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| | Guardian | Richard Herring (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20) |
 | | Richard Herring, erstwhile partner of Stewart Lee and Fist of Fun co-host, has been on a religious journey. |
 | | He returns compulsively to a dream in which Jesus challenges him to a bicycle race, and also fantasises that he is Jesus, citing a passage from the Bible - "Behold a man gluttonous and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners" - to prove his point. |
 | | Herring may overestimate the impact that scatological Christ gags have on the non-religious, but his best sequences do derive their force from the gulf between the vestigial reverence that surrounds these subjects and the comic reality. |
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