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Russell Howard’s Five Brilliant Things

What Willy Cook

Russell Howard’s Five Brilliant Things

Avalon

Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.5566 Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Will can cook. And he’s become rather well-known on Instagram for his no-nonsense, chirpy recipes under the Instagram handle ‘What Willy Cook’. Well here he is with his Five Briliant Things, including the smell of mini-eggs, sandwiches in general and Portuguese food. It’s a cheeky sashay through these marvellous things and there’s some excellent food and cooking tips to take away too.  As mentioned in the show, Will is putting on a festival of food, music and comedy to raise money for the Save the Children Gaza Appeal. It’s on August 2nd, it’s at Queen Elizabeth Park in East London and tickets are available here. And you should check out his plainly spoken excellent recipe videos on Instagram and TikTok where he’s @WhatWillyCook.  And to get all these shows, and loads of previous shows all without adverts and access to a library of exclusive interviews with many, many guests, get involved with our Patreon: patreon.com/RussellHoward   And so it ends. The great scribe baboon furled up his massive fingers, shut his laptop clumsily and loped up the tree with a movement that was both ugly and elegant. He swung his prominent buttocks around and with one final long, deep scratch, he slept.  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, welcome to the show. Today in the show I have a guy who knows his spruanions from his pepper noir. From the Instagram smash hit, What Will He cook? It's Will Hughes. and these are his five brilliant things.

0:33.3

I came and I just had a bit of food and you quizzed me instantly as to where I'd got it.

0:33.7

Yeah.

0:38.4

And I said, Gales, are you judgmental of other people's eating habits?

0:39.2

Often, yes. Or are people worried to tell you what they've eaten because you're a connoisseur of food?

0:46.1

I can be quite judgmental, you know.

0:48.1

It depends how people are talking.

0:49.9

If I've been somewhere and it's been shit and someone's talking about it being the best place in the world, then usually I'll step in and just sort of give them, well, actually, this is what happened when I went there, but I think it's so subjective, isn't it? So, uh, what would be your ideal kind of, like, to put it into context, this is a lovely kind of hot London day. What would be your perfect lunch? well it depends really if you've got the whole

1:12.7

maybe if it's Saturday

1:13.7

you might want to What would be your perfect lunch? Well, it depends really.

1:11.9

If you've got the whole, maybe if it's Saturday, you might want a slightly longer, boozyer lunch.

1:16.8

There's a few excellent restaurants for that, obviously.

1:20.3

There's a lot of them in London.

1:21.8

But I think if I was just picking something up, based on where this studio is,

1:24.6

they used to be a sandwich shop just down in Lower Stable Street

1:29.2

that was called bodegaritas,

1:30.9

and it's not a thing anymore,

1:32.1

but they used to do a...

1:34.6

It was a ban-mee,

1:36.1

but it was a mushroom ban me.

1:38.1

Instead, it was like a vegan thing

1:39.3

with like peanut butter in it

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