Fist Of Fun.Net


There's a handful of Lee & Herring products available, and here they are, listed below.
The double act titles are deleted, but you can sometimes pick them up on amazon or ebay or something, so here's a run down of them.
All Rich's solo DVDs and Stew's "90s Comedian" & "Pea Green Boat" are made & distributed by the marvellous GoFasterStripe, along with releases by several other comics.
Fist Of Fun CD
Lee & Herring - Fist Of Fun Radio Show

This compilation of Lee & Herring's breakthrough BBC radio show contains classics such as Stewart buying a porn video as a ironic joke, Rich's dating agency adventures, Geoffrey from rainbow, Jesus, the Girl Who Smelt of Spam and the first appearence of driving instructor Peter Dibden.
Fist Of Fun - The Book
Lee & Herring - Fist Of Fun Book
After the success of the first televsion run of "Fist Of Fun", the BBC commisioned this book from Rich & Stew as part of the merchandising campaign they launched in late 1995 for the 2nd series.
This was released alongside a "Best Of.." collection of the radio version of Fist Of Fun on CD & Casette and the "Live From The Cochrane" video.

Strangely, the campaign didn't feature a video release of the actual television show they were trying to promote, and to date, "Fist Of Fun" has never seen an official video (or DVD) release.

The book itself, however, featured a wealth of material - some culled from radio & television - and some specifically written for this release. A number of ideas would later be revisited & fleshed out in future Lee & Herring projects (for example, the Organ Gang from TMWRNJ1). Certainly one of the better "cash in" books of it's type, this is a laugh-out-loud tour of the Lee & Herring universe. Sadly no longer available, it can still be picked up in second hand book shops, and downloaded from this very site.
Click here for downloads of the whole Fist Of Fun book.



The only video release the BBC gave Lee & Herring was this live recording of a show from their 1995 tour, described by Stew thusly;
"This live video of the Lee and Herring double act captures us at our worst, recorded in a rush at the beginning of a tour and with inaudible audience response.
A badly advised venture immediately available in garage forecourt discount bins.
Our performance on the inanely titled Comic Relief live video Rude For A Reason is also shit, and now completely unavailable."

You can view the video on Stew's site here

Rude For A Reason


The aforementioned "Rude For A Reason" tape was a recording of a live show performed at the Brixont Academy in aid of Comic Relief.

On 19th / 20th June 1999, The Brixton Academy was taken over by a slew of comedians & entertainers as they mounted a campaign on behalf of Comic Relief to help combat the third world debt. Among those appearing on the night were David Baddiel, Steve Coogan, Ali G, Goodness Gracious Me, Sean Lock, Matt Lucas & David Walliams, The Happy Mondays and Tim McInerny.

Lee & Herring's involvement appeared in two different edits, for commercial video release & the broadcast version that was aired on BBC1

Real Time
Real Time

Not a comedy venture at all, but in 2001 both Rich & Stew guested as Cybermen in this Dr Who audio adventure starring Colin Baker as the 6th Doctor.
The show was broadcast over the internet before being released generally on CD.

You can find the original BBC page for it here and buy a copy of the CD here.
On The Hour 1
On The Hour 2

On The Hour

After 16 years, this much heralded radio show finally comes to CD in it's entire, unedited form.
You may be aware that there was a dispute between various members of the team when the show transferred to TV as The Day Today, and the subsequent mid-90s cassette release was heavily edited to remove all traces of Lee & Herring's contributions.
These collections finally redress the balance.

Series 1 of On The Hour comes packaged in a deluxe case-bound book with 4 CDs containing 5 thirty-minute episodes, a Christmas special and the original pilot episode.

Series 2 of On The Hour comes packaged in a deluxe case-bound book with 4 CDs containing 6 thirty-minute episodes and extras including unheard Alan Partridge improvisation.

More info at the official website - onthehour.info

Stewart Lee - The Perfect Fool
Stewart Lee - The Perfect Fool
Stewart Lee's debut novel, published in June 2001 by Fourth Estate.
From the back of the book:

"The Perfect Fool" charts the progress of a collection of misfits, spread across the wide open spaces of Arizona & the narrow streets of South London, all unwittingly caught up in a quest for the Holy Grail.
Mr Lewis believes he was once an astronaut; Sid & Danny's Dire Straits covers band isn't exactly filling the pubs of Streatham; Tracy travels between Las Vegas & the Mexican border, fleeing the suspicion that she's a serial killer; Bob, a Native American clown, no longer finds anything funny; Luther, and acid casualty 60s rock star, has long since forgotten the most basic chord shapes; and Peter Rugg lost a cigarette down the back of a Portobello Road sofa thirty years ago and is still looking for it.

These seemingly unrelated individuals eventually collide in the deserts of the American South West, where they form an uneasy silence. Stewart Lee's first novel combines an eclectic range of characters and cultures with an instinctive comic touch."

Richard Herring - Talking Cock
Richard Herring - Talking Cock
It has been known by many different names to many different people.
Knob, dick, schmuck, rod, tool, percy, John Thomas, the bald headed mouse, the yoghurt-spitting sausage, Kojak's Moneybox, the salty salami, the sergeant with
one blue stripe who loves to stand to attention, Captain Winky, the pink lighthouse that wants to draw you onto its rocks, the sentimental teaser, the arrow of desire, the crimson butterfly, the flute of love and of course Russell the fur-faced chicken.

It has meant different things to different cultures.
To the Ancient Greeks the penis was worshipped and people paraded the streets with six foot high phalluses. To early Christians it was the Devil's Rod, a thing of evil shape and issue that must be hidden away at all times. To the people of the 1980s the funniest thing imaginable was a wicked cartoon willie that could speak. How times change.
It inspires lust, fear, awe and laughter. And yet, it is an object of shame and when engorged, indecency. And though men may brag and exaggerate about their little chap, they rarely talk about their feelings for it. Whilst women celebrate their sexuality in worldwide smash "The Vagina Monologues", men are twisting their genitals into the shape of hamburgers in "Puppetry of the Penis". Isn't it time for the twisting to stop and the schlong celebration to begin. Isn't it time for a Vagina Monologues with balls?

Jerry Springer The Opera DVD


Peter Orton's film of Jerry Springer : The Opera,

The DVD is the recording that was broadcast on BBC2 in January 2005.
The CD is the original cast recording.

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Stewart Lee - 41st Best Standup Ever!

Stewart Lee - 41st Best Standup Ever!
The 2007/8 show was recorded at The Stand, Glasgow on April 7th and will be in the shops 28th of July through Real Talent.
You can buy online at amazon, play, etc.

It’s come out really well and there’s some good extras extras including a 45 minute interview conducted by Johnny Vegas and Stewart's performance at Pestival - 'the international Arts Pestival dedicated to raising awareness of the integral role insects play in the global ecosystem'..

Richard Herring - Menage A Un
ménage à un sees Herring consolidate his position as one of the UK’s most uncompromising and innovative stand-ups in a show which deals with loneliness, only-ness and Onanism, and attempts to determine whether three-in-a-bed sex romps are really better than one-in-a-bed sex romps.

Along the way he reveals why Olivio is the most dangerous spread for the confirmed bachelor, claims that we can save humanity by having sex with sea creatures and discusses the existential angst of being a comedy character who exists solely to deliver a disappointing punch-line. He also provides the correct solution to the Riddle of the Sphinx, proposes that the English should rename apples ‘sky potatoes’ in order to demonstrate the ultimate folly of the French, and controversially calls for the disenfranchisement of the stupid.

Stewart Lee - Pea Green Boat
Between 2001 and 2003, Stewart Lee worked on Pea Green Boat. It featured a deconstruction of Edward Lear’s The Owl and the Pussycat.
After several attempts, it proved financially unviable as a live performance. A version was recorded for Radio 4 shortly after - and then Go Faster Stripe came into existence, and a commercial release became viable.

This is not the live show, or the Radio 4 version, but a new specially recorded version, produced by Jane Watkins.

Pea Green Boat is available on CD, or as a limited edition 10'' single.

Richard Herring - Someone Likes Yoghurt

In his excellent Someone Likes Yoghurt, Herrring shares with us his world of gonorrhoea-transmiting magpies, his attempts to become successor to Pope John Paul II, and his local supermarket's utterly humiliating new checkout service: the grocery interrogation.
Richard Herring - The 12 Tasks Of Hercules Terrace
In the Twelve Tasks of Hercules Terrace, Rich shares with us his mission to make something of his sad comedian's existence through a catalogue of seemingly impossible challenges.

So will he succeed in running the marathon, going skydiving, and dating 50 women in 50 nights?
Or will he fail in his vain attempt to prove his superiority to the Greek demi-god?

And does steeling Germaine Greer's bra strictly count as a Herculean task? Yes - I suppose it does.

Stewart Lee - 90s Comedian
Stewart Lee's tour de force, 90s Comedian, has been dubbed so controversial (along with his directing debut Jerry Springer – the Opera) that none of the big DVD manufacturers would touch it with a barge pole.

Which is a shame, and is why the fearless Go Faster Stripe stepped in and offered to organise a special one-off evening's performance to capture this man's unmitigated comedic genius and preserve it on DVD for posterity.
Although it looks suspicious, this is none of your bootleg crap – it's all proper with special features like an interviewette, extra special cut-out bits, a photo gallery – oh, and a script for a Joe Pasquale joke.

Stewart Lee - Standup Comedian
Stewart Lee's first commercially released DVD was a recording of his 2004 Edinburgh show;
"Standup Comedian".
It was recorded at The Stand in Glasgow in March 2005 & released by 2Entertain later that year.

Despite great press for the release, & respectable sales the distributor 2entertain, declined their option to produce a follow up release.
It was this decision that lead Chris Evans to form GoFasterStripe as a vehicle to release Stew's 90s Comedian.
From there, GFS have gone from strength to strength, check out their website for a rundown on all their releases to date.