Russell Howard Quotes

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Russell Howard

Profession : Comedian

Birth : March 23, 1980

What do you know when you're 19? I was just stomping around doing gigs.

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There's a lot of brilliant comics who are amazing, but you can see them doing the same 20 minutes that they were doing five years ago, verbatim. I think that doesn't lend itself to progressing.

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I'm one of the people who actually laughs at everyone else's jokes!

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I don't want to be one of those comics who says, 'Hey, what's wrong with air travel?' and stuff like that.

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Audiences around the world are all pretty similar. People just rock up and want to have a laugh, although Americans whoop more than English crowds.

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Because I don't wear a suit, and have such a horrible boy band face, people assume that I'm not doing satirical material.

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Britain is perceived as a laughing stock and a mess. It's a very scary and divided place.

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The last thing you want to do is preach to the converted. What you want to do is talk about issues from a non-political point of view, from a human point of view.

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I don't want to do a rabidly left-wing show. I think it's much more interesting to turn the knife on yourself.

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If you're doing 70 gigs in a tour, there's a lot of responsibility. People need a big night out, and you're providing it.

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Question Time' is a nice forum for reasoned political debate. There's no point having me on there trying to crack jokes.

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I'm really not into technology at all. My brother has to plug the Xbox in for me.

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If I was to get into Twitter I'd expose myself to people who adore me or people who absolutely hated me. Neither of those are useful to my soul.

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I'm quite good at talking about things I care about.

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You can make bleak things funny but if you're glib about it, it doesn't work.

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Whenever I come to Ireland, I end up just bantering with the crowd so the show will just be what it is.

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I get panic attacks about dying, it's terrible. Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and my brain goes 'you're going to die, you're going to die, you're going to die.'

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I spent a lot of my childhood sat on a wall thinking, waiting for my mum to pick me up.

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My Mum is not used to being in-front of camera.

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When you see the American chat shows, they've got so many ideas about what they could with the guests. I did stand-up on 'Jimmy Fallon' and they had loads of sketches and ideas, we don't tend to do that here.

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