"The south-west just has a warmth to it; a twinkle, a bit of lunacy." Russell Howard is proud of his Somerset roots. The combination of "madness" and "warmth" in his upbringing helped him take his ...

British comedian Russell Howard has that special knack for pointing out both the absurdity in the mundane and the ridiculousness in the terrifying. He became a household name in the U.K. through ...