In our 90th podcast, we spend the 45 million we didn't win on the Euromillions lottery, in detail, and devise a variation on the two-minute silence if Richard was in charge. We also prune Andrew's wallet, defend Gordon Brown after his bad-eyed felt tip spelling mistakes, uncover how the printing presses are powered on the Mail, Sun and Mirror, compare the romantic potential of all the I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here contestants (Lucy Benjamin: 'Slim to none'), and, oh yes, plug our various...
Nov 12, 2009
As Richard stares unemployment in the face and Andrew realises his broken earphones have led to a fleeting feeling of punk rock cool on a train, our 89th podcast soldiers on, featuring a whole load of genuine laughter at the twin Daily Mail nostalgia attack of a) AN Wilson for the time 'a few years' ago when there was no Halloween and no 200 yard queue outside his local joke-cum-fancy-dress emporium, and b) Quentin Letts for the time, before 1970, when urchins would demand a penny for the guy; t...
Nov 05, 2009
As it occurs to us, in the 88th Collings and Herrin podcast, we present an exclusive tribute to Peggy Mitchell, who is to leave EastEnders after 15 years, consider Malcolm MacDonald's nightmare vision of St James' Park stadium in a commercial world, stir the latest political correctness storm in the Daily Mail's teacup, apply for a job on Wight FM, ponder the newspaper grammar of Kelvin MacKenzie's column in The Sun, review the extras that come with the new Terry Gilliam film, and give an update...
Oct 29, 2009
In our 87th podcast we are part of the news but don't even know it, as helicopters buzz over Shepherd's Bush to monitor the protests against Nick Griffin on the night of his historic Question Time appearance, and we mistakenly imagine them to be piloted by Michael Legge and James Hingley, aka Bollings and Nerrin, our podcast stalkers. However, we still discuss the issues of the day: Nick Griffin, whose wife Jackie calls an 'oddball' and seems confused about how precisely the sun might rise and s...
Oct 22, 2009
The 86th Collings and Herrin Podcast was recorded at the Three and Ten pub in Brighton before a packed audience of around 50 people, many of who probably wished they had sat further back. Despite the Brighton Fringe using a photo of Richard on his own to illustrate the gig, this was a two-man show, albeit only one of us actually felt inspired to mime what it must be like at an orgy. This was sparked by a story in the Sun about the MoD and a Travelodge, in which the word 'ORGIES' was helpfully pi...
Oct 17, 2009
In our 85th podcast, we tread a fine line between undermining Richard's new, breakaway, sketch-based podcast, As It Occurs To Me, by accidentally previewing material in advance, and undermining our own podcast, by going on about As It Occurs To Me all the way through it. However, despite tiredness and the lateness of hour, it's a great week for racism-based news, and we cover all the racists: Anton de Beke, Bruce Forsyth and Jackson Jive, who won an Australian talent contest in 1989 and have com...
Oct 10, 2009
In our latest live podcast, recorded in front of a broad-minded audience old enough to remember Panini sticker albums in the Lincoln Performing Arts Centre (or LPAC), in Lincoln, in Lincolnshire, we discuss the death of New Labour (now available as a wallchart courtesy of the Sun), the hairy ape lady, Richard Littlejohn and the 'Bin Police', Michael Jackson's autopsy and make the audience feel special by constantly referring to aspects of Lincoln's history and what it is the capital city of. We ...
Oct 03, 2009
In a first for our podcast - if not a first for that one Robert Llewellyn does, but we're not in competition with him - we present our first ever on-the-road podcast, recorded in Richard's car on the M4, heading West to his parents' house in Cheddar. We've not established whether this is illegal or ever dangerous, but it does mean that we don't specifically refer to anything in the newspapers, as Richard is driving a car on a motorway, and Andrew can't read in a car without feeling travel sick. ...
Sep 22, 2009
Our 82nd podcast comes in the form of a Dan Brown-style mystery - we call it The Da Versity Code. What governmental/church conspiracy is afoot? At around 52 minutes into the podcast, a perfectly harmless section about Britain's Got Talent-winning dance troupe Diversity visiting Gordon Brown at number 10, Downing Street causes the laptop to stop recording - thus, all trace of this two or three-minute routine is lost forever. Still, the rest of it will compensate. This podcast is not sponsored the...
Sep 17, 2009
In this, our 81st podcast, we attempt the impossible: to make it even better than last week's. Along the way, we discuss popular boys' names, the etiquette of going along to see Calendar Girls onstage in the West End, the etiquette of half falling asleep during a massage, the dangers of being the Radio Times Film Editor, and the likelihood of Derren Brown Mind Control picking the winning Lottery numbers without first buying all the Lottery tickets. We also manfully resist the urge to pack the po...
Sep 09, 2009
After Saturday's 'dummy' podcast (and we must have been dummies to actually release it), today's can rejoin the numbering system and call itself Colling and Herrin Podcast 80. We haven't split up, Oasis style, and we're back in West London, under the Velux window in Richard's attic, firing on a number of cylinders. Actually, it's just alright, but you will get to hear Richard having a go at many comedians and writers more famous than himself - and at one stage wishing four of them dead, Stewart ...
Sep 03, 2009
WARNING: may cause drowsiness. In this special, uncalled-for, extra, bonus, rubbish stopgap podcast, recorded in Andrew's hotel room against our better judgement, we allow tiredness and Fringe-fatigue and sudden lack of audience energy to undermine our razor-sharp topical observations and Maurice Gran-standard one-liners. We just about manage to comment upon the bad man in California, Anne Robinson's new smile, Ronnie Biggs and the Monopoly connection, the end of the NHS "flasher" gown and Amand...
Aug 29, 2009
In the fifth and final of our live, daily podcasts from the Underbelly in Edinburgh, we had our first almost lethally hot one, with sweat dripping down the walls of the Belly Laugh almost as if solely to prove that some cliches are true. Although it is Sunday and thus there is no news in the newpapers, we managed to extract something out of [i]News Of The World[/i]'s Kerry Katona video, the travails of Danielle Lloyd and Michael Jackson's Frankenchildren, while - as has become tradition in Edinb...
Aug 23, 2009
In the fourth of our live, daily podcasts from the Underbelly in Edinburgh, we reach a new level of surreal whimsy and timewasting as the enormity of the task really starts to sink in. But what a tremendous audience, especially Colin from Arbroath with all his "highers", whatever they are. We discuss, among other issues, the lack of fanfare for the countdown to the apocalypse ie. when we all have to use energy-efficient lightbulbs to appease some killjoys in Brussels (as noticed only by the Dail...
Aug 22, 2009
In the third of our live, daily podcasts from the Underbelly in Edinburgh, we attempt to build bridges with our audience by testing their memory of key cultural signifiers (well, one bloke in the front row anyway, who had the memory of Mr Memory out of The 39 Steps); we also discuss the unfolding tragedy of Kerry Katona, the unfolding mystery of South African 'hermathlete' Caster Semenya, the incredible journeys of a goldfish called Pooh and a giant tortoise called Zeus, and the majesty of Peter...
Aug 21, 2009
In the second of our live, daily podcasts from the Underbelly in Edinburgh, we find out how many A-Levels our audience have got, discuss Scottish nationalism in relation to the Australian soap opera Neighbours, ponder the implications of the "hermathlete", wonder what's on this weekend in Stirlingshire, check out the Guardian's lastest wallchart, and wonder if the opera director Stewart Lee really will turn up as a special guest for Friday's podcast (clue: no he won't). We remain sponsored by Pr...
Aug 20, 2009
In the first of our five live daily podcasts from the Underbelly at the Edinburgh Fringe, we test the moistness of our audience and have them eating out of our hands, discussing the 'swoop' on Kerry Katona's mansion, the 1,400 pints left behind the bar of the Glasgow Airport Holiday Inn for John Smeaton, the ethics of homeless people going on camping holidays, the accidental racism of a 12-year-old fan of the TV miniseries Roots and the endless permutations of our sponsor, the makers of the Prof...
Aug 19, 2009
Our 74th podcast is dedicated to Tina Wiseman, who sadly died last week, and was a great supporter of our work and an example to all comedy fans. We have been assured by her family and friends that she would have wanted us to stick to the usual podcast style - rude, puerile, pathetic - which we have, in her honour. It's been a big week, with lots of misinformation and hate flying around, but also lots of love and support. But we manage to talk about the weather, organic food and the human chain ...
Jul 30, 2009
In Podcast Number 73, we pay tribute to Sandi Toksvig, Neil Buchanan and Andrea Arnold as our weekly bulletin from the frontline of current affairs and cysts reaches the same number as their fictional early-to-mid-80s house. In it, we fail to discuss Michael Jackson's fourth child or swine flu, preferring instead to talk about Mr and Mrs Herring's Golden Wedding, the Aquavision advert, the Bran Flakes advert on the inside of Andrew's gym locker door, the shadowy figure of Orange Mark, giraffes l...
Jul 22, 2009
This extra, bonus, doesn't-really-count Collings and Herrin Podcast 72a is actually an exclusive, free chapter from Andrew's new audiobook 'Where Did It All Go Right?', exclusively and supportively introduced by Richard Herring. If you like the extract, the audiobook is available to buy from Go Faster Stripe - http://www.gofasterstripe.com
Jul 20, 2009
In our 72nd podcast, there is tension in the air, as Richard's cyst continues to grow like a David Cronenberg-style alien on his Bob Hoskins-style back, threatening at any moment to explode and fill the attic with foul effluent and bottled-up anger at Virgilio Anderson. Honestly, it's like an episode of Channel 4's Embarrassing Bodies, except with current affairs: this week, ageism at Radio 1, David Shayler's new life as Christ and Shane Ritchie's unlikely tale of locking his swine flu-victim so...
Jul 17, 2009
We devote most of our 71st podcast to the story of Richard's iPhone being snatched in West London by an opportunistic tearaway and smooth criminal with brilliant cycling skills and the desire to make us ask the question: who is the real thief? (It's him.) This is clearly more important than Michael Jackson's 'macabre circus' of a funeral, the mystery of the Human Shrub and anything Andrew has done. Anyway, back to Richard's iPhone ... which came in this now-empty box, and went in a blur of colou...
Jul 08, 2009
In this special Michael Jackson memorial podcast, we talk about the life of Michael Jackson, the death of Michael Jackson, the voice of Michael Jackson, the legend of Michael Jackson, the response to Michael Jackson's death, the response of Uri Geller, the response of Debbie Rowe, the response from Glastonbury, the remodelling of Andy Murray, the allure of Flamingo Land, how to keep a baby tapir cool, and why girls kissing girls will disturb EVERY parent.
Jul 01, 2009
In our 69th!!!LOL podcast, we lament the locking down of not just our own Wikipedia entries, but also Duncan Norvelle's, while discussing in great detail the political leanings of new Speaker, John Bercow, assessing the form of all eleven Doctors Whos, pondering Jordan's crude tattoo removal, looking at Andrew's Glastonbury hat, recalling with great fondness and inaccuracy the 1980s public share issue campaign, and asking, yet again, WHO IS VIRGILIO ANDERSON??? And all sponsored, once again, by ...
Jun 23, 2009
In our 68th podcast, Andrew has come hotfoot from reviewing the newspapers on Nick Ferrari's breakfast show on London's LBC, a non-stop commercial talk station ('London's Big Conversation'), and thus has read all of the newspapers, cover to cover, that's all of them, including the 'X-rated' Daily Star. For once, it's all news, and no nonsense or housekeeping or catchphrases or plugs for things we are doing or Richard complaining about being tired: the redacted MPs' expenses, the Wheelie Bin Revo...
Jun 19, 2009
In our 67th podcast, sponsored by the Rhythm Festival (Aug 21-23) - for every weekend ticket they sell, our chosen charities Scope and Thomas's Fund get a donation each - which we discuss the electoral victory of the BNP and whether it's OK to have a go at Nick Griffin because of his face, celebrate the showbiz camp of Colonel Gaddafi, ponder the advantages and disadvantages of the head massage, admire Caroline Flint's shoes, assert Duncan Norvelle's heterosexuality, debate the spyhole, and, in ...
Jun 12, 2009
In our 666th podcast, a 'small gift from London', we bring you breaking news of the latest Cabinet resignations which will inevitably be out of date by the time you hear them, but then again, it's not a news programme. We admire the leopard in Hertfordshire who licked the rat, indulge in pointless speculation about the sad demise of Kung Fu star David Carradine, reveal how we voted in the Euro elections in order to influence indecisive people, fail to stop swearing in order to get back on the ra...
Jun 05, 2009
This extra, 10-minute podcast is Andrew's fabled Mitford Sisters routine, recorded at the Duke Of York's Picturehouse on Thursday while Richard was safely backstage. In it, Andrew discusses all six of the Mitfords - Nancy, Pamela, Diana, Unity, Jessica and Debo - and not until the end of the set does anyone actually walk out. Warning: this podcast does not really include any Richard Herring. It is a bonus. It does not replace the regular podcast. Podcast 66 will follow shortly. Do admit.
Jun 01, 2009
In this special live podcast from the Duke Of York's Picturehouse in sunny, bohemian Brighton, we play up to the paying audience of 250 people a bit, admittedly, but still manage to cover Susan Boyle the 'Hairy Angel', the resemblance of Kim Jong Il to BBC2's Stewart Lee, the allure of cottaging, the self-defeating genius of glow-in-the-dark monkeys, the perplexing but inspirational lyrics to Take That's Back For Good, the sex lives of Clare Rayner and Edwina Currie, and the return of Dane Bower...
May 29, 2009
In our 64th podcast, sponsored by the Absolut Dublin Gay Theatre Festival, even though it's finished, we discuss the miracle, or not, of human evolution, and the fact that we are all descended from 100 people who walked off Africa 70,000 years ago, including Adam and Eve, and Noah and his wife Nelly, who themselves were descendants of a monkey/lemur called Ida, recently dug up in 1983 and now featured in a Guardian poster. We also analyse the ex-Speaker's nickname, the morality of selling your v...
May 20, 2009
