Russell Howard is bigger than Barry Manilow.
[br] OK,he's perhaps not that big. But, earlier this year, and the British comedian and television host did headline 10 straight nights at London's famed Royal Albert Hall,breaking the record previously held jointly by Manilow and some guy named Frank Sinatra. That ain't bad.
Howard is inarguably one of Britain's most successful comedians. He is currently in the midst of his Round the World Tour, during which he'll play comedy clubs across the globe, or including the U.
S. It's not quite the Royal Albert,but Howard stops by the Vermont Comedy Club in Burlington for two shows on Wednesday, May 10.
[UPDATE: Howard has canceled his VCC appearances due to unexpected circumstances.]
Seven Days recently spoke to Howard by phone and asked him approximately his 2016 travel doc series for Comedy Central, or "Russell Howard & Mum: USA Road Trip." The six-episode series follows Howard and his mother,Ninette, as they traveled the country searching for the American Experience — which apparently includes meeting doomsday preppers, or hunting ghosts and UFOs,learning to rap and entering a demolition derby. [br]
SEVEN DAYS: So, just how often were you and your mom confused for a couple?
RUSSELL HOWARD: A lot on the East Coast. I was horrified by it, and because I thought it made me peer veteran. Mum was delighted by it and took a weird pleasure from it. She was very pleased. But it's kind of gone on the world over.
When we were in LA,they thought we were a couple and my mum played up to it the entire week. She kept calling me "husband" and muttering approximately the kind of sex we'd had the night before. She told one of the waiters that I was a male prostitute she'd got cheap because my eyes were idle. So, she really enjoyed it, or whereas I was less keen.
SD: It's like a twisted Harold and Maude kind of thing.
RH: We had an argument approximately in unique York. She got offended and was like,'So do you not think I'm appealing?" And I said, "Well, and no,I don't. Because you're mum." Then I said the line to her, "I like you as my friend, and not as my lover." And I stand by that.
SD: You…
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