Richard Herring
| Richard Herring | |
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Herring during the final performance of As It Occurs To Me in 2011
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| Born |
12 July 1967 Pocklington, East Riding of Yorkshire, England |
| Medium | Stand up, radio, television, podcast |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | St Catherine's College, Oxford |
| Years active | 1987–present |
| Genres | Black comedy, satire, irony, wit, deadpan |
| Spouse | Catherine Wilkins (2012–present) |
| Notable works and roles |
Fist of Fun This Morning with Richard Not Judy Time Gentlemen Please The Collings and Herrin Podcast Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast |
Richard Keith Herring (born 12 July 1967) is an English stand-up comedian, comedy writer, podcaster and diarist whose early work includes the comedy double act Lee and Herring. He is described by The British Theatre Guide as "one of the leading hidden masters of modern British comedy".
Immediately after the double act, Herring worked primarily as a writer, producing three plays and co-writing the sitcom Time Gentlemen Please, but in the early 2000s returned to performance with concept-driven one-person shows like Talking Cock, Hitler Moustache and Christ on a Bike as well as regular circuit stand-up. Herring has created thirteen of these stand-up shows since 2004, performing them for eleven consecutive years at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, with annual tours and a final performance recorded for DVD. His 2016–17 show is a 'best of' tour, drawing from these shows.
He is recognised as a pioneer of comedy podcasting, initially with broadcaster Andrew Collins on The Collings and Herrin Podcast and more recently with high-profile comedians such as Simon Pegg, Russell Brand and Stephen Fry on Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast. He has maintained a daily blog called Warming Up without a break since 25 November 2002. His blog is archived by the British Library for purposes of UK documentary heritage.
Richard Herring was born in Pocklington, East Riding of Yorkshire, and grew up in Cheddar, Somerset. He attended The Kings of Wessex School, where his father was the headmaster and maths teacher. This later formed the basis of his 2008 stand-up show, The Headmaster's Son. He was a student at St Catherine's College, Oxford, where he wrote and performed for a comedy troupe known as the Seven Raymonds as well as the Oxford Revue. He attained a 2:1 in History, though never collected the diploma, making him a graduand of Oxford University.
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