folly', declared Robin Ince as he opens Nine Lessons..., his massive sell-out Rationalist Celebration of comedy and science for Christmas. With a star-studded line-up included Richard Dawkins, Stewart Lee, Josie Long, Simon Singh, Richard Herring, Gavin Osbourne, Isy Suttie, Ben Goldacre, Andrew Collins, Waen Shepherd, Christina Martin and Philip Jeays - all accompanied by Martin White and his amazing Mystery Fax Machine Chamber Orchestra. What more could you ask for?.... Oh go on then, as it's Christmas there's also interview contributions from Dara O'Briain and Javis Cocker.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-12-24
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Mosquito
Overview: There's a mosquito that takes more than just your blood...
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-09-20
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Richard Herring: Oh Frig, I'm 50!
Overview: Recording of Richard Herring's "Oh Frig, I'm 50" show
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-11-01
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Richard Herring: We're All Going to Die
Overview: After sorting out politics (Hitler Moustache), religion (Christ on a Bike), love (What is Love, Anyway?) and penises (Talking Cock) Herring's tenth consecutive stand-up show tackles the undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveller returns (apart from Jesus and that canoe bloke). Is death a tragedy or an excuse to have an extended lie-in? Are we snuffed out or forced to endure eternity without bodily pleasures? Death is inevitable, so let's laugh in its face while our hearts still beat and our jaws are still attached.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-11-14
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Manilla Envelopes
Overview: 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.
Genres: Crime Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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How The Young Ones Changed Comedy
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-05-26
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Giddy Stratospheres
Overview: Loss and love in the storm of guitars and broken glass that was the 2000s UK indie music scene.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-07-14
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Doctor Who: Real Time
Overview: The Doctor and his companion Evelyn investigate a series of mysterious disappearances on the planet Chronos and once again encounter the dangerous Cybermen.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-09-06
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More Nine Lessons and Carols For Godless People
Overview: Thanks for reading the writing about this DVD, which is the third in the Nine Lessons and Carols series. The shows are put together each year by Robin Ince and are a beautiful hotch potch of non religuous Christmas fun. Watching this is like watching the Royal Institution Christmas lecture crossed with the Royal Variety Show. It's informative, funny and you never know what's coming next. And it has a star stuffed line up - this DVD features Robin Ince, Richard Herring, Steve Mould, Helen Arney, Matt Parker, Isy Suttie, Marcus Du Sautoy, Jo Neary, Gavin Osborn, Ian Stone, Grace Petrie, Nick Doody, Josie Long and Alan Moore.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
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