Quotes from Richard Herring

I love ruins and museums but, if I've been working hard, I enjoy a beach holiday.

What I question about the afterlife is how many people just accept it and don't question it, because I think living for an eternity would be much worse than dying.

It's rare that you discover something by accident that resonates with your sense of humour.

All the religions are right when they say that all the other religions are wrong.

As a comedian you have to remind yourself that it happens; every now and again you can just have a bad gig where things go beyond your control.

Some comedians make a marvellous living doing material that is completely predictable, that reminds people of things that they already know or jokes that they are already familiar with.

I was into Simon & Garfunkel before my friends got into punk and laughed at me for liking Paul Simon.

I often go for ages without getting my hair cut, so every now and then I'll look like a tramp and have to go to a hairdresser.

By the time I got to uni sketch comedy was much more fashionable than stand-up.

I'm investigating where our boundaries lie by sometimes overstepping those boundaries.

My Less Than Secret Life' by Jonathan Ames was a revelation, as shocking as it is funny.

It's easy to pass judgement on someone else's racism, but what about your own?

Like many nerdy youngsters I spent much of my childhood listening to Monty Python records, learning them verbatim, fittingly parroting them.

I had always been troubled by the liberal paradox of wanting everyone to be treated the same, while at the same time respecting their cultural differences.

I love pulling faces at little kids on the London tube to see if I can make them laugh, and I usually do.

We have nothing to fear but fear itself - and monsters.

Most jokes are based on surprise. They take advantage of a confusion of language, or a twist in logic, or a contradiction of some perceived truth, or sometimes just saying something so shocking and offensive that the audience will gasp and then (hopefully) guffaw.

Tim Minchin and Daniel Kitson are the two people that when I see them, I think I could never be that funny or that clever.

You realise that, with 'Rick and Morty,' each episode is so deep and dense it is extraordinary. It slightly annoys me that it's so good; it's almost unbeatable as a TV show.

The Internet is a very exciting way of doing material that's uncensored, and doesn't have to go through TV committees, and people aren't telling you what you can and can't do.

The parents in 'You Can Choose Your Friends' were very much Mum and Dad but my brother wasn't like my brother, and he got quite annoyed because he thought I was saying that was what he was like.

Comedians have this happy, charmed life, where they're the centre of their own universe and can do what they want, but when you have kids you get a perspective on how unimportant you are in this world.

I'm not interested in telling people what to think. I'm interested in making people think.

In the unlikely event that I make it into heaven, I won't be able to enjoy everlasting bliss because part of the pleasure of happiness is its transience.