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Richard Herring

Comic Richard Herring’s sideways look at politics, people and everyday life

The joys of parenthood

The wages are terrible, the job is 24/7 and you're contracted in for a minimum of, ooh, 18 years...

St Paul's misogyny

Holidaying in Sicily, Herring ponders St Paul's attitude to women and asks why, if love is doomed, we all keep chasing it ... a triumph of hope over experience?

Flying with porn

  • 8 comments
  • Posted by Richard Herring
  • 07 April 2008

How many people take condoms and pornography in their hand luggage? Please get in touch...

Jordan, Lorraine and me

An encounter with the silicone-enhanced phenomenon on the GMTV sofa

Service station lover

  • 5 comments
  • Posted by Richard Herring
  • 10 March 2008

I don’t know if you read the New Statesman web pages, oh beautiful Ritazza woman, but if you do then please get in touch

No-one to blame but myself

  • 15 comments
  • Posted by Richard Herring
  • 22 February 2008

In the throes of a two month alcohol detox and a tour Richard pauses to reflect on some of the finer moments in his childhood

How to get a head in advertising

  • 24 comments
  • Posted by Richard Herring
  • 07 February 2008

Herring's rather radical proposals for dealing with people who work in advertising...

Off the sauce

  • 4 comments
  • Posted by Richard Herring
  • 25 January 2008

Richard Herring isn't drinking, and it's keeping him awake at night

Send me your beauty products

  • 4 comments
  • Posted by Richard Herring
  • 08 January 2008

Herring ponders the possibilities of a hairless new year

Heather McCartney and me

  • 13 comments
  • Posted by Richard Herring
  • 19 December 2007

Herring reveals the inspiration he found in a children's Christmas show plus thoughts on the joy of racing strangers

Smoker stole Nigella

  • 17 comments
  • Posted by Richard Herring
  • 11 December 2007

Kicking the smokers outside may have made pubs nicer but beware when you take a Nigella lookalike on a date...

Hecklers and holes

  • 5 comments
  • Posted by Richard Herring
  • 27 November 2007

Herring contemplates monetarism, heckling at comedy gigs and a scabby-kneed lady.

The mystery of Toyah resolved

  • 4 comments
  • Posted by Richard Herring
  • 15 November 2007

The truth about the hotel receptionist with the name tag that bore the word 'cancer'

Toyah and cancer

  • 6 comments
  • Posted by Richard Herring
  • 29 October 2007

'Perhaps the Travelodge likes to list the first name of every employee on these badges and then beneath it list any disease that they are currently suffering from'

The worst word you can think of?

  • 17 comments
  • Posted by Richard Herring
  • 11 October 2007

Richard Herring explores what is truly insulting...

Richard Herring

Richard Herring began writing and performing comedy when he was 14. His career since Oxford has included a successful partnership with Stewart Lee and his hit one-man show Talking Cock

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The joys of parenthood

  • By Richard Herring
  • 06 May 2008

St Paul's misogyny

  • By Richard Herring
  • 22 April 2008

Flying with porn

  • By Richard Herring
  • 07 April 2008

Jordan, Lorraine and me

  • By Richard Herring
  • 25 March 2008

Service station lover

  • By Richard Herring
  • 10 March 2008

No-one to blame but myself

  • By Richard Herring
  • 22 February 2008

How to get a head in advertising

  • By Richard Herring
  • 07 February 2008

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