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The Comedian's Comedian Podcast

170 - Russell Howard

The Comedian's Comedian Podcast

Stuart Goldsmith

Jokes, How To, Society & Culture, Writing, Burr, Carr, Comedy, Interview, Cope, Arts, Acaster, In-depth, Performing Arts, Widdicombe, Learn, Persona

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2016

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

Star of "Good News" and "Stand-up Central" as well as a former "Mock the Week" team captain, Russell Howard is also one of the UK's most electrifying live performers. In this unusually candid interview, he exposes the unique pressures of fronting your own TV show, uncovers whether his success has made him happy, and we find out what you say to yourself after walking offstage at Wembley Arena...


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0:18.0

Hello, Stue here. This isn't an ad. This is me telling you that you have got to get hold of a copy of Adam Blooms book, Finding Your Comic Genius. It's just so great, and I want everyone to buy it for everyone else for Christmas. We discuss it in detail on episode 437 and at the time of recording this it has 66 5-star reviews out of 66 reviews on Amazon.

0:21.2

So go and find Adam Bloom's book, Repeat. This is not an ad and I'm not

0:24.7

being remunerated. Or remunerated. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber.

0:42.0

So you can order your own fries instead of eating everyone else's.

0:46.0

Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app.

0:59.6

This episode of the Comedians comedian podcast is very proud to be brought to you by James Acaster's Sweet Home Landsteineringa, which is a new comedy documentary web series from the people at

1:05.0

Turtle Canyon comedy. Now you probably already know them. They do loads of stuff

1:08.9

with some of the UK's most exciting new comedy talent people like Harriet Kemsley and Jack Barry

1:16.2

Evelyn Mock Will Duggan, Mark Smith they and David Trent of course they produce all manner of fun bullshit and do a I say fun bullshit they do it to a very high quality very organized kind of extent

1:28.0

The whole shebang is run by a mysterious triumvirate of people one of whom I know Stuart Laws a brilliant

1:34.8

stand up in his own right and turtle canyon comedy you could find them at

1:38.8

YouTube dot com forward slash turtle canyon comedy and but they produced loads and loads of different things.

1:44.0

Last year or the year before they produced Sweet Home Ketteringa, which was James Acaster going back

1:50.0

to his hometown of Kettering, and I'm not going to call it like a spoof

1:53.8

documentary or a pseudo or a quasi documentary it basically is a real documentary it's

1:58.8

just done in an incredibly James Acasterish way and I think that's what

2:02.4

Turtle Canyon are really good at doing

2:04.6

is giving people like working with people to find a platform where they can do their

2:09.0

thing in their way now Acaster as you know brilliant comic responsible some very very funny stuff and so the episode

2:16.0

what series one was called Sweet Home Ketteringa and series two is called Sweet Home

2:20.9

Landstein a Ringa where James in a very James kind of way

2:25.0

dragged a film crew to Germany to visit the twin town of Kettering, the

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