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Russell Howard

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“I mean, this is a real reverse alatted moment, isn't it? A fixed climate That's two words, but The first thing Technology that stops Mental health Is Appam and they're fine A sort of a wand you wave at them”
2021-12-06 · The Diary of a CEO · Russell Howard: How To Laugh Through Fear, Anxiety & Imposter Syndrome · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Which is the home of Bristol City. And we had to get 2,000 people in a 10,000 seater stand. All had to be spread out, and it was one of the weirdest gigs I've ever done, but it's one of the best.”
2021-12-06 · The Diary of a CEO · Russell Howard: How To Laugh Through Fear, Anxiety & Imposter Syndrome · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So until the wheels come off, is a documentary about making a stand up special throughout the COVID pandemic? So yeah, it was kind Yeah, sort of cameras followed us around and tried to gigs in football stadiums and car parks and...”
2021-12-06 · The Diary of a CEO · Russell Howard: How To Laugh Through Fear, Anxiety & Imposter Syndrome · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The 14th comes out, and then you It was respite. It was to show respite. And then right at the last minute, I decided to call it lubricant. But that becomes a, I mean, we all know now, listening to this, why it's called that, but it's kind of 40 minutes in. You go, all right. There might be some furious perverts.”
2021-12-06 · The Diary of a CEO · Russell Howard: How To Laugh Through Fear, Anxiety & Imposter Syndrome · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“They're majestic and you're kind of lost. And I think there's a real value to humor and it's often overlooked because it is silly and it is kind of fart piss shit. You know what I mean? It's kind of, you know what I mean? It's fingers and ears and But it's a release and it's kind of. A deeply important thing, laughter, deeply, deeply important. And if we didn't have it, I think it's only like dolphins and rats are the only animals that laugh. I don't know how scientists found that out. Oh, no, I do actually. They tickled the rat's bellies with a pencil. This is presumably pre-COVID. Do you know what I mean? Imagine that if it's just kind of vaccine, I'm busy just trying to... Trying to get this rat to giggle. But”
2021-12-06 · The Diary of a CEO · Russell Howard: How To Laugh Through Fear, Anxiety & Imposter Syndrome · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Because it sort of like, it just works. It's easy. It's click. And then you're there. But it's kind of not, it's just not nourishing. And there is actually a way of making the people that succumb to that and the people that think it's bullshit. You can bring them together through really piss funny stories or like that story about the coffin and the lady Doesn't matter your political orientation, doesn't matter your gender, whatever, that's a deeply funny human story. And like you look at someone like Billy Connolly, like some of his bits are so beautiful and funny or George Carlin that they're...”
2021-12-06 · The Diary of a CEO · Russell Howard: How To Laugh Through Fear, Anxiety & Imposter Syndrome · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Know, I quite like being able to talk about serious stuff. For example, we talk about cancel culture or woke. The amount of times you hear the word woke in these papers at the minute. And it's because it just sells, it sells papers, man. And it's kind of like, hey, have you seen what they've done? You can't say the word farts and boobies and arts in scrabble. That's a story in the newspaper. And it was like fury as woke Scrabble bosses. No one's furious about Scrabble. No one's like just, and even if they were doing that, how are they going to police it? No one's going to, you know, break into your house and go, just put clit on a triple letter. They're not going to do that. So I find that mechanism really interesting at the moment that you go, okay, clearly there's money to be made in kind of you won't fucking believe what they've done now in that energy.”
2021-12-06 · The Diary of a CEO · Russell Howard: How To Laugh Through Fear, Anxiety & Imposter Syndrome · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Me and laugh with me and feel like this connection with people next to you. And I think that comes through the through exploring how fucking weird and silly we all are. I think the world's taken itself very seriously at the moment. There's so much humor in it. I think there's so much humor in the... On the edges in the shades of serious stuff, do you know what I mean? I kind of find it. Yeah, that's kind of where it feels like my evolution is that I'm trying to kind of try and talk about.”
2021-12-06 · The Diary of a CEO · Russell Howard: How To Laugh Through Fear, Anxiety & Imposter Syndrome · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'm slower and I'm more thoughtful and I try and make it more. Interesting for people sat at home than in the room. I think previously I've been a bit too kind of high octane and I'm trying to kind of make it pleasurable for people at home so they can sit and enjoy it because that's how it ultimately is consumed. I have a fascination with anger and I have a fascination with beauty. I don't like so I find anger strange and I find beauty beguiling and that is only getting deeper and deeper. So for example, that story about the ladies in the coffins that isn't in this show, but it's somewhere deep in me. And I think that will come out in another show. So it's sort of the evolution as a comedian for me is that I want the next special and the next tour that I do to be deeply human and I want it to be this in the best sense a place where you can fucking nod with.”
2021-12-06 · The Diary of a CEO · Russell Howard: How To Laugh Through Fear, Anxiety & Imposter Syndrome · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And now is not the time to put down our fucking trumpets. And that's the show, really. It's about the importance of laughter and the role it plays in which we do life. And it's lots of funny stories that are kind of all about that, really.”
2021-12-06 · The Diary of a CEO · Russell Howard: How To Laugh Through Fear, Anxiety & Imposter Syndrome · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Wow, it is the best. Stories and jokes that I've written in the last two years from traveling around the world. I did a tour that was called Respite. And I kind of put together all the best bits about kind of conspiracy theories and COVID and leadership and madness in the world. And I sort of splodged it all together and be You never quite know what it is until you sort of step away from it. And I think it's actually a love letter to laughter. That's what the show is. And it's the full hour is about the importance of giggling and of being silly. How deeply human it is. And it should be treasured. There's a bit in the special I was chatting about, you know, when you hear somebody play a musical instrument and you're envious of the notes they're making, it strikes me that laughter is a musical instrument that any one of us can play.”
2021-12-06 · The Diary of a CEO · Russell Howard: How To Laugh Through Fear, Anxiety & Imposter Syndrome · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“For long enough to realize what you have, whether that is a loving relationship, whether it's a job you love, whether it's a hobby you adore. But there will always be sort of shimmering lights of hope in the misery, but sometimes somebody has to help you find them, I think. Do you know what I mean? Because I think it's very difficult to sit within yourself and go, yeah, I can see everything's fine. Sometimes you need a little bit of help to kind of remind you of how lucky you are.”
2021-12-06 · The Diary of a CEO · Russell Howard: How To Laugh Through Fear, Anxiety & Imposter Syndrome · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Totally, but my point being, it's sort of like. There's Nothing wrong with having low moments, and everyone does. And it feels like the world is better. Now Terms of being able to talk about them. You also, I think, if you come from a certain background, you don't want to bitch and moan about yourself and kind of say that you're having a tough time or whatever. But if you're lucky enough to have friends that you can talk to or things like this or a therapist or whatever, it makes the pursuit of happiness a lot easier, I think. Because I think that is possible. Maybe that's what happiness is. It's about talking.”
2021-12-06 · The Diary of a CEO · Russell Howard: How To Laugh Through Fear, Anxiety & Imposter Syndrome · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I don't mind working hard. And it's also not working in the true sense. Like you just said, how fortunate to be one of the free ones is ridiculous. I write stand up on my own, but I do my TV show and I write it with five people. And we get to write jokes. That is our job. There's an unbelievably privileged job to be able to sit around. And think of funny things for people. And that can be stressful, but there are people working in jobs that they don't like that would kill for that opportunity. So you're right. You need those moments to kind of snap yourself out of your funk. And remember that you're getting paid to do a hobby. Ultimately, you know, in my case.”
2021-12-06 · The Diary of a CEO · Russell Howard: How To Laugh Through Fear, Anxiety & Imposter Syndrome · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, but it's sort of, you know, you work as something you love. So it's kind of like, you know, It's sort of those moments of like you just lose yourself in it. It's like, I imagine this is the same with when Picasso was painting. Do you know what I mean? He was just probably like. Fun. Like, do you know what I mean? Imagine I'm not comparing myself to Picasso, I'm using him as an example of just sort of imagine his manager going, you need to fucking relax, mate. Do you know what I mean? The systems chapel weapon. But it's just, I don't know. I just, I love it and I don't...”
2021-12-06 · The Diary of a CEO · Russell Howard: How To Laugh Through Fear, Anxiety & Imposter Syndrome · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I don't know. I don't think so. I have moments of Where you can't Do something kind of a guy. I'm restless But yeah, I've never been diagnosed or anything like that. But yeah, how about you? You happy? Such a heavy question. It's a”
2021-12-06 · The Diary of a CEO · Russell Howard: How To Laugh Through Fear, Anxiety & Imposter Syndrome · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I'd say I have more moments of happiness than sadness. But I'm in a state of flux with that. I can be super low and super. Depressed about fucking how the jokes are shit this week in the show. God, I haven't got the stuff. You know what I mean? So I kind of can let things get on top of me, but I have more moments of happiness than sadness, I think.”
2021-12-06 · The Diary of a CEO · Russell Howard: How To Laugh Through Fear, Anxiety & Imposter Syndrome · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, at this moment yeah, I've really enjoyed this chat like deeply. I feel pumped up and energized. So, yeah. But it's back to what I'm saying. I'm kind of. I need the energy of others to make me happy.”
2021-12-06 · The Diary of a CEO · Russell Howard: How To Laugh Through Fear, Anxiety & Imposter Syndrome · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And then all the ushers that work there and go, that was planned, right? But it was, but it only came about because me and my brother were with friends of mine in Exeter. He told a man's story. I had an argument with him. We all laughed because my brother was talking shit. What's he on about? A month later, I meet, you know, a vet. Agrees with my brother. And we have a moment of magic. And it's the funny thing that that's all anyone would remember from that show. And I don't have the skills to do that through sitting on my own. I would be too excited to tell people the story.”
2021-12-06 · The Diary of a CEO · Russell Howard: How To Laugh Through Fear, Anxiety & Imposter Syndrome · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“There's 2,000 people there. I ring him up and I'm like put him on speaker on the phone. I go, You're all right. He goes, Yeah, what? And I go, I'm just in Leicester, I'm her gig. And I go, yeah, you know that thing you were saying about cow and vets. Yeah, it turns out you were right. And he went, yeah, I know. And he goes, listen, I've got to go and watch him vigil like that. But that was the correct story for that night, is my point that sometimes, and it was so hilarious in that moment.”
2021-12-06 · The Diary of a CEO · Russell Howard: How To Laugh Through Fear, Anxiety & Imposter Syndrome · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Or things can happen from nowhere. My brother is an ex, like we were. Having a conversation with a friend of mine recently, and from nowhere. My brother goes, because this bloke was talking about his friend, he goes, yeah, he's a vet. My brother goes, yeah, to be a vet, you've got to shoot a cow in the face. And I'm like, what are you talking about? He goes, yeah, there's the only way you can be a vet if you've shot a cow in the face. I said, is it? What they do six years of school? And then right at the end, they give him a Smith and Western and they blast them in the face. And he's like, well, I don't give him an out, you fick fuck. They give him a bolt gun. I'm going to shoot him with a rifle. Fucking moron. So we're having this kind of conversation and I'm like, what are you talking about? He goes, true. Kez told me, oh, Kare's told you, knows a vet, shot me in the face. By that. Now weirdly, a month later, I'm doing a gig in Lester. There's a guy chatting away and he's a vet. And I go, I gotta ask, do they make you shoot cows in the face? And he goes, yeah, yeah, we have to. It's one of the things. The fucker was right. So I ring my brother up in the middle of this gig.”
2021-12-06 · The Diary of a CEO · Russell Howard: How To Laugh Through Fear, Anxiety & Imposter Syndrome · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And then it was so, and I was telling her this, and we're laughing, and it's funny that again those stories, I love trying to find those stories. So I feel like I don't have enough stories yet to sit down and tell them all. And the great thing about stand-up, you can rotate your stories. They go, hey, do you want to hear this? Hey, do you want to hear that?”
2021-12-06 · The Diary of a CEO · Russell Howard: How To Laugh Through Fear, Anxiety & Imposter Syndrome · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That he lives just outside Brisbane. She was absolutely wonderful, right? You know, mad as a box of frogs, but beautiful. And she was like, yeah, what we do put some cigarettes out and some beer that should lure him in. She puts this big jacket on me. She goes, yeah, and you might want to make the mating noise. And I'm like, how does that go? And she's like, sort of like, I'm kind of lit inch in the field going, And she's like, Yeah, you're doing really well. And then I Because I start going, what if this is real? And suddenly this eight foot bloke comes along and fucks me. And I'm sort of dragged off and you're like...”
2021-12-06 · The Diary of a CEO · Russell Howard: How To Laugh Through Fear, Anxiety & Imposter Syndrome · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I loved being able to tell that story through stand up with her on the show. And I don't know if I have the skills to tell that story Through words on a page. Do you know what I mean? I'm sort of aware. Ability I have as a communicator to make a story like that deeply human. I could tell that in front of anybody and it gets to their heart. It's so pure. And there's so many stories out there like that that trying to find those examples of magnificence. Find endlessly interesting, but you don't find them if you sat down writing a book You've got to get out there and You've kind of got to put yourself in peculiar situations. I met a lady that goes yowie hunting. Turns out there's a yowie is a big eight foot sort of like abominable snowman in Australia.”
2021-12-06 · The Diary of a CEO · Russell Howard: How To Laugh Through Fear, Anxiety & Imposter Syndrome · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It was a bit of fun, and I met this lady, and she'd made three coffins for herself, and I was like, How come you made three? So I just keep putting on weight. And it was so touching and peculiar. And then we went into another room and there were little baby coffins, tiny, tiny. And it's one of those things that I hope nobody ever sees that. And I was like, how, and people often say, oh, comedy, hardest job in the world. Can you imagine making a coffin for a baby? It blew my mind and I looked at this twinkly-eyed lady. I was like, how do you do that? How do you get yourself in a place to make something that sad? And she kind of looked at me and just went, I do it so no one else has to. And it was so beautiful. And for me.”
2021-12-06 · The Diary of a CEO · Russell Howard: How To Laugh Through Fear, Anxiety & Imposter Syndrome · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Do you know what I mean? Like, I did a thing last year where we went to Australia and New Zealand during the pandemic because we were doing some gigs out there and we stayed in the hotel for two weeks. And we made a stand-up show that blended me meeting people alongside stand-up. And it was one of the most satisfying things I've ever done. We met these incredible women in New Zealand, a thing called the coughing club. And what they do is I didn't know this. It turns out dying is really expensive. And coffins are really pricey. And what these retired pensioners do, they make cheap coffins and they kind of sell them for like, you know, 300 bucks, really kind of low. Don't make any profit. So these beautiful funeral elves. And they make their own coffins as well.”
2021-12-06 · The Diary of a CEO · Russell Howard: How To Laugh Through Fear, Anxiety & Imposter Syndrome · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Whereas when you're writing stand up, you're writing it for an audience so you can perform or you're making notes and you go, hey, I'll take that on stage and I'll kind of riff it out and figure it out with them. Whereas a book to me just feels like it would be, I don't think I've got the skills to sit down and try and. Entertain myself and then eventually entertain people through the book.”
2021-12-06 · The Diary of a CEO · Russell Howard: How To Laugh Through Fear, Anxiety & Imposter Syndrome · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, but exactly, and then you come back to kind of reality and you're a little bit more reconfigured or it lightens the load a bit, you know. And I... Get a deep sense of satisfaction from making people laugh. And you're right, it is tied up in them, it's very needy. That's absolutely true. But then... You know, I'm 41 now, and I kind of know who I am. I'm kind of needy. Most comics are, because I've been asked to write sort of my autobiography quite a few times. And it's like just don't feel like sitting and entertaining myself.”
2021-12-06 · The Diary of a CEO · Russell Howard: How To Laugh Through Fear, Anxiety & Imposter Syndrome · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But I think that's what I said, laughter's the lubricant that makes life livable. Life is tough and laughter provides respite. For me, and it And that's, and it's so deeply human. Everyone has, irrespective of whether you have an easy, blessed life, everyone has had moments of trials and tribulations. And laughter is just a, it's a thing that soothes us. And I find it particularly soothing that you take the sting out of pain by just making. Making it funny, do you know what I mean? And it's kind of, it just works for me. I just find laughing. Or making people laugh just the best because you're in the moment of laughter, you're lost. You are not of this realm. You're kind of in this white noise space. And it's good. It's a good place to be.”
2021-12-06 · The Diary of a CEO · Russell Howard: How To Laugh Through Fear, Anxiety & Imposter Syndrome · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, it's the same as you like saying, you know, you can't have your own business. You've got to work for somebody else.”
2021-12-06 · The Diary of a CEO · Russell Howard: How To Laugh Through Fear, Anxiety & Imposter Syndrome · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I don't know it's Think you'd go back to, you'd end up being what I was when I was younger, just desperately trying to make people laugh. And just sort of Just be A bit of a nuisance at Tesco. When you kind of get in your shopping, you're like, you know, I was looking at the sperm donor the other day. Oh, yeah, you should have six foot four. You know what I mean? It's kind of, you know, so I think... Why? I don't know. I just like making people laugh. I like it makes me feel good and it... Yeah, it just makes me feel good. I kind of, like you say, it feels like you're giving them a socially accepted orgasm every time they laugh. So you're literally going around making people come Imagine making someone come in, Tes”
2021-12-06 · The Diary of a CEO · Russell Howard: How To Laugh Through Fear, Anxiety & Imposter Syndrome · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You and then she would get the flapjacks out the bin, and that was funny watching my mum eat flapjacks from a bin. I got a weird family, man. But yeah, those were the, I wonder if she did die from heartache. I don't know. I mean, she, you know, they weren't particularly well towards the end of their life as well. They sort of had kind of, you know, certainly the beginnings of dementia. Yeah, it was kind of, you know, it's that horrible thing where. Yeah, I don't know. It's just kind of yuck in it, you know. How about you? What's the lowest moment of your life? Am I allowed to ask?”
2021-12-06 · The Diary of a CEO · Russell Howard: How To Laugh Through Fear, Anxiety & Imposter Syndrome · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I can't just put it's not Nancy Vale. I've got to do this, but she was very strange. We used to make flapjacks together as kids, as when I was a kid, and she was obviously Manan. But we didn't like flapjacks. And we used to just make them as a thing and then put them in the bin. Fucking weird. Yeah, I know. Yeah. And the reason we kept doing it is because it really annoyed my mum.”
2021-12-06 · The Diary of a CEO · Russell Howard: How To Laugh Through Fear, Anxiety & Imposter Syndrome · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I said, I'm doing my dissertation now I said it was about whether it's right or wrong to advertise to children And my nam went. So, you know”
2021-12-06 · The Diary of a CEO · Russell Howard: How To Laugh Through Fear, Anxiety & Imposter Syndrome · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I think they would joined at the hip. Yeah, they used to just kind of. Yeah, maybe it was that. It was just kind of, but also there was such constants and I just wasn't, I'd never really been exposed to death. And it was just this kind of like for it to arrive quite late in your life. It was just a real like, whoa. Yeah. And then you've suddenly lost your nan and your granddad, who had kind of like we got like my nan is particularly just such a lovely, she's got proper sort of blue gray owly eyes, you know, and she's always like tucking her sort of shirt down and she just come in and just tell you little. She goes just weird little shit. So I remember doing my dissertation. She was staying around her house. And she said,”
2021-12-06 · The Diary of a CEO · Russell Howard: How To Laugh Through Fear, Anxiety & Imposter Syndrome · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It was all flapping and that. But and I had to do the eulogy for my granddad as well. And that is something I put. Deep, deep, deep, deep time into to make it. And obviously you can't get it right. You can't express what he meant to you. But yeah, that was the, that was a long answer to the lowest moment. But yeah.”
2021-12-06 · The Diary of a CEO · Russell Howard: How To Laugh Through Fear, Anxiety & Imposter Syndrome · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Six weeks later, and then we went to the funeral again, and Stuart rocked up that same leather jacket, and you're like, fuck me, man. And you could see everybody just looking down, going, don't laugh. Why is he wearing this fucking leather? He literally rocked up like Hasselhoff. You're like, put a suit on. But it was weirdly funny. You could everyone go.”
2021-12-06 · The Diary of a CEO · Russell Howard: How To Laugh Through Fear, Anxiety & Imposter Syndrome · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Came this reflection of my granddad, and you realized that everyone in this room. Were there because of his brilliance? So it was this kind of weirdly bittersweet moment, you know. And my cousin Stuart wore a leather jacket and looked like fucking Lovejoy. And nobody understood. And everyone's like, Why are you wearing a leather jacket? No, I didn't have a suit. And we were carrying granddad in the coffin. And Daniel's like, nice jackets, Jew. Our fucking shoulders start going because it's like, you know, like, oh, mate. And everyone's like, they're going to laugh. And we're like, fucking hold it together, hold it. And then, yeah, six weeks later, my nan died. And it was horrific.”
2021-12-06 · The Diary of a CEO · Russell Howard: How To Laugh Through Fear, Anxiety & Imposter Syndrome · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Literally seconds later, there was a Mexican man just going, and it was just like, fuck me, the universe is funny, man. So it was like utter sadness. And then something. And it was, yeah, it was just this weird moment where you going, fucking, really, really. So yeah, that was definitely an unbelievably low moment. And yet weirdly became... His funeral, this beautiful moment where you were, like I said at the beginning, where you feel privileged to belong to the blood you belong to, you know, I've never done who do you think you are. I know who I am. I'm, you know, I know where I come from and I know my people and I feel proud to belong to those people. The funeral of my granddaughter was just this reminder of the excellence of my family and how proud and how much we all love each other. So from that deep sadness.”
2021-12-06 · The Diary of a CEO · Russell Howard: How To Laugh Through Fear, Anxiety & Imposter Syndrome · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Story because he had cancer and he died of cancer and he went on this sort of scrambler and he did this race and he was he completed it even though he was really not well at all and Arc Granddad told that was such pride and it was this beautiful story and that's what and granddad and you knew granda told similar stories obviously not as beautiful as that about all of us and Yeah, when he died it was just this sledgehammer to your heart where you just go Jesus one of the one of the One of the good souls isn't here anymore. And yet this is the The fascination of life. I was in Mexico when it happened and my mum rang me up and said, granddad's dead.”
2021-12-06 · The Diary of a CEO · Russell Howard: How To Laugh Through Fear, Anxiety & Imposter Syndrome · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Because Nan and Granadi said, We do watch you on a TV, mind a volume downs, you'd have swear. So they would watch me when I was doing good news or I was on Mock the Week with the volume down. I wrestled on the box and just sort of see me like that. But they were so. Through every part of my life, I felt utter love from my Nanama granddad. And they were around forever. It's that thing where I don't know for whatever reason he was like this sage and there's a beautiful photo of my cousin Shane who died when he was 18 and he was on a scrambler motor motorbike And our granddad when we were about eight, she used to look at that and just go, There you go. That is the bravest bloody boy I've ever seen in your life. And it was like. Sort of a really interesting”
2021-12-06 · The Diary of a CEO · Russell Howard: How To Laugh Through Fear, Anxiety & Imposter Syndrome · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And he's just a brilliant, brilliant. Soul that just was such a big part of my life that he and they used to come and see us quite a lot and whenever he was there I don't know he was just bathed in his love like him and him and my nan just adored me and I adored them and it was they used to have a poster of me on there on their wall and they used to and Nan used to keep all the all the reviews I'd get so she'd put them up like and it was just that only some lovely reviews and some shitty ones too and it was just like man why are you don't take that what are you talking about but but they and they used to watch me on tv and i come from a family where it's inconceivable that that i could be on tv from from the family that i come from it's it's you know it's like going to the moon”
2021-12-06 · The Diary of a CEO · Russell Howard: How To Laugh Through Fear, Anxiety & Imposter Syndrome · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Was the lowest moment of my life? I think when my granddad died, that was like, it was, yeah, it was awful. And I was incredibly lucky because I think I was 36 when granddad died. He, I'd never had anyone in my family, my cousin Shane had died when I was 18. But I'd never been to a funeral. So it was Shane and Granddad. So there'd been this huge gap where nobody died. And, you know, this sort of beautiful family that I belong to, they were all kind of there. And my granddad was sort of like unbelievably... Special kind of man, he was four foot nine and just funny and warm and just like a quintessential granddad, but like he got me into football. So I used to watch football with granddad and watch match of the day and he'd make me and Daniel toast, you know, that thick white bread and he'd kind of like make us some granddad toast.”
2021-12-06 · The Diary of a CEO · Russell Howard: How To Laugh Through Fear, Anxiety & Imposter Syndrome · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, and I kind of like I spend a lot of time with my tour manager Kumar, the mighty Kumar Kamalagaran, and just chatting about stuff and just being kind of loose and sort of Yeah, just sort of getting in the zone of being silly and just talking about any obligations to try and sort of get things going or, you know, it's like if my brother comes on tour with me, that's always fun because it's kind of, there'll just be a bit of nothing kind of happening. And like, yeah, so I like sort of just hanging out and chatting, talking bollocks. Sort of loosening yourself up, really. That's kind of what I do beforehand.”
2021-12-06 · The Diary of a CEO · Russell Howard: How To Laugh Through Fear, Anxiety & Imposter Syndrome · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's just sort of with your, maybe it's just that weird thing of like, right, I've done 10, I can, you know. And then, if you don't do 10 the first time and it fools, you've got to do 20. And if it falls 30. So do you know what I mean? So you have to do it. And then it becomes this weird little thing. You just don't want that in the back of your head. You can't do a big gig going, shit, man, only did 24 key-ops.”
2021-12-06 · The Diary of a CEO · Russell Howard: How To Laugh Through Fear, Anxiety & Imposter Syndrome · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Me, Kumar, and Pete, and then Steve. And we've got to do 10 keep you ups before we go on stage. Can't really do that if you're doing a small club. There's a brilliant comedy club called Top Secret in London. And it's very, very small. And before that, I'm literally in an alley that stinks of piss looking at notes. So it's always looking at notes, thinking what you're going to do. Sort of trying to be calm to listen to that inner voice that says, hey, you could also do this and that kind of weird. Kind of Funny that just appears from nowhere. There's always the best way of starting a gig. And that's it, really. But there isn't really a psyching up process. I like watch if I'm doing a big show, watch my friend who's supporting me. Sneak in the back of the theatre or the arena and get a feel for them and then just go for it.”
2021-12-06 · The Diary of a CEO · Russell Howard: How To Laugh Through Fear, Anxiety & Imposter Syndrome · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Of more fantasy football stuff, really. No, I kind of, yeah. No, no, no. Yes, because a friend of mine, this one. I listen to Tim Ferris Andrew Huberman, those are my go-to's. Mark Marin, I really like Some really great interviews I love there's a brilliant interview with Marin and Seinfeld, which is one of my favorites. Like, I really got into Jerry Seinfeld during the lockdown, which is kind of so late. Do you know what I mean? I just feel like I'd gone, hey, radio header good. But yeah, I kind of, yeah, that's my thing. I like hearing people that I don't know and having my mind blown. That's what I like about podcasts. I'm not into serial. I find it too, do you know what I mean? Too icky for And you call yourself murderinos, don't you? If you're a big fan, you're a murderin”
2021-12-06 · The Diary of a CEO · Russell Howard: How To Laugh Through Fear, Anxiety & Imposter Syndrome · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Maybe it's psychosomatic, but yeah, it feels like it does. Do you know what I mean? You feel like you've done your. Like going to the gym, it just feels like medicine for you, doesn't it? You always feel like no one enjoys going to the gym. You know, I imagine Arnold Schwartz-Nega did, but most people are just like, right, do it. And it feels like a nice little tick for your soul. And it just feels like therapy is almost, well, it's exactly that, isn't it? It's a workout for your brain or having a conversation like this is a really nice workout for your brain where we're both in kind of like a strange dream-like state where we're... Kind of having a deep conversation. We're kind of riffing, but somehow without planning any of this, we're getting to a deeper”
2021-12-06 · The Diary of a CEO · Russell Howard: How To Laugh Through Fear, Anxiety & Imposter Syndrome · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The musicians I know are very envious of the way the comedians create, which is you go in front of a crowd and you create with, not for, you know. It would be like the comparison going in front of a crowd and Chiswick and going, it was all blue. Nope. Okay, it was all green. Nope. It was all yellow, yellow. Right, I'll do yellow tomorrow. And it sort of is that kind of process. So talking to different creatives or anyone who is sort of an expert in managing yourself. Is something that I find really comforting or, you know, Even I've really gone to this guy, Andrew Huberman at the minute. He's like a professor from Stanford. And there's all these kind of neurolinguistic things you can do to help yourself, like cold showers and all this and Wim Hoff breathe and all this kind of stuff.”
2021-12-06 · The Diary of a CEO · Russell Howard: How To Laugh Through Fear, Anxiety & Imposter Syndrome · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And even talking to somebody like that I am, like a bit of an expert, he'll say something or you'll say something and you kind of unravel a thing. And even like what we're doing now, sort of having a chat about... The process, and I have my friend James Bay, the singer, particularly during COVID, we spoke a lot about... Everything and about creativity and talking to like-minded individuals about the pursuit of a joke or a song or any kind of piece of art, I find really, really interesting. I love it. I'm so interested in the way that musicians create. I'm so envious because they sit in a cool room or they go to like the studio and they kind of write and they jam and they riff and they create a thing and then they perform it. Whereas...”
2021-12-06 · The Diary of a CEO · Russell Howard: How To Laugh Through Fear, Anxiety & Imposter Syndrome · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT