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Russell Howard’s Five Brilliant Things

31. Richard Herring

Russell Howard’s Five Brilliant Things

Avalon

Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.5567 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Podcasting royalty Richard Herring is here! Richard commits his dearest items to the Wonderbox; his stone cairn (with an incredible story about the fine line between art and insanity), his manky old ventriloquist’s doll and his purged bollock. You want a fascinating account of the last forty years of British comedy? It’s here. You want to hear which celebrity attacked Richard Herring when he was an 18 year old in Edinburgh? You got it. Alongside an incredibly poignant account of what it’s like when your doctor tells you you’re seriously ill. What a ride!   Richard Herring is one of British comedy’s most continually interesting and prolific performers. He is out on tour after a six-year hiatus. This tour is called ‘Can I Have My Ball Back’ and it will run until July 2024 and probably beyond. You can find out the tour dates, book the tickets and catch up with all of Richard’s borderline insane challenges and projects at www.richardherring.com.   OH! Also in case you were wondering, yeah, we’re back next week getting all up in the grill of another Wonderbox.   Producer: Dan Atkinson Line Producer: Daisy Knight Exec Producer: James Taylor Composer: Fat Lady Music Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The weight is over. Last One Laughing is back and it's even more brutal than last time. Share your biggest regrets. I don't regret this haircut. What did you ask for? The Shaggy Slim Shady? Joining us this series we have... Romish Wengrenner Nathan, Diane Morgan, David Mitchell, Mel Gedroich, Amy Gledhill, Alan Carr, Bemi Sola, Ike Melo, Sam Campbell, Maisie Adam and Bob Mortimer.

0:21.6

Anyone want a song?

0:22.6

No.

0:23.6

Last One Laughing, new series, watch now, only on Prime Video. Hello, my guest this week is a prolific comedian, a podcaster, he's at his own BBC

0:43.6

2 series, he's interviewed pretty much everyone in the world and spent years playing snooker

0:49.3

against himself.

0:51.0

This is Richard Herring's Wonderbox.

0:58.7

Let's start.

1:04.0

So we're going to start with, I think it's the bleakest preamble to only podcast I've ever done.

1:06.6

Do you want to tell everyone what you said just before we came on Earth?

1:08.8

What did I say? I've already forgotten.

1:47.2

You said, I need to have a week before it starts, because I'm an old man. And I don't know if I could make an hour and a half. It's 90 minutes. It's a long time. It's 90 minutes. I've had a lot of coffee. I'll calm down a bit during the podcast. I'm starting quite heightened. And I just can't guarantee. I had to drive back from a gig last night and I really needed a wee all the way and I made it. Yeah. Okay. And how are you aside from that? You do see very, you see very jumpy as morning. I'm a full of coffee. So you've had four coffees. I've had four or five coffees. I am really good. Yeah, I'm pretty well. I've been, had been ill three years ago, as we might discuss later.

1:47.1

And I've sort of tried to look after myself after that. It's always up and, you know, like I get

1:53.0

fit and then I, we just had it. Well, actually, it's Christmas to Easter has been a bit of a

1:57.4

binge period where I, and I haven't been exercising as much as I should.

2:01.5

But before Christmas I was quite buff.

2:03.9

But I'm excited about doing this with you because you have a broad range of interests.

2:07.9

And this could be a really varied box.

2:11.7

I think so.

2:12.4

I've tried to choose things that will, that have, that anchor me somewhere in my life.

2:17.1

So it's, so most of them have as well as

2:20.2

being um uh you know good objects and good things that they that they have a significance as well

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