Episode #682: Squeegee your third eye and listen to the UK's 2013 pity fuck! Jeff doesn’t laugh! Frankie B A food porn channel? Our rickety studio Robbie Williams Culture that doesn’t crossover The LA fires Flux in America Covid for Russell Squeegeeing your third eye The line between roasting and rude UK’s weirdest crush of 2013 Naked Attraction Special Guest: Russell Howard Special: Live At The London Palladium Russell’s Tour Russell’s Podcast: Five Brilliant Things Russell’s YouTube channel To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Who is Russell Howard and why is he important?
But yeah, but I imagine you were a saving grace for a lot of people also because you were some kind of real connection on the TV that was actually going through it. Have you ever seen The Morning Show on Apple TV? Have you seen this? No. So Jennifer Aniston plays a morning show. Yes, I've seen, yeah, I've heard of it.
So there's a whole plot line where she starts doing the show from her bedroom because she has COVID.
Right.
And when I read this about you, I was like, he's the real life morning show, Jennifer Aniston. You're, the Russell Howard hour, you're like, what, you were 200 hours into this or something?
Yeah, we kind of, I think we, yeah, that show doesn't run anymore, but we, God, we did. You do specials? We're just doing the specials. We did like, oh, how many flipping heck? Like, I think we did 10 series of it. And before that we did like eight series of a show called Russell Howard's Good News. So yeah, it was kind of, it was a long old, long old time, but I loved it.
It's kind of, there's a weird, I think cause satire has kind of migrated over time. to the internet. It just isn't, the resale isn't there. So that's kind of why they don't really get made in the UK anymore. So we don't, we had an election and we had no kind of topical comedy, which is a bit of a shame.
I think the show is brilliant. Check it out on YouTube. Yeah, there's loads of it.
Yeah, there's a lot of it. And what's funny is the news is so cyclical. So you can, you know, it's amazing. Yes, you're right about that. Watching clips of it and going, oh my God, how is this still happening? How did this come back around? It's so fascinating. But that's kind of where I guess I kind of cut my teeth properly.
So Russell, you in your new special, which is brilliant, by the way, thank you for providing a script. I know it's out now as this show will be released. It's out now. It's on a platform called Drift. Is that right? That's right. You can stream it.
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