ABOUT

  • Russell Howard is one of the UK's most successful stand-up comedians. After the global success of writing and starring in 182 episodes of ‘The Russell Howard Hour’ (Sky) and ‘Russell Howard’s Good News’ (BBC), as well as six stand-up specials, his clips have garnered over one billion views on social media, and he has sold over two million tickets worldwide.

  • Russell will return to the stage in 2026 with a brand-new stand-up tour, Don’t Tell The Algorithm. After breaking records with sold-out shows across the globe, ‘one of the world’s top comedians’ (The Sunday Times) is inviting you back into the room – no phones, no distractions, just humans and jokes. Running from 22 January to 29 November 2026, the tour will see him perform 118 shows across the UK and Ireland – including six performances at the iconic London Palladium and homecoming run of the same in Bristol.

  • Spanning 237 gigs across 141 cities in 30 countries throughout Europe, North America, Oceania and Asia, Russell’s fourth and biggest world tour to date, Russell Howard Live, sold over 435,000 tickets including 13 sell-out shows at the iconic London Palladium.

  • In January 2025, during the record-breaking international run of his last live tour, he premiered Russell Howard Live at the London Palladium as an exclusive global stream. The 60-minute special captured him putting the world to rights in his uniquely hilarious way, with bonus content available only to stream audiences, and- for the first time – live conversations with fans around the world on launch night.

  • Launching into the Top 10 Comedy Podcasts, Russell’s Five Brilliant Things podcast has seen him chat to guests including John Oliver, Jameela Jamil, Shaun Keaveny, Roisin Conaty, Munya Chawawa, Jimmy Carr, Jack Whitehall, Greg Davies and Guz Khan, about items from their lives that makes it worth getting up in the morning for. Clips from episodes have amassed over 80 million views on social media, with several going viral such as  Jimmy Carr describing his dream cocktail (17 million views),  Greg Davies on his missing Paella dish (7.9 million views) and Fatiha El-Ghorri diving into language (3.1 million views). Bonus episodes based entirely on listener suggestions are available only through media and community platform Patreon.

  • In September 2024, Russell began co-hosting an all-new original podcast, GoalLess, focused on the passion, personalities, and pitch drama that make soccer beautiful, with Chris Wittyngham through SmartLess Media: a joint venture between Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes, and Will Arnett.

  • Russell wrapped filming the sixth series of ratings and critical hit ‘The Russell Howard Hour’ in December 2022. The show immediately became one of Sky’s most successful entertainment series when it launched and has also gone on to see huge success online with over 500 million views on social media.

  • Selling over 300,000 tickets, Russell’s previous world tour, ‘Respite’, saw him play a UK arena run plus a second UK leg including five Hammersmith Apollo dates, culminating with taping his second Netflix special ‘Lubricant’ which is streaming now. The two-part Netflix instalment features his stand-up special striving to make sense of a world that is spinning out of control, Lubricant and documentary mapping his attempts to keep performing throughout the Covid 19 pandemic, ‘Until The Wheels Come Off’.

  • Following ‘Lubricant’s’ release, Russell became the sole comedian to have two of the top ten most-streamed specials across all platforms in the UK.

  • Russell has over nine million followers on social media.

  • Russell became the first stand-up comedian from the Northern Hemisphere to perform in New Zealand and Australia since the global lockdown in 2021. Whilst on tour in New Zealand and Australia, Russell filmed a new 3 x 60 min travelogue,Russell Howard Stands Up To The World’, airing in the UK on Sky in New Zealand on TVNZ in 2021.

  • During lockdown in 2020, Russell was on our screens twice a week presenting a new Sky One show, ‘Russell Howard’s Home Time’, from his childhood bedroom for which he donated his fee to NHS Charities Together and The Trussell Trust. The series saw Russell give his unique perspective on current world events, as he chatted to some famous faces and interesting people in lockdown including Marc Maron, Jack Whitehall, Louis Theroux, Katherine Ryan, Greg Davies, Michelle Wolf, John Richardson, Guz Khan, James Bay, Stephen Merchant, Kasabian’s Serge Pizzorno, and heroes on the front line including Bafta and Emmy award winning film maker Hassan Akkad, intensive care doctor Aoife Abbey and mental health volunteer Caitlin Grant.

  • Russell Howard and his mum Ninette were on our screens with the fourth series of Comedy Central’s ‘Russell Howard & Mum: Globetrotters’ in 2019. The first three series reached 4.2M individuals, with the first series being the highest rated new commission on the channel the year it launched.

  • A Netflix special of Russell’s previous critically acclaimed world tour titled ‘Recalibrate’ launched worldwide in December 2017.

  • Russell’s 2017 sell-out international tour, ‘Round the World’ saw him play a total of 87 dates with runs in the UK, USA, Canada, Europe, China, New Zealand and Australia. This tour also saw a record-breaking 10-night run at the Royal Albert Hall, overtaking eight in a row jointly held by Frank Sinatra and Barry Manilow, and performing the biggest ever stand-up show in China.

  • Whilst Russell was touring ‘Round The World’ in 2017, his previous stand-up show ‘Wonderbox’ (2014) went viral with 15 million views in China (with Mandarin subtitles) and 55 million views worldwide. Russell Crowe and Stephen Fry are amongst some of the Twitterati who shared the heart-warming story of Russell and a sick fan’s triumph over adversity.

  • The last series of ‘Russell Howard’s Good News’ saw multiple sections go viral, including a passionate backing of junior doctors and the NHS (8.2 million views), an interview destigmatising Tourette’s (4.9 million views) and a demonstration of the absurdity of the tampon tax (10.2 million views).

  • 10 series of ‘Russell Howard’s Good News’ saw Russell write and star in 96 episodes. It was regularly the most watched show on iPlayer across all BBC Channels.

  • On the 10th anniversary of the channel, a poll of over 10,000 readers of Digital Spy voted ‘Russell Howard’s Good News’ as the best ever BBC Three Show, beating shows such as Little Britain and Gavin & Stacey .

  • Russell’s 2014 ‘Wonderbox’ tour saw him perform to over 285,000 fans at 40 shows across the UK and Ireland, including four consecutive nights at London’s Royal Albert Hall.

  • Russell's tour in 2011, ‘Right Here, Right Now’ saw him perform to over 240,000 fans across the country, including three sold out dates at London’s O2 arena.

  • Russell performed to over one million people on his UK and international tours from 2006-2014.

  • Russell Howard has four bestselling stand-up DVDs, 2014’s ‘Wonderbox Live’, 2011’s ‘Right Here, Right Now’, 2008’s ‘Russell Howard Live’ and 2009’s ‘Russell Howard Live – Dingledodies’, which have sold over 619,000 DVDs and all been in the top 5 DVD comedy chart.

  • Russell was voted Heat Magazine‘s “Weird Crush of the Year 2013″

  • Russell made 58 appearances on ‘Mock The Week’ between 2006 and 2010.

  • In addition to being a regular on ‘Mock The Week’, Russell was twice featured on ‘Live At The Apollo’ and appeared on ‘Would I Lie To You’ (BBC One), ‘Never Mind The Buzzcocks’ (BBC Two), and ‘8 Out 10 Cats’ (Channel 4).

  • In 2010 Russell took part in the ‘Sport Relief Million Pound Bike Ride’ with David Walliams, Jimmy Carr, Fearne Cotton, Miranda Hart, Patrick Kielty and Davina McCall – cycling 874 miles from John O’Groats to Land’s End in 4 days and raising over ￡1,337.099.

  • In 2010 Russell ran the London Marathon, raising money for the National Society for Epilepsy – a condition from which his brother suffers. He completed the 26 mile course in 4 hours and 15 minutes and raised over ￡7,000.

  • In 2006 Russell Howard was nominated for the Edinburgh Fringe Comedy Award for his show ‘Wandering’, which followed with a nationwide sell-out tour.

  • From November 2006 to July 2008, Russell co-hosted ‘The Russell Howard Show’ (BBC 6 Music) with fellow comedian Jon Richardson in a Sunday morning slot previously hosted by Russell Brand.