Richard Herring Movies
- 2000
Time Gentlemen Please was an offshoot of British comedian Al Murray's famously uninhibited standup comedy act. Murray was cast as Guv, a loudmouthed, bigoted, sexist pub keeper who held court over a throng of staffers and customers in his grimy, rundown establishment. Although Guv's wife and children had long since walked out on him, he managed to retain an entourage which included his potty-mouthed Australian barmaid Janet (Julia Sawalha) and rowdy customer Terry (Phil Daniels), who managed to get himself thrown out of the pub in the course of every episode. Broadcast over the anything-goes British satellite service Sky One, the 22-episode Time Gentlemen Please debuted on September 11, 2000. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1998
Stewart Lee and Richard Herring, the team responsible for the raunchy and irreverent British sketch comedy series Fist of Fun, were the men in charge of this BBC weekender, telecast on Sundays at 12:15 PM. Despite this benign time slot, This Morning With Richard Not Judy trafficked heavily in explicit, single-entendre humor as it spoofed the "daily chat show" genre in general and the popular British daily series Richard and Judy in particular. While most of the series was apparently ad-libbed on the spot, a few prerecorded, carefully scripted sketches were included. One such sketch had to be scrapped at the last moment when the celebrity it was lampooning unexpectedly died. Also known as Lee and Herring in This Morning With Richard Not Judy, the series first aired on February 15, 1998. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
