A biography for Russell Howardhasn’t been written yet.
“It takes a lot to stop myself scrambling around and reading the news.”
“I've reached the age of 32 with little wisdom, I'm afraid. It's tragic. I still have to turn to my mum and dad for every decision I make in life.”
“I'm really not into technology at all. My brother has to plug the Xbox in for me.”
“At a gig in Liverpool I had this lady give me 21 cup cakes she had made herself. It's not really rock'n'roll is it? Tom Jones gets pants thrown at him and I get given fairy cakes.”
“If the front-page news is a comedian doing a joke that people think is naughty, that proves there's no real news that day, does it not?”
“Genuinely, the first gig I did when I was 18, it felt like the world shifted. I realised that I had stumbled upon a mechanism through which you could view life.”
“I don't like doing things badly, that just feels like a waste of a day.”
“I found out recently that my 'Good News' show has a big following in North Korea and the Vatican City! Who knew Kim Jong-un and the Pope liked fast-paced satire?”
“Death by rats would be the worst.”
“But I did break my mum's heart, because I turned down 'Strictly' twice. I just couldn't do it. It's not for me.”
“Los Angeles feels empty and overrated. I struggle with it as a holiday destination. It's the sort of place where you need to know some locals, otherwise it just feels so empty.”
“I worked in a watercress bed, picking weeds out of watercress when I was at school. It was awful.”
“Mumbai was magical, which I was really surprised by, and I got an insight into the world of Bollywood while hanging out with some Bollywood film stars while there.”
“'Monty Python' was never on TV in the U.K. when I was a kid.”
“Britain is perceived as a laughing stock and a mess. It's a very scary and divided place.”
“Seinfeld' was never a show in the U.K.”
“Doing the O2 Arena in London in 2011 was pretty awesome.”
“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.”
“I'm a bit of a Luddite.”
“Sometimes I skip breakfast, pop to the butcher and get sunburned while cooking meat.”