I just hope Richard realises the importance of these interviews in the history of stand up as an art form. So many stories you would have never heard anywhere else. No one can predict where a career path will take you and sure we'ed all like to be more acknowledged for what we do, so "Richard , thank you for what you are accomplishing here"
I like how you used their first names in the first half of that sentence and their last names in last part of the a fore mentioned ahh...Sentence. Noice.
I have just bought a pound a month badge in sheer defiance of a comment posted below. I have never bought a badge in defiance before. I can now add this to my list of things I have done. I'd like to thank everyone involved for making this possible.
They both need to review their lifestyles, Ratko Mladic(sic) in particular looks like he's got two weeks to live. Which no doubt would please the Hague, but followers of contemporary stand up would be disappointed.
I kind of wish that Stewart hadn't done this in semi-character, as funny as it was. It'd be nice to see the two of them just interacting. He's so quick to laugh and self-effacing in normal interviews.
Good morning with Richard not Judy was one of the most important comedy programs of the 90s. I took it for granted but now, in this world of puritanical censorship, I realise it was so important and hope you and Stewart keep bringing the rain as the Americans say.
it was an amazing show and it only existed as Richard would say, because no one at the BBC bothered to watch it. The actor Kevin Eldon as the vicar was hilarious
The stuff Stewart Lee says at 54.00 rings so true, I used to see my Dad during the late 70's and early 80's every other weekend, and we never did anything at all.
I had tickets to see Ricky Gervais but I couldn't be bothered to go so I sold them. (It took ages to sell them and had to reduce them from face value.) I watched the show on Netflix and I was so glad I didn't go. Half of it was just lifted from things people said to him on twitter! Barrel well scraped there. Such a shame when they turn to drink.
Back on Fist Of Fun, I think in the spinoff book, Stew mentioned a fight every week between him and the director or floor manager or whoever, who was constantly trying to make Stew's hair look tidy. Stew wanted it "to look like a spider on my head". You can see each week who won.
5 років тому+2
That's actually a badly maintained toupee. Stewart's really vain, although he tries hard not to show it.
CLEARLY the unmentionable 'reasons' for the lack of DVD release and Stew's repeated statements that 'I'd not be able to do anything like that ever again', combined with Stew's current favour and popularity resurgence is all the evidence we need to surmise that someone at the BBC has finally gotten around to watching TMWRNJ, realised its genius and commissioned a third series for the 2017 season. And if I die before then, I'll go to my grave happy in the knowledge that this is going to happen. So shh.
Pretty sure I've been unwell in the year and two months since that was posted. Are you incredulous at the statement, or trying to sell me pharmaceuticals?
Thanks for this look back at TMWRNJ! Lots of interesting stuff in there. I too am disappointed to hear the DVDs won't be released, since I've only been able to see lo-fi videos on UA-cam. Oh well, off to buy FoF DVDs instead. I hope Stew wasn't as depressed in the interview as he appeared, and was rather playing his misanthrope character. But if he was depressed, I hope he feels better.
I remember getting left with my brother with a bottle of coke and packet of crisps while my parents were in the pub all afternoon. They would come out every so often with replacements. This was in the 70's in Willenhall.
Comedians are the philosophers of our times. It's good when some accept that role and make thoughtful, provocative and challenging content. Much respect to both these gentlemen
I agree. Philosophy often stems from political & existential satire, and I’m grateful for Lee, Iannucci and, to a degree, Coogan, keeping the trend alive!
I went to several Glastonbury festivals in the 90's, and spent most of my time in the cabaret tent, which was one of the few places you could still see the kind of wonderfully bizzare acts they mention. Saw Mr Methane a few times, and there were many acts which came on stage, performed and left to bemused silence, but had a spark of insane genius. Woody 'Bop' Muddy became a headline act and drew huge ecstatic crowds, mainly for his 'record graveyard' show, something which could only possibly work in a live context, and even with a fairly simple premise was bewilderingly strange.
@@B.A.Pilgrim What's bullshit about that? I went to a few Glastonbury festivals in the late 90s and also saw Mr Methane and Woody Bop Muddy in the cabaret tent. As well as Charlie Chuck's legendary final slot on the Sunday which always drew massive crowds. Things like Glastonbury may seem exclusive nowadays but it really wasn't that hard to get a ticket in the 90s. It didn't always have the same reputation it does today, until about 1995 the only time you'd hear anyone on TV mention the festival would be a 20 second bit on the news informing people of the number of arrests.
Well well well, look at that Richard Herring, with his suit and tie... As Stewart Lee puts it, "We all grow up to become what we despised as teenagers..."
Stew makes a really important point--subtly, but firmly--about the relative value of comedy when weighed against the real lives of other human beings. He's essentially saying "I'd rather be a little less funny if it means I'm not inflicting undeserved pain." A lot of comedians could stand to ponder that.
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i’d love to see him as long as he doesn’t do his whole awkward persona the whole time and lets himself go a little bit. might be better in 2021 without having to be in front of an audience
A friend of my mine was in the audience - apparently Stew went on at length about the quality of Rich's management and it became genuinely uncomfortable.
The TMWRNJ intro where they're dressed as Savile has been dropped into numerous compilations on UA-cam by people who think that such renderings or glancing references to Savile's perversions are proof that "they all knew".
PLEASEEEEE release Richard Not Judy. I don't know why it was shelved but it will complete my DVD wall of all your stuff. I don't want to live in a world where Histor & Pliny can't be watched on a compact disc form, even if it's on compact discs older sibling LaserDisc, I'd be happy. Basically I want it on some sort of disc.
I thoroughly enjoyed this! I have to admit I am an 80s child and although I was familiar with the names Lee and Herring growing up, I don't ever recall watching any of your t.v. series! However! I can say I am an avid fan of RHLSTP. Long may it continue. Thanks ✌
That'd be OK for 5 minutes. I think Kevin Eldon does Simon Quinlank on one of the Fist of Fun commentaries for a whole episode, and it isn't really that funny.
Thanks for all these Richard, always good (and easily worth the pound(s)). Congratulations on the new arrival. Hoping to get to a show when I pop back to the UK in May.
There's no mention of the TMWRNJ sketch with the 80s alternative comedy nostalgia and self-agrandisement, but I notice the SDP mugs from that are on show here, presumably as a sort of self-aware gesture.
I have watched this several times and the nature of Rich and Stew's relationship remains a question to me. Presumably Stew wouldn't have come on RHLSTP twice if he hated Rich, but there's an element of cruelty in some of Stew's remarks that seems genuine (and that I haven't seen in other interviews that he's done). Hopefully I'm wrong.
Funny you'd find a weird book at a junk shop. My second copy of the Fist of Fun annual came from a charity shop in a tub called "All things free". They couldn't even sell it for 25p! lol
When they're talking about TMWRJ, I think R is implying the Ironic Review idea was stolen by Chris Morris for Nathan Barley. The actress he mentions from Ironic Review is Chris Morris' wife.
I just hope Richard realises the importance of these interviews in the history of stand up as an art form. So many stories you would have never heard anywhere else. No one can predict where a career path will take you and sure we'ed all like to be more acknowledged for what we do, so "Richard , thank you for what you are accomplishing here"
Do you just hope that? See I think you hope that AND you hope that we realise that you hope that Richard realises that.
@@Uygkuyfkutfkytfkutfv 😶
I found Richard's alternate account
So why hasn’t he interviewed Jake Paul? The most culturally relevant figure in comedy.
Yeah man, just dig it out. Stu owes everything to Rich really.
The concept of grief has let himself go.
Stewart Lee has maintained his appearance admirably.
Seems quite refreshing seeing Stewart laugh at Richard's jokes
he was 28
In summary:
"Stew, Stew, remember the 90s?"
"No."
stewart is fatter than richard, so herring should be happy that he beat lee on that
I like how you used their first names in the first half of that sentence and their last names in last part of the a fore mentioned ahh...Sentence. Noice.
thank you jesus, i like to mix it up a bit
keeps you on your toes
oliver hardy and charlie borman have let themselves go
I love how Stewart Lee is so deadpan on stage yet his real-life laugh is a mad cackle!
Maniacal, indeed. He'd probably make a good murderer.
Yeh watching him tell a joke and then SUDDENLY laugh at it is almost funnier than the joke itself
@@herbert9241 He was adopted.
@@dbag3345 - Flimsy mitigation for his murdering compulsion.
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I love the fact Rich and Stew fall right back into it
I have just bought a pound a month badge in sheer defiance of a comment posted below. I have never bought a badge in defiance before. I can now add this to my list of things I have done. I'd like to thank everyone involved for making this possible.
The phrase "Robin Reliant decorated in quasi-fascist regalia" is just wonderful
If not a little over used.
It’s Reliant Robin. Not sure why people say Robin Reliant. We don’t say Escort Ford, Astra Vauxhall or Beetle Volkswagen.
@THEMvsTHEMvsUS, I wouldn’t worry about it mate
@@themvsthemvsus I do because I don't know a lot about motorbikes.
I love these 2. changed my whole outlook on comedy in the 90's
Why is general Ratko Mladic being interviewed by Charlie Brooker?
I think you mean Charley Boorman
Terry Christian has let himself go
They both need to review their lifestyles, Ratko Mladic(sic) in particular looks like he's got two weeks to live. Which no doubt would please the Hague, but followers of contemporary stand up would be disappointed.
I miss mladic
"some of them were even better than me"
still makes me laugh
I kind of wish that Stewart hadn't done this in semi-character, as funny as it was. It'd be nice to see the two of them just interacting. He's so quick to laugh and self-effacing in normal interviews.
Good morning with Richard not Judy was one of the most important comedy programs of the 90s. I took it for granted but now, in this world of puritanical censorship, I realise it was so important and hope you and Stewart keep bringing the rain as the Americans say.
it was an amazing show and it only existed as Richard would say, because no one at the BBC bothered to watch it. The actor Kevin Eldon as the vicar was hilarious
stew was definitely in character in this one lol
Handy that.
The lines between the character and the man have definitely become blurred as the years have gone on...
Rich has said in other RHLSTPs etc that Stew had had quite a lot to drink 😂
you can tell he wrote Alun Partridge he is just like him srsly
The stuff Stewart Lee says at 54.00 rings so true, I used to see my Dad during the late 70's and early 80's every other weekend, and we never did anything at all.
RighteousBrother I think this continues to this day, the late 90’s and early 2000’s were the same for me
Saw my dad weekends in the 80’s.
He liked fishing... so we went fishing.
I still hate fishing!
We did nothing... outside!
You went fishing indoors?
I had tickets to see Ricky Gervais but I couldn't be bothered to go so I sold them. (It took ages to sell them and had to reduce them from face value.) I watched the show on Netflix and I was so glad I didn't go. Half of it was just lifted from things people said to him on twitter! Barrel well scraped there. Such a shame when they turn to drink.
he promised that he'd be "back on form" with his next project.
That project became AfterLife...
Did Stewart Lee's haircut simply emerge from another dimension?
Back on Fist Of Fun, I think in the spinoff book, Stew mentioned a fight every week between him and the director or floor manager or whoever, who was constantly trying to make Stew's hair look tidy. Stew wanted it "to look like a spider on my head". You can see each week who won.
That's actually a badly maintained toupee. Stewart's really vain, although he tries hard not to show it.
CLEARLY the unmentionable 'reasons' for the lack of DVD release and Stew's repeated statements that 'I'd not be able to do anything like that ever again', combined with Stew's current favour and popularity resurgence is all the evidence we need to surmise that someone at the BBC has finally gotten around to watching TMWRNJ, realised its genius and commissioned a third series for the 2017 season.
And if I die before then, I'll go to my grave happy in the knowledge that this is going to happen. So shh.
+Geoff Greenwood are you unwell?
Pretty sure I've been unwell in the year and two months since that was posted. Are you incredulous at the statement, or trying to sell me pharmaceuticals?
@@GeoffGreenwood I'll sell you some drugs if not.
@@thatguyfromthatthing8573 Honestly I've forgotten who Stewart Lee even was by this point.
@@GeoffGreenwood Kudos for keeping up with the replies though. 👏👏
Still going?
Stew has such an infectious laugh. Bless him.
"He's very good at realising the vision of the artist." Oh Ricky, "'e's done ya!" 😁
Thanks for this look back at TMWRNJ! Lots of interesting stuff in there. I too am disappointed to hear the DVDs won't be released, since I've only been able to see lo-fi videos on UA-cam. Oh well, off to buy FoF DVDs instead.
I hope Stew wasn't as depressed in the interview as he appeared, and was rather playing his misanthrope character. But if he was depressed, I hope he feels better.
Stewart Lee is so good ! 😍
Who would've thought Paul Putner would be the best preserved and best looking one 20 years later?
He hasn’t changed.
Great to see the band back together...
The Copenhagen Interpretation of quantum mechanics has let itself go
congratulations Mr Herring. Bless you and your whole familodo! x
I remember getting left with my brother with a bottle of coke and packet of crisps while my parents were in the pub all afternoon. They would come out every so often with replacements. This was in the 70's in Willenhall.
there is so much good stuff like this on youtube I don't watch normal TV anymore
You're really blazing a trail.
@@MartinHiggins1972 Sarcastic git.
@@fredflintstone8569 Yep. That about sums me up.
Comedians are the philosophers of our times.
It's good when some accept that role and make thoughtful, provocative and challenging content.
Much respect to both these gentlemen
I agree. Philosophy often stems from political & existential satire, and I’m grateful for Lee, Iannucci and, to a degree, Coogan, keeping the trend alive!
a lesbian car park attendant has let herself go
Bodgers Badger has let himself go!
best one I've seen
wow, Jedward have really let themselves go!
My favourite Lee and Herring sketch was the Shrewsbury Pie sketch from fist of fun. Utterly genius.
I haven't been sick in here.... no.
*Stewart Lee* = *Comedian par excellence!*👍👍👍
I went to several Glastonbury festivals in the 90's, and spent most of my time in the cabaret tent, which was one of the few places you could still see the kind of wonderfully bizzare acts they mention. Saw Mr Methane a few times, and there were many acts which came on stage, performed and left to bemused silence, but had a spark of insane genius. Woody 'Bop' Muddy became a headline act and drew huge ecstatic crowds, mainly for his 'record graveyard' show, something which could only possibly work in a live context, and even with a fairly simple premise was bewilderingly strange.
bullshit...
@@B.A.Pilgrim
What's bullshit about that?
I went to a few Glastonbury festivals in the late 90s and also saw Mr Methane and Woody Bop Muddy in the cabaret tent. As well as Charlie Chuck's legendary final slot on the Sunday which always drew massive crowds.
Things like Glastonbury may seem exclusive nowadays but it really wasn't that hard to get a ticket in the 90s. It didn't always have the same reputation it does today, until about 1995 the only time you'd hear anyone on TV mention the festival would be a 20 second bit on the news informing people of the number of arrests.
"The occasional non-comedian like Ben Goldacre or Stewart Lee"
Beautifully done, sir, I doff my cap to you.
Well well well, look at that Richard Herring, with his suit and tie...
As Stewart Lee puts it, "We all grow up to become what we despised as teenagers..."
Lucky for me I'm still mentally 15 at 26 then
@@nifralo2752 there’s still many years to betray oneself luckily
The Sunday Hero’s Ahhhhh sketches are timeless genius.
No, not Ahhhh
My favorite bit of tmwrnj has to be men of achievement 1974. That segment had it all
When Stewart was talking about the couple trying to reconcile in the pub it reminded of the series with Chris O'Dowd, State of the Union.
YES!! It would be amazing if they did that
Richard, you have that typical British humour, I love how Mr Lee retorts being really funny.
Stew makes a really important point--subtly, but firmly--about the relative value of comedy when weighed against the real lives of other human beings. He's essentially saying "I'd rather be a little less funny if it means I'm not inflicting undeserved pain." A lot of comedians could stand to ponder that.
"Obviously we came up with Histor's Eye because we thought... Histor's Eye" haha
Thanx a lot! Thiis made my day. Cheers from Denmark.
Brilliant. Was watching Lee & Herring's When Things for the first time, that sketch series was great.
I agree that Pliny is the best thing Stewart Lee has ever done
Next year is the TMWRNJ 25th anniversary, I wish they'd do a reunion special.
Richard's excitement and love for TMWRNJ is heartwarming. That show was fantastic and there was nothing else like it in the 90s.
Mr Herring, one word; Thanks!
That's 5 words
Mr. Herring, thanks for not putting an ad on this video. I truly detest ads.
We're doing our best to fund things via fan donation and will have as few ads as possible (the youtube ad system would not bring in enough revenue to be worth the inconvenince anyway), but we do have to have the occasioanl sponsorship to keep us going. But becoming a montly badger at rhlstp.co.uk helps us to pay for the costs of filming with a minimum level of this kind of stuff (and you can get ad free versions of the audio in return). Thanks for the support.
@@Herring1967 Thanks for the reply!
Crikey, Terry Christian got up on the wrong side of the bed didn't he?
Twenty years later and it's still burnt into my memory when the Small Faced Boy suddenly became the Small Faced Man. The guilt of Stewart Lee, there.
Its hard to comprehend how Stuart’s hair actually ended up like that
I love this so hard, thanks Rich!
I am delighted the TMWRNJ DVD is dead.
***** I get it.
***** Listen to the other Stewart Lee RHLSTP.
***** You don't know what I mean.
Plain Glazed Smais you're like a mystery wizard.
There's something unexpectedly hilarious about middle-aged men looking for chairs.
This still makes me laugh to this day
Pliny went all crusty and Histor fell apart, very much like their respective owners. Spooky.
Can we have Richard Ayoade on the show please =)
Can we not? That's one vote each way, so he doesn't get to be on it.
Why not, he's on everything else.
i’d love to see him as long as he doesn’t do his whole awkward persona the whole time and lets himself go a little bit. might be better in 2021 without having to be in front of an audience
A friend of my mine was in the audience - apparently Stew went on at length about the quality of Rich's management and it became genuinely uncomfortable.
bassben04 what do you mean by 'Rich's management'?
+Luke Jeffrey Wilkinson
euphemism for his penis
+Lint fantastic answer!
+Luke Jeffrey Wilkinson Avalon, I assume
+bassben04 please explain???
Morrissey and General Radko Mladic have let themselves go.
New Order haven't let themselves go that much.
My favourite part was the curious orange, I used to watch it every week but cant remember anything else due to being hungover when watching it.
The TMWRNJ intro where they're dressed as Savile has been dropped into numerous compilations on UA-cam by people who think that such renderings or glancing references to Savile's perversions are proof that "they all knew".
I think there was a similar claim made about Baddiel and Skinner making a Saville joke on Fantasy Football.
I named my cat "smelly mel not kim and the ever so furious five" in homage to these 2 geezers
Stewart Lee is definitely an ironic genius of observational humour.
PLEASEEEEE release Richard Not Judy. I don't know why it was shelved but it will complete my DVD wall of all your stuff. I don't want to live in a world where Histor & Pliny can't be watched on a compact disc form, even if it's on compact discs older sibling LaserDisc, I'd be happy. Basically I want it on some sort of disc.
You know what you want.... the Moon on a stick!!!!
They did a limited disc based production run on a fried egg... Egg! Like a birds egg!
Wow, Andy Warhol's pug has let himself go.
I thoroughly enjoyed this! I have to admit I am an 80s child and although I was familiar with the names Lee and Herring growing up, I don't ever recall watching any of your t.v. series! However! I can say I am an avid fan of RHLSTP. Long may it continue. Thanks ✌
"remember being left in a car outside a pub with a bag of crisps?" to be fair to my dad he also gave me a bottle of pop.
Lucky bastard
You reading this. Yeah you.
Drink your weak lemon drink.
*DO IT NOW!*
best laugh in ages locked in a car outside a pub [can of pop and a of bag crisps ] ....been there
The joke about someone purportedly resembling Stewart Lee having let themselves go has let itself go.
😂
Rich, you really ought to interview Simon Quinlank in character all these years later
That'd be OK for 5 minutes. I think Kevin Eldon does Simon Quinlank on one of the Fist of Fun commentaries for a whole episode, and it isn't really that funny.
Stew completely refusing to get into the bit about their kids marrying at the start is excruciating.
Poor Richard.
It’s all excruciating. You should see the bits we cut.
@@Herring1967#releasetheleecut
Rich, Stew, the two of you, so all four of you, you rock
That bloke who sits in the dark corner of the pub, has let himself go.
Thanks for all these Richard, always good (and easily worth the pound(s)). Congratulations on the new arrival. Hoping to get to a show when I pop back to the UK in May.
They're like Morecombe & Wise on drugs.
I didn't know who Radko Mladic was until I started watching this. I then googled Radko Mladic and I thought wow Stewart Lee has let himself go
that? ha, only sheer bliss for lucky me.
trevor there to provide 'everyman' awe.
Richard Herring is Igor to Stewart Lees' Frankenstein.
Frankingstein*
There's no mention of the TMWRNJ sketch with the 80s alternative comedy nostalgia and self-agrandisement, but I notice the SDP mugs from that are on show here, presumably as a sort of self-aware gesture.
I've just let one go
That one you just let go has let itself go
I have watched this several times and the nature of Rich and Stew's relationship remains a question to me. Presumably Stew wouldn't have come on RHLSTP twice if he hated Rich, but there's an element of cruelty in some of Stew's remarks that seems genuine (and that I haven't seen in other interviews that he's done). Hopefully I'm wrong.
Rich mentioned on the Dawn French RHLSTP that Stew was particularly off this time he was on but has confirmed that they don’t hate each other 😂
You're right
Rich and Stew have been jesting each other since the duo days, it's all part of the fun. Comedians take delight in roasting their buddies.
Killing it and merry Christmas sir.
Jokes about so-called doppelgangers of Stewart Lee having let themselves go have let themselves go.
This reminds me of when my little boy used to sing: if you think I’m gonna sing if you’re happy and you know it clap your hands, clap your hands.
@@ruthorrell9605
🤣👍
Funny you'd find a weird book at a junk shop. My second copy of the Fist of Fun annual came from a charity shop in a tub called "All things free".
They couldn't even sell it for 25p! lol
I think Pliny said "As the egg, eggs".
Rosie & Jim have let themselves go.
up yr news.... bloody hell, that takes me back. I worked on that show.... ned sherrin....
Everything ButThe Girl are looking rough these days.
LOLZ!
www.telegraph.co.uk/music/what-to-listen-to/100-best-love-songs-time/everything-girl/
Hahaa now that's funny ‼️👍🏻🍺😜🐾☯️👽👻💙🇬🇧
@@BlueEyedBambinagryphon tgtand gtgt-gt got t5-tung gym tit t thyg
As a kid I used to get left in the pub car park with Scampi Fries and Babycham. Coke and crisps is for amateurs.
*Deadpan delivery of the highest caliber!*😉
O, hope that the DVD release does come thusly, ahhhh
Disappointing, talking about the 80's and 90's and no mention of the Jungle canyon rope bridges or the zombie pirate infestation.
Hear, hear! It's political correctness gone crazy ape bonkers. My uncle died in a jungle canyon rope bridge incident.
Thatcherite whitewashing. Nobody remembers them. Only those of us who were there.
@@Superfantastictop10 If you were there you can't remember it.
Tighter than a gnant's chuff!
When they're talking about TMWRJ, I think R is implying the Ironic Review idea was stolen by Chris Morris for Nathan Barley. The actress he mentions from Ironic Review is Chris Morris' wife.
robin ince's impression of stewart lee has let himself go.
Stewart Lee looks now like he should in Time Trumpet ( set in 2031). What happened to you Mr Stew.