Russell Howard

It's so interesting because Robbie Williams is a massive pop star in the UK and Europe and Australia, but never kind of made it to the United States. And I thought that as well. I was in LA last week and saw these huge hundred foot posters of Robbie as a monkey. And I thought that's an odd selling point because presumably if America does fall in love with the Simeon version of

Why?

Yeah, I don't know.

But I was surprised how big the posters were because... Yeah, they're huge.

But it's a bit like, you know, Seinfeld isn't particularly big in the UK.

It just never quite translated, which is mind-blowing to, you know, Americans.

But that culture of kind of sitting in cafes talking about cereal, that didn't exist in the 90s, you know.

And obviously people, loads of people are into it, but it isn't the...

it just doesn't have the same resonance, you know, in the way that something like Friends, Friends was massive, you know, or there was a show in the UK called Only Fools and Horses, which is without doubt the biggest British sitcom of all time.

They're going to be so disappointed when they actually go to see Robbie Williams and go, oh, it's just a man. Because it would be bewildering to see a monkey with the ability that Robbie's got.

They're going to be so disappointed when they actually go to see Robbie Williams and go, oh, it's just a man. Because it would be bewildering to see a monkey with the ability that Robbie's got.

They're going to be so disappointed when they actually go to see Robbie Williams and go, oh, it's just a man. Because it would be bewildering to see a monkey with the ability that Robbie's got.

And yet nobody, well, that's it.

Well, this is it. Well, this is the problem I think he's inadvertently stumbled into.

Well, this is it. Well, this is the problem I think he's inadvertently stumbled into.

Well, this is it. Well, this is the problem I think he's inadvertently stumbled into.

But you've got to, you know what I mean?

You've got to find it.

As an American, you have to find it.

the the film goes massive there's gonna be lots of really giddy americans rocking up presumably with bananas and tires just to fling them at him to see what tricks he can do but the british uh fans i think we find it really interesting because it's a bit like um i mean he's huge it's you know he's as big as ed sheeran in this country so it would be