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Richard Herring: As It Occurs To Me, London
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Since splitting up his celebrated partnership with Stewart Lee, Richard Herring's spent a lot of time coming up with inventive ways to deliver his own brand of brainy-but-juvenile comedy. He's written books (his autobiography, How Not To Grow Up, is out now in paperback), set up a regular podcast with BBC 6 Music DJ Andrew Collins that enjoys a large and faintly disturbing cult following, and maintains a daily blog featuring some of the most consistently funny navel-gazing on the internet. His latest innovation is a live sketch show, written and performed entirely on the hoof. As It Occurs To Me is an appropriate title – the sketches are often scripted in a couple of days prior to the performance. If the results can sometimes be uneven, the ramshackle show is usually an exhilarating experience, and there are flashes of genius to be enjoyed– much as you'd expect from someone who learned his sketchwriting trade working alongside Armando Iannucci and Chris Morris.

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