Russell Howard
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1,397 appearances
9 recordings
5 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard 26 Feb
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It's probably like being a sculptor or a musician or a filmmaker or a screenwriter or whatever it is. But you sort of, when you find that valve that you can hiss your madness out of. And that's the great thing about standup that when people laugh to me, it makes me feel like that they're going, you're not mad. It's fine. Because yes, that's right. You have, but that's all I do. I just, I kind of,
wander around and uh occasionally my brain will whisper to me and i kind of write it down in my phone and then i kind of go on stage and see whether it's it's interesting but i i wouldn't have it any other way it's not a particularly you know useful way to live your life but i am i think bill hicks called it the third eye yeah and it's like squeegeeing the third eye i'm pretty good at the third eye you know what i mean if like even in the midst of something i can kind of
sort of observe myself or kind of i remember getting mugged when i was younger and even as it was happening i was like it's gonna be pretty funny like do you know what i mean i do yeah and it's not it's not kind of you know it's not the best way to be but you're it's kind of like the eyes go slightly kind of like cloudy and you're kind of you know that kind of right
But, you know, I bet you it's the same with loads of people where we all kind of drift off. And then I'm fortunate that I get into this, you know, place where I can just, like, even the other day, we're on holiday in Australia, which is a brilliant country. And obviously, we've got my son with me. And there was lots of pregnant women and their partners there doing the kind of baby moon thing.
I don't know if you have that. Yeah, I've been on one. The sort of last holiday, yeah, really good fun. And I was thinking, sort of in my head going, because if you were at an adult-only resort and you were pregnant, but you gave birth...
like would you still be allowed to stay like do you know what i mean depends on what kind of adults only uh well yeah it wasn't it wasn't a swinging thing but i'm sort of like but you know when like kids aren't welcome i was just and in my head i just started like laughing at the image of that holiday's over yeah but that's what i mean of like it's a boy get out what
Exactly. But the point is, I was just alone in my own head. And then I just wrote it down on my phone. And it's like, I'm sure I'll go to a gig at some stage and see if I can knock that into something.
Yeah. I used to do loads when I was younger, but I don't really like... I don't like picking on people. I've never really been into that of like kind of, you know, rinsing the front row. Like roasting doesn't really, like English people, we're mean behind each other's backs. Like we would never say.
That's what I mean. But the roast, that culture just, I mean, it's beginning to, it's sort of slightly changing, but I kind of think sometimes there, there is a, there's a fine line between an excellent diss and just being rude to somebody.
you know what I mean and it just it always makes me feel a bit icky if you're just if you're kind of like the high status comic who's the expert and you you know you're basically calling someone's mum a whore you know what I mean and it just feels very kind of like eh
whole podcast filled with people who do that yeah but it's but but I think that thing of when something happens like organically I've always been pretty good at like I was doing a show in um where was I I was I was in uh Denmark in a place called Aalborg um and I said, you know, what's been happening in Alborg? What's the latest? And this lady went, we shot two elephants. I said, what?
And I said, like, what, the Eulot or that? And she was like, no, no, no, the government. I said, why? A zoo. And she's like, why was that? And she went, well, one of the animals, one of the elephants was sick. Okay. And so the other one, like, and she was like, well, we didn't want him to be lonely. So it's so bleak.
So then that became this whole thing of like, you know, you should never work for social services. Do you know what I mean? Never, never, never work a suicide hotline. But the point is it kind of, I love it when you can make something that's happened organically, then it has to become part of the show. So yeah,
the whole kind of evening was interlinked with this kind of sort of knowledge of, you know, of how they dealt with problems. But I don't, I love, I love improvising within my own head and kind of trying to kind of create a bit of magic, but I just don't, I'm not into that whole kind of, you know, slamming people. I don't have, if somebody, if somebody heckles me, fine. That's one thing.
But I don't kind of go looking for the front row. You know what I mean? Because weirdly, I went to see a comedian. And my PA, Andy, booked me the tickets. And she's lovely, but she kind of got me them. It was like the third row, right in the middle.
And it was really, but what was interesting, it was really interesting to feel that fear. Yes. Like, and I didn't want that. I was like going, God, and I'm a comedian. I know, you know, and yet in my head, I'm going, Oh God, Oh God, Oh God, Oh God. And I just thought it must be so awful for people. Like some people must love it.
And of course, but, but some people must be sat there just praying that they're not going to be eviscerated. So it just made me think.
okay that's a valid form of comedy but it would kill me but I don't the thing that interests me is how do you sleep because you just at night like my brain does that anyway my brain does that you know who did I hurt what did I do wrong yeah but I'll be trying to go to sleep and my brain will remind me of some thing I did when I was 16 yes do you know what I mean like do you remember that yes I do do you remember that outside the pub yeah what a dick what an asshole yeah yeah and just it reminds you of these cringe moments
So I can't imagine if you had a career where you were just like, remember that time? I'm pretty sure she was crying. Do you know what I mean? Yeah, I already feel bad. And it's just not, I don't know. It's easy, but it's just not as interesting as trying to kind of zone in on stuff. Agreed.
Yeah, probably. I'm certainly, yeah, I'm definitely in the top.
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