Following a 30th anniversary appearance at the Edinburgh Fringe, Richard Herring heads out on a nationwide tour with his latest show Oh Frig I’m 50!. There are 55 dates throughout the UK starting on 1st February in Northampton and ending on 3rd June at Warwick Arts Centre and including the Queen Elizabeth Hall, part of London’s Southbank Centre, on 4th May.
Following on from 2007’s Oh Fuck, I’m 40!, this is the second instalment in Herring’s once-a-decade examination of ageing. He will look at how his life has changed in the last decade, from irresponsible, single kidult, literally fighting his way through a mid-life crisis, to married father who is mid-way to the telegram from the Queen (though given she will be 140 in 2067, she might forget to send it). Is he older and wiser? Or just older…and more stupid? Herring is in reflective mood as he contemplates the death of his ambition and his libido and the increasing possibility of the death of himself.
Richard Herring is probably best known as the world’s only semi-professional self-playing snookerist, (featuring in the Tempting Failure Festival of Transgressive Art alongside a man who cooked his own excreta and a woman who pulled baby teeth out of her vagina). He is also a seasoned music presenter, having fronted MTV Hot for one week in 1995 alongside Stewart Lee (an appearance which led to Scary Spice asking for his autograph on a post-it note and then sticking it to her bare stomach) as well as two stints fronting Top of the Pops, which seemed exciting at the time, but now has been soiled somewhat by the crimes of the other presenters. You may have seen him on BBC4’s Never Mind the Fullstops, a programme that he hated so much that he ended up telling the bloke who wrote Downton Abbey to “Fuck off!” You may also recognise him from motorcycling around the world with Ewan MacGregor, but unfortunately you have mistaken him for Charley Boorman.
He has won multiple awards for his podcasts Richard Herring’s Leicester Square Theatre Podcast and As It Occurs To Me. A new video series of the latter was released in the summer of 2017, having been crowd-funded to the tune of £100,000 by its fans. He has filmed a sitcom pilot for Channel 4 called Everything Happens (For No Reason), which stars Noel Fielding and Jessica Knappett, and written and starred in a BBC Radio 4 sitcom called Relativity which came out in September, also starring Alison Steadman, Phil Davis and Emily Berrington.
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