As It Occurs to Me
Richard Herring's Sony award-nominated internet stand-up and sketch show is currently in the midst of its second series and is definitely worthy of a listen.
Disillusioned with the amount of time it takes to get any sort of TV or radio series commissioned and developed, Herring has taken the comedy broadcast in a different direction by shunning the conventional media, instead self-funding and recording his own series and making it available to download for free on the internet.
If the paradigm-shifting idea behind the show wasn't ingriguing enough, its quality easily exceeds anything currently being played out on commercial radio, with the possible exception of Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show.
As It Occurs to Me (which, in Herring's trademark style, is shortened to 'AIOTM' - often used instead of the full title despite its aural clunkiness) is recorded in front of a live audience weekly at the Liecester Square theatre and uploaded the following day without any editing. Bizarrely, preserving the whole show in its original form doesn't hamper its enjoyability. Indeed, several fluffed lines and mispronunciations have proved to be more humorous than the scripted lines, and the first series made constant reference to the bizarre and unhealthy notion of 'cumpkins' (a fluffing of the much less sinister 'pumpkins') to brilliant effect.
Backed onstage by actress Emma Kennedy, comedian Dan Tetsell and guitarist Christian Reilly, Herring provides 45 minutes' worth of newly written material each week. The show usually follows some sort of narrative driven by Herring's thoughts or experiences from the past 7 days, and ideas are often played out as sketches, which rarely fail to disappoint.
This is possibly the most exciting thing happening in British comedy right now.
You can listen to the shows here.
If the paradigm-shifting idea behind the show wasn't ingriguing enough, its quality easily exceeds anything currently being played out on commercial radio, with the possible exception of Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show.
As It Occurs to Me (which, in Herring's trademark style, is shortened to 'AIOTM' - often used instead of the full title despite its aural clunkiness) is recorded in front of a live audience weekly at the Liecester Square theatre and uploaded the following day without any editing. Bizarrely, preserving the whole show in its original form doesn't hamper its enjoyability. Indeed, several fluffed lines and mispronunciations have proved to be more humorous than the scripted lines, and the first series made constant reference to the bizarre and unhealthy notion of 'cumpkins' (a fluffing of the much less sinister 'pumpkins') to brilliant effect.
Backed onstage by actress Emma Kennedy, comedian Dan Tetsell and guitarist Christian Reilly, Herring provides 45 minutes' worth of newly written material each week. The show usually follows some sort of narrative driven by Herring's thoughts or experiences from the past 7 days, and ideas are often played out as sketches, which rarely fail to disappoint.
This is possibly the most exciting thing happening in British comedy right now.
You can listen to the shows here.
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