Russell Howard's Good News

Really weak-kneed comedy, desperately trying to be edgy. I believe he plays stadiums now, and in this intimate setting he still gives it the full stadium overkill. Compare to the subtle mutterings of Stewart Lee (unfair, I know) and Howard comes off like Cannon and Ball. A couple of titters, then I realised the audience were just going to fall about at anything he said - if he wasn't going to make the effort, why should I?

Absolutely brilliant show. Russell Howard is my favourite comedian and I can always count on this show delivering the laughs week after week. With Russell's wit and fabulous sense of humour, he delivers insights into the world of pop culture, politics, media and any other topic that takes his fancy at the time.

This is a laugh out loud show. Brilliant, with interesting special guests. If you love the English sense of humour, then this show is for you, and I'd definitely suggest on watching it right back from the very first episode.

Fantastic comedy.

Russell Howard is a new comedic face to me. His show is like a modern day version of the Clive James Show but with much less drollery and, possibly, not quite so interesting guests.

I keep watching even though there's something not quite a hit about this show. Russell picks up well on contemporary culture but the frequent and blatant references to bodily parts and functions can tend to wear after a while.

The humour is boyish-smutty which Russell carries off well given his looks. There is some wit in there but its generally overwhelmed.

The final segment of the show is always a 'feel good' story from the press which, again, can be hit or miss. Given Russell's persona I'll never be sure whether the segment is there to help tone down the previous material.

Worth giving a try if you don't recoil from brash, younger comedians.

Russells show is not that good, its pretty cheap humor of clips repeated over and over again to get a laugh out of the childish audience members

his impressions are terrible because there always the same

the only good thing about the show is the clips but only seeing them once on the show , he tends to repeat the clips he has used once over and over again to fill in the time limit of the show

the truth is its a rip off of tosh.0 , every thing about the two shows are the same, but tosh has a funnier show because his show has a much broad variety of clips

russells show is limited to allot of things like the news aspect because there is never enough clips to show about news he uses top clips from the net

the show can be better if it was presented by a better host because he was terrible on mock the week just like anything else

I used to watch a good bit of this back in the day. It was adequate disposable entertainment. Although some people were negative about how it was more demonstration of great research rather than amazing comedianing with a liberal splatter of stuff appropriated from the internet (lots of repetition), this filling the time between dinner and bedtime on weekday nights with nothing planned.

I don't know if would have watched this if I had had a wider selection of things. It was a pretty casual and quick show so it never felt like much a commitment to watch but the jokes admittedly were hit and miss. Howard as a comedian doesn't really have much of an edge except just laughing along with what he's seeing, making funny (I should say annoying) voices and laughing a long to what we have just fricking seen to punch home what was not that subtle in the first place.

The mystery guest segment just halted the pacing dead in a jarring way and I kept forgetting how much it irritated me. If maybe he had three guesses to who they were and three clues, it could have been consistent with the flow but it was actually kind of painful.

I was not grateful for the political overtones present. I know it's about the news and it's very possible to have a fun political show that is both casual and satirical but it was incongruous in a show that revelled in a more juvenile sense of humor. Juvenile humor is swell, I just want a bit of consistency. Howard is clearly to my mind right in principle (he tends to side with gay people and the poor anyway) but he can be so sanctimonious that it is repugnant. One smug rant about the police that oozes an "All lives Matter" vibe was particularly disturbing.

The "It's not all doom and gloom" segment they like to end each episode with actually was perhaps among the most depressing thing in any comedy show since they had to show us people at their lowest to give a little ray of sunshine. I'd rather they'd put that in the middle and just ended with a fluff piece.

Looking back over this on the internet, this doesn't do it for me much anymore. I'm not sure if I changed or if I just have access to better stuff but even by the standards of goofy comedy (I'm way into Family Guy if that helps) I find this just kind of pitiful now.