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Russell Howard’s Five Brilliant Things

Adam Buxton

Russell Howard’s Five Brilliant Things

Avalon

Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.5567 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Adam Buxton, the OG, the Podfather, king of all things Pod is here and he’s not just brought Five Brilliant Things - he’s also brought a load of nearly-ran Brilliant Things!  Fascinating and funny as always, Adam takes us through why dinner is so important, how he’s unable to invent bedtime stories and which bird has a song like EDM.  It’s just great! An hour with Adam just flies by and you will come out amused, invigorated and fresh, like a shower if it was funny. 📚 Adam has got a new book out! It’s called I love you Byeee and it’s all about his time making the Adam and Joe show and (this is a quote) ‘the drug hell that led me to nearly dying in the arms of a comedy legend’… It’s the follow up to his Ramble Book, it will be excellent and you should get a copy now from this link here!  📚 📻 And of course, Adam does his weekly podcast which you can and should get in all your podcasts places. Here’s a link for the lazy-fingered amongst you. 📻  ✨ Aaaand if you like all this that we do, then you can get it unemcumbered by advertisements, and get an extra show every week for a small monthly cost. Find out what an insane bargain it is by clicking here. ✨  And that is all that nonsense. If you are still with me, congratulations, you are one of about four people in the world who stick to the end of the blurbs. It’s a real badge of honour and those other quitters don’t know what they are missing. It’s just us down here, me cranking out wordage and you, somehow addicted to this but at the same time wondering if it’s all a waste of time. Well it isn’t. Here, just for you hardy perennials, is a fun fact: Ketchup was originally sold as medicine. There you go. Your reward for reading to the end. Bye! Producer: Dan Atkinson Line Producer: Daisy Knight Exec Producer: James Taylor Composer: Fat Lady Music Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello, my friends, welcome to the show.

0:09.9

My guest today is a fantastic comedian, writer and podcast,

0:14.1

possibly the podfather of the UK.

0:17.7

It's Adam Buxton, and these are his five brilliant things.

0:28.8

Do you know what I love about this already? You're the first guest that we've had on this show

0:33.0

that is really well prepared. I like to be prepared. Yeah, I love it. I mean, the thing is that I might not refer to my notes at all,

0:42.8

but I like to know that they're there

0:45.2

because I've had one or two times when my brain's just completely failed me

0:49.7

and I'm just floundering.

0:51.8

In a sort of a live gig situation or just on a podcast?

0:57.0

In both.

0:59.1

Really?

0:59.7

In life, in general.

1:01.7

Every now and again, I just get completely, whoa, like a rabbit in the headlights.

1:09.3

And I freeze. Do you have like a rabbit and a headlights. And I freeze.

1:12.2

Do you have like a sort of a emoji switch to?

1:17.2

A beard scratch is always quite good.

1:19.4

It gives wisdom.

1:20.9

I mean, the thing is that, especially if you're being filmed, it's tough to do that.

1:26.4

So no, I'm just like, oh, that's my mode. Oh, I'm sad. I shouldn't really be doing this for a living. Hmm. Sometimes, though, especially if it's audio, a gap or a pause that can seem like an eternity to you is actually not that long. Yeah, it's funny, isn't it?

1:44.2

To people in the outside world.

1:46.1

But, you know, you just want to be the person who is able to summon facts and figures

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