Russell Howard’s childlike exuberance engages the audience and makes for a good hour and a half of comedy. With a lot of the audience being teenagers, in particular screaming girls who went wild when one of their friends name came up in Russell’s jokes, I did not know how the show would capture an older audience. In two words, it wouldn’t, an older generation simply wouldn’t understand or like his humour, but this is not necessarily a bad thing.
Russell’s on stage presence is awesome, drawing the audience in with his energy and his charisma. You can’t help but love him, he’s the kind of person all men would want to have a drink with and all women would want to introduce to their mum, as one woman asked in the q and a session at the end of the show.
Russell seems genuinely delighted and entranced with everything, his personality rubs off on everyone but you are left wondering how long he will last with this childlike enthusiasm, he will grow up and then where will his comedy be? But instead of worrying about this, catch him before he grows up, catch him whilst he’s hot.
Dingledodies are people who you cannot fail to be uplifted by, and so is apt due to the fact that noone in the theatre would have failed to leave without a smile on their face after spending time with Russell Howard.
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