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Enlisting
the talents of Tom Baker (as Lionel Nimrod) and Armando Iannucci &
Rebecca Front, Lee & Herring launched their double act onto British
radio under the format of a "fact-finding" show that would
explain the inexplicable. The groundings of the Fist Of Fun era double act were created on this show. CLICK HERE for episode guides & downloads of both series. |
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The
1994 Radio One Show that launched Lee & Herring's career into
the mainstream. "Fist Of Fun" would spawn two TV series, a book, tour & CD release. Oh, this site is named after it too.... In this six part series, you can hear such delights as Professor Don King's assessment of Jamiroquai's suggested tax system, Geoffrey from Rainbow tells us the secrets of the UK's first fly-on-the-wall documentary, and Dale Winton cures Rich of "The Curse Of Supermarket Sweep". CLICK HERE for episode guides & downloads. |
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No
one would believe it now, but Radio One used to be quite good. In
1994 Chris Morris was given a six month residency, Armando Iannucci
was given his own show, and Lee & Herring launched the first of
what would become three series of informal chat & larking about. During their tenure of the airwaves (which would run into 1995), Lee & Herring embarked upon a search to find the nation's favourite chew bar , conducted an anti-drug campaign, launched an illegal lottery, tried to con ice cream companies out of their products & much much more... CLICK HERE for episode guides & downloads. |
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Lee
& Herring's first foray into television proved to be an unbridled
success. They took the format of the previous year's Fist Of Fun radio show and transferred it to the small screen. Critics lapped it up & hailed the duo as the new god-kings of student comedy. The BBC quite liked it, but seemed to largely ignore it. Strange, as they commissioned it in the first place. Still, you can read all about it here. |
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Rich
& Stew's return to TV didn't come as a third series of Fist
Of Fun. Instead, it took the shape of a live Sunday lunchtime
outing, the format of which was loosely based on an Edinburgh Festival
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A
one off show for BBC2's "Monster Night" which saw Rich &
Stew watching & commentating on "The World's Nine Scariest
Monsters, With Carol Vorderman." Watch the show & read a synopsis of it here... |
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The
only Fist Of Fun related video release was this live recording of
a show from the Fist Of Fun tour. Recorded on September 3rd 1995 at "The Cochrane Theatre" and released in time for the Christmas rush of the same year. Watch the whole thing on Stewart Lee's website, or go to a synopsis available here. |
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Richard
Herring's semi-topical radio show with it's enduring mission to "make
history sexy" What happened in this week throughout history? And what does that tell us about where we are now? Using a blend of stand up, sketches, meticulous research and made up rubbish to give us the answers, Rich finds out with the help of Emma Kennedy, Dan Tetsell and Danny Robins and Christian Reilly Episode guides & downloads of all three series are available here |
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Following a similar format to the Lee & Herring Music Shows, Armando Iannucci launched his own attack on the airwaves. Featuring
regular contributions from Stewart Lee & Richard Herring, Peter
Baynham & David Schneider. |
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1991's
seminal news spoof show, anchored by Chris
Morris & featuring the talents of Lee & Herring in collaboration
with Steve Coogan, Rebecca Front, Peter Baynham, Patrick Marber, Armando
Iannucci and more. Cook'd
and bomb'd is a Chris Morris site which has an excellent download
section and has provided episode guides & downloads of On The
Hour, so no point covering it here. |
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