No. 261.

In 2008, the Panel Prize of the Edinburgh Comedy Awards went to 'every comedian on the Fringe for making it happen'.

(Source: http://www.comedyawards.co.uk/panelprize.asp.)

No. 252.

Each of Nina Conti's Monkey puppets last about a year. She has to bid for replacements online because they are from a discontinued line of toys, and her fans are buying them in order to have one like her.

(Source: Richard Herring's Edinburgh Fringe Podcast.)

No. 250.

Lucy Porter was a researcher on Catchphrase. Her job was to ask the contestants for funny anecdotes that the host could prompt and then joke about it in the beginning of the show.

(Source: Richard Herring's Edinburgh Fringe Podcast.)

No. 249.

Stewart Lee sent a song he wrote to Fry and Laurie because he and Richard Herring weren't too impressed by the quality of the music featured on the show.

(Source: Richard Herring's Edinburgh Fringe Podcast.)

No. 248.

Lucy Porter was a researcher for Richard and Judy.

(Source: Richard Herring's Edinburgh Fringe Podcast.)

No. 247.

To amuse each other between takes, the cast of The Thick of It would perform impersonations of Darth Vader saying mundane things.

(Source: Chain Reaction interview with Chris Addison.)

No. 244.

Richard Herring features in Bridget Jones' Diary. In the book, the protagonist is up in Edinburgh and considers whether to see his show.

(Source: Richard Herring's Edinburgh Fringe Podcast.)

No. 248.

Lucy Porter won a Time Out competition to be on the judging panel for the Perrier Award.

(Source: Richard Herring's Edinburgh Fringe Podcast.)

No. 236.

Once there was no show set to go out at 11pm, so a few comedy people, including Johnny Speight, Marty Feldmen, and Spike Milligan were asked in the BBC bar whether they would talk about their writing process. They said they would and suddenly the slot was filled.

(Source: Tales of Television Centre.)

No. 233.

The BBC were so used to Michael Bentine destroying, and staging raids on, BBC television centre as the climax to each series of his television show that five men were able to steal £16,000 and be let out the back gate by the current commisioner who greeted them with  'Good to see you again Mr Bentine'.

(Source: Tale of Television Centre.)

No. 231.

The English novelist, William Makepeace Thackeray, is the great-great-great-grandfather of Al Murray.

(Source: Richard Herring's Edinburgh Fringe Podcast.)

No. 230.

Barry Cryer had a number one single in Finland with a cover of Purple People Eater, quite possibly because the original hadn't been released there for contractual reasons.

(Source: Richard Herring's Edinburgh Fringe Podcast.)

No. 229.

When Richard Herring was hired to collate the West London phone directory, he changed Stewart Lee's name to Stewart Wee.

(Source: Richard Herring's Edinburgh Fringe Podcast.)

No. 228.

One of Richard Herring's jobs when he moved to London was for a company that made lighthouse parts.

(Source: Richard Herring's Edinburgh Fringe Podcast.)

No. 227.

Shappi Khorsandi was proposed to on Edinburgh's Arthur's Seat.

(Source: Richard Herring's Edinburgh Fringe Podcast.)

No. 226.

Shappi Khorsandi wanted to call her first book English People Smell of Milk. Her publishers got her to change it to A Beginner's Guide to Acting English.

(Source: Richard Herring's Edinburgh Fringe Podcast.)

No. 225.

Richard Herring once expanded a stand up routine about yoghurt into an hour's show.

(Source: Richard Herring's Edinburgh Fringe Podcast.)

No. 212.

Comedian Dave Gorman has both a Paul Daniels trick, and a character in Neighbours, named after him.

(Source: Richard Herring's Edinburgh Fringe Podcast.)

No. 211.

Susan Calman is such a fan of Prime Suspect that she has edited footage so that she could produce a recording in which it appears she is having a conversation with Helen Mirren's Jane Tennison.

(Source: Richard Herring's Edinburgh Fringe Podcast.)

No. 209.

To publicise a student revue they were in at the Edinburgh Fringe, Stewart Lee, Richard Herring, and Emma Kennedy posed as a church group, handing out leaflets insisting their show be banned. They were successful - in that nobody came.

(Source: Richard Herring's Edinburgh Fringe Podcast.)