Janine Harouni

Russell Howard’s Five Brilliant Things

Avalon

Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.5 • 566 Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2026

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Blisteringly talented comedian Janine Harouni is in the studio this week picking out the things that make her happy which include nerds, digital clocks… and a great story about how to get her thighs to stop squeaking in front of Robert Pattinson. It’s all in here, so please enjoy at your leisure! Janine’s current tour is called ‘This is What you Waited For’ and we waited a bit too long to promote this one because there’s only a handful of dates left: Birmingham on May 8th and Manchester on May 22nd, but hey - if you’re in those places then get yourself a ticket from https://www.janineharouni.com 🎟️ And please do go to see Russell while he’s on tour with his latest show that’s busting out some rave reviews: Don’t miss this fantastic show of all brand-new material. Find out more at https://www.russell-howard.co.uk 🎟️ That’s the end of this week’s feast of comedy. We dab away the jokes from the corners of our mouths with a fancy napkin and we scrape back our chairs to retire to the smoking lounge where we light up fat cigars and talk about grown-up stuff. Producer: Dan Atkinson Line Producer: Daisy Knight Exec Producer: James Taylor Composer: Fat Lady Music Go to https://surfshark.com/russell or use code RUSSELL at checkout to get 4 extra months of Surfshark VPN! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:44.1	Thank you. do it the right way with Indeed. Hello, my friends, welcome to Five Brilliant Things,
0:46.4	where I talk to amazing people about the things they love.
0:49.5	My guest today is a very funny American stand-up and actor
0:52.6	who's been nominated twice for the Edinburgh Comedy Award.
0:56.1	It's Janine Haruni and Here are Five Brilliant Things.
1:08.2	How are things?
1:09.4	Good. Yeah.
1:10.4	What you've been up to this weekend, take me through it?
1:12.9	Oh boy, long weekend with no daycare.
1:15.3	So just running around.
1:16.2	My husband's been sick.
1:17.4	So I've just been basically solo parenting.
1:19.9	Do you find this that when your partner is not well and you're looking after the baby on your own, that you hate your partner?
1:25.9	That hate my partner.
1:27.0	Yeah.
1:44.6	And I feel bad. I know he's sick, but I'm just like... It's funny. It happens so like my wife has a far more robust... I think that's a kind of body than... I think, but it's kind of been proven that women have stronger immune systems. I think it's part and parcel with like having to go through pregnancy only the sort of strong survives. Of course. Yeah, exactly. But yeah, I had a cold this week
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