Can I Have My Ball Back?: A memoir of masculinity, mortality and my right testicle

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This exclusive recording includes 4 audio extras that are unique to the audiobook, including interviews with Richard’s wife Catie and oncologist Dr Sharma. Twenty years ago, Richard Herring had a hit with Talking Cock, a stand-up show all about the penis that was licensed around the world and spawned a successful book. Most men's testicles are about the same size, but it's common for one to be slightly bigger than the other.

Another couple fought their neighbour for ten years after he said they had the "ugliest fence ever" - before it ended in tragedy.

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I do listen to Richard Herring’s podcasts (yes, even the Stone Clearing ones) so wasn’t surprised at the more eccentric chapters. If you find a lump or swelling, or have any of the above signs, it's important to get it checked out by a doctor. A family claim their nightmare neighbour hated their fence so much she tried to tear it down - even though they'd done nothing wrong. It’s episode 8 of CIHMBB and Richard’s journey has taken him to meet his oncologist, Dr Arnand Sharma for the first time, who seems excited to meet the star of Taskmaster.His honesty stretches from describing the very male reluctance to have the anomaly he spotted seen to (even though he was once part of a campaign encouraging men to do just that) to a form of survivors’ guilt that he got off lightly from his scrape with cancer compared to others. He then forcefully headbutts and shoves the man - sending him flying off his doorstep onto his parked car.

Can I Have My Ball Back: A Memoir of Masculinity, Mortality and My Right Testicle is published by Sphere – who else? primarily charts his journey through the diagnoses and treatment he underwent last year, but addressed with the lightest of touches.These sections are similar in tone to Talking Cock, in mocking the mythology around the testicles – as well as containing more elaborate euphemisms for the love spuds than you’ll find outside Roger’s Profanisaurus. Telling Rich's personal story alongside an exploration of what defines masculinity and 'maleness' in society, Can I Have My Ball Back? This exclusive recording includes 4 audio extras that are unique to the audiobook, including interviews with Richard's wife Catie and oncologist Dr Sharma.

The comic is also prone to going off on tangents – no surprise if you’re aware of his work online – and describes in some detail the monumental futility of his quest to clear a field near him of every last stone (and manages to get the reader invested in that activity) or the discordant jingle of a advert for reclining chairs.A clip shared on Twitter begins with a man ringing the doorbell twice - then covering the camera with his palm. The idea he could be replaced in his wife Catie’s affections played much more for laughs as he imagines some smarmy mustachioed lothario quaffing his precious single-malt whiskey. As someone who follows Rich's career and someone who is going through testicle-related nonsense myself currently, this was a familiar experience. For the podcast Richard gets to interview Dr Sharma to get his side of the story and find out where the excised ball is and the truth about whether Dr Sharma really knew who Richard was. Whether they're nuts, bollocks, gonads or family jewels; from the phrase 'grow some balls' to infamous WWII songs about Hitler; Rich unpicks the tangle of emotions around his own testing times.