Comedian Russell Howard tells Lara Kilner why he can't relax when it comes to his career - but why you won't see him signing up to dance any time soon
. “I’m an old man, I kind of grew up before all that. It would just be me, sitting at home with a vacant expression, trying to think of funny things to say. Nobody wants to see what goes in the sausage and, for comedians, it is just blank faces and notepads,” says the 42-year old, who lives with his wife, NHS doctor Cerys, in north London.
All this “making stuff and throwing it out” has seen Howard reach a massive audience. He has 10 million followers across various platforms, his newly createdThe Russell Howard HourThe show will shortly return for its eighth run. It’s an all-consuming labour of love. “It’s pretty intense, but it’s fun because it’s collaborative, not like standup, which is obviously very solitary.”“It’s like you’re given comedic homework, and you don’t really know what that’s going to be.
Such is the fast-paced nature of today’s news agenda, that sometimes things have to be thrown out or rewritten at the last minute – but nothing goes to waste. “We’ve got a writing tenacity with our material like my mum dealing with leftovers – it’s not dead yet, just put some cabbage with it.”One element that is set in stone is Playground Politics, where Howard listens to the musings of seven-year-olds.
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