29 Facts About Richard Herring

Richard Keith Herring was born on 12 July 1967 and is an English stand-up comedian and writer, whose early work includes the comedy double act Lee and Herring.

Richard Herring is described by The British Theatre Guide as "one of the leading hidden masters of modern British comedy".

Towards the end of the double act, Herring worked as a writer, producing four plays.

Richard Herring has created thirteen of these stand-up shows since 2004, performing them for eleven consecutive years at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, with annual tours and a final performance recorded for DVD.

Richard Herring has maintained a daily blog called Warming Up without a break since 25 November 2002.

Richard Herring's blog is archived by the British Library for purposes of UK documentary heritage.

Richard Herring was born in Pocklington, East Riding of Yorkshire, and grew up in Cheddar, Somerset.

Richard Herring attended The Kings of Wessex School, where his father was the headmaster and maths teacher.

Richard Herring was a student at St Catherine's College, Oxford, where he wrote and performed for a comedy troupe known as the Seven Raymonds as well as the Oxford Revue.

Between 1992 and 2000, Richard Herring was half of the stand-up comedy double act with Stewart Lee.

Lee and Richard Herring wrote material for Chris Morris and Armando Iannucci's On the Hour in 1991 and the duo contributed to the creation of the character that was to be Alan Partridge.

Richard Herring has written and performed in thirteen one-person shows, eleven of them consecutively.

For radio, Richard Herring co-wrote and presented the history based sketch show That Was Then, This Is Now.

Richard Herring contributed to the third series of Little Britain as script editor.

On 14 October 2010, his Radio 4 series Richard Herring's Objective was first broadcast.

On 27 December 2010, Richard Herring finished second on Celebrity Mastermind with a final score of 34 points.

In 2020, Richard Herring was a contestant on the tenth series of Taskmaster.

Richard Herring later returned to compete against fellow winners Ed Gamble, Kerry Godliman, Liza Tarbuck and Lou Sanders for the second "Champion of Champions" special, which he won.

On 25 November 2002 Richard Herring started his blog, Warming Up, as a way to overcome writer's block.

Richard Herring has written an entry for every day, and has over 7,000 consecutive entries.

In 2011 Richard Herring began playing himself at snooker for an audio podcast called "Me1 vs Me2 Snooker".

In 2013, Richard Herring won the Chortle Award for his Leicester Square Theatre Podcast, which again won the award in 2014.

In February 2014, the first Richard Herring Show was broadcast on Fubar Radio.

Richard Herring presented this with comedian Lou Sanders weekly, before quitting the show together; their final episode was broadcast on 24 May 2014.

Richard Herring repeated the exercise on 8 March 2020 and streamed himself responding to tweets live on Twitch.

In March 2020 Richard Herring started streaming regularly on Twitch as the world went into lockdown.

Richard Herring produced weekly remote episodes of his podcast, Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast, did a live feed of Stone Clearing most weekday mornings and played himself at Snooker in the evening.

Richard Herring did occasional non-director's commentaries for films, as well as a newspaper review with his 128-year-old ventriloquist dummy called Ally and Herring's Twitch of Fun.

Richard Herring has raised money for Scope since 2003, and ran the London Marathon in aid of the charity in 2004 as well as the Royal Parks Foundation Half Marathon in 2011,2013 and 2014.