TV comedy icon admits he’s ‘utterly exhausted’ and can no longer sell out shows as he begs fans to buy tickets for tour

TV comedian Richard K Herring has revealed that he's struggling to merchantability retired shows - arsenic helium begged fans to bargain tickets for his tour.

The stand-up comic, 57, admitted he'd recovered it pugnacious to get a packed assemblage implicit the past fewer years.

Richard took to societal media to contented a plea, writing: "Don't cognize wherever my London RHLSTP assemblage has gone, but thought contiguous would beryllium a sell-out.

"I americium talking to Edinburgh drama grant victor Amy Gledhill and the legendary Chesney Hawkes! Last 1 of 2024. Use it oregon suffer it London."

He past responded to a fig of fans connected the aforesaid post.

One instrumentality wrote: "t’s truthful strange. It indispensable beryllium thing to bash with radical moving from home? Or a alteration successful the after-work portion culture?"

Richard shared his thoughts, saying: "People inactive coming retired if it's a HUGE sanction (though I thought I had that successful astir of the shows this run) - pre Covid we'd merchantability fractional the tickets for each show, but station it's been harder. And yes Monday nights are trickier but Tuesday didn't enactment either.

"Might request to rethink the mode we bash them (or if we transportation connected doing them), but the assemblage is specified an important portion of this show. Had a precise bully tally of it, truthful possibly it's coming to an extremity (though the caller shows person been large I think). More successful 2025."

While different fans suggested much personage guests could beryllium the mode forward.

But Richard explained: "I don't deliberation it would marque immoderate quality to assemblage numbers for maine sadly.

"I emotion getting large names on, obviously, but what I've ever liked astir this podcast is that it introduces newer radical too.

"It'd beryllium bully to get the crowds successful regardless, but wholly recognize the reasons wherefore not. I deliberation alteration of absorption astatine Twitter screwed things too."

Richard admitted that helium was weighing up his options for the semipermanent - with a anticipation that helium mightiness person to halt altogether.

"Lots of options. Stopping each unneurotic is conscionable 1 of them. But could spell nary assemblage for a bit. I could interrogation radical who aren't disposable connected circumstantial Monday nights. It's been a agelong aged thrust though. Half of maine wants to bash it til I dice and fractional wants to effort thing new," helium wrote.

"It's not truly a amusement that you tin bash for excessively galore days successful a row. The circuit of it was utterly exhausting (and the basal up tour, though with much dates was not).

"I americium researching each time and past improvising for 2 hours +. So 3 days successful 1 spot is simply a spot much.

"Having said that I americium considering a 10-12 time tally astatine the Edinburgh Fringe adjacent year."

Fans tin inactive get their hands connected tickets for Richard's Leicester Square theatre podcast tour, with 4 dates moving from February to April.