People I generally like- Richard Herring

Completing my double bill of these blogs, I'm now going to discuss why I like Richard Herring and how I got into him, as that is easier to pin point to me. I won't list all of his achievements as he's being doing comedy since before I was born, so there would be a lot to discuss. However, as well as being an Edinburgh stalwart, he has also written two books with a third to be published, done radio, TV and been a podcast revolutionary, doing both Collings and Herrin and As It Occurs To Me. So that's partly why he is awesome, we'll get on to what else after I have briefly looked at how I got into him.


Prior to last year, I would have only vaguely heard of him. His television career for the most part finished before I was 11, so wouldn't have had much memory of that, although I do remember hearing of This Morning with Richard Not Judy, probably being a little confused by it, but not actually watching it. But last year I properly got into Twitter, and started following people I liked and thought that were interesting. I think people that I followed must have mentioned him, and Andrew Collins for that matter, and I decided to follow them. I followed many people that I had not previously heard of, so this was not unusual, but I found out about the podcast that Richard did and decided to list and was hooked. I listened to loads of podcasts in a row at points and even got my dad into them! Then I saw AIOTM being recorded twice, a live Collings and Herrin being recorded and Richard doing stand-up.


So, why do I like him? He is passionate about the things he likes and loathes, as his most recent show Hitler Moustache shows. That makes him more interesting than most stand-ups in the business, especially as he looks outside of his personal life.


Part of what makes him funny is that he can be quite rude, but unlike in the case of stand-ups like Frankie Boyle for example, it is not necessarily trying to shock, just being immature and silly, which is in contrast to some of his other material.


Look, I like him so much that I made him a Facebook group I Fancy Richard Herring and am Only Slightly Ashamed to admit it.


Who knows what I'll do tomorrow, probably a video post. I'm seeing a recording of Rhod Gilbert's new show, which is exciting.