Adam Buxton
Russell Howard’s Five Brilliant Things
Avalon
4.5 • 567 Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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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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