Russell Howard is relentlessly funny, endlessly charming and undoubtedly the king of feel-good comedy. A mega-star for over 15 years, Russell Howard’s Good News showed him as a firm believer in comedy as a way to deal with a world in crisis, and boy does that feel timely again.

“It’s such a fascinating time to be a comedian because there’s this blizzard of political incompetence, societal meltdowns, and the planet is dying,” Howard told the New Zealand Herald. “I just like writing jokes about the world, even if it’s bleak. That’s what I do.”

“You’d have to be made of stone not to leave with a smile on your face” - The Standard