Russell Howard Returns | Part One

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Stuart Goldsmith

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🗓️ 10 January 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Russell Howard returns to the podcast for the first time in 8 years ahead of the premiere of his new special, “Live At The London Palladium” - streaming worldwide on Wednesday 15th January!

In the first part of this mammoth episode, we discuss his record-breaking 10-night run at the Royal Albert Hall, the business of selling stand-up and Russell’s intersection into the world of politics.

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Catch Up with Russell:

Russell Howard - Live At The London Palladium premieres worldwide on Wednesday 15th January - find out more at russell-howard.co.uk/special.

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0:00.0	Hello there, welcome back. This is Stuart Goldsmith. This is The Comedians Comedian. What I should say there is this is Stuart Goldsmith. I am the Comedians Comedian podcast. And we are welcoming back. Russell Howard. Russell Howard returns for the first time in eight years ahead of the premiere of his new special, live at the London Palladium, which will be streaming worldwide on Wednesday the 15th of January.
0:41.5	You can find out more at Russell-hyphen Howard.com.uk slash special.
0:46.3	In the first half, we're going to discuss how Russell is even more of a mega-star than I'd realised. We'll talk about his record-breaking 10-night run at the Royal Albert Hall and what he
0:51.1	remembers from it, crucially. We'll talk about the business of selling stand-up,
0:55.0	and we will talk about how he applies his skill set, where he can just reach into any subject
1:01.2	and just find the premise that works best for him and do that in microseconds. We'll talk about
1:06.8	that through the medium of watching him do it in an interview format. You can join the Insiders
1:12.3	Club at patreon.com.com. Where you can watch and listen to the full episode. No waiting for part
1:17.9	two next week like the others. Apologies if you're one of the others, but come on, join up. And plus,
1:23.3	you get 20 minutes of extras, including why Russell chose to self-release a special.
1:30.5	We'll talk about Russell's involvement in the edit and production of the special,
1:34.3	and he answers the question, what's it like being rich and famous?
1:39.2	That's all there for the insiders, plus the whole part one and part two all is one great big glorious episode.
1:43.1	However, if you're listening to this as a part one, then here he is.
1:44.1	Here's Russell Howard.
1:55.2	Hello Russell, welcome back. It's lovely to see you. Thanks for making time. So it's insane that we couldn't do it the previous week, but I'd kind of ring-fenced family time and I was like
1:59.5	nothing, not hell, high water, nor global megastar is going to get in the way of time, which I then spent being ill.
2:06.0	Oh, no.
2:06.9	Yeah.
2:08.1	Oh, man.
2:08.9	No, it's, no, well, thanks for having this on, mate.
2:11.1	Oh, listen.
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