night he had to stifle giggles during a rendition of Goris' "Send In the Clowns" to the disapproval of audience members, he found out later that it was a song about date rape. Italy In Rome "Il Pene Parlante" was performed by Diego Ruiz with added political jokes about Silvio Berlusconi. France Michel Leeb performed the French version, it had a highly successful six-month run entitled "Qu'est-ce que Sexe". Leeb's performance was released on DVD in 2004. Book The book was released in the UK, Russia and the USA. Like the stand up show, the book features statistics gathered by Herring in two long running online polls, one for men and another for women, exploring their thoughts about the penis asking questions such as "Has [fathering any children] altered your perspective on your penis?" and "Have you ever faked an orgasm." Herring used these to reveal that many stereotypes about men and their feelings towards their genitals are false. The book explores sex education, the penis's role throughout history and culture, parenting, circumcision, masturbation, sexual orientation, anxiety and penis worship. Talking Cock Ebury Press (2003) reprinted (2012) Podcast Herring, known as being a prolific podcaster with such shows as As It Occurs To Me and Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast published the Talking Cock podcast from February to May 2013 to run alongside his second national tour of the show. He used it to promote his tour dates often reading large sections from the book. There were eleven episodes in total. References Stand-up comedy on DVD Human penis 2000s in comedy