In a bumper version of our regular feature, three comics at this year’s Edinburgh fringe – Richard Herring, Desiree Burch and Kiell Smith-Bynoe – share the cultural moments that changed their lives for ever
The Young Ones arrived at exactly the right time. I was 15, and a weird mixture of studious and smart but also disruptive in class. I was also extremely virginal – both fascinated and terrified by the idea of having sex and in no danger of doing so for another half a decade. I was basically Rick.