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RAACN Tuesday February 3rd 2026 - Eggheads Are People Too. After the explosive interview over the weekend, a regular newsround returns examining the recent statements by FIFA President Gianni Infantino and why he should be judged by his deeds and words and not by his appearance. We have a special interview with a fellow egg-headed celebrity to show just how far egghead prejudice can reach and hopefully help open people's eyes to this derided condition.

Newsround Special - Epstein File interview. Always ahead of the grown up news, Richard has procured an interview with the man at the heart of the Epstein Files story, Randy Andy Mountbatten-Windsor-Balmoral. Randrew Andrew explains what's going on in the pictures with the woman on the ground, why he never met Epstein, why he has too much honour, why he can't wear shoes and what he was actually doing on the date the new accuser says he was with her. It's an explosive interview that will surely be shown on all major news channels tonight, thus reigniting Richard's failed career. Hooray!

January 30th 2026 - Sneaky V sign. Rich and Ally are back to discuss how long they think President Trump will live, whether grey hair stops you getting cancer and a surprising way to increase your output at the gym.

29th January 2026 - BWB. Rich and Ally are back for an impressive 2nd day in a row to discuss the worst thing that has happened in America this year, someone putting a bra on the Hollywood sign. Is it appropriate for men to comment on women's bodies and if not is it appropriate for them to comment on people commenting on them?

In an attempt to bring the people the REAL news, not the lies of the Mainstream Media, faded 90s almost-celebrity Richard Herring teams up with an 134 year-old ventriloquist dummy, Ally Sloper, to report daily (yeah right) on the stories that really matter. With reportage and interjection from other characters from Twitch of Fun, a show sadly cancelled before it could reach its 100th episode. Wednesday January 29th - Turkeys Not Voting For Christmas. Rich and Ally take a look at the defection of Suella Braverman to Reform and look at some of the excellent policies that she is backing. With a special report from the conference by our top journalist. Titles by Andy Bobbin Music by Mike Cosgrave Directed by Chris Evans. Any similarity to John Craven's Newsround is entirely coincidental.

6,7. Twitch of Fun is BACK in this non-canonical episode to celebrate the end of another horrible year and to attempt to tempt some temporary temps to this zenith of Richard's work. There's an attempt to extract an apology from our most perverse character (that could be any of us), plus Henry Hippo's New Year's Resolution and Ally and Rich look back at the Coldplay couple and who we are to judge them, a Thai woman who rose from the dead, the evil plan of Labubus and Katy Perry in space. And if you time this right you get a countdown to the new year at the end. What more do you want?

It's Wednesday, it's 2.30pm and it AAHTOF (AAHTOF) with a soft relaunch of the show after a few months off to give everyone a chance to remember their same phrases. Rich and Ally take a look at some serious news involving the end of the world, golden phones, Musk losing billions, the massive ordnance penetrator, Richard's failing, flailing penis and Dr Who giving top actors deadly drugs. So business as usual, apart from no big wobbling boobies.

TOF #99f Gargara and Cuggy Groccoli - Rich is back with a brand new, seductive co-host and a lot of talk about licking things that you really don't want to be licking. Ally is back to talk about whether he will be the new James Bond, if a woman can be Jesus, whether Neighbours will ever end and the imminent collision between our galaxy and another galaxy. Plus could Birthday Donkey get replaced by the puppet that inspired his segment? Might be the last one for a bit as Rich is off on tour. Come and see him on tour: http://richardherring.com/ballback/tour Or sponsor him for not eating Soleros: http://justgiving.com/page/nolero Thanks as ever to Richard Ison for his amazing works.

Twitch of Fun is back but it's just a quick one this week, so not worthy of being Episode 100. But Rich and friends are going full out to be placed in the dustbin of Light Entertainment. Egg Wallace has a new ovoid pal and Marvin the Monkey tries out for main presenter. The team cover Israel/Palestine, Soleros, double bananas (Cocky Carrot fails to comment), whether AI could ever replace this show and some of the more racist songs from US film history. All that and Birthday Donkey, an attempt to find the right size for Richard's huge face and Sybil is back with more terrifying predictions. Sponsor Rich in his attempt to eat no Soleros here: http://justgiving.com/page/nolero

Episode 99d - Seig Heil. Another Friday afternoon catch up - not an official or canonical episode in which Rich attempts to remember what some of his characters do, as well as discussing the Musky arm movement, why Putin was in such a rush, if Obama has got himself a Rachel, how fast Craig David Iikes to move things along, whether Elizabeth I was a man, where to put your bins in a storm and whether Rich has any right to feel a bit bonnie blue about the stresses in his lucky bugger life. Plus the return of some old friends, a cold prediction for a beloved actor and Rich attempts to explain why men are so entranced by BWBs. Back soon with episode 100 for sure. Come and see Rich on tour, so he stops moaning about his life: https://richardherring.com/ballback

It's Friday, it's 3pm and the computer's back but the tech has screws up. But it's all sorted in 3 minutes flat for a non-canon and non-cannon episode of your favourite afternoon topical news show with a washed up TV celebrity and a 133 year-old ventriloquist dummy that also includes a hippopotamus that is obsessed with mammary glands. All right, second favourite. They discuss which dead AI celebrity they'd like to get their divorce papers from, why there's nothing impressive about a woman having sex with 1000+ men in 12 hours, the controversial choices for Match Of The Day presenters, how Kenneth Kendall would react if he saw what's on BBC News these days and a very clever joke about Dune. Plus Richard just looking at the old intro cartoons and laughing at them because he's forgotten all the stuff he used to do. It's not Episode 100, but that can't be far away.

Due to computer malfunctions this is the first Twitch Of Fun ever to be released without any kind of audience, leaving us in an uncanny valley which is both weird and revealing, freeing and constricting, hilarious and tragic. There's a new co-host, due to popular demand and Rich and one puppet or another cover Musk going mad, pornographic prison officers becoming pornographic prisoners, the 21 signs of sexual attraction, why the Duke of York is the only one who gets into trouble, Baldrick becoming Prime Minister and Elon buying Liverpool. Plus Egg Wallace, the Cock Ness Monster and a tribute to the Gard of Avon. This is NOT episode 100.

Twitch of Fun Christmas Eve Eve Special - Hawk Tuah. It's 23rd December 2024 and what better date for a Christmas Eve Eve Special of the show that no one has really been calling to come back? And it's an absolute spitshow full of technical difficulties, dropped props and a host with little to no memory of what the show involves. Ally and Herring cover the death of the star of Crocodile Dundee, the lady who had sex with 100 men in 16 hours, the lady who likes to spit on men's members and the man who likes to shoot people he doesn't like in the back. Which one do you think is seen as the hero? Plus a word from the Duke of York and Henry Hippo and two new characters, one of whom attempts to fit his entire head in an old character. You know you've missed it. But you won't feel that way once you've seen or listened to this one. It's not episode 100!

Twitch of Fun springs back to life for its 99th episode and it's a heartfelt tribute to the fallen of D Day, amongst other things. There's no pressure to be funny luckily and this is just a conversation between two old mates that encompasses Rupert Murdoch's ventriloquist dummy face, the escalation in the chocolate button war, the two words the Queen said to Fergiana, the destruction of the homes of two comedians and the deaths of a lookalike and a pop star. When will episode 100 hit? Who knows? Richard's tour might mean it's a little way away - Get your tickets here: http://richardherring.com/ballback/tour

An unexpected Wednesday Twitch of Fun from an overly tired Richard Herring, but those are usually the worst and thus the best ones. Ally and Herring discuss walking in Noel Edmonds' shoes, whether the Queen has a furry muff, why blood is like a butterfly, whether there's room for a Baby Reindeer character on the show, Terry's work with various David Copperfields, casting for the new Supergran and whether Jesus partly enjoyed himself of the cross. See Rich on tour - links here: http://richardherring.com/ballback/tour Bid on the eBay items here: https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_ssn=herring1967