Charity Work
He appeared at Friends of the Earth's LIVEstock 2009 comedy and music event at the Hammersmith Apollo in support of the green campaign group's Food Chain Campaign for planet-friendly farming, in 12 November 2009.
For Sport Relief 2010 he took part in the BT Sport Relief Million Pound Bike Ride, with David Walliams, Jimmy Carr, Fearne Cotton, Miranda Hart, Patrick Kielty, and Davina McCall. They cycled from John O'Groats in Scotland to Land's End in 4 days and trying to raise 1 million pounds. [14]
In April 2010, Howard ran the Virgin London Marathon for the first time with both his brother and sister, to raise money for the National Society for Epilepsy - a condition from which his brother suffers. He completed the 26 mile course in 4 hours and 15 minutes, beating his target time of 5 hours. Sponsorship has raised over £7,000 to date.
Live comedy
A show from his 2007 Adventures tour was released on DVD on 17 November 2008,[16] under the title "Russell Howard Live". The show on the DVD was recorded at The Bloomsbury Theatre.
Howard started touring his show 'Dingledodies' in September 2008 and played various dates through to December. Due to overwhelming demand he further extended the tour twice into 2009. It sold in excess of 125,000 tickets, including three sell out shows at the Hammersmith Apollo as well as several large arenas such as Wembley Arena and Manchester's MEN Arena. The DVD of this tour was released on 9 November 2009 and features a recording of the show from the Brighton Dome.
He was named "Best Theatre Show" at the 2009 Chortle Comedy Awards.[20]
Howard performed 10 UK dates between December 11 and 20 2009 for his "Big Rooms and Belly Laughs" tour.
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