Were Comedians Happy In 2025: Vol 3
The Comedian's Comedian Podcast
Stuart Goldsmith
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🗓️ 5 January 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Welcome to the final part of finding out if comedians were happy in 2025 with Russell Howard, Mark Simmons, Aparna Nancherla, Nick Mohammed, Kemah Bob, Daniel Foxx & Adam Riches.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to the very final part of finding out if comedians were happy in 2025. |
| 0:22.4 | First up, Russell Howard returned to the show, and in this clip we were going to discuss |
| 0:26.9 | the effect that having a child has had on Russell's happiness. Here's Russell. |
| 0:32.6 | You said last time on the show I asked if you were happy, and you said I'm driven completely by fear and I'm loath to fix that. |
| 0:40.8 | Yes. |
| 0:41.8 | Is that still the case? |
| 0:44.2 | I would say I am happy. |
| 0:48.7 | I'm now I'm married and I have a son compared to when we were talking in 2016. |
| 0:57.5 | So I'm a very different person. |
| 0:59.3 | How old is your child? |
| 1:01.4 | How was your son? He's eight months. |
| 1:03.1 | Amazing. |
| 1:03.8 | Congratulations. |
| 1:04.6 | I felt like I knew you'd had a kid, but I hadn't seen you for a long time. |
| 1:07.4 | So you're very low in, my God, eight months in. |
| 1:10.1 | Oh, yeah, exactly. So it's kind of, it's wonderful. So you're very low in my god, eight months in. Exactly. |
| 1:13.3 | So it's kind of, it's wonderful. |
| 1:29.4 | So I kind of, my thing now is going, right, how do I combine my love of stand up with being a dad and, you know, taking him to school and being there for football practice and, you know, |
| 1:35.4 | all these things. So that's where my head is. My head is in this kind of, okay, how do I combine my love of my job and how fortunate are we that we have jobs that we love? There's very few people |
| 1:42.7 | that have that with, you know, the love of my son and wanting to be around and read bedtime stories |
| 1:48.8 | and do bath time and, you know, give him his ready break in the morning and all this kind of thing. |
| 1:54.2 | So, yeah, I definitely feel super, I feel content, which is a nice feeling, but I never thought I'd have. |
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