LOTDS #11: Not Suitable For Minors? - The podcast takes us through the Lord of the Dance Settee gigs in late April and early May at Harlow, Bristol, Monmouth and Clevedon. Rich has started doing dad jokes and continues to try to find ways to end the first half. He explains why he isn't going to the Edinburgh Fringe this year and what he's doing instead - and reveals the title and subject matter of his brand new show. And with a 10 year old and a 12 year old in the audience of one show he is...

Lord of the Dance Sofa #10: The tour grinds onwards and Richard is messing around more and saying things that he shouldn't about his ex-girlfriend and Cliff Richard (different stories). With stories and how his mother-in-law tried to kill him, how he enraged a French man in 1983 and why he has the numbers of emergency masseuses in Worthing. Plus some fun digressions about why people in the New Forest like to keep their horses on the road and why you can't go to hospital just because you've...

Lord of the Dance Settee #9: You Should Have a Pregnancy Test. The madness and packed houses of March are over and April sees a slight dip in numbers and in energy. Richard has to deal with a dodgy microphone in Bath and lampoons the Marquis of Bath's attempts to create art. He enjoys a combined Christmas and Easter with his folks in Cheddar (that's Phoebe as a reindeer in the pic), before celebrating his third wedding anniversary in a slightly spooky empty restaurant, then he's back on the...

Lord of the Dance Settee #8 - Well Played Thing. The tour continues through Southend, Aldershot, Cambridge, Shoreham-BY-Sea and Cardiff. Experience Richard's nerves and doubts before a Southend gig where he fears the audience might be expecting Michael Flatley, his proof that the people of Cambridge are not as clever as the people of Oxford, and the genesis of his new show solely about Addams Family Pinball (which he is playing continuously throughout the tour). Also a return to Aldershot...

Lord of the Dance Settee #7 - The Circle of Life. The Lord of the Dance Settee tour continues, with Rich increasingly tired and missing his baby daughter. We join him coming through corridors and the kitchen to get to the gig in Chesterfield (or is it Cheltenham or Chippenham), and then see him reunited with his family in Norwich, where a special guest makes her first step up the showbiz ladder (to a much warmer reception than her father has managed) and then on to Birmingham where Rich...

Lord of the Dance Settee #6: Donald, Wherrrreez Mah Troozers. Richard is working his way through the busiest month of the tour and this podcast largely covers three gigs at three different Stand venues: Newcastle, Edinburgh and Glasgow. He's obsessed with w-nking judges, rimming shower gel and rip-off soap and ad-libbing like crazy. But he also has to cope with painful loss and looking like Jeremy Clarkson and find a way out of being on stage with a mouthful of Haribo, even though he is 47....

Lord of the Dance Settee #5 - 27 Years Later. The Lord of the Dance Settee tour continues, with the busiest patch of 11 gigs in 12 days. Rich discusses a recent and a less recent trip to Buckingham Palace, returns to one of the first professional theatres that he ever played (in 1988) and meets the first man he ever gave his autograph to. There's also a whole now-excised routine from the show and Richard being heckled by a member of staff at Bristol Tobacco Factory. And more of his infamous...

Lord of the Dance Settee #4: Hold me closer Tony Danza. Recorded in his dressing room at the South Street Arts Centre in Reading, Richard muses more about the tour so far, tells a story of an inspirational flamenco dancer (that was in early versions of the show) and runs through the interesting events from last week's dates. Also, as he kind of forgot he was recording himself, you get an illuminating look at what life behind the scenes before the show is really like. Warning, it is quite dull...

Lord of the Dance Settee #3: I'M MORTIFIED. A collection of a few of the outtakes and extra bits from the last four performances of Lord of the Dance Settee in which Richard travelled to Nottingham, Wolves, Salford and Chorley and had an eventful weekend. Get to hear a few regional variations to certain parts of the show, Richard being heckled about what method of payment he takes for his merch, doing a routine about Addams Family Pinball that only one person got, giving Operation Yewtree...

Lord of the Dance Settee #2: 4 Leaf Clover. Rich keeps you up to date with how the tour is going so far (including a backstage report from Colchester Arts Centre where he was watched by statues to the war dead), as well as how fatherhood is affecting his comedy. He also takes a somewhat dry look at the themes behind the stand-up show and how he has hidden a reference from every decade of his life within the show. He tells a story connected to being kissed on the lips by his Great Aunty Eva,...

Lord of the Dance Settee #1: How I Broke A Caravan Window with a W*nk. In this first episode of a brand new podcast, Richard Herring not only tries to tackle his new garageband software (audiophiles may be disturbed by the echo on the mic), but tell you all about his latest tour show. Find out why he has abandoned an overarching theme, discover some of the subtle themes that permeate the show, hear stories of travelling back Goodnight Sweetheart-style to 1976 when he visited Loughborough, and...