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April/May 1993 - Lee and Herring at Postman Pat World, Longleat Safari Park, after attending the wedding of Stew's landlady. Note Lee's early attempt to combat unpredictable weight gain by going around disguised as lead singer of The Afghan Whigs. (Pic David Tuck) | |
1993 - The duo's Radio 1 series FIST OF FUN first broadcast. Later in '93, Rich and Stew won a Writers Guild Award and a Sony Gold Award as co-writers of ON THE HOUR, the show which launched the careers of Steve Coogan, Armando Ianucci and Chris Morris. The series went on to become BBC2's THE DAY TODAY, though Lee & Herring were dropped from this for wanting to have a share in the ownership of characters they had co-created. Iannucci removed their contributions from commercially released tapes of the radio series, and re-edited sentences to remove proper nouns they had supplied by taking words from elsewhere in the dialogue to create new names for characters, and thus they slipped the net that made stars of Coogan, Marber and David Schneider. Still, at least we didn't sell out!!! - Early promo postcard for the Lee and Herring double act |
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- Stewart co-founded CLUUB ZARATHUSTRA with Simon Munnery,
The League Against Tedium. Designed to showcase non-stand-up it developed the dreaded cult following and lost thousands of pounds in both Edinburgh and London over the following five years. There's a great site about it here. It was both the best and worst thing he ever worked on, and over the years featured Kevin Eldon, Roger Mann, Sally Phillips, a great theatre group called Universal Grinding Wheel, Richard Herring, Dr Who Peter Davidson, Johnny Vegas, Bridget Nicholls, some of The Medieval Babes, Kombat Opera, Jason Freedman, Julian Barratt, Tom Binns, and Dan Rhodes, (who now writes under-appreciated fiction) |
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A classic
1996 line up of the ultimate wasted opportunity, Cluub
Zarathustra, in the cellar at The Market Tavern, Islington.
Top line L-R, 2 chicks that played fiddles, Lori Lixenberg, Sally Phillips, Richard Thomas. Bottom line L-R Kevin Eldon, Roger Mann, the insolent faced Simon Munnery, S Lee. 
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