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Russell Howard

lines on the record: 125
first: 2021-12-06
most recent: 2021-12-06
sittings or episodes: 1
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“That none of which were any good, but it just became like my little, it was like my little fun place to go to every so often goes, I'm going to write some of my jokes.”
2021-12-06 · The Diary of a CEO · Russell Howard: How To Laugh Through Fear, Anxiety & Imposter Syndrome · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, why have you done your research? Yeah. Yeah, I had an old computer. And yeah, I kind of, I watched a Lee Evans video with my mate Craig. And it blew my mind. Because when I was a kid, Standup really wasn't on TV that you'd have like a Billy Connolly tape. You'd have like, have I got news for you? Is it a big show or bottom? Shooting stars was that kind of era, but stand up wasn't really a thing. And he was the first sort of person that I'd seen who kind of was just funny, wasn't an alpha. And I was like, wow, it was mind-blowing. I think I could be, that's sort of a bit like how I'm funny. Like, you know what I mean? And me and Craig just wore that tape out. We just watched it over and over and over. And I didn't tell anyone about it. I just started writing these little kind of jokes and routines and ideas.”
2021-12-06 · The Diary of a CEO · Russell Howard: How To Laugh Through Fear, Anxiety & Imposter Syndrome · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“How obsessed you get about your job, or I would get about stand up, or there is a documentary about the comedy store on Sky recently, and I watched it. It is incredible. It was a beautiful kind of Summer's Day, and I smashed the whole thing. It was one of the best days I've ever ran in my life because it was incredible and it evoked this kind of the comedy store from the sort of the 70s and the 80s and Jay Leno and all this. And it just, you know, I was like, we need a time machine. We need to go back to those times at the comedy store. But because I love standup and I kind of, you know, you have to be with people that understand your passions because you can't fake it. You can't go, let's go to the castle if you're not a go to the castle guy. Do you know what I mean? But you're right. You can be, you can have help to look at the castle.”
2021-12-06 · The Diary of a CEO · Russell Howard: How To Laugh Through Fear, Anxiety & Imposter Syndrome · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So that's the thing. If you're fortunate enough, there are so many, there are billions of people who You know, live for the weekend, do your job, punch in, job you don't like, get your money. Smash your weekend, try and find your fun. If one of the, there are so few people in this world that truly have a thing that they do that they get paid for that they adore, you just got to get hold of it, man. And just like there's no shame, but it just seems peculiar to the outside.”
2021-12-06 · The Diary of a CEO · Russell Howard: How To Laugh Through Fear, Anxiety & Imposter Syndrome · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Relax, get ill because I've been putting it off. Do you know what I mean? Your body just kind of gets a bit sick and then you kind of go again. How about you? Are you a relaxer?”
2021-12-06 · The Diary of a CEO · Russell Howard: How To Laugh Through Fear, Anxiety & Imposter Syndrome · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I normally, what I love about holidays, I don't know what your feelings are about them, but by the end of like 10 days, I'm ready to go back to my life because holidays remind me of how much I love my life. And that's the thing. So you need to have that kind of, I'm a real sit in the sun, you know, read some books, listen to podcasts, whatever, and then kind of go again. But I like the recharge of it. If there was a thing where you could literally plug yourself in like a mobile phone, I would happily do that on a beach. Do you know what I mean? And then kind of go again. But I'm not really a, when I'm in holiday mode, I'm not really a culture vulture. I'm kind of a sit-down plunk book son.”
2021-12-06 · The Diary of a CEO · Russell Howard: How To Laugh Through Fear, Anxiety & Imposter Syndrome · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You have to plan fun, I think. That's the crucial thing. You have to go and write, we'll go on holiday and we'll go to that restaurant and we'll watch this film because I think, like you say, it's the sitting and the... The waiting is very difficult to compete with the innate rush that you get from stand-up.”
2021-12-06 · The Diary of a CEO · Russell Howard: How To Laugh Through Fear, Anxiety & Imposter Syndrome · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Otherwise, like if you're trying to maintain that high, if you're sort of drinking and you're doing drugs or whatnot, it's going to make it harder to be. That version is kind of like, whereas if you're a musician, you can still sing the song that they want you to sing if you're on kind of Coke or like, or you're pissed up. It's kind of hard to be a good comic for a long time You're kind of, you know, on drinking drugs. So, yeah, you have to sort of develop this kind of way of like reintegrating your life. But also, it's nonsense as well. It's just, it's fun make belief. And also what's important is kind of, you know, going from a meal with your wife and hanging out and seeing friends. And there's joy in that, you know, and you sue it. You have to.”
2021-12-06 · The Diary of a CEO · Russell Howard: How To Laugh Through Fear, Anxiety & Imposter Syndrome · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, Christ, that's deep, and that's hope it doesn't. But yeah, you're right. Yeah, every comedian, when they're in the middle of a tour, needs to really, really good box set. Do you know what I mean? You need succession. You need madmen. You need something to get you through. Because, yeah, it”
2021-12-06 · The Diary of a CEO · Russell Howard: How To Laugh Through Fear, Anxiety & Imposter Syndrome · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I think that I know Chris Martin does a similar thing where you just make little notes of lyrics and Woody Allen does a similar thing. Woody Allen will just write a load of stuff and then he puts it in a drawer and then when he comes to write a film, he just gets the drawer out, empties all these notes that he's been making for the last six months and figures out what the film's going to be. And that's a lot easier than sort of writing from a blank page because you can then finesse your kind of thoughts in the field when you're in the laboratory as it were.”
2021-12-06 · The Diary of a CEO · Russell Howard: How To Laugh Through Fear, Anxiety & Imposter Syndrome · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Not being there. And I know somehow that's going to end up in a show somewhere. That's the way I kind of operate, really. I sort of see these little things and they kind of make a note at my phone and they gradually kind of make their way. You know,”
2021-12-06 · The Diary of a CEO · Russell Howard: How To Laugh Through Fear, Anxiety & Imposter Syndrome · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's sort of about keeping life open a bit and keeping the third eye open, really. Probably that's the same of all creatives where you kind of or all people really. You have to notice the thing, the things that niggle you. And if you're talking about them, whether it's in my last special, I had a big bit about kind of young women self-harming. I couldn't, I was like, what? Like one in four women self-harm. And I was like, I couldn't get my head around that. And I just knew I had to talk about it on stage. And yesterday, I saw this lady complaining because the foam in her cup wasn't at the top of her cup. And for the rest of that morning, I couldn't get my head around it. Just how do you get the confidence to complain about your phone?”
2021-12-06 · The Diary of a CEO · Russell Howard: How To Laugh Through Fear, Anxiety & Imposter Syndrome · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“This is the weird thing. Yeah, well, but, well, exactly, but that's the problem. But yeah, we haven't got any jokes or anything. You're just walking around dressed as a clown going to like a fucking zoo. There's got to be something in this. But yeah, you're right.”
2021-12-06 · The Diary of a CEO · Russell Howard: How To Laugh Through Fear, Anxiety & Imposter Syndrome · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Disease that we have that you can't ever truly be there because there's always a little bit of you, whether you're Seinfeld or Taylor Tomlinson or Bill Burr or Chappelle or whatever. Your brain is going to stuff in this. Do you know what I mean? As you're having the, as you're getting beaten up or whatever, your brain, I remember getting mugged in Brighton when I was 18. And this guy shouting to me, come back. I'm a police officer. He clearly wasn't. And I said, no, you're not, you're a monster. And as I said it, I went, that's going to be quite funny, I reckon. But I'm literally running away. I'm terrified. But my brain's going, yeah, I'll probably build a little bit about that. And it's, I think all comics that I know have that. Reality is always auditioning to find its way into your”
2021-12-06 · The Diary of a CEO · Russell Howard: How To Laugh Through Fear, Anxiety & Imposter Syndrome · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I've been doing stand up since I was 18. I remember doing the first gig, and it felt like it was you sort of discovered a mechanism through which you can do life that everything sad, good, happy, weird, peculiar can go through this sausage maker and you can then understand life, figure it out. But also that's a very strange way to do it because you're... You know, you're using the stage to kind of. Dissect yourself, but the aim is always funny. But I don't know of a better way to do it than to kind of make sense of the world. And the funny thing about all comics is guaranteed. If they find themselves in a strange situation, sometimes a heartbreaking situation in life, there's always a little part of your brain going, could be a bit in this. And it's that horrible sort of...”
2021-12-06 · The Diary of a CEO · Russell Howard: How To Laugh Through Fear, Anxiety & Imposter Syndrome · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, what's odd the further you get into it, you realize that it's so much fun doing stand up and it's such a wild drug, effectively, because you're doing this massive gigs, probably 2,000 people and everyone's laughing or 15,000 people. New York, you're doing a gig in Finland and you can't quite get over it. And then as a consequence, it's quite hard to sit down and watch the TV and be normal. So you're kind of chasing that sort of high. And it's about the real skill is trying to figure out the sort of work-life balance, you know. I'm speaking to somebody whose house is above work. But do you know what I mean? It's like the only way around it is to sort of integrate it, really”
2021-12-06 · The Diary of a CEO · Russell Howard: How To Laugh Through Fear, Anxiety & Imposter Syndrome · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“This almost societal orgasm where they're kind of like lost in laughter together. You feel like a necromancer, man. It's the best. And I think Jim's right in that initial spark comes from probably, I'm thinking of other comedians as well as myself, it's sort of that sense of, you know, like I've got a lazy eye. So that was so I became funny to deflect and did jokes about my eyes to get to stop people looking at them. And then you kind of realize, you go, okay, this is kind of cool. Or if you're a bit thick or if you're not good at football or you don't fit in, you can kind of. Rebrand yourself in a strange way through humor and then you can create your own. Kind of energy. It sounds kind of wanky, but do you know what I mean?”
2021-12-06 · The Diary of a CEO · Russell Howard: How To Laugh Through Fear, Anxiety & Imposter Syndrome · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, yeah, completely. My dad is successful and super serious, but used to lose his mind watching kind of Billy Connolly or watching Have I Got News for You. So he would like howl with laughter. And we sort of figured out the way to break dad's serious energy was to make him laugh. So definitely it was kind of there's no tension if people like I've got a line in my new special, which is laughter is the lubricant that makes life livable. And it really, it soothes tensions and it's a bandage that gets overcracks definitely, you know, and then it sort of this thing that you when you discover you can make people laugh, it's so addictive and you can literally create your own energy. And like you do in Arena, there's 15,000 people there. You're orchestrating.”
2021-12-06 · The Diary of a CEO · Russell Howard: How To Laugh Through Fear, Anxiety & Imposter Syndrome · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Separate sounded like it was packed. But that feeling sometimes when you go to a funeral and you're so proud to have the same blood as the people in the room, I kind of feel that whenever I'm back with my family in the West Country, there's such a Lunacy and energy to them that I adore and feel so kind of delighted to be part of, you know, that's kind of.”
2021-12-06 · The Diary of a CEO · Russell Howard: How To Laugh Through Fear, Anxiety & Imposter Syndrome · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I have a brother, Daniel, who's an amazing human being, very funny. And I have a sister who was an actress, who's also incredible. They're very different as well. I'm very close to my brother, not so much to my sister. All my brother, we just played football together as kids. And oddly, Kerry is in the same world as me now and is kind of a BAFTA nominated actress. She was in him and her BBC 3 and super talented. a great human being. They're a lovely bunch, but very strange, my family. It's like being in a pogue song when you go to kind of Christmas parties around our way. Do you know what I mean? Yeah. It's sort of, you know, those like... I remember weirdly the funeral of my nan and granddad”
2021-12-06 · The Diary of a CEO · Russell Howard: How To Laugh Through Fear, Anxiety & Imposter Syndrome · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“He did, yeah, and he's 65 years old. And yeah, I remember this story that this sums my dad up. I had a school report when I was 11 and the teacher said, what Russell needs to know is that he can't do everything. And I kind of go home and, you know, in that moment you give the report and your dad looks and he goes, well, what was this mean? You go, well, the teacher says, I can't do everything. He goes, why'd you say that? I just think that I can. I think I can do anything if I put my mind to it. And my dad goes, you've got to go down that school now and tell her that. So I have to walk back to the school. Yeah, and I kind of go in and go, my dad says I can do anything, and you're not allowed to say that I can't, which is a pretty incredible thing to do. But, you know, made school tough. So, yeah, very different.”
2021-12-06 · The Diary of a CEO · Russell Howard: How To Laugh Through Fear, Anxiety & Imposter Syndrome · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Like she's so excited and happy by the world. And my dad is a very quiet, unbelievably determined man who, you know, when we were kids, we'd sort of have us mix in cement. We'd be sort of like, you know, building kind of walls with him, plastering as a kid. I remember watching my dad plaster. And he was trying to keep this kind of wall up and he screamed to himself, come on, David. And sort of even at 11, I was going, that's a bit much. So I have these kind of two very different dominant personalities that kind of raised me, who I love dearly both, but they are very, very different, you know. My dad challenged me to a press-up competition recently at family barbecue, and he beat me. He did 68.”
2021-12-06 · The Diary of a CEO · Russell Howard: How To Laugh Through Fear, Anxiety & Imposter Syndrome · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“My mum is a warm, twinkly-eyed little lady who is inadvertently funny all the time, has no idea of her power, is just naturally bright and joyful. If you ever feel that you're kind of getting used to hotels and the humdrum life of, oh, here we are in another place, take my mum with you, separate rooms and watch her reaction when she goes into a hotel room because it reminds you of how you used to be.”
2021-12-06 · The Diary of a CEO · Russell Howard: How To Laugh Through Fear, Anxiety & Imposter Syndrome · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I did say that, yeah. I felt like that was the beginning of a riddle. You were sort of a golem figure. I was trying to understand, yeah.”
2021-12-06 · The Diary of a CEO · Russell Howard: How To Laugh Through Fear, Anxiety & Imposter Syndrome · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“When you're low, it leaves you mentally fragile, but then that makes you work hard and go again because you know the excitement you get from making them love. It's an unhealthy treadmill, but at the end of that treadmill, there is this incredible cherry. That's what happiness is. Figure out a healthier way of being the best you without it being so draining to realize what you have, there will always be sort of shimmering lights of hope in the misery, but sometimes somebody has to help you find them. When he died it was just this sledgehammer to your heart where you just go, Jesus, one of the... One of the good souls isn't here anymore”
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