"The Headmasters Son" was slightly different to Rich's last stand ups as rather than focusing on mid life crises, this was a hark back to Richard's days at school and having to live with the fact that his dad was the headmaster of his school.
I won't give too many of the jokes away but some of them involved extracts from Richard's very own personal diary from around the time.
A bit like this site to an extent in terms of opinion, but the major difference was what that Richard's diary was actually funny.
There were also a few jokes based around masturbation and paedophilia which as you'd expect I found sidesplitting, as well as the obligatory Grange Hill references which go back to when he was with Stewart Lee.
One part that I liked was when Rich revealed that he used to play the trumpet in the brass band for a very short period of time and the only tune he learnt to play was "Geno" by Dexy's Midnight Runners and even gave a short rendition of it which got a good reception from the audience.
It reminds me of the scene in the superb "That Summer Day" from 2006 dramatising the London bombings where the school's brass band were practising a rendition of The Scissor Sisters "Filthy/Gorgeous".
I'd have loved to have learnt the trumpet at an earlier age, and it's not too late although I think you'd all know what the first tune I'd attempt to learn would be.
And no, it's certainly not the Open University theme.
The finale consisted of an imaginary argument between the Richard Herring of today and his equivalent at 16 years old which was done basically by switching from facing one side to another.
Rich mentioned that he'd achieved a lot of things including presenting Top Of The Pops although not many of the bands on there were that memorable, especially as Robson and Jerome were Number 1.
Although as you'll hear from this clip of the show opening, the first band they introduced really was quite something, especially when introduced by two of the funniest men around.
After the show had finished I had a chat to the man himself at the bar and spoke about Top of The Pops as you'd expect, as well as Twitter and how he's getting over podcast partner Andrew Collin's departure from the site.
Not to mention a fellow Tweeter moaning about his swearing, which is rather ironic considering he knows how to make swearing hilarious without overdoing it.
And as hoped for I got a photo with Rich which proves that I'm crap at posing as always, like in the one I was in with Tony Blackburn.
It's an early start tomorrow due to my appointment at Laurel House, so I've just finshed packing a few things to take back including CD's I've already ripped onto my external hard drive, and a few books to read on the train. Provided I'm awake.
I may stay over the whole weekend as there's hardly anything worth staying for, and I just want a rest from dubbing whilst being present at all times, and the bleeding dissertation.
Although I will send Ana a copy of my latest draft which will probably get poo pooed as I usually expect.
Finally tonight, inspired by Comedy Dave's dreadful pastiche on The Chris Moyles show, a video containing various extracts from an edition of Blockbusters in the late 80s.
One of them being a failed Gold Run and that bit of music.
To be honest the beginning of "Everyday" by Incognito sounds a tiny bit similar, in terms of synthyness, only it's a lot more postive looking and builds up into the main tune.
And near the end of the clip there's the legendary hand jive although as the clip is from 1987, thankfully it doesn't include the rather sinister (in my opinion) Central animated endcap which it introduced after frontcaps were dropped by ITV at the start of 1988.
Although as I've mentioned before, it didn't last long as the generic ITV branding launched in September the following year saw them being dropped as well.
As Nick Ross would say, "Don't have nightmares".
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