Russell Howard

I think if anyone introduced themselves as a monkey and then went, I'm only fucking around.

I'm a singer from Manchester.

Then I think the audience is allowed to go, okay, why?

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

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

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.