Andrew Collins' Banter
Banter is the comedy show in which the nation’s finest comedy talent come up with their definitive ‘Top Threes’.
Three highly opinionated regular panelists Richard Herring, Russell Howard and Will Smith, and their host Andrew Collins fight it out, gaining points for entertaining arguments and audience pleasing choices, with categories covering anything from science to cinema, and from playwrights to Playstation.

Banter was devised by Tim Barber and is produced for Radio 4 by Avalon.

It is included here on this site as Richard Herring features in every episode.
In many ways, he is Alan Davies to Andrew Collins' Stephen Fry, though he'd probably hate that comparison.

It has since been piloted for television, under the new name "Rule of Three" with Rebecca Front taking over the role of host.

Banter - Pilot Episode - 30th August 2005

Richard Herring, Will Smith, Lucy Porter, Russell Howard -
Banter - Series One - 2006

S01E01 - 26th Jan - Richard Herring, Russell Howard, Will Smith, Jenny Eclair -
S01E02 - 2nd Feb - Simon Day, Lynn Ferguson, Richard Herring, Will Smith -
S01E03 - 9th Feb - Natalie Haynes, Richard Herring, Russell Howard, Arthur Smith -
S01E04 - 16th Feb - Chris Addison, Richard Herring, Russell Howard, Sue Perkins -
S01E05 - 23 Feb - Lynn Ferguson, Dave Gorman, Richard Herring, Will Smith -
S01E06 - 2nd March - Jenny Eclair, Richard Herring, Russell Howard, Will Smith -
Banter - Series Two - 2006

S02E01 - 4th Oct - Richard Herring, Russell Howard, Lucy Porter, Arthur Smith -
S02E02 - 11th Oct - Rob Deering, Lynn Ferguson, Richard Herring, Russell Howard -
S02E03 - 18th Oct - Barry Cryer, Richard Herring, Sue Perkins, Will Smith -
S02E04 - 25th Oct - Richard Herring, Russell Howard, Lee Mack, Julia Morris -
S02E05 - 1st Nov - Chris Addison, Natalie Haynes, Richard Herring, Will Smith -
S02E06 - 8th Nov - Lynn Ferguson, Richard Herring, Russell Howard, Will Smith -
Banter - Series Three - 2008

S03E01 - 3rd April - Dave Gorman, Richard Herring, Russell Howard, Dillie Keane -
S03E02 - 10th April - Jenny Eclair, Richard Herring, Russell Howard, Arthur Smith -
S03E03 - 17th April - Natalie Haynes, Richard Herring, Russell Howard, Will Smith -
S03E04 - 24th April - Miranda Hart, Richard Herring, Russell Howard, Will Smith -
S03E05 - 1st May - Chris Addison, Jenny Eclair, Richard Herring, Will Smith -
S03E06 - 8th May - Lynn Ferguson, Tim Vine, Richard Herring, Will Smith -