Series 1, Episode 1

As It Occurs To Me

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4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2009

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

In the first episode of As It Occurs To Me, Richard discusses his week which includes a visit to Berlin to find out about David Hasselhoff's potential to solve all the world's problems, Snow White's 8th and 9th dwarves, Emma Kennedy's audition for Mamma Mia, Dan Tetsell nearly being sick on his baby, Channel 5 turning into an exploitative casino and how the ghost of Stewart Lee haunts him in his dreamscape. It's a solid start, but things can only get better. Surely.

Transcript

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0:00.0	This is as it occurs to me and please welcome the man it's all occurred to Richard Herring.
0:05.0	Thank you.
0:10.0	Thank you.
0:11.0	Hello and welcome to the first ever episode of, as it occurs to me, or as all the cool kids will
0:16.3	soon be calling it, A Iotema.
0:20.3	Yeah, you've got to shout that out when I should have probably mentioned that before.
0:23.2	But I just, you know, arrogantly thought it might just happen like...
0:29.1	Like some kind of king can nut. So, uh, I am Richard Keith Herring and everything in this show is stuff that has occurred to me this week in one of the two senses of the word. Either it's happened to me or I've thought of it. It's occurred to me. Do you get it? Do you?
0:44.0	Well you should it's clever.
0:46.0	Some things that have occurred to me this week.
0:48.0	Sunday.
0:49.0	Watching Richard Dawkins talking about Darwin on TV.
0:52.0	I wondered if Darwin had only come up with
0:54.3	the theory of evolution because he really really looks like a monkey. Check out every
0:59.7	photo of him on this great big monkey face, monkey eyes.
1:03.0	What a convenient theory that was,
1:05.0	Chimpy Darwin.
1:07.0	Saturday.
1:09.0	Reading about Gordon Brown's eye operation on the BBC website
1:12.0	for a second I genuinely couldn't work out
1:14.4	if he had minor retinal tears in his eye
1:17.0	or minor retinal tears in his eye.
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