A biography for Richard Herringhasn’t been written yet.
“By the time I got to uni sketch comedy was much more fashionable than stand-up.”
“I did WeightWatchers for a while with my then girlfriend. It worked a bit, but it's all about losing weight rather than fat, which isn't always helpful.”
“I had always been troubled by the liberal paradox of wanting everyone to be treated the same, while at the same time respecting their cultural differences.”
“Coming from a comprehensive school in Somerset, entertainment didn't seem like something that was open to you.”
“Comedy thrives on immediacy and I got fed up waiting months to find out if a radio sketch show was being commissioned.”
“I certainly don't get any pleasure from watching someone else dancing. That's weird. Why would anyone pay money to watch an adult dance? Just moving around in a rhythmical fashion. It's the worst medium for artistic expression.”
“Personally I find that deadlines are the best inspiration.”
“You realise that, with 'Rick and Morty,' each episode is so deep and dense it is extraordinary. It slightly annoys me that it's so good; it's almost unbeatable as a TV show.”
“There aren't many opportunities to be a comedian on TV anymore, it's a lot of panel shows. You don't get much stand-up.”
“Rick And Morty' is the most consistently brilliant, densely plotted and enjoyable television show I have ever seen. It's childish, yet super-clever, without ever being clever-clever.”
“I was in awe of my older brother, but he was also quite a threatening figure - he used to beat me up.”
“I have been making podcasts for over five years. It started as a bit of fun.”
“Comedians have this happy, charmed life, where they're the centre of their own universe and can do what they want, but when you have kids you get a perspective on how unimportant you are in this world.”
“I was surprised that 'The Peter Serafinowicz Show' didn't get a second series. There are things like that that get stifled at birth and you wonder why they didn't happen.”
“Watching Billy Connolly at the Hammersmith Apollo in the late 90s was a masterclass of long-form comedy.”
“Writing is one per cent inspiration and 99 per cent prevarication.”
“I've always liked science fiction as a way of commenting on ourselves and it's wrong that it is seen as less valid than other art forms.”
“There are funny things that come from disability.”
“Some comedians make a marvellous living doing material that is completely predictable, that reminds people of things that they already know or jokes that they are already familiar with.”
“I often go for ages without getting my hair cut, so every now and then I'll look like a tramp and have to go to a hairdresser.”