Yes, in a partial tribute to those idiots in moustaches, we present Podcast 118, which will not help you find a phone number, but will tread a fine line between sincerity and insincerity, artifice and reality, current affairs and endless emails from needy fans, hard news and insubstantial fluff, bromance and bickering, commerce and charity ... this just in: 'Manhunt' man still at large: was once a cute baby, Ashley Cole still by the pool with two ex-public schoolgirls, parents banned from own ch...
Jul 08, 2010
In Collings and Herrin Podcast 117, recorded in the heat of the middle of the day with salty tidemarks forming everywhere - fortunately not pictured, as BT have decided to turn back time in Richard's house to the late 90s when the internet took ages for pictures to scroll into view - we dissect the comedy ambitions of Lembit Opik, the new benchmark by which all latecoming stand-up comedians with confidence but no jokes must now be judged; the motives of the Sun's front page image of a soldier wh...
Jul 02, 2010
In Collings and Herrin Podcast 116, we intended to kick it old skool and talk about what was in the newspapers, but got somewhat sidetracked by some old Edinburgh Fringe brochures from 1989, 1993, 1998 and 2001, which unfortunately turned into an indulgent smoking-jacketed remembrance of comedians and Fringes past. However, there was time to go over the 11 hour and 5 minute long Most Boring Tennis Match In History, praise the bionic cat and reclaim both a line from Russell Brand's new Hollywood ...
Jun 25, 2010
In Collings and Herrin Podcast 115, we cast aside the news - mainly because we only have the literally worthless newspaper the London Evening Standard at our disposal - and instead discuss England's chances in the World Cup of Football, the vuvuzela backlash, the loveliness of Steve Brown Photo's cats (which we met on his boat at a three-way photo session for our upcoming Edinburgh Fringe shows, many of which you can buy tickets for in advance), the loveliness or not of SummerJunk's t-shirts [ne...
Jun 16, 2010
Psssst! Want some non-brand-name print cartridges? On Collings and Herrin Podcast 114, as well as discuss gun control, fox control, Angelina Jolie's needy emails, the new, more literal Friday The 13th franchise, Stewart Lee's bad dream, Andrew's bad dream, the eternal Pret A Manger card, sibling rivalry and Vic Reeves' iPad, we offer a whole stack of useless print cartridges in unnecessarily subtle shades of magenta and cyan for free to the first person who needs ones that are compatible with pr...
Jun 08, 2010
In what could be the last ever Collings and Herrin podcast, unlucky number 113, Andrew and Richard try to process certain 'issues' that threaten to bring their relationship to an untimely and fictional end. They also try some displacement activity and, avoiding the tiny elephant in the room, discuss the comedic skills of England No. 2 Franco Baldini, the evil aid workers and peace campaigners on the boat to Gaza, the cheering men of Goodge Street and the floppy nature of some of Richard's archiv...
Jun 02, 2010
In our 112th podcast overall, and the fifth podcast an almost-spent Richard has recorded in six days, we almost exhaustively ignore the newspapers and instead discuss the historical accuracy of Roman epics, including the new Australian Bravo miniseries Blood and Spunk, the ethical and linguistic accuracy of The Time Machine and Avatar, and the disappearance of Samantha Mumba, the main differences between having the saddle stolen off your bike and being raped; we also come up with a brilliant the...
May 26, 2010
In the post-Sonys podcast, which is number 111, we try to squeeze one last extra drop of observational humour from a man who is currently doing three podcasts a week - and, after he's appeared on Five Live's 7 Day Sunday, four podcasts a week - and clearly showing the strain. Luckily, a whole assortment of people have sought Richard out to secure sponsorship, so most of the podcast is taken up with namechecking them, then some adverts, then a bit of a spat on Twitter with a man who provocatively...
May 21, 2010
In this special pre-Sony Awards podcast, number 110, we actually get dressed into our monkey suits as we prepare to attend the 'radio Oscars' in London's actually-real Mayfair. Uniquely, the podcast is recorded on Andrew's laptop, without the new mic, but we're sitting in an actual BBC studio at 6 Music, which is all soundproofed and everything. Talk is mainly of Britt Ekland, sex with Neanderthals, Jeremy Paxman, Nigel Farage's trouser leg, Rome, Hitler and the Great Fire at the British Library...
May 11, 2010
You decide! In what is the Collings and Herrin Election Week Podcast Debate Special, we provide balanced, fair and impartial coverage of the Gillian Duffy affair (which one of us missed because he was up the Spanish Steps in Rome), the potential outcome of a Labour or Lib Dem victory on the future of Page 3 and/or Gary Glitter, the ins and outs of Deep Throat (was it in black and white, or were we?), the Amazon Hunting and Fishing Humour chart, and the proximity of the failed car bomb in Times S...
May 03, 2010
Surprise! Here is Collings and Herrin Podcast 108, without warning. We apologise, because it is one hour, 13 minutes and 50 seconds long, because we recorded it on Richard's new laptop and for some reason it didn't cut us off at the usual one hour, six minutes and 35 seconds. Like a cloud of volcano dust, we cover everything - ha ha - from the new Dunkirk and John Wayne Gacy to the Leaders' Debate and Kiefer Sutherland's big night out. As ever, Richard, while auto-asphyxiating with a spare lead,...
Apr 19, 2010
In our 107th podcast, we weigh up the advantages and disadvantages of NHS versus private healthcare in terms of service, waiting time, cost at point of delivery, bedside manner, general machinery you can be hooked up to and the likelihood or not of a happy finish and the application of unguent. In other words, Richard has had a life-changing brush with mortality, and Andrew hasn't. There's a bit of the election, the paedo bikini, York City's youths, and the rabbit whisperer, and a joke about Pat...
Apr 15, 2010
Armed with a brand new, Marvin's-head-style external microphone that actually seems to work and a pot of actually quite disgusting Jelly Beans, we selflessly produce an audiophile-friendly Collings and Herrin Podcast despite having to hit the ground running and record in the brief hour-long window between Andrew coming off air at 6 Music and Richard gallivanting to the Infidel premiere. In it, we mainly discuss the fact that Andrew is better than Richard because he has been in the studio audienc...
Apr 08, 2010
Yes, we recorded an extra Collings and Herrin Podcast last Tuesday, because we love you. And we can't remember what we talked about on it. So it will be very exciting, for both you and us. Just listen to it. It's designed to tide the nerd army over while Richard is selfishly on tour. It's non-topical, it's based upon subject ideas suggested via the magic medium of Twitter, one of which was definitely about how we'd cope in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, and it's sponsored by The Smoking Rolo Side...
Mar 30, 2010
We're back, after seven weeks of neglect, in the attic, for an old-school, EXPLICIT, rambling, music-free, plug-packed, topical Collings and Herrin podcast, in which we catch up with all those who have given us coffee-and-cake money, congratulate David and Samantha Cameron on the news of their forthcoming election victory, check out the filthy fingernails of the Antigues Roadshow expert Ben Wright (while showing off our own manicured digits) and ask the two burning questions: is it more humane t...
Mar 23, 2010
Yes. Even though Richard is away on tour, we have recorded a special, non-topical, Twitter-request podcast to tide you over, with subject matter chosen by you. It is Collings and Herrin Podcast 103, which is even more difficult than 102 - actually, very difficult, since we have no news to discuss, and are too superstitious to mention anyone living, in case they have died since we recorded it last Tuesday. It seemed safe to discuss the proposed hourly bus service from Newport to Monmouth, the fam...
Feb 23, 2010
Apologies for the picture, which is actually a very funny satire on the fact that Ashley Cole seems to have no pubic hair in the picture he texted to a lady. In Collings and Herrin Podcast 102, which is more difficult than Podcast 101, we ponder what to do with the 56 million Lottery jackpot neither of us has won, wonder why a Sikh would want to be in the BNP, pitch some ideas for films based on human gas including 'The Fart Whisperer' and say all the words we are not allowed to say on the BBC p...
Feb 16, 2010
Ha! Fooled you! Even though we hinted that there would be no more Collings and Herrin Podcasts because we are now too famous and successful and rich and on the BBC and everything, we were lying. Here is Number 101, which is full of the usual stuff: shameless plugging (not least for the just-out Headmaster's Son double DVD from Go Faster Stripe), whimsical filth, a passing smudge of topical news-based humour and a rambling anecdote from Richard which begins, innocently enough, with some baked leg...
Feb 11, 2010
Join the fun for our 100th (no, really) podcast, live at the Leicester Square Theatre in London's glittering West End, recorded two years to the day after the very first one in Richard's living room. For the first time we present a podcast that's professionally recorded, by producer Ben of AIOTM fame. The content is traditional: a sideways look at John Terry, Pete Doherty and croissant terrorism, except with the sound of merry laughter and the sound of one vicar squirming, but ultimately forgivi...
Feb 02, 2010
In our 99th podcast - no, really, it is - we try an experiment: the first ever serious Collings and Herrin Podcast. Well, not completely, but we did feel it was time to debate the big issues that divide us - mainly, butter, vaccinations and whether the Masai would enjoy life more with an iPad. We promise that next week's, Podcast 100, live from London's Leicester Square Theatre and recorded professionally, through the desk, will be all fun and laughter. Bear with us. There's some stuff about the...
Jan 29, 2010
Our first ever live podcast in Wales gets the special number of Wales 1, so that, in two weeks' time, the live podcast in London can be honestly numbered Podcast 100, but also because Wales is officially our favourite non-English country to do live podcasts in now, due to excellent, warm and patient reaction from Welsh folk at St David's Hall in Cardiff to our tired, rambling, but 100% sober news-based thoughts on Amy Winehouse, fast food Britain, the Kraft/Cadbury's takeover, Senator Beefcake, ...
Jan 22, 2010
So, Richard is back from Mauritius, jet-lagged, with a small put poignant avian gift for Andrew and the rich tan of a vain Giorgio Armani footballer. Having been apart for two weeks, during which Richard developed an unhealthy hatred for a nine-year-old girl in his hotel and saw four films on a plane, and Andrew worked really hard, in our 98th podcast we have plenty to catch up on, including: the snow, Peter Kay's autobiography and the Ronnie Corbett Scandal. We also find time to discuss what Be...
Jan 16, 2010
Even though Rich is on holiday and Andrew is at work on the radio, we present a special 97th Podcast Review Of The Decade. Using only the Guardian's Icons Of The Decade supplement as a guide, we look back over the last ten years and try to make sense of it all, by not making sense at all, which seems appropriate. There's talk of 9/11 conspiracy theories, David Beckham's vanity or lack thereof, and a bit about Tony Blairs. It's a bit like Newsnight, really. We hope to be back, in person, before t...
Jan 06, 2010
In our 96th podcast, one of us has lost his voice over Christmas and is mainlining throat sweets, while the other seemingly hasn't and isn't. There is an air of post-festive indulgence about this week's look at the news, which includes the Nigerian Pants Bomber, as the papers have yet to christen him, the incredible weight loss of Hannah Waterman, the incredible age gain of Crocodile Dundee and his wife (or 'Croc-OLD-ile Dundee' as the tabloids have christened him) and the latest news from the H...
Dec 29, 2009
In a craven attempt to recapture the ghost of Christmas past, we reunite with the mighty Phill and Phil (Messrs Jupitus and Wilding) in their fancy studio to record another festive pod-off, entitled The Perfect Twelve, in which we ponder a dozen listener-supplied Christmas Questions. The professional, mixed, balanced, equalised, topped, tailed and jingle-festooned version is available from The Perfect Ten on iTunes - but if you prefer to longer, lo-fi, jingle-free, Collings and Herrin version, t...
Dec 21, 2009
Back to the attic - in a brief but festive West London snowstorm! - for our 95th podcast, with a 25-minute section on bad breath, and most of the rest taken up with dissection of what Peter Kay's acceptance speech meant at the Comedy Awards and who is the most against sweatshops and torture out of Rage Against The Machine and X Factor's Joe McElderberry. There's a bit on Twiggy's eye bags and Tiger Woods' inappropriate violence against a man who hasn't got enough blades in his razor. Unfortunate...
Dec 16, 2009
Podcast 94 was recorded in front of a near-sellout crowd amid tinsel, prizes and Up-style balloons at the tremendous Duke Of York's Picturehouse, scene of our triumphant first full show in May, a triumph we foolishly hoped to replicate tonight. It was an odd crowd. Many seemed on the verge of hysteria. There was, shall we say, an interactive vibe in the air. Highlights include a rendition of Richard's 'racist song', composed at the age of 10 and further juvenilia, including Andrew's own primitiv...
Dec 09, 2009
WARNING! NOT AS GOOD AS LAST WEEK'S! In our 93rd podcast, we drift back into mediocrity after last week's unexpected peak of hilarity based upon the writings of a nine-year-old boy. This week, dozy on pear cider - and in Richard's case, 'a couple' beforehand, like Christmas has come early or something - we go old school and sift through pages and pages of news, important and unimportant, like the sailors who accidentally sailed into Iran, the golfer who accidentally sailed into a cocktail waiter...
Dec 02, 2009
In a special Antiques Roadshow edition of the Collings and Herrin podcast, Richard sorts through a load of his old shit from the past, including coins, posters, Youth Hosteling badges, railcards, Post Office Savings books and - at last! something interesting! - an early book of stories, mostly about Tarzan, ghosts and specific numbers of policemen and other men being killed. There is barely time to consider the papers, but we do offer a cursory glance at the world of Jordan, the fruity Australia...
Nov 26, 2009
In what could be our last podcast, depending on whether Richard's ravaged, overworked, overfed, overwhelmed body holds out for another week or not after what transpires to be a cumulative four solid days of podcasting (or 5,881 minutes) since February 2008, we consider the impact of Calvin Harris's 'protest' against Jed and Ward on The X Factor, discuss whether Bill Clinton or David Milliband would make a better lover, give Ben Elton the benefit of the doubt over his outrageous remarks about the...
Nov 18, 2009
