[edit]Oh man, was that ever embarrassing!

WHERE. WHEN. I MUST KNOW.

More details in the 2nd to last paragraph of his current blog entry (http://www.richardherring.com/warmingup/warmingup.php?id=2025)

I like that you are curious.

As am I. I missed out on Tedstock because I am an twart, but the video of the L&H bit that's on YouTube is bloody fantastic.

So. I read R Herring's 'Warming Up' quite often, but I read here more regularly so I'd appreciate it if someone could update this thread with a RED ALERT!!1! update as soon as ticket buying possibilities are announced.

Oh, for this to be televised and in the vein of the recent Tiswas/Swap Shop/Frost Report affairs. But of course, an Amiga Power reunion is more likely to get on the Beeb, given the way TMWRNJ has been treated.

Slack work, fellows. Thankfully, it mattered not. For those not yet ticket endowed:

Thanks boss, I'll be calling that number very soon.

I was on the look out for WoS looking weirdos in the crowd, but as the entire audience was uniformly made up of pasty, speccy, weak/fat nerds, it was a pointless endeavour.

Shame about the lack of Richard Thomas. Trevor Lock was poor. Everyone else was okay to very funny. Audience was a bit overenthusiastic to begin with, but as they played around with this it got better, and it really helped with the finale. Incredible shame about the lack of The Actor Kevin Eldon.

Lee and Herring were fab to see together, if a bit of the spectacle diminished by my own rewatching of their Tedstock reunion. But ace to be there, and to see Rich dancing around taunting Stew, and it was way longer than their Tedstock one.

But then, making the night in the most spectacular fashion, the surprise return of the Curious Orange was just. incredible. One joke in a fairly hefty monologue needed the audience to have a working knowledge of the history of the Curious Orange, the recent series of Doctor Who, Histor's Eye and the 1980s Kia Ora advert. That's a fairly select cross reference, but it was brilliant, and an audience of hundreds were roaring. That sealed the whole night as a special event on it's own, and makes me glad that I live in a world where a shouting man in a home made mutant fruit Davros costume can joyously entertain a theatre full of idiots. Ace.

It's kind of depressing that I didn't get to see this, especially as Herring himself seems to be fairly elated about the whole thing.

Luckily, there are hints above of it all turning up on YouTube shortly, so non-London-living skint folk like me can rejoice.

A Message from Sir Hugh

I was there.

It was fantastic. The Curious Orange was fucking incredible. The DrWho/TooOrangey/Histor joke was phenomenal (also: Crass Lave wants to mention the drummer...).

I spotted someone with a Digi Zombie Dave T-Shirt, who was the most likely candidate to be one of the WoS/BeeX crowd.

A spooky but welcome message from Hugh from the beyond, ta Spinglo Sponglo!. The crowd weren't overt nerdbots individually, no, but en masse there was a notable uniformity of benign nerditude. I'm glad the manager did indeed have pubes; I was upstairs, so didn't see her up close. I wonder if it was ghost Hugh that stole her leg...

And on a related, but not as related as it may seem to people uninvolved in this spectacularly cliquey conversation, Oh my, the drummer...

Still no YouTubery, 'tseems. But R Herring's is a nice account and it does make me smile that the Orange costume is in storage, just waiting for an unspecified possible further return.

So did anyone (Spinglo Sponglo!?) go to the filming of Mr Lee's TV show?

What did you think? I'm in two minds. But two drunk to decide. Thats despite it being ace.

I'm drunk but typed some nonsense here.

EDIT: I forgot about the word filter. Ha ha.

Anyone else choking with envy right about now?

I saw one of the warm up nights at the Hen and Chickens in Islington last week. Was he using the egg-box gimmick I read about? (For the uninitiated, each TV show (apparently) starts with a member of the audience randomly selecting 3 eggs out of a box, each of which have a topic written on them, which Stew then uses as the basis for his routine. Or something.) He practised 6 "eggs" at the warm-up, all of which went down well with the sell out crowd (of 48). I think I enjoyed it as much as "90s Comedian", though I've not watched it for a while.

Almost as excitingly, sitting next to my girlfriend was THE Chris Morris, off the telly. He is a very tall man with a very loud laugh. He seemed to be enjoying himself.

Yep.

Seeing the TMWRNJ reunion in poor-quality Youtubovision only reminded me of how great he and Herring were on telly.

Still, looking forward to this; nice to see the BBC giving new comedy talent a go. Again.

I saw his 'scrambled egg' set at the Edinburgh Festival a few months ago, although he just came on and did an hour of new material rather than the egg-box gimmick I'd read about. It was all pretty good though. I liked it better than his 41st Best Stand-Up tour, which I saw in Leeds and was, although very good, not as good as his previous two tours in my opinion. Mind you that's probably because the subject matter was, on the whole, a little lighter.

I'm really looking forward to seeing him on telly again. Hope it works out for him.

Apologies for the thread necromancy, but I can't start new ones so I'm posting this in what is hopefully an appropriate place.

The first episode of Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle was on BBC2 last night and I thought it was pretty good. I laughed out loud at least three times in half an hour, if that's any indication.

BBC site here, with watch again:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00jfhqb

I suppose this is as good a place as any, but there was some discussion in the "non subscribers talk here" thread

Yarp, we non-subbers either post in a related thread found through searching, or in the newly opened "Hey, non-subscribers!" one. I mentioned it in the HNS, but didn't put in a link; twas aces.