Russell Howard, host of The Russell Howard Hour, played four nights of his tour Don’t Tell The Algorithm at The London Palladium in February.
Russell Howard, the host of Russell Howard’s Good News, played Don’t Tell The Algorithm at The London Palladium in the West End from Thursday 5 to Sunday 8 February 2026.
Howard was born in Bath in 1980 and grew up in Radstock, Somerset. He studied economics at the University of the West of England before he took up stand-up.
He was nominated for an Edinburgh Comedy Award in 2006. Good News ran on BBC Three, and its successor, The Russell Howard Hour, moved him to Sky.
He was a regular panellist on BBC Two’s Mock the Week until 2010. From 2006 to 2008 he also co-hosted a Sunday morning show on BBC Radio 6 Music with Jon Richardson.
Don’t Tell The Algorithm asked its audiences to leave their phones alone and spend the evening in the room. The four Palladium nights ran Thursday to Sunday, and he returns to the same stage for two more in September 2027.