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St Paul's misogyny 2008-04-21 19:00:00 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 2008-04-06 19:00:00 How many people take condoms and pornography in their hand luggage? Please get in touch... Read more:Flying
Service station lover 2008-03-09 19:00:00 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 Read more:Service
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No-one to blame but myself 2008-02-21 18:00:00 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 Read more:myself
How to get a head in advertising 2008-02-06 18:00:00 Herring's rather radical proposals for dealing with people who work in advertising...
Off the sauce 2008-01-24 18:00:00 Richard Herring isn't drinking, and it's keeping him awake at night Read more:sauce
Exposing little Richard 2008-06-03 04:32:15 Herring ponders his stalled teenage song-writing career, and wonders whether he really can blame everything on his parentsI am working my way through my old diaries and schoolbooks and folders full of childhood memorabilia as preparation for my new Edinburgh show, “The Headmaster’s Son”. My dad was the headmaster at the secondary school I went to and I am hoping to prove that this fact cause Read more:little
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Signing Herring's filth 2008-06-17 05:18:04 Last week I did a stand up gig promoting SCOPE’s Time To Get Equal Week (it is now no longer Time To Get Equal Week, but I’d like to think this is a cause worth supporting all the year round). As usual with these SCOPE things I got much more out of it than I gave. It was a terrifically fun gig for me. I had been a [...] Read more:Herring
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Judgemental force of nerds 2008-06-30 10:31:31 Herring thanks you, his audience, for ensuring he sticks to the path of righteousness and refrains from fleecing the elderly...I sat on the bench outside WH Smiths in Hammersmith to drink the warm bottle of diet coke that I had just bought from the store. "Sorry the fridge isn't working," said the lady at the check out. She seemed genuinely sorry for the refrigerator malfunction. I didn't really m Read more:nerds
Herring is getting old 2008-07-14 09:53:56 As he turns 41, Herring
moans about men who leave their towels lying around in the locker room. I have just turned 41 years old. It’s the start of my 42nd year on this planet. I am experiencing every date of the year for the 42nd time – apart from February 29th which I’ve done a mere eleven times, which means I am not as jaded with it as I am with all the others. Forty two July 16ths! I thin
Jumping off the scaffold 2008-07-29 04:51:07 Herring on the dangers of having an annoying child and whether it would be worth it for tax purposes. Plus history and news Guy Fawkes jumped before he was droppedOn my way up to the Edinburgh Fringe (The Headmaster’s Son – Underbelly, 7.30pm) I stopped off for a gig in Newcastle and stayed with my friend Jeremy. He has two children, an inquisitive seven year old boy and his shy younger sister Read more:Jumping
Dancing in the rain 2008-08-14 11:11:16 There was something rawly sexual about this gaggle of half-drowned young people cavorting and hugging and splashing in the mud. And not in an obvious and cheap way.I have been in Edinburgh for over a fortnight now and am half way through the run of my latest stand up show, The Headmaster’s Son. It’s going rather well this year, thanks for asking (oh you didn’t), although I have just nearly c Read more:Dancing
What would Rasputin do? 2008-09-10 07:01:21 Comedian Richard Herring on Lee Hurst, clashing with hecklers, how he smashed a ringing mobile phone to smithereens and kicked someone in the head. Sort of...I am back in the news again. Just a casual mention in an Independent article about Lee Hurst breaking a punter's phone.
The relevant bit reads "In 2005, the comedian Richard Herring smashed an audience member's mobile. When the owner went on
Spirit of the Fringe? You must be joking... 2008-08-28 12:52:45 You can't capture the essence of Edinburgh in a corporate-sponsored perspex award and musicals about Pot NoodlesI have been blogging every day for nearly six years now, sounding off in the comfort of my house, often forgetting that all the crap I am spewing out can be read by anyone in the world who has a computer and the inclination to find it.
As Edinburgh drew to a close I blogged about my diss
Spending less time with your family... 2008-09-26 09:53:15 Wouldn't we like our politicians more if they didn't treat us like children? Wouldn't we like them more if they were candid?
I hate politicians. They are idiots. Pretty much without exception. One has a vague feeling that there might have been some more honourable ones, in some bygone era, but in reality those George Washingtons and Mahatma Gandhis and William Gladstones were probably as hollow Read more:Spending
Not getting laid 2008-10-23 05:17:48 "Contrast the unrealistic hopefulness of the schoolboys with the resigned weariness of the beer drinking adults"
I took the train to Brighton for a performance of my retrospective on my adolescence, “The Headmaster’s Son” last Friday. The carriage was predictably packed and it was standing room only. Despite being hot and bothered and having chubby businessmen rubbing up against me, getting
Pantomime punk 2008-10-08 05:02:36 How the godfather of punk turned into a pantomime figure advertising butter. Herring tries to reconcile the death of the image of a childhood hero with the Rotten older self
So how do I feel about my boyhood hero, Johnny “Rotten” Lydon, appearing in an advert for Country Life butter?
Is it against the principles of punk rock? Is it the ultimate sell out? It's not exactly cash from chaos, unl
Racism and Lewis Hamilton 2008-11-06 05:22:54 It's hard to think of any racists who aren't pathetic physical and mental specimens, proving beyond doubt that the idea of white supremacy is bogus
There has been some more furore about Spanish racism towards LewisHamilton
. I hate racism and everyone in Spain is racist and so I hate them all. Which isn't racist, because the Spanish are not a race. What I am is xenophobic and generalising and wr Read more:Racism
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