Richard Herring on double acts, the problem with writing comedy for others and the glorious freedom of his podcast.
"People were constantly comparing us, saying 'Oh, Rich Herring's clearly influenced by Stewart Lee. Obviously, we pretty much influenced each other - we worked together for a decade.The duo worked together for eight years, before calling it a day.Before achieving fame in front of camera, they worked together on spoof current affairs radio show On The Hour - the birthplace of Alan Partridge.
One character Herring came up with single-handedly was bad-tempered economic correspondent Peter O'Hanraha-hanrahan .The resulting skit about the Maastricht Treaty, where the character clearly hasn't read the thing he's meant to be talking about, made the highlights of Pick Of The Week.Herring wasn't too pleased:"I said, 'But it was my idea' and Armando said, 'No, you just heard it on the radio'. But that's essentially what On The Hour was.
The pair split at the end of the 90s, with Lee then stepping back from stand up in the early 2000s to write Jerry Springer - The Opera. "I'm not really in the showbiz party stuff. I don't have celebrity friends - a few other comedians are buddies, but I'm not massively close to many of them. "What appealed to me was the autonomy of it really and just at a time when the BBC was clamping down on everything that was potentially offensive, partly because of the Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand incident."
In his answer, Fry talked about his experience of depression, and revealed a recent suicide attempt that went on to make headlines around the world.Despite being described by The Guardian as on his way to"becoming the best celebrity interviewer in the land", Herring is remarkably laid-back in his interview approach.
One of Herring's podcast aids, by his side throughout each interview, is his infamous"Book of Emergency Questions".
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