RUSSELL HOWARD ANNOUNCES FINAL 2 UK TOUR SHOWS AT THE LONDON PALLADIUM

13 PALLADIUM SHOWS TOTAL

300, 000+ TICKETS ALREADY SOLD  

 

What The Press Said About Russell Howard Live

“completely irresistible…one of the most effective political stand-ups around, for the way he can keep any crowd on board, being didactic without being divisive… God, the man can put on a show. Howard is a brilliantly talented live performer”
Tristram Fane Saunders, The Daily Telegraph ★★★★ 

“you’ll not find a slicker, more personable performer the length and breadth of the land”★★★★
Mark Wareham, The Mail On Sunday

“Hilarious and Humble…established a solid international fan base thanks to years of touring and his work spreading like wildfire on the internet…wildly successful and acclaimed”
Simon Thompson, Forbes (US)

“comedy A-lister…With smart, satisfying and well-rationed callbacks, Howard builds his giddy anecdotes into a tsunami of feelgood humour, drenching the sizeable crowd in positivity. No wonder they were moved to rise to their feet.” ★★★★½
Steve Bennett, Chortle

“a humor phenomenon made in the UK, which social networks have spread around the world. Without barriers or borders, his stand-up shows have already won fans from geographies as diverse as the USA, China or Denmark. Language is not an obstacle to getting a good laugh”
Ana Pina, The Portuguese Jornal Económico

 

8th February 2024  – After the global success of writing and starring in 182 episodes of The Russell Howard Hour (Sky) and Russell Howard’s Good News (BBC) combined, two Netflix specials Lubricant and Recalibrate (streaming now), over 1 billion views on social media worldwide including 500+ million views spawned from six seasons of The Russell Howard Hour, and selling 300, 000+ tickets over 175 gigs with brand-new show Russell Howard Live,  Russell Howard announces his final two national tour shows at The London Palladium on the 27th and 28th April.

Tickets are on general sale now at russell-howard.co.uk

To date, Russell Howard Live has seen Russell perform runs in the UK, the USA’s East Coast and Australia & New Zealand (where he is currently playing his sold-out tour). Alongside his upcoming final two UK gigs at the London Palladium, bringing the total number of shows at this venue up to 13, Russell is set to play 11 Nordic shows in Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark this Spring.

The news arrives shortly after Russell launched his new podcast Wonderbox. A ‘Wonderbox’ is a place where you keep little reminders of what makes life worth living. Each week Russell chats to a special guest about what they’d keep in their ‘Wonderbox’, recounting the most memorable and funniest moments of their lives.

Russell began the series chatting with 2023 Emmy Award ‘Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics’ & Brit Awards ‘Best New Artist’ Nominated Sam Ryder plus BAFTA Nominated Munya Chawawa (Race Around Britain) in a special bumper double episode, followed by stars including Emmy Award winning John Oliver (Last Week Tonight), Jimmy Carr (8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown, His Dark Material), Jack Whitehall (A League of Their Own, At Large) , Greg Davies (Taskmaster, The Cleaner), Guz Khan (Man Like Mobeen,  Four Weddings and a Funeral), Roisin Conaty (GameFace, David Brent: Life on the Road), Jordan Gray (Transaction, Friday Night Live),  Jen Brister (Live At The Apollo, Meaningless) and Iliza Shlesinger (Hot Forever, Good On Paper).

Russell has over 9 million followers on social media. His TikTok channel attracted over 100k followers within 48 hours of launching and is currently tracking over 1.4 million followers, with over 295 million views including a clip of Russell and Greta Thunberg chatting to kids about climate change gaining over 14.8 million views.

For more information, please contact Victoria Wedderburn on 07557160139 or [email protected]  and Jasmine Ruparelia on [email protected]

 

What The Press Have Said About Russell’s stand-up:

“one of the world’s top comedians”
 Martin Hemming, The Sunday Times

“Howard is a megastar” ★★★★ 
Allan Radcliffe, The Times

“A joy to watch”
The New York Times

“Russell Howard is at the top of his game, his elegantly crafted observational stand-up using cunningly spun callbacks and physical comedy to flirt with controversy, domesticity, politics, sex, and Calippo ice lollies”
Stephen Armstrong, The Sunday Times 

“he takes stock of the current chaos and concludes that we need more fun…. Howard says laughter brings people together. It certainly did last night.”
★★★★ Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard

“Hero’s return for the uplifting comedy king…Howard is undeniably one of the biggest names in comedy”
★★★★ Josh Stephenson, Metro

“completely irresistible…one of the most effective political stand-ups around, for the way he can keep any crowd on board, being didactic without being divisive… God, the man can put on a show. Howard is a brilliantly talented live performer”
Tristram Fane Saunders, The Daily Telegraph ★★★★ 

“you’ll not find a slicker, more personable performer the length and breadth of land”★★★★
Mark Wareham, The Mail On Sunday

“comedy A-lister…With smart, satisfying and well-rationed callbacks, Howard builds his giddy anecdotes into a tsunami of feelgood humour, drenching the sizeable crowd in positivity. No wonder they were moved to rise to their feet.” ★★★★½
Steve Bennett, Chortle

“Howard masterfully builds a show that is hilarious and convincing in equal manner”
★★★★ Owen Richards, The i

 

NOTES TO EDITORS

About Russell Howard:

  • Russell’s current tour, Russell Howard Live, has seen him play 175 shows to date, selling 300, 000+ tickets, with runs in the UK, USA and New Zealand & Australia (where he is currently performing his sold-out run).
  • Russell sold-out 50 shows, 120,000+ tickets, over the opening UK on-sale weekend for his current, fastest selling tour ever.
  • In December 2022, Russell wrapped filming the sixth series of ratings and critical hit The Russell Howard Hour. 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 third world tour, Respite saw him play a UK arena run, plus a second national leg including 5 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.
  • Russell is the first comedian to release a special accompanied by a documentary on Netflix.
  • 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 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.
  • 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. After achieving as much as +241% on the 16-34s slot average and +172% on the adult’s slot average, series three and four were commissioned with extended episodes.
  • 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.
  • Russell Howard’s Good News is available around the world via a YouTube channel launched in 2014 – allowing fans to watch full episodes of the show (without piracy) in countries where the show wasn’t already broadcast – and has had over 48 million views and been watched in 180 countries (including North Korea and Vatican City)
  • Christmas 2015 saw Russell’s first comedy-drama with the premiere of, A Gert Lush Christmas (BBC Two).   As well as co-writing the special, Russell starred for the first time along-side his sister Kerry Howard (Him & Her, BBC Three), Greg Davies (The Inbetweeners, Man Down, Channel 4), Neil Morrissey (Men Behaving Badly, Waterloo Road, BBC1), and Sophie Thompson (EastEnders, BBC1).
  • Russell’s stand-up series, Russell Howard’s Stand Up Central, which aired from April 2015 on Comedy Central (UK) achieved viewing figures of 159% above the slot average for its first episode.
  • Episodes of Russell Howard’s Good News have even been subtitled and uploaded to Chinese video site AcFun, where the show has also been watched over 4 million times.
  • 10 series of Russell Howard’s Good News saw Russell write and star in 96 episodes.
  • Russell Howard’s Good News was regularly the most watched show on iPlayer across all BBC Channels.
  • 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 extended his 2014 Wonderbox tour across the world following over 17,000 suggestions from his fans after he asked them via Facebook where they’d most like to see him perform. The extra sold out dates saw Russell travel to New York, LA, San Francisco, Chicago, Washington DC, Denver, Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Brisbane and Auckland.
  • 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 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 made 58 appearances on Mock The Week between 2006 and 2010.
  • Russell Howard’s fifth ever stand-up gig got him to the final of Channel 4’s So You Think You’re Funny.
  • In 2006 Russell Howard was nominated for the Edinburgh Fringe Comedy Award for his show Wandering, which followed with a nationwide sell-out tour.
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