Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast - with Stewart Lee (TMWRNJ Special)

hello it's me which tearing welcome to my office this is where I work as made to-do list there's a or a one-foot rowing in a boat race in 2004 you are about to watch the final roster but Rollo slipper of the series it's with Stuart Lee this was going to be a paid one but we're going to try and raise some money for this funny rich not Judy DVD release the bad news is we are no longer doing that DVD release due to reasons I'm afraid there's nothing we can do to change that it's not going to happen so the good news though is this goes out for free if you still felt like paying for it anyway you can if you like go to go faster strike calm slash badges you can make it one off the nation of anything you want or a monthly donation which will help us to make even more of these you can go to Ebates my name on those Herring one nine six seven and you can bid on loads of things at the moment probably actually too late for you there's things like sighing deadpan magazines t-shirts old Lee and having programs and all the money from these things will go towards making future Internet content I have a baby now probably by the time you're seeing this and I need to try and keep them alive with food and clothes so I would be grateful if you could come to me a little bit although none of that money goes to me so if you want to contribute to me come and see me on tour go to Richard Herring comm /l o TD s slash tour and you can see if my tour is coming near to you and if you've enjoyed all this free stuff and then that'd be terrific if you want except to give money to that but anyway let's now sit back and watch the final ever performance of Liam herring on stage together in rich ancestor square theatre podcast I hope you enjoy ladies and gentlemen welcome to the Leicester Square Theatre well this is a very very special podcast because Richard Herring isn't it please welcome you Richard very much love to see you thanks for coming out you must read the last week's audience so ace will help them to very special it's the final rich hangs Leicester Square Theotokos of this series or as some of the cool kids have started calling it a headless step up that's what economy it's a lot very exciting you're excited about Stewart Lee coming on it's everyone who you excited who did you not realize who was here what is your favorite thing that was ever in this morning with rich not Judy it was farfel farfel [ __ ] will probably talk about that yes uh I don't know if anyone doing I don't have a BBC didn't notice then well I did I'd be pretty much swear every single way but to be honest we did we just pretty much just swore anyway the one I saw just had someone saying [ __ ] for about five minutes I mean I really was talk about [ __ ] fighting but it became very clear that that was not wha and Eva Cage he was kind of giving us a clapperboard for the challenge infinitely so uh what was your favorite thing in this morning were tragedy that was a good point I like a bird's eye which is German beg we'll see if ring gets you I'm hoping Stu I when I got Harry Shearer on I managed to get him to do some of the voices open I guessed you to D so they call these days so really hard to get see if he could di for me Pliny is the best thing by far seriously I would happily just watch him do that for the rest of his career not because it's good just it would be satisfying so uh I'm dead you should you say you are I mean we look at the YouGov that YouGov website over the last few weeks where they have the archetypal rich tearing fan or whatever fandom no it doesn't pictured on that website does not look like you but it should look like you sir so uh what's your name mark and did you have a favorite character a moment from this morning which lodging consider the lady that was a good bit like you've got very good taste all of you my favorite had the favourite bit of pliny is the one I just did st. George one I just watch the other day because of their as we're recording this we've had the controversy over the lady tweeting a picture of some flag some Jake st. George Flags and having to resign from putting a picture on Twitter without comment which seems with but they someone put up the Sir George a history and my favorite bit is when pistol goes as the crow flies and pretty go as the egg flies and it's like Lily was really trying to think of a pun but I can't think of one of this is for in testing and as Shirley has ever done so will you please welcome my guest this week he is probably best known from the be out BSkyB up your news and I'm coming Quinny in in this one original Judy we welcome Sharon Lee Liza never but three beers three beers I'm one of them for me how you doing - all right bit tired yeah it's a [ __ ] like me you'll see I will weird Stewart has two children I have a child on the way I was thinking up this there's two things we could do with our Channel hey we could do a lien hearing the next generation where one of your children one of my children team up we could just give them the same material no one no remember or you know you've got one of each so whatever I have they could get married wing I could marry wife you're my kids thing I'm terrible yeah in comedy and they that because my son stood at the side of the stage and watch me once and said um he said it's with awful just to no one's laughing they think my wife's funny because they because she used to dress up as things so they can see that that's supposed to be better that they're they have the sensibilities of children what it is I'm trying to do yeah I don't think they shoot you should really wait 10 or 15 years yeah they might they might enjoy them so you got they want to do have an arranged marriage between my unborn child and whichever child's they'll be eaten up no okay we'll wait but imagine if we if our children had a child together magic make sure why that would be like I'm gonna call my child either Liane or Leon giving it Stein like uh anyway uh we will that might that might not make him to the final bit so uh that's why you come and see it live and so would be the this one is not Judy began in 1994 yeah do you remember that well I remember that you did it a you were doing um shown anywhere lunchtime called that yeah and then at the last minute I came in to help philia because there wasn't any script or plan but I didn't um it wasn't my thing you know and then um and then it sort of snowball debate it was connecting way of sort of satirizing the economics of Edinburgh which is that it was you were less likely to lose as much money if you just gave it a gets away to something in the street anywhere if you put them through the yeah normal system which is I don't understand why twenty years later you're still with the same manager even though you saw through it in the mid-90s and yet you still seem to make a big song and dance where you're delighted to lose all this money and yet as a child you essentially soar through and expect it would be sympathetic in some way to something that you saw through as a child yeah but anyway but that was the focus of the idea it's making kind of parody of an editor show whereby we didn't have anything we tried to give the tickets away to people who would pay for them in the street and then we solved it like chap and and mad made-up guest actually the looseness of it because he had no weight of expectation around it I think actually created a show for the telly that had the same looseness and freedom expectation I guess I so know that we that year nine ninety four we weren't even thinking toward ending I think like Robin ins came and did some stuff and Tommy Tom valence did bit lobby's pieces in it it was in an attic and actually the person on before us or after us was this sort of a bully and overexcited Irishman doing something based on a kind of flimsy piece of pitch about the Carpenters which is Graham dawn wasn't it oh yeah he's never gonna get it it really was but yeah I've actually got the very start of this idea for a TV show I cause I took this idea and then I thought I had a meeting with Nick what's the guy from Anna Nick was he know he was visiting Nick Nick Owen I was gonna say Macross was Nick amici with a Helen ride met Nick goin at the Ritz I went to and we were living very different life I went because we're trying to court Nick going and so he was the I am the original idea for the show was that I would do it in the morning with Nick Owen it's gonna be called this morning with Richard and mix the first time I met Mick Oh is he what he was doing I was just went doing the stand-up scene where 30 quid gigs of pubs Rick Perry was but the risk trying to get his own thing going on him and it going not with me in it this could be a very Danny yet to come crawling back there's Nicole I've totally forgotten me I've just this minute remembered it about them and I met up with him because I'd seen him out you've been on fantasy football and you've been written been surprisingly sort of funny enough for I don't remember I remember his name yeah was he just like a you know is it van killer does he Adrian child soccer yeah without the personality and very wait he was he did it was quite gonna take the piss out I was nearly going to be sort of a semi serious you know not semi-serious but ten epistate you involving the real people from it then he wouldn't do it so uh so while you I got you instead but then we did it in Edinburgh it was a night no for we gave I gave away a car as a price so we gave away prizes so we spent the money a lot of money we made from it and as I say a car this was 20 years ago we're not all people own cars expect to have a top-of-the-range new car they paid for an HP most people 20 years ago we're driving around in 30 year old cars at the N word and that's where you go we've got our 300 pounds yeah I mean it was still quite a lot money to spend but we got got some publicity out of it and then the guy came down said you wanna I think he said you wanna gamble in one like 10 pounds we said John a gamble on that mystery star prize and he gambled and he won a 300 pound car that was had to tax for about two more months yeah uh and he was a student he won and he could drive but he had a car already and it was the exact same model and color I think of car I think he drove at home and then crap he might have crashed it thing I thought but the memory is just coming back to me maybe you know that same year remember I was doing the club southeast room show in the salt barn venue at the presence with some of money and Richard Thomas and Solomon we had this idea that he would make a grand entrance onto the stage in a little freewheel robbing reliant that would have been decorated with all sort of quasi fascist regalia so he bought one customized him it'd be the fight so funny on invasion you come on stage it's sort of our dinner in a cinema with fascist regalia on a three-wheeled Robin reliant so Lehman Richardson was bought it did it up it took them about two and half days to drive it to Edinburgh where they stayed awake with the amphetamines I think and then they got there and it was about six inches too wide to drive but yeah I mean that's another way thing it's funny except that the sort of risk-taking when I listen to the first half of this over there I it was me that prompted Paul to say his anecdote about secret affair which is actually much funnier when he told it to me yeah but so good did he ever but the part part of why you were able to develop a show like this that ended up being this sort madchild Itali was because the economics was so you know it was so much freer then and you can sort afford to take chances on things I don't know what you couldn't have you know what would you do anyway be sort of a masochistic to light it unnecessarily losing thousands of pounds no one in their right mind now would develop a show with such broad parameters and obvious aims anything as we did 20 years ago when the losses were absorbed for when you could raffle a car off that cost you 200 quid I mean if it feels like it's really weird to get to your late 40s and you descriptions your own adolescence or your twenties insulates with my the fifties it seems like a long long time ago is very different in terms of by the number of Acts I agree why I was talking to like sue Perkins and just thinking like in the 90s basically there was 20 or 30 people and you kind of thought oh you'll all get your turn for the world you know there were there were about 60 or so VN comedy shows then there's like 600 then yeah and also people did get it and then you can think of all the brilliant people that did shows are much better than you and some of them better than me as well and yeah and that loads of them didn't go on you know I mean didn't go on to Jennifer's loads of brilliant people that we would all have seen in that period that didn't go on to that didn't go on to anything you know and and I don't think there was a meritocracy at work but there is no there was I think it's not a meritocracy was just there was at least a chance whereas now I think there's 600 there's 610 me tonight night said we generally turned up on the first day without anything we and we and we bus we went to a flat with Richard Thomas and bust some ideas around with him and then we said well yeah but we had we had to like that we both individually individually and together we had a back catalogue of stuff that you could have cobbled together you know it it whenever you talk about that purity is worth remembering about all the brilliant people that slipped through the cracks like Johnny material right Kevin McAleer like I mean remember that some Scottish double act one of the guys is a cartoonist for private I know PACA down a sub packaging with that basically any good I mean there's loads of stuff and and they're dead immediately when you talk about last night's show here of new materials the new access of profession is about it there's a focus about it there's a work ethic about it that was absent 20-30 years ago but I miss the people where you would look at their act like the Iceman his act was he melted ice he didn't have a career plan you think I miss those things yeah but they're still i mean i think this i actually think what's going on now you keep harking back to the nineteen eighties as being an amazing time for comedy and you can say that but then the 1980s didn't have you in it for a start so so you know the way that i think now is much better i think the broad range of stuff you get now is much more exciting and there are loads of people doing that those kind of things someone like the Iceman was great yeah that he would turn up and do his insane thing but that was never going to be much more than that some someone like mr. methane is still going and he's got that kind of accident is just a ridiculous act so you if you have the the staying power to keep doing it you can keep doing and I think nope you know this yeah there's a lot of I suppose there's a lot to be professional slick beep when you go pair mr. methane to the iceberg yeah those ultimately farts and funny other noise yeah maybe they should have got together and done something we farted on ice and you made too many ml to make some kind of fire and ice and gas well this profound they do that's what they denied ivory I think they're I think there's a lot of very exciting committees now but I just I think it would be I know I read your blog's that you say that yeah I think that's cuz you try to keep it with them it is I know I'm a well known this young personal no not even in with it word right yeah you try to keep them with them I'm not even in with the people I work with twenty years ago so that's that's equal within I've noticed you all on TV and I'm noticed I'm not in any of those TV show so I know that I'm not really like to be seen as some sort of a keeper like patronizing the young people I know I'm I'm yielding I am lying down allowing them to run over me I've done I'm defeated let's face it but so we did was so weak I mean I think like the influences but this morning for me because I think this was it was something I remember you were more cautious and not sure if I might had enough in a half of the television and I the first user Pfister fan I like the aesthetic of it and I like the I like the amount of preparation and planning we did for him the second one I didn't like the look of it but I was panicked about how we were rushed into it and I didn't really want to do anything again and this was this was your thing and i piggybacked into it but I think actually because it was a thing that was thrown together and he had to write loads every week it was actually very good for me to have doing thing like that because I like to meticulously planned things and I think that it was oh it was a great thing to have to work on the hoof or knots the fact that was filmed live made all the difference because something that was new that you don't need that you've been working on that week as a dialogue still had that flavor of the air and weirdly about you know when he look when he when he look at the dialogues that are flowing around on YouTube when we're doing the dumb black stuff together so it works of it doesn't the stuff that works really well is really great because it was really happening in real time and it was still sort of thing assembled at the point where it was filmed and one of the problems you have with comedy vitaly is it necessarily has the dead hand of rehearsal on it which can help me but can also take the edge off in this second series a fist of fun there was material that wasn't properly written which had also been rehearsed to death and in but in this she sort of had to think where it was it was still right yeah you know coming together and we make stuff up as we go along I don't think it was very that was very exciting and vital that it is life but yeah we are you can see us making that buddies and making each other laugh on the cutting edge where oh yeah when it does were a also when it doesn't work it's still great because I think we didn't feel that at the time when it doesn't work it's actually great when you're there's a bit where you're I remember it happening whether one of the early interviews you were confused about what was going on but they were talking to me about what was going on and they haven't you were talking so they weren't talking to you but then you're going can someone tell me what you are yanking at what's going on and what how long have we got for this bit and it's kind of funny cuz this that shouldn't happen on TV no but actually most of it was things that should happen on so you can actually loads of things that we we tried really hard to do lots of things we were in Landstuhl television I remember it I had a real be my bonnet about how because I was sort of we were sort of where that it was going out early on Sunday morning and in the late 90s there was a drug called ecstasy that lots of people took there was a whole culture of people going out and dancing on this drug and we were sort of aware that there was a kind of calm down culture that been out all night wash the pro-war or just people have been out on like Saturday night drinking and I liked the idea that would be jarring and I was setting to them to wake up watch this programme and then I remember me one of the things that would make them feel ill that they were watching and one of the things we tried to do is to put the theme music for um things that fall over or when insects attack much much louder than anything else and it was from a piece by the I forgot to compose hours of Bert whistle and I wanted to go in like really really loud and but it turned out there was all these rules BBC rules about volume you couldn't put it in you can't suddenly have volume shifts a limiter will kick in then we did we worked so he looked into this and we worked out the way Brian Eno got round this on producing a Talking Heads album was that instead it wasn't he wanted to increase the volume but it wasn't allowed to so he increased certain densities of frequency's so that it felt like it was getting louder even though didn't actually go over anyway we did that a tumor to the we didn't think of treating certain frequencies so they were more penetrating on the intro music - when things fall over on it which last it's about a five-second bit but it was there were lots of things that we managed to do that we weren't really supposed to do including just a jarring sonic pain for people warnings so there were all sorts things on that well I think I kind of really want it this time slot and you were kind of dubious about it but I liked it because it was you know I think the Sunday showed done the slot before us but I kind of thought hey it's live I think the thing that was great for us is we've done to sit as a fist pump which were not only rehearse but when they when we recorded them we had to do everything 15 times yeah and so what was really appealing about this morning was we didn't we only did it once even went wrong it went wrong but we only got to do it once so that that meant we were 45 minute record and then it was over and then we went and drank vodka and Red Bull all afternoon amazing times was amazing time for comedy but I said I I was very influenced in it which I think you spot by the banana splits which most people be too young to remember but that's that was what I really I wanted anything really it the banana splits had the same thing which was a there was a real kind of drug influence of I think the people who were probably on drugs in the bananas which which we weren't and tis was which again I was watching a bit which goes a little bit too far in the second episode we've got King and we get Rick we asked for the king who's got the least money on them and then it's a little tiny kid like he's calling about 10 years old he's really brilliant is addicted that Jim Davidson should be shut up in the prison and down save this time I'm just taking my cue from tittles I'm just really shouting in this kid's face in a way you kind of go that's actually why she's essentially you'd bring up because um uh I grew up in the Midlands and in the early 70s there was this strange thing down the Chris Herren bizarrely who now seems like a pillar of the establishment and of various people like John Gorman who were from 60s avant-garde theater and unlike weird kind of Pro to alternative comedy groups David Rapoport who was an early acolyte of Ken Campbell is one of the saw advertised of we had pre alternative comedy and although and Lenny Henry who was like doing alternative comedy before it had a name and they all have this strange slot on a TV Midlands on independent television on Saturday mornings where they saw to this bizarre anarchic program which we remember as being proto-punk and so psychedelic hippie kind of program and she's full of the usual racist and sexist early sense if you go back and look at it the memory of it is beingness of unlicensed period and there was a very anodyne BBC copy of it a swap shop with a nolle Edmonds which is sort of the same thing with every single piece of imagination or genius taken out of it and but you way you lived as a child you got that didn't you I got in l'Opera and read but then I moved from luffa when I was 8 just cheddar and I got to cheddar and the man installing the TV my sister said do you have shang-a-lang in this air which was the Bay City Rollers my sister was obsessed with the Bay City Rollers and then the unrest and she went yes then I said jab tizwoz and he said no and I cried I was 28 years old and actually but Alex see I think I think a lot of things that you do as an adult you don't really realize what you're trying to you're trying to recreate things that were profoundly yeah you know it made an impression on me was a child and actually I think looking at it now with with 20 years height so there was a sort of tizwoz thing going I think you know candy you know how can you how do they get away with that on a sandy boy and how can we get away the same kind of thing on a on a sudden hardly why we got away with it he's there was because no one was remotely interested in it so no one even watched it to check what was going on and when it stopped no one noticed when it was going out not and in fact one week two things that give you an indication of the extent to which dollars interested in it one week about five minutes for we're supposed to the live transmission Johnny Hansen the producer who also wasn't interested in it to be honest he just dominates did anything he does yeah he was very good but instant care but he he does Derek I mean Jesus Christ God seems like doesn't give a [ __ ] does he he he he's very good at you know realizing the vision of the artist but but he's not but he he told us there was a kind of panic about 12 10 before it starts offing they wasn't no one to turn the transmission thing on it they there was something that was supposed to broadcast it from the studio and they have been written down as like a VT you're being played in and write the answer play put it on to some other thing to get it to it then another week that you used to go out live on the Sunday and I remember I used to do the Edit with a with the editor guy on like the Thursday and then he's got live 4550 minutes on Sunday morning then there was an edit for the Friday night and it would go out of 6:15 on the Friday 6:30 or Friday a half hour Eddie and I used to the edit on Thursday afternoon and I remember one Thursday morning we were in rehearsal for the next week's show the Evening Standard came in this is in the old days on those newspapers before you all just looked at things on online a newspaper came in and I went oh [ __ ] and we were they moved it to the Thursday night but no one had told us no one had told us so no one had made the half-hour in it so the program was most God didn't exist and no one had thought it was worth telling us Larry was going out they'd moved because there was tennis on all live coverage of a lawn mower or some things they leave there and then we had to do the Edit in about two hours that afternoon so that's an indication of the extent to which naan wasn't ship and in the in the last few weeks when it was supposed to being cut we did to be fair we didn't have our people but was supported us like Paul Jackson Jackson and a couple of other people and they were desperately trying to get a chain true it was in charge we was here the time to just come and see it just once so she would know what it was she was canceling this kind of never came but actually those things in retrospect mean that because no one was interested in here and no one tried to stop what we were doing because they didn't even know it was off you mustn't do this is like some struggle of outlaw artists against Authority it wasn't Authority was not interested or aware so it's not like the heroic struggle it was just something that happened like someone doing a fart in a ditch oh no but there was no one in the lid it wasn't like it wasn't like it was just nothing and then and then but then 20 years like you've got all this stuff that was somehow allowed to but it does look insane but I remember John Plowman who was the executive producer saying one way I thought it was but saying if you there was something we wanted to keep in I mean that we had a lot of power because we could keep it in Imus opposed because it was live and he said if you cut if you if you don't cut this I think it'll be a problem for getting extra stuff and we kept the thing in there's a bit in one I saw where you're just at the end you go on Sky TV they show the Simpsons and Seinfeld good times the proper times you're kind of complaining about when we're going out and then certain bases they go and watch sky instead of service and you go yeah I can probably see why the BBC weren't that but you know it should have been sort of countable yeah yeah no because there was a kind of weird where you know you were supposed to be great for which we obviously were on the other hand they that all the things in the night is all the things that comedians love me with all comedians loved Seinfeld you know and yet and the BBC had done you know he was out 1145 yeah well then for the six they didn't they had the Simpsons they put out on a Saturday a five or something and then no it didn't and then Seinfeld and Larry Sanders were on in the middle of the nines and you go anywhere else in the world and those things were both on at six o'clock every single night because everyone loved them as opposed it was so you know we sort of thought we were I suppose we sort of thought arrogantly we were belonged in that world and this well it's a you know it's I think we did I sir hey I think because of that it's very uh knocking and it's very you know the bit the ones I watched again there there's a real excitement to it because it's live and there's and it's written there's this there's a big where Joanne wins the ironic review which again sort of is very much like things that were later to come sort of fly on the wall documentary about a about an officer what a magazine of idiots the kind of Shoreditch twenty that would like to get their own series in it was someone else writing it but Joanne we basically for like three minutes just saying the word [ __ ] about [ __ ] fighting but it very clearly Clinton queerly becomes that that she's talking about the men's [ __ ] and coming that's kind of come that wouldn't go out at night uh quite averting there so it sort of it's sort of been strange and yeah and as someone mentioned I would or every week swear during the songs when we are crabbing the King every week and we O go there's only one king wanky wanking and the buffer farfel farfel parking [ __ ] every week I would do must be very proud I am very proud still proud ah I think that partly why you allowed to do that is cuz people would have been in back if this is Lots miss inside the first series ends with us singing hymns remember we've got the audience and singing hymn I tell you what men it's been very interesting coming here I don't really remember I mean I I don't remember much to be honest member a lot about the editing process I know I don't remember much from about 9:00 9:00 to 5:00 6:00 2001 but when I don't know why that is and I had but what's nice about it is when things pop up on YouTube there's a thing this week where there was a historic man flag and because there's been people talking about the England flag this week it's all pops up on the internet and I watched it and I have no memory of doing you having ain't to do it in rows we're sort of enjoying it that's the yeah that's really funny that boys that crows voice it's sort of like I saw they kind of took me by surprise as if I have no relationship with when I do have a I think you do history and plenty for real that's a real genuine their kids so well I think the problem is right I don't but ok those puppets right we designed those puppets another cartoon Astrid meant a model person made them and then they when the BBC hadn't obviously then after the series finished a number of things happened one was my electric guitar which ran for about 20 years which I'd used in a sketch in in was mysteriously lost and no one offered to compensate me for that and the other thing that happened a Fender confit of really good and the other thing happened was that the puppets of kisstory Linney stayed at the BBC and started being used to sort background artists in sadly morning kids showed television stuff which really irritated us who managed to get them back but tragedy when I just moved recently I put the blini in the cellar but I didn't know the seller wasn't damp-proof yeah he's got all like the kind of crust on him now well his law I've got yes is rotted basic yeah I've got your stuff on all of his limbs are full enough so we should do it with the Rockets exactly the manner thing that the less Square theatres Museum of common displaying in its own cabinet we could remake the puppets have a [ __ ] we're expensive they're like 3,000 pounds they just seem to remember in living 90 nights but they were expensive to make they were because there was at mine was slightly history I had a slight animatronic I were never good enough to use I'm just sort of rocked him around I did moved his mouth you know I think it was irrelevant to what you was very much very much like Tommy Cooper playing the piano babbles yeah but no we know those do those do have a brutal quality back yeah I think it's really funny and sort of like and I again I'm I'm sort you know things that you take you by surprise because you got you can't actually remember I mean I remember just being that we used to have to do those at the end of the morning and it really hurt your arm and oh yeah we did I think we did like five in a rabid I mean we record them all in a day and I just remember yet to wear a balaclava you know like people who work in my hats pretty hard and stuff could I answered crouched behind a wall wearing a balaclava holding my arm up doing a high voice for about five hours once and do you remember where they came to remember where the idea of history wrote a radio pilot with that which was going to have a seat at Steve Coogan and Patrick Marber we did that we recorded I think called corridor which was and I was going to do it as whatever became of where we did yes or not apparently the fumo affair as I was looking is looking back at the history needed you'll notice the perfumer there is not raised its head since since that was never broke us and so then I don't know why we were obvious came up with his store his stores ides we thought his stores I but I don't know why I mean to plenty obviously is doing story but it's kind of an odd bleep to make to name them that what to you that's the way I work but Liddy was I hope Lilly's an amazing character well it's very kind of you to say but I don't care but can I don't remember giving any thoughts yeah it was it sort of it worked well though do you think we should do that when we do the commentaries for these episodes should we do one whole episode is history I know if I could even get that do that voice something boys - I think they do it for 45 minutes yeah just finding egg pucker something that just you know they I mean oh if I do find those really funny when I shower there and I know you again but again it I mean it's funny it strange like being forced to confront these things with a distance because you can't remember having done them so it's like another person did them and of course you'll tell me realistically another person did do them because no you know your whole body's been replaced since then so no cellular level I will tell you that and it's true the kind of thing you say it is well but you look at them and you can sort of enjoy the winner but it seems arrogant because you're gonna know I did but it's funny I do like those I think they have a cumulative effects as well as the sort of irritation of them good and we'll talk about this but there's one episode where we are both in the beginning we you saw each episode with quite a weak thing where we dress us up from something from the week and then don't just go I'm Gary Clark shouldn't well good news there was one where we started both dressed as Jimmy sampled remember this one yeah again I had no memory of that until this Jimmy Savile thing came out then it was on the Internet I don't remember doing it but we run it where it's the London math and then we in an under method we both just Jimmy several ways of running towards the camera and you say I go he goes basically now then now then now then now then and then we go it's London math and I hope no one dies and then I think you say if they do bagsy I take them to the morgue but why that was is this is the interesting thing now because Jerry said of its who's a much better comedian either of us did a routine about a sample in the 80s and he's now being hailed by journalists soluble if to the lid but actually all we didn't know anything about it there's this insane rumor that if everyone heard about it was like as joke that jimmy savile was a necrophiliac and of course it was ludicrous because no one was a necrophiliac she couldn't possibly believe it was real of course it wouldn't have done that joke if we thought it was real so it's just like a response to this mad stupid sort of showbiz rumors as ludicrous as the mark Armwood one which the more you think about not possible is it how would you they don't have the technology to analyze dog's birth so it's not and it seemed like in the same world as that which is why we did that joke and think it was real and then suddenly the only like profits can really know what I remember we tried to do a few jimmy savile jokes and in different shows and we were told we couldn't because the reason he got away with it all really ironically as it turned out is because he was very litigious so if you said anything he would sue so the BBC I produced would say oh don't make a joke about Jimmy Savile because if you if you do anything slightly euphemistic around anything around that he'll sue and that's how he kept that power ironic now the BBC having to pay out rather more money and they would have had to do and for a Streamy joke I can't understand why that one well god maybe it's to do with the way the thing the thing was you know maybe it was just in the last minute you know no-one had time to check it I mean the were there were things like I know costumes on someone had got some Italy not very good costume so will that well quickly yeah do you remember I've just sitting there in the milk drinking thing there was a bit with the unusual music in that I think you must have chosen was that was that was that different it goes a ghost food and milk and then there's a bit when we reveal the milk because I can choose that music I was [ __ ] insane yeah so uh ah there's men of achievement 974 which I was very upset but now it's popular but there it was I was very upset that that never kicked off I thought that was gonna be the real thing that propelled us the big time which was genuinely a book I think people can understand what it was yeah but you'd found it at a know you know percent how do we fight well we found it in some junk shop we had a few could get listen there's another weird thing about this it's sort of we would find an odd thing like a weird leaflet or a strange Brooklyn thing or let's do some with this and in an in fists of fun very much the first series pretty had a a sensibility of sort of bricolage all these sort of found objects cobbled together and I suspect that sensibility and salt disappeared because of the internet because you can find things because there's websites called stuff I found on the floor and things like that so everyone can kind of did it was it well I think part of what informed our sense of humor was like random things that we found on the floor and then we or just in a junk shop that we'd sort of thing what if you chose to focus in massively on this but of course that I think that sort of sensibilities disappeared because a younger is people today expect to be able to find out anything they're looking for in another example of that was some the lettuce led with this imbecile family of vegetables and we just sort of move around and make stupid noises and it was so received with Austin naked Austin sliver but then in the eleven was it called the eleven o'clock show afterwards yeah yeah there the thing which is the same about two years later but it was like vibrators and dildos editors it's just like a ripoff of it but they like with sex toys so like morons would laugh in it you know and so though they were weird kind of things that the so pointless things but then other people had the genius to make them obscene everybody like one of the sons I think of one of the men of achievement 1974 we featured once he emailed me to ask me why we did it yeah and he said it was it and I said it was out of a sense of just this is ridiculous vanity project and it was kind of flawless for a century so that she had to yeah they're funny and he said it was in part because we chose funny pictures because they were all the guys with stupid face it was a book where people basically paid to be in a book in 74 to say that they are important and there was a universe like rich appearing in major venues at Edinburgh yeah alright so who have well met rod hull who we were going to try and do rod hull sketches from the second series of the swirly Richard not Judy but unfortunately as we sat on the set rehearsing the first episode after having recorded six episodes of a sketch where the character rods hollow man who thinks he's rod hull pretends to be rod hull in return for getting jelly does it TAS but because he refuses to have a false than admit he has a false arm during the task he then dies at the end of each sketch we then got the news as we sat and said that the real rod hull had fallen off of the roof and I would I would hope that the rich could remember he may remember them I would hope that we took a moment to feel awful about rod her before we realized we had a massive gap in there since I've been first thing I thought was oh [ __ ] we can't do the sketches yeah and I thought I on it is sad that the man is dead well when we did meetings I was it was sad that he died but that was again that's that was a you can see one of one of them was on line Garrett karevik his son has Caracara Vic who was a direct to as also sadly died he his son edited one of them together so if you look at lo and go on YouTube or I suspect on this DVD somewhere you will be able to find one of them put together in most of its glory but we recorded about four or five yeah there was a rugby one as well wasn't that didn't make it yeah right because of fencing one yeah and if we've got the scripts anyway we know enough time has passed I remember John Plowman Adele to be a vehicle now jump laminar udders late I still watch them to check whether it was alright I don't think I I just punish the sketches and many went became I went yeah we can't do that papers but we did have a little tribute to rod hull at the end of that series did one way I would think at the end it was ND ended with the false prophet all sitting by the phone going reading please ring why is no-one ringing me anymore again the whole rod healthing was another thing that came out of on the radio we used to we used to write the scripts in the day and then throw these voices last video people and we said to Kevin Alton can you do rod home and he had known did this sauce got a voice we went oh that will do I think had a cold as well sorry Henry colder and then that sort of suggested this other character that was supporting him it wasn't rod hull would tend to be and so lots of things or as a result of accidents and the the fact that some the show went out live and was put together in a hurry I think gave you it forced you to try to run with things that perhaps if you'd had more time you'd have abandoned but which because of that became quite good things in their own right yeah and we I think we ended up doing more Sam and Quinn link as a result of that not sure they were quite as good as the ones from the know there was that weird one with the love was that the last one was that Invista funnel was that in this morning where they were the last one was when he basically went mad and saw loads of images of himself come when I'd member TIG allotted drawings yeah that's good fun on it that was nice ah and yeah so we maybe we could get the the other guys back on if we like around Trevor and poor partner come back in in find a seat and come in give around Clause or just a pointless suit you can sit down behind some seats [ __ ] over here you sit in that one you said no you said no one on hold on the end you sit there so I ask them some questions to ask these poor they wanted your favorite character that you have played a herring has made you do um I think Peter coups yeah we didn't talk about Pete names you know what's really author Peter Gibbs was this was this when things fall over which is like a how did these kind of cheap cable channel shows of clips of low-level disasters and um we wrote it together but the impetus was basically my memories of my childhood of thing you know divorced family with various people like having to do access days and you know the the salt meat of it leading up to the the the stuff falling on the people was all just actual memories of my childhood and I mean that bit when you're in your pants there's a bit where Peter Gabe's is the father of the little boy and he's just in his pants and he's watching television he's eating yogurt and all the yogurt go solo beetroot can it was any beetroot t-true yeah well my deal with mine was based on Saturdays with my dad and I eat like different snacks that you've got of little pots and then they would he never to forget I didn't I only used to wear underpants the weekend and wear any clothes and um that's good areas bloke and um the tragedy about those things got all the people that I wrote about whose comical to me at the time they're all dead well they are and it said it's a weird like I don't I'll be able to watch them again because it seemed you dolt fed this stuff into this rather like hide thing and then as you get older and you become a parent you thought think about what would have been going through those people's minds as adults dealing with children doing with their relationships and when we wrote this programmers 2728 you're still young enough to not really have any real connection with the world or with responsibilities or emotional ties though they I think they're very you know there's a cut as a kindness to them is if there's a feeling of that within the with the Emily sort of it's great within a sketcher that's got stupid stuff like talking organs and lettuce leaves to have something that was suddenly quite dark enough but that happens a lot in the show there's a lot very doctor natee our computer game yet it starts off they just talks about his son getting stung I'd be it's just ends up talking about you know being a weekend dad and stuff like you did it incredibly well but you were given a very lightweight thing and you gave them terrible density but then you know well you had me rolling around in my pens yeah that size with Emma Kennedy opening the opening the curtains gay [ __ ] yeah which is mind you can see yeah a number of things I remember remember going in the white line of Mortimer on on a Strad green road in the afternoon once there being this coupled and obviously got divorced what we're trying to thrash something out and they were having some pub lunch you know and the man was the woman had held it together and the man was getting more and more depressed and desperate and that that went into whole one of those and the thing of stumbling across the pornography collection of one of my mum's boyfriend's and that went into all the pornography fell out on us it's so waiting so well-meaning and the one in the pub where your chichi it's really nice because in there in the pub when you're trying to reconcile she's just meeting up with you and she's having spaghetti and you already crossed that she's happy this is really when it's age 19 nice food but it's a really horrible looking plate of spaghetti with red sauce on it though she's suspicious this thing that I saw no no weirdly I don't know if I would do that now because I don't know I don't what I would feel bad about looking at someone's life and thinking oh god that's awful how can we make funny I don't know I could do that now no I would go through all sorts of layers of distancing and of changing details and the tragedy is it wouldn't be as funny because there's something about a real detail isn't normally absolutely perfect and it wouldn't you couldn't imagine the thing because there's something about the banality of everyday life and the mundane antsy of things that is just absolutely perfect and I think I got pretty soon after we worked on those I would never have done anything right now again because I would have felt really bad about being like a vampire sort of feeding off people's unhappiness and misery in the solvent front for a laugh no I couldn't do it now and actually you know that I think there's a window that you miss where you have a freedom to do those kind of things and I think as you become sort of drawn into society as a result of marriage your children all you know relationships with other kids parents whatever you don't have that freedom to find it all utterly banal and abhorrent because you're a part of it do you think when John Cleese said you know sketch comedy as a young man's game yeah is that oh he was kind of hinting at that you're able to go out look at this loser look yeah he's a failed shows visit and showbiz entertainer look at these failed adults and you're playing people you know a lot older than yourself then you suddenly go ah yeah you're yes it's not a bad thing to be involved in society have responsibilities to children as you'll you'll find you may enjoy you may get some blogs out of it but that's you you'll find that that you do suddenly things that you previously had a distance for from and found ridiculous you're part of them so it's harder to get a distance on them and that that whole book that the family relationships in them when things fall over that was sort of one of the you know those are if it been five years later I couldn't have written those because um there but it would be too close to home and also would there would have felt like a betrayal of of trust but I but you know I probably I'm not really looking forward to seeing them again but I think when I when I tell my son that my dad spent the whole weekend just in his palace watching Spore and giving me like if they truly saw of Jama of pots on bread he finds it hilarious which gives me think that indicator suggestion on some level on I'm better than that but I think it's also look back to you know the 70s 80s when there's a sort of pressure parents now is supposed to be you're supposed to do stuff and in game you know really we were I think we would I mean I don't bring I might even a patent in that in one of those episodes run we've just been sort of left in a car outside apart with Christian behind that happen to you you just go left oh yeah I mean I don't remember it from the show number being just shut in a car outside a pub I was once when I was a baby I was left in a car for a bit too long and waiting at my parents came back and I'd nearly died yeah I this same I was really read yeah it left me a bit too long with the window open a little bit yeah he probably accounts for lot but you know just do you sort of know then we don't think of bad happening you know baby has another half an hour that's not that whole thing about families than it was about that sort rather more robust attitude people had to have kids or family in that period and like you know I mean I know her being so yeah you get yeah the pub we could pull up outside the car opening the car soda pop dad goes in gets you a can of coke and a packet of crisps they'd locks you in the car I know people have gone to prison for that ever in the sixties in the 70s that was at least you had crisps that's like that it's considered a sort of you know a thoughtful errand and then they would drive you home drunk and that that whole thing was that that was the only that's one of the only things weirdly in my whole life of doing comedy that I've ever put any of my self into and I did that cuz I was confident you'll be forgotten Richard Herring and Chris Evans of go for a drive excavated it and now made me confront this terrible it's trapping 8c I think as I can look at you as my son well do did you cover Emma Kennedy in baked beans out some sexual desire to see Emma County well that was about I've come all those about remember I don't know did that happen to your mum no I don't know what that was about that wasn't I can't actually remember that one no it's where I met I remember within this date said that um when when we filmed the one where all the pornography fell out of the cupboard on the child's head the the the editors of men only got in touch with us and said thanks for plugging out and based sent loads of pornography hey yeah yeah and the chains all had a bloke that was the other two went on to be quite a good comedy writer actually and one of them was yeah anyway right sketch people but it was kind of weird like it was soft again looking back to the nineties as well oh yeah yeah it was funny one it like that kind of a big would get in touch when we went to get those shirts yeah when - well you were ridiculous because you are so concerned about we went to Ted Baker to the actual they wanted to give us some shirts every wedding we went to Ted Baker which would have made really expensive shirts in the nineties when they opened and took with a view to wearing their shirts on TV and and it was claiming that the costume ladies sort this all afternoon we might get some free shirts and then she said I'm embarrassed to wear shirts like this and if I do I always cut the name of the shirt off the ship in their meeting so they Blackson alright well and then we didn't get any free shirts so we had to paint we had to pay for that we still wore their shirts will you there were nice shirts well you gave me all of yours I guess I might say in 20 those shirts but you can now get back in starts a nice thing we're losing a bit of weight and the curious orange came about because you that you well I use the from the fall but was it yes experimental 60s Sweden NFL I know - the phrase was in my head Puri an orange so I thought well you know that's all it takes and it worked on some level there's a subliminal relationship in people's minds like an orange it was curious it wasn't in really and there was a little bit of music from the fall that would service in India I mean I bet they you know that's all it takes isn't it just two words note some queries time yeah same again did Marquis Smith ever comment on that a noise I heard from his manager that he tried to get some money out of the be received for the music being played there is a blanket agreement yeah the BBC that you don't get any money from anything I remember you say at the time yeah I think you did broach it with him a after a gig or something he said gosh mad that did it well there's a funny thing where he he's I thought if he hates me but he'll front puts my name into songs and really uncomplimentary way it's just bet means he probably does say hey if I ever end up like Stuart Lee cut off my head with a garden tool there's a thing on the new live album I thought you hear I just I can just hear my name in the middle of a load of slurring oh that is I'm trying to make you curious well yeah I mean you know that that saw that that's one of those he's always been an inspiration and I suppose one of the one of the mistakes I've made in having them as inspiration is sometimes you sometimes reference a thing and you suspect the everyone's going to go hair that's a reference to the fall hilarious in fact they don't know the source so they think it's your sort of thing but I wouldn't do it again because um you can't do a homage to something if the things less well-known that you are and what a lot of these young XFM DJ's are do stand-up who rip me off have to realize is they might be doing a bit of my routine change to make fun of me but the reviewer doesn't know the source material so things are there some kind of genius when it's right there at why don't you know but actually was there's loads of stuff fed in from obscure popular culture into those when you're you're you know a maven for that kind of thing and you've sort of informed as as loads of stuff and again I mean I think half the fun of it was thinking I wonder if people will spot this it's a very twenty thirty something sort thing to do to sleep drop all these references in like with the particular kinds of shots you would choose and film stuff forever and we had a lot of funding now with part of finding your own voice actually is assimilating influences from other things I remember you agonizing if you if you felt in any way whatsoever you might be plagiarizing at all and it's when you have to curious on curious orange singing I had a little donkey yeah I think you like to pull in well I can salvage those a silver runaway King well then why yeah well I've got really worried about my granddad sang it to me as a kid and it was obviously a musical song from the Midlands but weirdly the only you had a little donkey I had a little donkey kept him in the yard one day in the wintertime when it was snowing hard mother said the donkey will be cold down in the store bringing me in the kit that one anyway so he was hoping you'd join in there but that was the AI when the only extant version of it was from Ratnam Weekend Television which is Eric idles post Python thing we did it with those blokes from Patou Denis yeah some rock rock but I remember something mention it to you yeah yeah but obviously thank you matter obviously they knew from earlier but I didn't know about that the only you would know about that and that's how you how to sing it I know you know you're an incredible kit you know everything I don't know how you you know about you know all things I don't know all different kinds of music and all films you've no more music and films and you've had time in your life to watch or listen to what are you like an immortal character from beyond am the Oracle of Delphi yeah yeah be all kind of hits our ceiling around 2002 and we tried to get Jason orange and to be the curious orange on one occasion that's right was that one of the more times you weren't there because there might be Mike I can't remember I mean we're trying to get Robbie Williams yeah we want to get Rory gave the gun we know we weren't never got cool enough I like a lot those other shows we call that they would have got Robbie Williams yeah but you know what wasn't that a blessing I mean again it was sort of being under the radar and um you know there was a point where new in a Brazil were on the front of the enemy and you like rightly identified me as a twenty-something has having been the sort of person I would have liked that but actually it was a narrow escape from was a narrow escape for both of us from being identified with a particular period or with a particular period of fashion and that you're able to just carry on and um the people that are kind enough to come to you 20 years later they're not held into a particular period like you know so I think it was it was really actually that stuff was really lucky like at the time I remember you'd sort of thing how come these people can't or these levels and not lose money and beyond all these things but actually the long game of being able to then do stuff like this 20 years later thing I mean can David Baddiel do a podcast where you play snooker against himself no I can't do that and I'm not trying to be besieged thing it's actually an amazing thing that you can you know you you've said this yourself a lot that it isn't you can have the fluidity to be able to do that partly it's because somehow we got through that period when comedy was the new rock'n'roll without anyone really but also what's kind of interesting I think at that sort of the this the new the deal and Skinner is that kind of new lab thing that it's all like now 20 years on that's watch it when it starts to look like you know you'll be like the 1970s guys telling racist Jonah you're the if you're the 1990s guys go in the end anal sex dates you know which we I think we know we didn't escape entirely from doing jokes like that no but but we now control the rights to our own old GED we're able to edit those kanessa if anything though it's got a bit it's interesting the other way cuz you're you're so puritanical in in you know that was your joke about if you happen to go at Gale port all the way through indices in a way that sort of feels a little bit cruel now in retrospect but is from the point of view of a sort of feminist perspective as opposed wrapped chicken yeah well we'll see if that makes the the edges or it's all has to because it's all the way progressed Rick Remender your earth your Mel see I don't kami yeah what I did if I could I'd please spice yeah so there's elements of it but to actually be associated with and that routine is still about this still about yeah yeah peace that we we agree escape um mid nineties lad culture via not being invited to join in with it talk talking of which it's Trevor still not allowed to speak whilst you is on stage it was mainly stood up that why was that I can't remember whether he was jealous I think it was just that I don't think it was a genuine wasn't genuinely that we couldn't afford to pay you anymore but it was just the funny idea that that would be the case I don't think how did you feel about I it was it was really heartbreaking for me well I looked up to you too weirdly you two were like my two dads in common and and I looked up what we were like your two dads or we were like my two dads from the sitcom not Greg evigan at the Paul Reiser not ever like them that way you and your like we like your to death yeah what was like a mom to me and I knew Paul loved me and I didn't have to prove anything to him but you know I felt I had to prove myself and you know I still do still got a lot to prove some things so I'm there's a certain this effect that we I think we were going for that sort of Samuel Beckett thing certainly in fists of fun where it was like we were all kicking we were all kicking the person down we were all fairly sad yeah you were kicking me and I was kicking P yeah in this you know there was this quite a lot nasty bullying I don't really like looking looking back eggs I don't think I think it doesn't there are dinner there's plenty of bits that you look at yeah D and then would have to be there 15 years later you look back oh I wish I hadn't pulled that slightly disabled person face during that routine or whatever so you know I think but then that's that's all about living and learning and changing you know so there's yes Buzzbee number you can be edited out we're going to be left with the hardly anything few of the episodes so do you think it would have suffered from he petitions well you know that's another way thing is that in a way what we tried to do stuff that created a relationship with the audience and encouraging it to write in and get involved in things and sort of create the company themselves and then we'd sort of roll with it now 20 years later I mean it would almost be unmanageable because the amount of feedback you'd get from the internet to its it would be out of control you could you can really do it in fact things would get if you said to people now why don't you write try and write the biggest swear word you can hang it off a building it would I know so many people do that would be appalling so it was it I think it was in a weird window between this sort of you know post-punk thing of late let's involve the people and yet actually that pretty soon the technology existed to involve the people so thoroughly that it would have been unworkable because there had been far too involved I think what probably would have happened that we missed out on is that despite the fact that there wasn't a critical approval for it or an approval from the broadcaster they would have if they'd been a Twitter in the internet there would have been a visible groundswell of support from viewers that might have changed a commissioners mind about things and certainly you know I've benefited from that subsequently but I don't know if that would have been the right thing because actually I think it it done what it set out to and it lives in the memory and quite an exciting way for people partly because it was um it was truncated and to look back at it now when the DVD comes out I think people will go how was that ever allowed to happen and the answer is wasn't really as an accident so but you know anything you talk about from popular culture now if it's before 2000 you have to factor in the fact that Twitter on the internet didn't exist in the way it does now and that just changes everything I mean we sort of tried to which I'll try to get that kind of thing going with all the writing things on the radio yeah and we know we did respond to everyone he wrote to us yeah manually writing everyone letters back I mean I mean other people wrote four letters a week and we not right I mean I still I still meet people to this day who were like 35 40 now who've come to see you for 20 years because you reply to a letter they sent and of course you could do that then because it was quite hard to send in a letter whereas now you know anyone can send off an email which has devalued the whole notion of interaction and I mean I wrote a fan letter to the fall in 1982 and Steve Hanley the bass player replied to it with a postcard from Berlin and earlier this year which is 32 years later I you know wrote a little bit about his book and chaired a discussion when he did a launch for it and it's partly because of that incredible thing to a 14 year old that it makes a big impression but I don't if it has the same currency anymore yeah well I don't see what people sometimes seem impressed if you were promoting somebody was seem impressive you reply to a tweet you know and it's a different sort of thing but it's it's a lot easier to do but it's this I suppose it breaks down that division as well so maybe in the 90s people who were on TV were very far aloof and now that's only it's only we never felt like we were on TV fellow initial allowed in for a bit but I don't think we were typical of you know I don't think we were doin that we were we were kind of accessible we were sort of internet accessible well you always had a sense of the absurdity of it which is very refreshing I mean I we all hear horror stories in in this business you all hear horror stories of someone who's been going to years it gets Teddy shot suddenly they expect to have their ciabatta delivered to the bio oiled slay was we're was founder you very good at finding the whole thing ridiculous and all those routines that revista fun about I stood next to Jeremy Paxman I touched his sleeve from that were tragedy they were based on actual the situation of being within the orbit of Fame and I still feel like I don't belong on earth it's increasingly untenable ludicrous position to feel like that you just all feel like it's something that's happening to other people and you get to spectate on and also you're at you acutely aware of the bizarre behavior of other people and I think you always really alert to that which was a great thing in that we managed to maintain the feeling that the program shouldn't have been on and we should have been allowed to do it yeah what a vision II was that was the case yeah but that's why it's good we didn't get Jason orange and Robbie Williams to be in it you know because it would have given it a sense of you know being part of everything and it really was really really weren't part of anything what was it um Richard Madeley Judy Finnigan actually said the finer said um well because Frank Skinner had been on Richard Madeley and Judy Finnegan's program there's also some PR deal done with our management but we had to be on the next week and they greeted us with a heavy eye and sat through one of our bits and afterwards she said yeah it's comedy but nothing really isn't it which actually I think was what we'd been aiming yeah but also on that Richard Madeley they'd gone briefs before we want for because you cuz its school a half term went to come up with four things that you know kids can be doing spore activities the kids we didn't talk about that and so instead of doing that Richard maybe when you guys you're so funny you could make a joke about anything tell us a joke about and then he named one of the things he knew yet so a man then it wasn't really a joke we had prepared anyway but it was such an odd thing odd way to get into it to make this or fall certainly know what this wonder you're out point a bit years later I was on a chat show with Richard made the years I don't know why what it was about five years ten years later he said I remember you blah blah blah and then a part of nothing he started telling me this anecdote about and oh he and Julia Bell holiday in a cottage in the countryside somewhere and he looked out the window and he'd seen them a man in the field having sex with a donkey and he called her over to look at it yeah just saying that you know he didn't I think he was trying to get in with me yeah yeah well I did their show a couple of times when they went to Channel four did they mention that she you didn't talk about that very bit well it's no secret affair anecdote but they were II was noticeably like you know trying to be getting with you me swearing I don't if they real remembered who I was and who I was but it wasn't really anything to do with them it was sort of suppose a little bit we're all one thing we had that was weird was we the one of the first dates of our turn after the first series of destroy Roger he was whole truck theater and some people are really visibly unhappy in the front row left at halftime we found out later they've been expecting to see Judy Finnigan a rich maid and we've often speculated at which point during the first hour did they decide they probably weren't going to show up but politely waited until after the other thing this is Dennis get ruined that would be good out point but is there were similar graffiti in the toilets that I remember about the quality of the excrement of the bass player from amazing Blondell in early 70s Lincolnshire progressive rock which I was considerably more interested in the yeah Eddie bad [ __ ] really stink and amazing blonde Ella just got back together yeah one of their warm-up gigs had been it and I was getting mouth any bed from amazing Lawndale [ __ ] really sting so it was Francis Buckman no he was in dump caravan losing it he was in them he was in caravan front of it was he yeah there's no no use for me or not that clever and every know he was in um curved air curved yeah yeah it's dead on it's turned into an end point now alright maybe the last word should go to Trevor no a boys have been absolutely pleasure to listen to you guys okay thanks for inviting me on stage to listen on stage well I mean it was great listed backstage but bit on stage of this thing it's just they're different when you can see the words coming out of the sweat and new is put in the context of suede faces so thank you thanks for that you know what you're never sweaty face when you're old you know thanks it's terribly slowly he's 41 years old Emily listen doc yes no but would you like to apologize to people with small faces now yeah I mean you don't um there's so many things about soprano Jorge from the 90s and it's great that you've you've led the charge for the small face and now it's just one of the many things I'm sure will come to rain down upon us of criticisms when the whole thing actually goes out also I think that it you know it's your is odd footnote in this but of course your own stand-up is actually superb and is a far greater value than anything that we'll be releasing that gives any indication of what you do so tragedy most people but no you will see you something doing the CDI there's a far less value than your own work which is a grim tragedy it was good when you dressed up as a bit oppressed though that was break it ladies and gentlemen Stuart Lee we'll be at the back her has like them sky potato hello it's me Richard Herring from the 1990s I'm so young and happy I'll never grow old or be sad yes that's right it can happen that quickly kids to watch out thanks for watching which shows that a squared a podcast this series it's been great all the guests have been brilliant apart from one who was a dick let's see if you can work out who you think that was Chris Evans not that one all Captain America come on get real do I know those people all the politicians from Wales Australia all the sportsmen or probably serial killer is the guy runs go faster strike it's the one I know so it's always going to be that one when I mention him I don't know why I asked upon reiterating that he's a very nice guy he's decided that to keep you going during these empty months between now and the next let's quit their podcast which will be recorded in June and July at a sweat theater you can buy tickets now already if you want to go to that website he's going to put out the old videos from series 3 4 5 up here on well on YouTube on Vimeo and on iTunes I think so on a weekly basis so you will not have to miss let's square their podcast though you might have heard these ones before but they will keep coming if you want to help keep me going to come and see me on tour in Lord of the dance said he I'll they put that there ah I'm coming pretty much all over the UK I will keep badgering you about that no doubt you can also check out meaning of life which is on the British comedy guide it's on you to my youtube channel youtube.com slash Richard Herring no sorry Harry no at 67 they'll come up on there and you can also go to go foster strike calm /rh LOL and by longer versions of that show which would help us to make more stuff if you enjoy these things that's the reason we ask for money to make more you don't have to pay anything it just speeds it along a little bit if you assist a little you can also go and buy a badge or just make a donation of a pound if you think this is worth one pound go to go Foster's trunk accomplished badges you can come and see me at their Square Theatre in London over August and September where I will be doing every single one of my one-man shows that I've done this century that's moving 12 shows all together with a new one at the end if you buy tickets to all 12 it's only 100 pounds for all 12 shows plus you get a hand drawn t-shirt drawn by mere winnings think about 20 people done that already which is more than I thought when I make that offer so there may be more than that but you'll also just come see one or two of the shows or three if this out there's offers if you buy three tickets for three and six and or twelve I think it's something like that but go to the website of the Leicester Square Theatre and you'll be able to find that out and yes that's pretty much it just tell your friends about this show if you enjoyed it I think they're quite good and the more people see it the more chance we have of getting badge money but also the bed of the reputation is that John Moore shows a love doing other stuff I'm very happy for you to keep enjoying it for nothing that's why I keep putting out for nothing but if you feel like you want to contribute a tiny amount to keep us going those are lots of different ways you can do it and just tell your friends about it here's the main one we will be back as I say in June and July at Leicester Square Theatre no guaranteed names as yet but some very exciting names in the frame people who are interested in doing it will try and keep the mix of new and old comedians than the occasional non comedian like Ben Goldacre Stuart Lee and thanks so much for listening and watching it's been quite good goodbye

Channel: Richard Herring

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Length: 83min 14sec (4994 seconds)

Published: Wed Feb 11 2015

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[u/caroline_]

Oh fucking yes.

[u/Toberoni]

TMWRNJ was my part of my Sunday morning hangover regime. And then I got off the bus.