Russell's Best Bits of 2025

Russell Howard’s Five Brilliant Things

Avalon

Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.5 • 566 Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Happy Christmas! This week Russell looks back over all of the shows from 2025 and picks his favourite moments from 52 x 5 Brilliant Things (So…quick bit of maths…that’s…260 Brilliant Things). We’ll be back in a week with a brand new show and loads of super-exciting guests in the new year. On our Patreon show something a bit special this week - Russell and Dan sit down and talk about how they made the TV show Good News. For anyone who enjoyed that show, it’s a real treat and an insight into what went on behind the scenes… ⁠patreon.com/RussellHoward⁠ Also there are still a handful of tickets left for Russell’s brand new tour show ‘Don’t Tell The Algorithm’. There are shows across the whole UK in 2026: You can book tickets at https://www.russell-howard.co.uk Thank you for listening, you lovely lot. X 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 and happy Christmas. This week instead of a guest, we're going to have a listen back to some of my personal highlights from this year's shows. It's been a lot of fun. We've had great guests bringing in fascinating, brilliant things.
0:22.0	So let's get to my highlights. Rose Ailing Ellis on how she cheats at charades. I enjoyed that.
0:27.9	That was her first ever podcast appearing. It was her first ever podcast. She really enjoyed it.
0:34.1	I really enjoyed it. So did her interpreter. Yes, her interpreter had a fantastic...
0:39.2	Giggling away in the corner. Giggling. It was a really fun podcast. Well, here is. Let's put that
0:44.1	bit about the brother in now. Let's do it. Here it is. What is the next brilliant thing?
0:52.2	Cats. Okay, fine.
0:55.0	What?
0:56.0	I'm not, I should front up.
0:57.0	I'm not, I'm scared of cats.
0:59.0	Why?
1:00.0	Well, because they, there's lots of reasons.
1:04.0	Like when you stroke them, they dig their claws into you and that means they like you.
1:09.0	Yeah.
1:10.0	Which is a strange way of showing love.
1:11.3	Like, you know, I love my wife.
1:13.5	Did you too much?
1:14.8	But if I started scratching my wife and then went into the garden and buried my shit,
1:20.2	she wouldn't love me.
1:22.6	Well, when I were growing up, I had a cat that she was so good at hunting to the point that we have to put a bell on her.
1:32.3	Yeah.
1:33.3	And then the bell would just stop them hunting and make animals fly away.
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