Russell Kane
Agent contacts: Danny Julian / Richard McCann
Russell Kane is a comedian, actor, and writer whose work spans stand-up, screen, stage and radio.
As a performer, he has appeared on Live at the Apollo, Graham Norton, Jonathan Ross, Michael McIntyre’s Big Show, and The Stand Up Sketch Show, among others. He won Best Show at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards and made history as the first comedian to win both the Edinburgh Comedy Award and the Melbourne Comedy Festival’s Barry Award in the same year. His most recent tour, HyperActive, ran for two years across seven countries.
Russell’s BBC Radio 4 podcast Evil Genius became the best-performing original podcast on BBC Sounds, was subsequently adapted for Sky TV by BBC Studios, and sits alongside his hit nature series Evil Animals under the same BBC Sounds feed. He co-presented a prime-time Channel 4 documentary on men’s health and men’s bodies.
As an actor, Russell appeared in the feature film Scottish Mussel, toured three original stage plays of his own writing, performed one of them at the Royal Shakespeare Company, and is currently in rehearsal prep to play Romeo in a major new production of Romeo and Juliet at the New Vic Theatre, with an international tour planned.
As a writer, he has published a novel, a memoir and two children’s books.
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'True to form, the show is defined by Kane’s hyperkinetic performance energising the room. He must do his 10,000 daily steps in an hour, purposefully striding the full width of the stage, as well as scrambling on the floor or contorting his body into dramatic poses to make a point... he certainly has a spring in his step... and it's very infectious.'
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The Daily Telegraph
'Russell Kane has made his name with verbose, hyperactive comedy - and he shows no sign of slowing down'
The I
'Fierce, funny and heartfelt... a thrilling reminder of what comedy can do.'
The Guardian
'Storming physical comedy...splendidly manic'
The Mail on Sunday
'An evening-long fix of stand-up espresso... one of the quickest, most stimulating stand-ups in the land'
The Times
'... at the top of his game'
The Guardian
'One of a kind'
The Telegraph
'Frenetic comedian'
The Independent
'Delivered with real confidence and style'
The Guardian
'There may be three Russells but there is definitely only one Russell Kane'
The Evening Standard
'One of a kind... if he keeps making shows this smart, and this funny, he's going to be very big indeed'
The Telegraph
'Kane is at the top of his game'
The Guardian
'Delivers the magic in spades'
The Scotsman
'Outrageously funny... he's arguably one of the best straight-up stand-ups in the business'
The Scotsman
'Self-aware, self-referential and self-deprecating'
The Independent
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