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2011
2011
2011 was a year that saw the arrival of some new ventures and the departure of some old favourites.

The first part of the year was dominated by the Christ on a Bike 94 date tour, which attracted protestors in Glasgow and East Anglia, but which was otherwise positively received and (in most cases) was well attended. Whilst on tour I played snooker against myself in one of the dressing rooms and commentated on it on Twitter - I did not realise where this madness would eventually lead.It was my most successful tour thus far and my slow upwards progress thus continues! The show was recorded for a DVD at the Leicester Square Theatre on 18th May.
The Collins and Herring show on 6Music (as well as the Collings and Herrin podcasts) continued in the early part of the year, but a reshuffle at the station led to me being replaced and ultimately the bad feeling this created also caused the podcast being put on hiatus. We attempted to resurrect it in the autumn, but Andrew’s heart was no longer in it, so after 167+ episodes Collings and Herrin is sadly no more.

I also decided that it was time to knock As It Occurs To Me on the head before it went stale or the writing drove me insane, so the series we recorded in May and June at the Leicester Square Theatre brought the show to a flour covered denouement. The show won the Chortle “Best Internet Show” award in February and gofasterstripe released AIOTM:The Complete Cumpkin with all the shows and lots of extras in the summer. Thanks to Emma, Dan, Christian and Ben for all their hard work and to everyone who downloaded it.
During this time I also began work on the pilot script of a comedy drama called “Gorgeous” for the BBC. It revolved around the lives of people working in caves in a fictional gorge in Somerset. The first draft was delivered in May and the powers that be liked it enough to ask me to write a second draft which I completed in November. We are awaiting further news.
Once the tour was over I began work on my new show, “What is Love, Anyway?” previewing it extensively throughout June and July. It premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe at the Underbelly’s Cow Barn selling well and mostly getting excellent reviews. It was my 32nd show at my 20th Edinburgh Fringe. The press and public began referring to me as “The King of Edinburgh”, a title I neither sought nor approved of. I also did a daily podcast show, “Richard Herring’s Edinburgh Fringe Podcast” at the Stand each afternoon, with guests including Adam Buxton, Isy Suttie, Sarah Millican, Al Murray and the most extraordinary of all Rumpel. This was a lot of fun and amazingly topped the iTunes chart for over a fortnight.

Just in case I didn’t have enough to do during the Fringe I also wrote and recorded a one off special of Radio 4’s Richard Herring’s Objective about the “See You Jimmy Tartan Hat”. The show returned for a second series in the autumn in which I covered the golliwog, the Page 3 girl, the old school tie and my own personal favourite, the wheelchair (with a brilliant guest appearance by Francesca Martinez). This also led inadvertently to a showdown with some of the more cretinous of Ricky Gervais’ fans on Twitter (which might provide inspiration for a future Edinburgh show). Objective got a lot of positive feedback and seems to have gone down markedly better than the first series. Hopefully there will be more in 2012.
To keep up the podcast count I had also started recording Warming Up as a daily podcast via soundcloud. The blog, which also became available on Kindle for the first time, has continued in written form and I celebrated nine years of continuous daily blogging in November.
The Christ on a Bike DVD was released at the end of October and a few weeks later was followed by a bumper DVD of the first series of Fist of Fun, which had been bought by Chris Evans (not that one) of gofasterstripe.com after the BBC refused to release it themselves. It was a hefty financial commitment to do so, but the gamble seems to be paying off as we have sold enough copies by the end of the year to cover the expense. It’s got loads of extras and commentaries and you can freeze frame a picture of the 1990s Lee and Herring in the nude.

The Lyric Hammersmith monthly Sunday night gigs continued and other enjoyable performances included Laugh or the Polar Bear Gets It at the Hammersmith Apollo in November and Robin Ince’s Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless Children at the Bloomsbury in December.
I made a second appearance on Have I Got News For You in May as well as appearing in a pilot of the TV version of Banter, “Rule of Three” in October. I also recorded a few radio quiz shows and interviews.
There was a mini What is Love Anyway? tour in the autumn including 5 nights at the Soho Theatre, but the tour will continue in 2012.
Most excitingly of all in December the first Me1 vs Me2 Snooker Podcast, in which I play myself at snooker and commentate on it was released on the British Comedy Guide and iTunes. It briefly reached the top of the iTunes chart and has not divided opinion as much as I had expected and hoped. But I will continue doing it until you are all ground down or I go properly insane (if that hasn’t happened yet).

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