This Morning with Richard Not Judy — Season 2
About this season
This Morning With Richard Not Judy or TMWRNJ is a BBC comedy television programme, written by and starring Lee and Herring. Two series were broadcast in 1998 and 1999 on BBC2. The name was a satirical reference to ITV's This Morning which was at the time popularly referred to as This Morning with Richard and Judy. The show was a reworking of old material from their previous work together along with new characters. The show was hosted in a daytime chat show format in front of a live studio audience, although it featured a small proportion of pre-recorded location inserts. It was structured by the often strange obsessions of Richard Herring; examples include his rating of the milk of all creatures and attempting to popularise the acronym of the show. The show featured repetition, with regular and vigilant viewers being rewarded by jokes that would make no sense to casual viewers. The show seemed to oscillate between the intellectual and puerile. However, irony was often used, even though the citing of irony as an excuse was mocked by the show's stars in one of many self-referential jokes.
Episodes (10)
1. Episode 1
Aired 21 March 1999 • 45 min
Rich and Stew reminisce about the 1970s. When things get knocked over, spill, or fall out of cupboards, Beetroot, Noel Edmunds and Mr. Blobby an extra final scene from "Titanic"
2. Episode 2
Aired 28 March 1999 • 45 min
This week's lazy joke: ""28 years old, I was."" Extra final scene: Trainspotting.
3. Episode 3
Aired 11 April 1999 • 45 min
This week's lazy joke: ""and then I got off the bus."" Extra final scene: Thelma & Louise.
4. Episode 4
Aired 18 April 1999 • 45 min
Simon Quinlank returns. Lazy joke: puns in British sitcom titles.
5. Episode 5
Aired 25 April 1999 • 45 min
Unusual Preist "If you sow barley" Hunger Strike, Sunday Heroes Vineyard Extra final scene: Alien Resurrection.
6. Episode 6
Aired 2 May 1999 • 45 min
"I'm Julia Roberts" Unusual Priest "What will your friends think?" Beetroot Again, Yashmaks Bible Heroes: Lazarus, Curious Alien, Corrs Shrine, Extra final scene: Planet of the Apes.
7. Episode 7
Aired 9 May 1999 • 45 min
Climbers, Marilyn Manson, Richard agrees to be a spokesman for cress. Unusual Priest: Jew and Sabbath, Quinlank or Internet, More Cress...much more, Cress Sex, Curious Alien and Curious Orange. Sunday Heroes- Temptation.
8. Episode 8
Aired 23 May 1999 • 45 min
Hale and Pace? Unusual Priest: Vanity, Vanity all is Vanity, Extra final scene: Braveheart. Lazy joke: And that was just the teachers ... aaah. History of GCSE'S,MCCress Advert, Sunday Heroes: Ian, When things fall over in a beer garden.
9. Episode 9
Aired 6 June 1999 • 45 min
Lazy programming: puns on actors' surnames. Extra final scene: Blues Brothers 2000.
10. Episode 10
Aired 13 June 1999 • 45 min
Stewart loses his power by wearing a jumper made by his gran. Extra final scene: Se7en. The Curious Orange becomes Davros from Doctor Who.