Well, hello, Chris Evans here.

Welcome to this week's edition of The Best of the Breakfast Show podcast with our pals at Sky from Virgin Radio.

Coming up, the hilarious Russell Howard chats his brand new travel and comedy show stands up to the world on Sky One, acting superstar Mark Strong.

Tell us what to expect from Disney's upcoming live action film, Cruella.

The Awesome, Billy Piper discusses her directorial debut, Rare Beasts, and the dynamic duo Daisy Haggard,

and Chris Addison get us excited for series two of their brilliant show breeders.

All of that and so much more to come.

Now, Dapper Dave tell us who's the first of our guest today.

Whether he's performing to thousands or making telly from the comfort of his childhood bedroom,

you're guaranteed a laugh. His new three-part travel and live comedy show stands up to the world

starts this Monday at 9pm on Sky One. So it's time for the globe-trotting giggle machine that is

Russell Howard. Morning, Russell. Hello, Chris. How are you? Very well. How

you doing? I'm feeling good. So, there's breaking lockdown and then there's going to New Zealand and

Australia to crack on with your job experiencing quarantine first and then being hit by the potential trauma that is normal life again. Tell us more.

It was, so basically we had these shows in New Zealand and Australia that were already on sale.

And in order to do them, we had to stay in a hotel for two weeks. And then we were able to do it.

So we were really lucky and, yeah, kind of traveled around,

did 30 shows in New Zealand and Australia

and hung out with Sam Neal and Tim Minchin,

and we did some sheep shearing,

and we went Yawi hunting.

We sort of experienced this sort of future path that we're all craving. It was so

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