116 Quotes by Russell Howard


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    I think you just have to be comfortable in your own skin, and when I do stand-up or the show I'm in a really good mood.

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    You can make bleak things funny but if you're glib about it, it doesn't work.

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    I don't want to do a rabidly left-wing show. I think it's much more interesting to turn the knife on yourself.

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    Whenever I come to Ireland, I end up just bantering with the crowd so the show will just be what it is.

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    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.

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

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    Everything I experience in life, I put through the sausage-maker that is comedy, and then try to make it funny for others. Whether that is healthy or not remains to be seen.

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