Richard Herring on the anarchy of comedy, Stewart Lee, and testing the limits

Unfiltered with Oli Dugmore

Unfiltered with Oli Dugmore || JOE Media

Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2018

⏱️ 67 minutes

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In a laugh-filled look behind the curtain of comedy, stand-up legend Richard Herring takes James O’Brien through his partnership with Stewart Lee, climbing the greasy pole of comedy, the various disputes and fallings out that come with collaboration, and how the pair of them managed to get away with some of the most outlandish television ever commissioned. Comedy fans will not want to miss this interview.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Unfiltered with James O'Brien, brought to you by Joe.
0:04.3	Hello, I'm James O'Brien.
0:11.1	Hello, I'm James O'Brien.
0:12.2	Welcome to episode 22 of Unfiltered, featuring Richard Herring.
0:16.3	He's on the road now with his latest stage show, Oh, Frigg, I'm 50.
0:20.2	That brings him into the sort of 13 or 14 one man show territories but we'll look back at
0:24.4	the Leonherring stuff and everything he did before of course becoming one of the first people to
0:29.7	appreciate the power that podcasts would hold.
0:33.0	Welcome. Thank you.
0:37.0	Thank you.
0:40.0	Thank you.
0:41.0	It's lovely to have you here.
0:42.0	The way it works is we sort of, we roam very aimlessly throughout your back catalogue and your personal
0:50.4	life up to a point and your professional achievements winding up with the latest
0:54.4	tour, the latest one man show. About your 18th or 19th I think?
0:57.6	Well, I think it's, I think they're probably 13th show, but then I've done a couple of them a couple of times I've toured
1:03.7	every year since apart from 2000 pretty much you've also said that 80% of the stuff
1:08.2	you do is for free this this in the context of explaining that over the last five or
1:12.3	six years you've been working
1:14.0	pretty much seven days a week so I mean have you fired your agent yeah how does
1:18.9	that it's by choice and I think most of the things that I was doing for free have started to pay off now.
1:25.0	And they pay off in different ways anyway.
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