Lee and Herring

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Lee and Herring
Lee (left, 2008) and Herring (right, 2005)
Medium	Television, radio, stand-up
Nationality	British
Years active	1992–2000
Genres	Sketch comedy Black comedy Surreal humour Wit Satire
Subject(s)	British culture Everyday life
Notable works and roles	Fist of Fun This Morning with Richard Not Judy Real Time (Doctor Who)
Members	Richard Herring Stewart Lee

Lee and Herring were a British standup comedy double act consisting of the comedians Stewart Lee and Richard Herring. They were most famous for their work on television, most notably Fist of Fun and This Morning with Richard Not Judy but had been working together on stage and on radio since the late 1980s.^[1]

As with many double acts, Lee and Herring performed as contrasting personalities: one mature and sardonic (Lee) and the other puerile and cheeky (Herring). As with several other double acts, Lee and Herring had a certain irony to their style and constantly checked themselves and made reference to this. The characters of Lee and Herring were parodies and exaggerations of their real life selves.