“I'm one of the people who actually laughs at everyone else's jokes!” — Russell Howard

If you're doing 70 gigs in a tour, there's a lot of responsibility. People need a big night out, and you're providing it.

Audiences around the world are all pretty similar. People just rock up and want to have a laugh, although Americans whoop more than English crowds.

I don't want to be one of those comics who says, 'Hey, what's wrong with air travel?' and stuff like that.

There's a lot of brilliant comics who are amazing, but you can see them doing the same 20 minutes that they were doing five years ago, verbatim. I think that doesn't lend itself to progressing.