Go Faster Stripe
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Filmmaking
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and distribution
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company that operates out of the Chapter Arts Centre
Chapter Arts Centre
Chapter Arts Centre is an arts centre in Canton, Cardiff, Wales. It hosts films, plays, performance art and live music, and includes a free art gallery, café and bars. There are also over 60 work spaces, used for an eclectic range of purposes including Chapter's own training courses.Income for...
, in Cardiff
Cardiff
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, Wales
Wales
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. The company specialises in the recording of live shows by stand-up comedians who, while in the public eye, may not normally be able to get a DVD released through a major label, who could require the artist to make changes to their show. For example, in Richard Herring
Richard Herring
Richard Keith Herring is a British comedian and writer, whose early work includes his involvement in the double-act, Lee and Herring...
's ménage à un, he talks explicitly about being masturbated via the hole in the hand of Jesus Christ, which would most likely have been edited for a mainstream DVD
DVD
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release. In an interview with Australia
Australia
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n comedy listings guide The Groggy Squirrel, Richard Herring said of Go Faster Stripe:
Go Faster don't tell us what we can or can't say and are happy to give faithful representations of the material
While DVDs are the main production medium of Go Faster Stripe, a recording of Stewart Lee
Stewart Lee
Stewart Lee is an English stand-up comedian, writer and director known for being one half of the 1990s comedy duo Lee and Herring, and for co-writing and directing the critically acclaimed and controversial stage show Jerry Springer - The Opera...
's Pea Green Boat was issued on CD
Compact Disc
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, and also on a limited edition 10" vinyl
Gramophone record
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pressing. They have also released a book by Richard Herring entitled Bye Bye Balham, which is a collection of the first couple of hundred days of Herring's daily blog
Blog
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.
In addition to Herring and Lee, the company has produced media for acts such as Simon Munnery
Simon Munnery
Simon Munnery, also known by his stagenames of Alan Parker: Urban Warrior and The League Against Tedium, is an English comedy writer and experimental standup comedian...
, Lucy Porter
Lucy Porter
Lucy Donna Porter is an English actress, writer and comedienne.She has performed at the Edinburgh Fringe, the Brighton Festival and many clubs around Britain. She has also a regular voice on BBC Radio 4 in various panel shows, including Quote.....
and Robin Ince
Robin Ince
Robin Ince is an English stand-up comedian, actor and writer. He is best known for presenting the BBC radio show The Infinite Monkey Cage .-Stand-up comedy:...
, with future releases set to include work by Paul Sinha.
History
When comedy fan Chris Evans (not that one) wished to purchase a DVD of comedian Stewart Lee's (co-writer of Jerry Springer: The OperaJerry Springer: The Opera
Jerry Springer: The Opera is a British musical written by Richard Thomas and Stewart Lee, based on the television show The Jerry Springer Show. The musical is notable for its profanity, its irreverent treatment of Judeo-Christian themes, and surreal images such as a troupe of tap-dancing Ku Klux...
) latest live show (90s Comedian) he learned there would not be one: the comic's previous release (Stewart Lee - Stand Up Comedian, released by 2 Entertain
2 Entertain
2 Entertain is a British video and music publisher, formed by the merger of BBC Video and Video Collection International in 2004....
) had sold insufficient copies for a major label to consider a future release profitable. Furthermore, the comedy website Chortle claimed that the show's controversial content dissuaded major distribution companies because of fear of retribution from the fundamentalist Christian movement.
However, Evans felt that the critically acclaimed show (Time Out enthused "should win the Booker prize") should be recorded for posterity and started the company.
The creator of Go Faster Stripe only asks comedians that he likes and believes the show needs to be recorded as historical documentation, he has asked Richard Herring to revisit several of his older shows for this very reason. So far around 50% of the comedians that have been approached by Go Faster Stripe have had their work recorded.
DVD titles released
- Robin InceRobin InceRobin Ince is an English stand-up comedian, actor and writer. He is best known for presenting the BBC radio show The Infinite Monkey Cage .-Stand-up comedy:...
- Robin Ince is as Dumb as You - Wil HodgsonWil HodgsonWil Hodgson is an English comedian. He has lived in Chippenham his whole life and began performing comedy in 2003. Prior to this he had worked part time as a lecturer at Wiltshire College and had a stint training to be a wrestler during which he participated in 30 man "Battle Royals".Hodgson is...
– Skinheads, Readers' Wives and My Little Ponies - Wil HodgsonWil HodgsonWil Hodgson is an English comedian. He has lived in Chippenham his whole life and began performing comedy in 2003. Prior to this he had worked part time as a lecturer at Wiltshire College and had a stint training to be a wrestler during which he participated in 30 man "Battle Royals".Hodgson is...
- Hatful of Hodgson - Lucy PorterLucy PorterLucy Donna Porter is an English actress, writer and comedienne.She has performed at the Edinburgh Fringe, the Brighton Festival and many clubs around Britain. She has also a regular voice on BBC Radio 4 in various panel shows, including Quote.....
– The Good Life - Richard HerringRichard HerringRichard Keith Herring is a British comedian and writer, whose early work includes his involvement in the double-act, Lee and Herring...
– ménage à un - Richard Herring – Oh Fuck, I'm 40!
- Richard Herring – Someone likes Yoghurt
- Richard Herring – Twelve Tasks of Hercules Terrace
- Richard Herring – The Headmaster's Son
- Richard Herring - As It Occurs To Me Secret Stand-up
- Richard Herring - Hitler Moustache (With bonus DVD not available in shops)
- Simon MunnerySimon MunnerySimon Munnery, also known by his stagenames of Alan Parker: Urban Warrior and The League Against Tedium, is an English comedy writer and experimental standup comedian...
– Hello - Stewart LeeStewart LeeStewart Lee is an English stand-up comedian, writer and director known for being one half of the 1990s comedy duo Lee and Herring, and for co-writing and directing the critically acclaimed and controversial stage show Jerry Springer - The Opera...
– 90s Comedian - Tony LawTony LawTony Law is a Canadian stand-up comedian. Born 20 September 1969 in Lacombe, Alberta, he is now based in London, UK.He is known for his highly surreal material & delivery, and 1950's Americana style of dress - favouring boots with turned up jeans & an impressive quiff.A lot of Tony's material...
– an hour and some of Tony Law - John HegleyJohn HegleyJohn Richard Hegley is an English performance poet, comedian, musician and songwriter.-Early life:He was born in the Newington Green area of Islington, London, England, into a Roman Catholic household. He was brought up in Luton and Bristol...
and Tony Curtis – A collection of ace songs - Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless PeopleNine Lessons and Carols for Godless PeopleNine Lessons and Carols for Godless People is a Christmas stage show celebrating a view of science. It was first run in 2008 at the Bloomsbury Theatre and re-run as The Return of Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People in 2009, then televised on BBC Four as Nerdstock: 9 Lessons and Carols for...
- John ShuttleworthJohn Shuttleworth (character)John Shuttleworth is a fictional singer-songwriter and radio presenter, created by English comedy actor and musician, Graham Fellows in 1986. Shuttleworth is in his late 40s and is from Walkley in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. He has a quiet manner and slightly nerdish tendencies...
- The Minor Tour - Craig Campbell - Death of a Badger
- Peacock Season
- Kevin Eldon - Is Titting Around
- Andrew CollinsAndrew Collins (broadcaster)Andrew Collins is the creator and writer of Radio 4 sitcom Mr Blue Sky. His TV writing work includes EastEnders and the sitcoms Grass and Not Going Out .-Personal life:Collins was a member of the Labour Party between the late 1980s and early 1990s, leaving after Labour's...
- Secret Dancing - Baba BrinkmanBaba Brinkman"Baba" Dirk Murray Brinkman Jr is a Canadian rapper and playwright best known for recordings and performances that combine hip hop music with literature, theatre and science.- Biography :...
- The Rap Guide To Human Nature - Simon DonaldSimon DonaldSimon Donald is a co-founder and was co-editor of the British comic magazine Viz until 2003.He set up the magazine in 1979 with his brother Chris from a bedroom in Newcastle. His most famous creation for the magazine is probably Sid the Sexist....
- Comic to Comic
CD titles released
- Stewart LeeStewart LeeStewart Lee is an English stand-up comedian, writer and director known for being one half of the 1990s comedy duo Lee and Herring, and for co-writing and directing the critically acclaimed and controversial stage show Jerry Springer - The Opera...
- Pea Green Boat - Stewart LeeStewart LeeStewart Lee is an English stand-up comedian, writer and director known for being one half of the 1990s comedy duo Lee and Herring, and for co-writing and directing the critically acclaimed and controversial stage show Jerry Springer - The Opera...
- The Jazz Cellar Tape CD - Andrew CollinsAndrew Collins (broadcaster)Andrew Collins is the creator and writer of Radio 4 sitcom Mr Blue Sky. His TV writing work includes EastEnders and the sitcoms Grass and Not Going Out .-Personal life:Collins was a member of the Labour Party between the late 1980s and early 1990s, leaving after Labour's...
- Where Did It All Go Right? - Collings and HerrinCollings and Herrin (podcast)The Collings and Herrin Podcast was a topical podcast produced by broadcaster Andrew Collins and comedian Richard Herring. Its title derives from the recurring Richard Herring trope of misspelling names for comic effect....
- The Best of Earth, Wind and Fire (and Water) - Collings and HerrinCollings and Herrin (podcast)The Collings and Herrin Podcast was a topical podcast produced by broadcaster Andrew Collins and comedian Richard Herring. Its title derives from the recurring Richard Herring trope of misspelling names for comic effect....
- War and Peace, Crime and Punishment - Kevin Eldon, Simon MunnerySimon MunnerySimon Munnery, also known by his stagenames of Alan Parker: Urban Warrior and The League Against Tedium, is an English comedy writer and experimental standup comedian...
- Mr Bartlett and Mr Willis - Richard HerringRichard HerringRichard Keith Herring is a British comedian and writer, whose early work includes his involvement in the double-act, Lee and Herring...
- AIOTM - The Complete Cumpkin