Russell Joseph Howard
(born 23 March 1980, in Bath, Somerset) is a English comedian, who has won several awards for his comedic talents, notably making Zoo
magazine's top 10 list of "Britain's Funniest Comics 2005" at number 2 and winning "Best Compère" at the 2006 Chortle Awards. He was also nominated for an if.comedy award for his 2006 Edinburgh Festival Fringe show, Wandering
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TV, Radio & live work
In 2004 he was commissioned by
BBC Radio 1 to write and perform on the comedy series,
The Milk Run
.
He is a regular on British topical panel show
Mock the Week
and
Out to Lunch
, the latter of which he co-hosts with fellow comedian Rob Deering. He has also made appearances on
8 out of 10 cats
,
Would I Lie To You?
,
Live At The Apollo
,
The Secret Policeman's Ball 2008
,
Law of the Playground
and
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
(
Series 18, Episode 2 and Series 20, Episode 4).
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On
BBC Radio 4, he has appeared on the shows
Banter
, hosted by
Andrew Collins, and
Political Animal
.
He was one of several comedians picked as the best comedy talent from the
2005 Edinburgh Festival Fringe that recorded 10–15-minute spots for the 'Edinburgh and Beyond show' which was aired on
Paramount Comedy 1 in the autumn of 2006. The show was filmed at The
Bloomsbury Theatre.
From November 2006 to July 2008, Russell co-hosted
The Russell Howard Show
[3] on
BBC 6 Music with fellow comedian
Jon Richardson in a Sunday morning slot previously hosted by
Russell Brand. He has since explained that his main reason for leaving the show was that he finds radio 'really restrictive' and 'I feed off the audience as a performer, but you can't gauge a reaction on the radio.'
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From 2009 he is the host of Edinburgh And Beyond on Comedy Central.
He has a DVD which came out on 17 November 2008, called "Russell Howard Live" featuring his 2007 show, ''Adventures'.
Howard started touring his show 'Dingledodies' in September 2008 and played various dates through to December. Due to overwhelming demand Russell further extended his 'Dingledodies' tour into 2009. It has sold in excess of 100,000 tickets, including three sell out shows at the Hammersmith Apollo as well as several large arena's such as Wembley Arena and Mancheste's MEN Arena. He was named "Best Theatre Show" at the 2009 Chortle Comedy Awards.
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. A DVD of 'Dingledodies' will be released, and it can now be pre-ordered on websites including amazon.co.uk and play.com.
Russell has been commissioned to make a comedy show called "Russell Howard's Good News", aimed at under-25s, for
BBC Three [7]
References
- Chortle : The UK Comedy Guide chortle.co.uk
- Never Mind the Buzzcocks (a Guests & Air Dates Guide) epguides.com
- The Russell Howard Show bbc.co.uk
- "Russell Howard presents new show for 6 Music" - BBC Press Release, 2 November 2006
- http://www.thisissurreytoday.co.uk/golf/Star-interview-Comedian-Russell-Howard-sold-Dorking-Crawley/
- "Rhod and Tim triumph at Chortles" Chortle.co.uk
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