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

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For far from being a death sentence, testicular cancer has a 98 per cent survival rate – a statistic Herring wishes he’d known from the start – and his chemotherapy was a minor inconvenience rather than a life-changing upheaval. A clip shared on Twitter begins with a man ringing the doorbell twice - then covering the camera with his palm.

Is out in paperback this week (the perfect Christmas gift for the testicle owner or user in your family). Herring’s instinct is to make a joke about anything – one coping mechanism was to make a ventriloquist’s doll that looked like a swollen bollock for his online series – but occasionally the reminder of his mortality becomes acute, especially when he considers how much of his children’s formative years he might miss out on.

These are normally based on their metaphorical links to fortitude – despite being famously not very pain-resilient at all – which is why Hitler having only one of them was such a powerful wartime burn. 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. About fifteen years ago, Richard Herring first took part in a campaign to encourage men to have a little (non-sexual) feel of their balls every now and again. 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.

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. 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. A family claim their nightmare neighbour hated their fence so much she tried to tear it down - even though they'd done nothing wrong.He even manages to film Taskmaster’s Champion Of Champions soon after treatment, and credits cancer with extending his life, as now he pays at least some attention to his health. And he was quite right: there’s great material in here, underpinned with real emotions and with every absurdity, both his own and the treatment’s, offered up for ridicule.

He then forcefully headbutts and shoves the man - sending him flying off his doorstep onto his parked car. 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. For a man whose output includes a stand-up tour titled Talking Cock and who regularly interrogates our attitudes towards masculinity, it was a diagnosis that came with additional layers of complexity.As someone who follows Rich's career and someone who is going through testicle-related nonsense myself currently, this was a familiar experience. Most men's testicles are about the same size, but it's common for one to be slightly bigger than the other. But it was embarrassing and weird, and if there was something wrong, he didn’t want to know about it. The Sun", "Sun", "Sun Online" are registered trademarks or trade names of News Group Newspapers Limited.

Remember you can always share any sound with your friends on social media and other apps or upload your own sound clip. 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. 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.THE shocking moment a man headbutts a neighbour when he asks for his ball back has been captured in terrifying Blink doorcam footage. Telling Rich’s personal story alongside an exploration of what defines masculinity and ‘maleness’ in society, Can I Have My Ball Back? Can I Have My Ball Back: A Memoir of Masculinity, Mortality and My Right Testicle is published by Sphere – who else?