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Rich and Stew had two pages of Questions and
Answers on the old BBC site relating to their first TV series. Since they've been removed in favour of series two material I've decided to archive them here. Page two of Q and A
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Here is a more recent
interview conducted by e-mail for a school magazine.
Stewart Lee was on the Mark Radcliffe radio show
in July 1996, see what he had to say about the
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Rich and Stew were on Russ and Jono's Breakfast
Experience in October 1996 at the start of their autumn tour.
This is what they had to say on the subjects of
booze, death and The Spice Girls.
Stew (with Rich this time)
returned to Mark Radcliffe's Radio One show in December 96 to talk about
their tour and the possible return of Fist of Fun.
Barely two days after their appearance on Mark
Radcliffe's show, Rich and Stew turned up on Nicky
Campbell's afternoon show. It was here that Stew was to make a shocking
announcement!
Rich and Stew also made an appearance on
Capital Radio while plugging their December 96 gig
at the Shepherd's Bush Empire.
While at the 1997 Edinburgh festival, Rich and Stew
took part in an Internet Relay Chat session. Here
they talked about The Fall, Knight Rider and Rich's jiggly bits.
During their May 96 mini-tour Rich and Stew gave
an interview to Rob Adey for a fanzine that sadly
didn't appear. Thanks go to Rob for sending it to me and allowing me to put
it up here.
Rich and Stew took a break in March 98 from
preparing for the next show of TMWRNJ to meet the fans on an online chat at
www.beeb.com where they talked about their new show and the possible
resurrection of Fist of Fun.
Rob's official website has newspaper articles from
The Independant and The Guardian, but these esteemed organs pale into
insignificance beside the mighty Reading Chronicle. They published an
interview with Rich and Stew on Friday 20th March
and, surprisingly, the interviewer actually seemed to know who Rich and Stew
are.
In an article in the Sunday Times Culture section on Sunday 1st
August 1999 Stu chronicled his attempts to
write and sell a film script in Hollywood.
Here is an interview with Stewart Lee done after a gig in July 2000
about television, Time Gentlemen Please and writing.
Here are four interviews that they have done which are available on the Web
on other sites.
Stranger Than Fiction interview
Stewart Lee was interviewed as part of
teletext's Edinburgh
coverage
An article from the defunct Comedy Review magazine can be found
at the futurenet site. I can't link to it directly, but it is at
http://www.futurenet.co.uk/,fistfun,funfist/entertainment/comedyreview/
Issue3/Stand-up/fist.html The reason I can't link to it is their
registration system. If you use 'fistfun' as your name and 'funfist' as your
password, then you don't have to go through their laborious registration
process.
Here are some quotes from several different magazines articles.
On doing corporate entertainment gigs Rich : "We did
do one five years ago, but that was only because it was for a mate of mine
and Stew's and because he gave us fifty quid and said we could sleep with
the secretaries." - Comedy Review issue four
On being on the internet Rich : "So we thought it'd be a good way of
interacting with 20 stinking blokes and talking about the two episodes of
Star Trek: The Next Generation in which the Bussard Ramski was employed for
a purpose other than that for which it was intended."- .Net Magazine issue
21
On the 1996 Edinburgh Festival - I found this on the
ComedyWeb website. Stew :
Edinburgh presents this unique chance to see lots of things from fields
outside comedy. And then to copy them. And it also lets you do loads of
stuff that you wouldn't do on the comedy circuit, and spend a month seeing
if it works. So that's nice. Nicer than the way mediocrity is rewarded while
excellence is shunned, anyway. Something that disappoints me about the
Festival and the Perrier Award in particular is the way that people are
already talking about who they think is going to win the award. And the
only criteria they can judge that on is the fact that lots of comedians are
going up there and just doing extended versions of the sets you already know
from seeing them in London. So there's already a buzz about that, whereas
the people that are writing new shows, specifically for Edinburgh, which is
surely what Edinburgh is all about, are slightly penalised, because there's
no way that what they're putting together can be judged. It's a shame that
the Perrier tends to award people that it thinks it can then put into chat
shows or on runs in the West End, rather than simply rewarding what is best.
Me and Rich [Herring] have been for the last ten years now. And every year
something has happened to me that's changed my life... having sex, my first
acid trip, seeing shows that showed me ways of doing things that I'd never
have thought of, finding out what a twat Patrick Marber was, or swimming
with seals... so there's always something every year. Always something.
Rich : Every year I say I won't go to Edinburgh, because of the
pressure being too much. By the end of the Festival, you can be really ill.
Like when I did This Morning With Richard Not Judy, by the last day I was
just retching and nothing was coming up at all.. it's an abuse of your body.
Everyone's really paranoid up there during the festival. Everyone's really
worried about the reviews, and also about what the word on the street about
your show is. It's quite supercharged and tense, but largely okay because
everyone's in the same boat. There have been a few scuffles in the past,
though I'm going to be 29 this year, and it's getting harder and harder. I
took a week off during last year's Festival, because I was getting fed up
with being drunk all the time and being followed around by loads of teenage
girls. Edinburgh for me and Stew is the nearest we come to being celebrities,
I think. You get all this attention in Edinburgh and it all gets a bit
wearing. Sad, that.
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