Russell Howard
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1,397 appearances
9 recordings
5 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard 26 Feb
Russell Howard’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Oh, God, I don't know. I think I just wanted to learn. I think I wanted to just go to school. I think I'm interested in every—I feel like I could do lots of things. Right. You know, I'm curious, you know, but I'm generally agreeable. You know, I'm curious about a lot.
I wasn't. Were you?
Wait, wait, Jason, wait. Have you read, because I actually, speaking of the creepy kid actors, which by the way, all kid actors, the whole thing is so creepy. But there's this amazing book that someone gave me, which I loved. Are you familiar with Sarah Pauly at all?
Now she's a director, but, you know, kid actor. She wrote this book called Run Towards the Danger, which is a collection of stories. And it's sort of unraveling her time and the kind of understanding what that was all like. Of being a kid actor. Yeah. And a lot of other things.
But I do think it affects you and speaks probably to a little bit of what Will is saying, like what he's seeing as like work ethic. But I just think when you're a kid actor, you know, you have to show up.
You're not allowed to have the flu. Right. You're not allowed to... Yeah. You fucking show up and you do it and you, you know, you don't complain.
Yeah. You're adultified. So...
I wake up in the morning and I do something immediately. You know, I do hopefully like something outside, even if it's cold, some kind of physical activity really helps me. Even if I'm, you know, sometimes it just overtakes and you're like, fuck it, here I am. You know what really helped me?
One of the first times, this is absolutely true, right at the beginning of Felicity Times, before I had ever had to do any of that stuff, I had to go on a talk show. My first talk show was, Rosie O'Donnell had a talk show back then. I think it was like a daytime talk show. Yeah, it was. I had never done anything like that. I kind of am a nervous person in that situation anyway. Oh, wow.
And it's like, it's a lot of energy coming toward you and the stage and all the people and blah, blah, blah. Yeah, yeah. I got back there and the stage manager is like, come over here, come over here. And I was like, uh-oh, uh-oh, it's overtaking me. Here it comes. And the stage manager must have told Rosie O'Donnell, who was so lovely, like she's nervous.
So she came back and was like, hey, are you nervous? And I was like, oh, no, no. And so I went out. This is really absolutely true. I went out. She was being completely nice. But as I was answering questions going, yes, I'm from Colorado, a tear rolled.
I watched the interview. I'm smiling, and I just gently wipe it away. I'm from Colorado. I'm having a full panic. I go back to the hotel, which was, you know, they flew you to New York and did the whole thing. And I locked myself in the bathroom, and I was just mortified that I had done such a bad job and was so embarrassed. Wow. and beating up on myself.
And my awesome friend, Canadian friend, Will Arnett would love, we had gone out for drinks after or like maybe the next day. And I remember Alana said, I said, oh my God, I did such a bad job on this thing. You know, I was so bad. And she said, you know who I just saw on David Letterman? Kim Basinger was on David Letterman. And she was so nervous.
And I remember I liked her so much because I thought I would be nervous on that thing, too. It's very real. It made me, like, stop hating the nervousness about myself so much. And I went, I'm nervous. Like, what are you going to fucking do? Yeah. And people who are like so – no offense to everyone who's so funny and – but, you know, because you guys are all so good at it.
You guys are so good at it. But not everyone is so good at all this.
Will, you are very easy though in front of people.
I didn't know that. Wait, where did you go?
Okay, but like what area, sorry, where in?
Like up by Muskoka?
Okay, okay.
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