Happy Now

RHLSTP with Richard Herring

British Comedy Guide

Performing Arts, Tv & Film, Comedy, Arts

4.8 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2025

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

Christmas Treat - Happy Now? - Full Standup show

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?

This DVD was recorded in St David's Hall, Cardiff. It captures a superb performance in front of the biggest audience of Richard's career.

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0:00.0	Hi, Ratfans, welcome to my feed and have a very happy Christmas or a happy whatever you celebrate at this time of year,
0:06.4	or if you don't celebrate anything, enjoy not celebrating that. It's very important. We've got a few Christmas treats and New Year treats lined up for you.
0:14.1	Proper Rahalas. We'll be back on the 7th of January. Also, of course, we are recording some shows in the new year. Got a couple of bits of guest
0:22.4	news for you. This might be a very late Christmas present. You can buy very quickly if you want on the
0:31.2	March the 16th. I'm at the Leicester Square Theatre and one of my guests will be Rahalas, my favourite,
0:36.2	David Mitchell. So book quickly for that one.
0:40.2	Still some cheap tickets for that one if you're very quick. 18th of February, I'm at Chelmson Theatre and Vittorio
0:46.0	Angelooni will be one of my guests. More guest news very soon. But enjoy your festivities.
0:53.3	Enjoy your holiday if you're having one and I'll see you very
0:56.3	soon with more podcasts enjoy whatever you're listening to now thanks my
1:00.7	hello rat fans happy Christmas I hope you having a lovely day with your close friends
1:07.9	family or alone whatever it is I hope you are having a nice time if possible.
1:14.9	As a lovely Christmas gift, to thank you so much for your support over this turbulent year.
1:21.8	We are giving you a free stand-up special, which you can watch on YouTube, full video for free, without ads, or you can watch on YouTube full video for free without ads or you can
1:29.8	listen to listen to on the podcast feed with ads which will at least give us a tiny amount of
1:35.4	Christmas money to spend on the new year sales of podcast equipment. We are hoping to make a feature
1:43.2	film in 2026 so every listen to the podcast will help
1:48.6	us get a budget for that. But anyway, happy now is my 12 stand-up show. What year was it from? I don't know.
1:56.0	It was some time ago, maybe 2015.
2:02.9	I don't remember anything about it.
2:06.3	I know that I've got about 400 copies of the DVD,
2:08.9	so this is a really stupid thing to give it away for nothing.
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