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Russell Howard has revealed that he is now a dad – after welcoming a son with his wife Cerys Morgan three months ago.
The comedian, 44, told in a new interview on Sunday that he has swapped gigging for parenting in recent months.
Cerys, who wed Russell in June 2019, is a geriatric doctor and the pair have now moved out of London to Buckinghamshire to start their new family life.
He told The Times: ‘Six months ago my evenings would have been spent getting ready to go out and perform in front of a thousand people, but now evenings find me sitting on the sofa watching TV with my son on my chest.
‘I’m tired a lot. It’s funny, when you become a parent everybody compliments you on your baby, but they will freely turn to you and say that you look like s**t, that your face should be on a government watch list or something.
Russell Howard has revealed that he is now a dad – after welcoming a son with his wife Cerys Morgan three months ago
Cerys (seen), who wed Russell in June 2019, is a geriatric doctor and the pair have now moved out of London to Buckinghamshire to start their new family life
‘So I try to get sleep whenever I can. Right now, I need it.’
Cerys started dating Russell when he was 24 and she was 20, in 2004 before their engagement was announced on Alan Carr’s Chatty Man on New Year’s Eve in 2018.
During the pandemic Cerys revealed she’d stopped her six month career break to return to the NHS frontline and help tackle the coronavirus outbreak.
She had planned a half year of travelling but returned to the service tweeting in 2020: ‘Three weeks and two days and the career-break dream is definitely over.
‘Today I am returning to support the NHS family.
‘Happy playlist on. Wish me luck!!!’
Cerys worked at West Middlesex University Hospital in Hounslow, London, at the time.
In August 2020 Russell made headlines when left an audience stunned by storming out of a gig because someone in the crowd was filming him with her phone.
The comedian noticed the woman filming him, while he was performing new material, about five minutes into the set on the outdoor terrace of the Bambalan bar in Bristol.
He told the woman it was the worst thing she could do and said she should ‘live in the moment’.
The comedian, 44, told in a new interview on Sunday that he has swapped gigging for parenting in recent months
The performer then took out his phone and mimicked filming her, asking how she would like it if someone recorded her while she was at work.
He said comedians were a ‘dying breed’ because they worried people will film unseen or controversial content and post it online.
Before leaving he tried to perform an old set, telling the crowd he would just do ‘some safe material from now on’.
But eventually he turned to the woman and said: ‘You’ve ruined it now’.
‘I was really looking forward to this gig.’
Then he apologised to everyone and, grabbed his backpack from behind the stage area and left.
The woman responded by telling the rest of the audience that she was just taking photos and videos like others had done.
Russell has hosted his own television shows, Russell Howard’s Good News and The Russell Howard Hour, and appeared on panel TV show Mock the Week
But a man shouted back: ‘You were filming the whole f***ing thing’.
Event organiser and compère Mark Olver returned to the stage and said: ‘I’m not really sure what to say’.
But he soon recovered the situation and the evening ended off with everyone laughing.
A spokesperson for Russell Howard said at the time: ‘Any comedian whose set is being recorded at a new material night would find it distracting. The beauty of live performance particularly at this strange time is it’s intended for the room only.’
