I'm going to make a generalisation here. Youth don't follow the news. It's pretty simple. I mean, sure we'll glance at iGoogle, or whatever homepage we have and see some headlines. Maybe we'll even click on something if it contains a keyword to our interests, but on the whole we don't really have a great deal of a clue on what is really happening in the world. That's why the BBC have so many shows which involve comedians talking about the week that was. There's Have I Got News For You, Mock the Week (which I reviewed recently), The Bubble, and so on. But when it comes down to it, who is the best person to really tell the youth of Britain what's been happening ...  Read the complete review

Since watching Mock the Week, I've become quite a fan of Russell Howard, a young English comedian. Recently I've been watching his show on BBC3, Russell Howard's Good News. It's a comedy sketch show where Howard talks (and makes fun of) the latest news from all around the world. There's a lot of different subjects that he covers including sports, politics, education, technology, kids - basically anything big or funny that's been in the news over the last few weeks. Although some of these subjects, such as politics and sports, are of no interest to me, it isn't at all boring as he makes everything so funny and he's basically just taking the mickey out of ...  Read the complete review

Russell Howard appears regularly as a panellist on TV's Mock the Week, can be seen performing live stand up on stations like Comedy Central and on BBC Three his show Good News is broadcast at various times during the week. The format of the programme is very similar to Harry Hill's TV Burp but instead of popular television, items from that week's news are discussed. Local, national and international stories are featured from all the major networks along with newspaper articles. Viewers are shown a clip or a headline from a newspaper and then Russell will make his amusing comments often taking what is shown out of context as I have previously said in a ...  Read the complete review

I have only just realised how funny Russell Howard is. Me and my husband loved him on Mock the Week, and I am personally glad to see he has got his own show. It is currently on BBC, at 10.30pm every Thursday. The programme is basically Russell, going through the past weeks news, splitting it into sections such as crime, politics, family etc and talking about what he has seen in the news that has interested him or what he has found amusing. The best thing about this show is that Russell picks up on a lot of things that you will inevitably missed throughout the weeks news, like journalistic slip ups, peoples ridiculous names in relation ...  Read the complete review

Russell Howard's Good News is a program I have caught before whilst flicking through the channels but hadn't actually sat through an episode until I watched the show last night. He has been a relatively succesful comedian in his career so far and has won quite a few awards and has proved to be quite popular. This is his own show which lasts for around 30 minutes and is broadcast on BBC3. It is a stand up style comedy show and Howard is in front of a studio audience. He covers some of the most interesting, funny and topical news stories that have been circulating recently on television, newspapers and any other forms of broadcast. The idea of good news is that ...  Read the complete review