Ha ha! Hello everyone - it’s a parody of Richard Herring here. Nice! Well, it’s been a busy few months, working on the total genius - says me! - that is Time Gentlemen Please. But enough of that. Time (gentlemen please) for me to answer your questions...
CHALLENGE RICH
Q. How does Ed Byrne deal with hecklers?
It’s going really well. Everyone who’s come to a Time Gentlemen Please recording says we’ve got something special. Although, of course, it is notoriously difficult to judge a sitcom on its first 358 episodes. But time (gentlemen please) will tell!
Q. No, but how does he deal with hecklers?
Well, I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised by what we’ve come up with. Time Gentlemen Please is definitely the best work I’ve ever done. Even if I do say so myself! Which I do!
Q. Who are your favourite comedians?
Sometimes I just stare at my computer screen in disbelief - I can’t believe that I, Richard Herring, have created something like Time Gentlemen Please. Often, I just look at all the money the Murdoch empire has given me, and roll around in it naked (which Fist Of Fun nits will remember as a sketch I once did but not with Murdoch). I spent some of the money from the first series on the Spinal Tap DVD, which - in my own opinion - is the best comedy film ever made. The funniest thing about it is their hair.
Q. What’s the capital of Peru?
Come on, guys - I think you’ve been watching comedy too long (or perhaps I have been!). I really think Time Gentlemen Please is the best thing ever written, like The Bible and Dickens and things like that. Also, I think you have to be quite intelligent to understand why the characters are funny - that’s why we explain it all to the audience all the time.
Q. I've taken off all my clothes. Here are my breasts.
Well, I think the shows will look better once they've been edited. The atmosphere was great last night. We had a lot of fun making it. Anyway, time (gentlemen please) for me to go. I’ll hand you over to Al now...
AL MURRAY'S CHARACTER'S MAD ABOUT...
Thanks, Rich. This week I’m mad about sycophants. And the problem with sycophants is that they originated in France / Germany / Italy / Denmark / Wales (delete as appropriate and do pretend ad libs - I haven’t thought of anything for Pakistan or countries like that though, obviously, I’m not stupid).
But like most of yer celebrities, I spend my days surrounded by people who keep telling me I’m brilliant. Because that’s the way it is. IT’S THE WAY IT IS. Yeah? But we have to KNOCK things, don’t we eh? We all have to knock things. And I haven’t built up an entire career of doing average material in a shouty RADA voice with a great big grin on my face to have some nerds off the internet tell me to go and stuff it. So I surround myself with yes men, because they’re COMFORTING aren’t they eh? They’re comforting. Eh?! Comforting. COM-FOR-TINNNNGGG And also, it means I can be a bit shit every so often without realising.
Anyway, the point is, the world would be a much better place if everyone just buckled down and admitted I was great. It would make my job easier as a comedian and your job easier as the ple...I mean, the audience. That’s why we have comedy agents like the Avalon, innit eh? So they can do the thinking for you. The thinking. THIING-KIIIIIIINGGGG. ’Cos the trouble with yer thiiiiiiiinking, y’see, the trouble with yer thinking is that it originated in France / Germany / Italy / Denmark / Wales (delete as appropriate, but do a different country this time. And repeat each sentence three times so it lasts the full two hours). Never mind laughing. Never mind laughing. You silly moo.
Right, that’s enough genius. Please collect your brains at the bar. Thank you.
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Syntax is for poofs says Stewart Lee
Doing a ropey old Exorcist parody, spraying some characters with fake sick and having the entire audience go "Eeeeeuuurrghh." - Papa Lazarou is back!
Why all television companies are completely evil, unless they like our stuff.
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