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| On The Hour Series One & Two | |
| 1991's
seminal news spoof show, anchored by Chris
Morris & featuring the talents of Steve Coogan, Rebecca Front, Peter
Baynham, Armando Iannucci and more. The follow up series, broadcast initially in 1992, featured more input from Lee & Herring & provided the imputes for the the show's transfer to television as "The Day Today" in 1994 |
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. |
| Lionel Nimrod's Inexplicable World Series One & Two | |
| 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 in style. |
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. Screen grabs& synopsis
available here. |
| Lee & Herring's Fist Of Fun | |
The
celebrated 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". |
Rich
& Stew's return to TV didn't come as a third series of Fist
Of Fun. Instead, it took the shape of this Live Sunday Lunchtime
outing, the format of which was loosely based on an Edinburgh Festival
show that had evolved over preceding years. The two series were broadcast over 1998 & 1999 respectively. |
| Lee & Herring's Radio One Music Show | |
| 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.... |
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." A Synopsis of the show can be found here... |
Festival
Of Fun |
|
Rich
& Stew presented this Channel Five coverage of the Montreal Comedy
Festival in 1997. EPISODE GUIDES COMING SOON |
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| The Armando Iannucci Show Series One & Two | |
| 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. | |
Following
the two series of This
Morning... Richard Herring went on to write two series of this
Sky TV sitcom with friend & stand-up Al Murray based around his "Pub
Landlord" character. Follow the link to a fan site on the show, which
houses episode guides & much more! www.timegentlemenplease.net |
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| That Was Then, This Is Now | |
Richard
Herring's semi-topical 2004 radio show that ran as an enduring mission
to "make history sexy" |
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