Russell Howard

“I'm not the kind of comic who would try stuff on Twitter, because I have to work up ideas and I can only do that in front of people.”

“My life is quite normal and for me it helps with my comedy. If you jump headlong into celebrity life it affects who you are and what you talk about.”

“These are strange times. I'm 37 and this is the weirdest the world's ever felt. There's a right-wing, nationalistic anger sweeping through Europe and America.”

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

“I find it really weird, when I'm shopping in Tesco, the amount of times I have people like: 'What you doing in here? You're famous!'”

“I just couldn't do a comedy show about 'The History Of Dinosaurs;' I'd get bored too easily.”

“I always found it strange, when I went round to other people's houses for tea and that, how strict their parents were.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“If you want any attention in the Howard household, you have to shout quite loudly and try to develop a personality.”

“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.'”

“I do cryotherapy, which is where you're in minus 70 and you have three minutes of deep freeze and your body thinks it's dying so it produces loads of blood cells and then you're fine - apparently.”

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

“I've never been on Facebook. My page is run for me. It is the same with Twitter.”

“I buck the trend: I eat avocados on a Sunday morning and I'm a homeowner.”

“I love Dublin and the locals are extraordinary.”

“I'm happy when I'm working.”

“I would just like to be remembered.”

“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.”