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.

RICH IS CURRENTLY TOURING THIS SHOW - GO & SEE HIM LIVE, FIND DETAILS OF VENUES AT THIS LINK.
This show will soon be available on DVD thanks to Go Faster Stripe. Get it off their website at THIS LINK

Judas is best known as the betrayer of Christ, but here he explains his position using words, rope and food.
Stew describes this show as "a pretentious one-man theatre piece, not the kind of laugh-filled gag-fests I do as a stand-up. Yes, I am the new Daniel Kitson".
In actual fact, the show simply retells the Judas' story from his own point of view, with Stewart narrating in the first person as Judas.
Not as scurrilous as it might sound, perhaps - but still a very entertaining & thoughtful show.
As of January 2007, Stew says of the show: "I have no plans at present to do the show again, but there is interest from radio, and other venues.
If none of these come off I will record it on audio and do a cd with GOFASTERSTRIPE."

Stewart Lee's follow up to 2004's "Stand Up Comedian" sees him dealing with the religious backlash of Jerry Springer The Opera's TV broadcast in an unashamedly combatative style.
Almost intentionally courting controversy, where such a thing not beneath him, Lee deals with the London Bombings of 2005, Joe Pasquale's theft of other comedians' material, endoscopies, coping with being a figure of hatred to 60,000 fundamentalist christians, and why you shouldn't read Dan Brown's work.
All of this leads to an incendiary climax involving a drunken night in a small village somewhere in The Midlands, Jesus Christ, and vomit.

This show is now available on DVD thanks to Go Faster Stripe. Get it off their website at THIS LINK

Richard Herring's 2005 Edinburgh Festival offering, the title of which is taken from an encounter with a shocked checkout girl in a branch of Sainsburys (see Warming Up - 26th January 2004)

In "Someone Likes Yoghurt", Herring defends himself against the malicious yoghurt-based rumours that have been blighting his life, proposes a less sorrowful magpie reward system, and explains why he applied for the job of Pope, despite his atheism & desire to destroy all world religions.

This show will soon be available on DVD thanks to Go Faster Stripe. Get it off their website at THIS LINK

Stewart Lee's 2004 return to standup comedy deals with his 3 year absence, and the time he spent in musical theatre, as well as the film director Ang Lee, September 11th 2001, and "proved with lacerating insight that people dislike Ben Elton even more than Osama Bin Laden. At least the latter, he said, has "lived his life to some consistent set of ethical principles".

This show is available on DVD. Get it at THIS LINK

Richard Herring is going through a mid-life crisis. Depressed and disorientated after having split up with his girlfriend, moved house and been stricken with writer's block, he resolves to take inspiration from the bust of Hercules that graces the front of his new home and perform twelve impossible or arduous labours in the hope of giving his 37 years on this planet some kind of meaning.

Will the small, fat man from Somerset prove that he is a match for the bronzed and toned Roman demi-god?
Or, more likely, will he not?

This show is now available on DVD thanks to Go Faster Stripe. Get it off their website at THIS LINK

Currently playing at London's Oxford Theatre, in the fashionable west end, Stewart Lee & Richard Thomas's "Jerry Springer : The Opera" is going strong.
Visit www.jerryspringertheopera.com for details of how to book tickets for this "High-art-meets-trailer-trash" experience...

A DVD of the recording that BBC2 broadcast in January 2005 is available. Buy it online here

Set in Fiji, this play by Richard Herring looks at Nostradamus' prediction of apocalypse in July 1999.
Co-incidentally it was first performed at the 1999 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

The script can be found at Rich's site here http://www.richardherring.com/archive/downloads.php?s=Script

The flyer to the left is advertising the Second TV series of This Morning With Richard Not Judy, but the show itself actually dates back to a Richard Herring solo show from the Edinburgh Fringe in 1994.

Over time, the live show expanded to incorporate elements that would later become familiar to viewers of the TV series of the same name, but initially it was a largely improvised affair that relied on a lot of interaction with the audience. Rich recounts his humiliation of audience member and minor TV celebrity Les Dennis as both the proudest and most shameful moment of his career.

The main element that made it to the TV version of the show was the "King Of The Show" feature, in which Rich & Stew would select an audience member using hastily designated guidelines & pamper them throughout the set.

Richard Herring's 1997 Edinburgh Festival offering.
You can download the script from Rich's own website here

http://www.richardherring.com/archive/downloads.php?s=Script

 Touring on the back of the "Fist Of Fun" radio & TV series, Rich & Stew took to the road for this tour, which started off at that year's Edinburgh Festival.

This tour feature the gig at The Cochrane Theatre in September 1995 that was filmed & released on BBC video as "Lee & Herring Live".

 Stew's own site describes 2000's "Badly Mapped World" as "Lee's last ditch attempt to write a stand-up show which can transcend stand-up limitations". It also marked the first time he ever actually made money performing at the Edinburgh Festival.

Also, according to the site, national critics were to cite this show in giving Stew his first bad reviews.
Punters, however, loved it.

 The Seven Raymonds (featuring Rich & Stew) in their Edinburgh Debut, KMnO4.

Have to say, I don't know much about this one - but the poster's ace.