Richard Herring
No, that title isn’t just an instruction from us… it’s also the name of a new underground film festival taking place at legendary venue The Hen & Chickens Theatre in Islington this month. The venue, which has been a spiritual home for TVO regulars for almost two decades
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April 1, 2014 // 0 Comments
The Edinburgh Festival is now well under way, with a number of TVO regulars appearing amongst the hundreds of shows vying for your attention. With the likes of Rachel Stubbings, Dave McNeill, Sarah Kendall, Paul Foot, Phil Whelans and Waen Shepherd all jumping around stages in the name of funny
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August 6, 2012 // 2 Comments
Sarah Kendall joined Richard Herring for his latest podcast earlier this week. With these two having a previous relationship as Fringe flat-mates back in the day (as with most comics on the circuit) Herring and Kendall have a warts and all chat about Sarah’s experience on the making of
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August 3, 2012 // 2 Comments
The HMV Hammersmith Apollo Theatre, London will be the venue for a very special event on October 6th. Roar with Laughter is a comedy night hosted by London Zoo to raise money for their tiger conservation work in Sumatra as well as to develop a new flagship Sumatran tiger exhibit at ZSL London
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July 19, 2012 // 1 Comment
Mongrels returned to our screens last night with a glorious double bill of madness, involving Nazi beagles and sex-crazed zombie-dogs. You can catch the episodes again on iPlayer, and with another six, plus a special still to come, TVO has pulled out all the stops to bring you a string of
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November 8, 2011 // 2 Comments
As part of our retrospective posts about the Boosh radio series, in honour of it’s tenth anniversary, our editor took a close look at the the names, faces and programming which helped pave the way for The Mighty Boosh, and indeed everything we cover at The Velvet Onion. Continually drawn back
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November 1, 2011 // 2 Comments
August 3rd sees the launch of the 2011 Edinburgh Festival, and with a smattering of TVO faces in amongst the hundreds of comedic faces who have descended upon the Scottish city for the next few weeks, we decided it was as good a time as any to remind you of exactly who’s going to be where.
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August 2, 2011 // 3 Comments
The full line-up for The Edinburgh Festival 2011 has been announced, and amongst the hundreds of shows on offer are a handful of TVO big-guns. Rich Fulcher, Colin Hoult and Paul Foot have full-length runs for the duration of the Festival, whilst Dan Clark will be making a special appearance for
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June 9, 2011 // 5 Comments
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