Episode 9 Russell Howard's Good News

This programme contains adult humour and some strong language.

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-Thank you!

Thank you very much! Wow!

Hello and welcome to Good News. So, what's been happening?

Did you see what Bill Turnbull wants to do with Dominic Cooper?!

Cosy up to you and lick you on the face.

I don't know about you but I think this bloke's a bit simple.

Dinosaurs are brilliant.

And penguins are amazing!

On Channel 4 they interviewed a woman who really sounds like Elmo.

-..Caught up the peaceful protesters in amongst everybody else.

-No, no.

No, no, this information is not correct.

Today the police did not enter the park.

Elmo on telly.

This report wins my award for cock-up of the week.

I pledge allegiance to the fag, flag.

And finally, is it me

or do is Nick Owen really have a favourite co-host?

Welcome to Midlands Today with Mary Rhodes.

Hello, welcome to Midlands Today with Mary Rhodes... Mary Rhodes...

Mary Rhodes... Mary Rhodes.

Mary Rhodes... Mary Rhodes.

So what's been going on?

Well, there's been an attack on the Queen!

A 41-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of causing

criminal damage to a portrait of the Queen at Westminster Abbey.

"Philip! Fetch my blade.

"Yap, yap, yap. I'm going to cut Banksy's bollocks off!"

Mind you, not everyone was upset. I think I know who did it.

I'm joking, it wasn't Charlie. Apparently it was this lot.

The campaign group Fathers 4 Justice said it was one of

its members that spray-painted the picture in the Abbey.

Fathers 4 Justice! Where is

the logic in that protest? "I miss my boy so much!

"I could give him a call or write a letter, nah.

"I'm going to draw on the Queen."

"If that don't work, I'm going to shit on a swan."

It's so stupid. Apparently he caused so much damage.

It's now worth less than the one this guy did.

Mind you, it wasn't just the Queen who got dissed this week.

Did you see what happened to Charles?

Yeah! He took it well.

Because, let's be honest, he's not always great when mascots take the piss...

Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah.

-Oh, I'll

-BLEEP

-have you.

-Charles!

-Stop it! Stop it!

-BLEEP BLEEP BLEEP.

Stop it! Charlie, stop it!

Charlie, stop it!

Go on, Harry, do him!

There you go.

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Now, talking about violence, did you hear about Nigella Lawson?

Police have confirmed tonight they are investigating an apparent

row between the TV chef Nigella Lawson

and her husband Charles Saatchi.

It comes after photographs emerged of him

apparently grabbing his wife by the neck in a restaurant.

He grabbed her by the throat in public. Did you see his excuse?

It was a playful tiff!

"I was just telling her a joke."

"It's the way I tell 'em."

Dah!

So, I'll bet everyone was appalled, everyone except Nick Griffin.

Did you see what he tweeted?

Oh-oh-oh.

Hundreds of people tweeted him back.

In my opinion, my mate's was the best.

Now talking of sexism in politics,

did you hear about the Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard?

A joke menu drawn up by staff at a plsh restaurant in Australia

uhas created a sexism row amongst the country's politicians.

The mock dishes were dreamt up for an opposition party fundraiser

-and they poked fun at the Prime Minister Julia Gillard.

-Poked fun?!

It's a bit more than that. Did you see the meal they came up with?

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Only in Australia.

Hey, fellas, our Prime Minister has got a ginger fanny.

It looks like a yawning orang-utan.

Poor Julia, it gets worse. The next day she has a radio interview.

Have a look what this idiotic DJ said about her boyfriend Tim

who happens to be a hairdresser.

I think that's probably right, we've certainly seen that this week.

In what way?

That's absurd.

What a twat.

Must be gay, he's a hairdresser.

You know what they say, if he shaves your locks, he loves the cock.

If he likes the perm, he's into sperm. Come on!

Knobhead. Still, all's well that ends well.

An Australian radio DJ has been sacked for asking

Prime Minister Julia Gillard if her partner is gay.

How great would it have been if she turned to him

and said, "You know what they say, if you get sacked from your job, you're a bit of a knob."

Mind you, if you think any of the stories I have shown you

so far are shocking, it has nothing on the horror that

a couple from Nottingham had to deal with this week.

If you are of a nervous disposition, you need to look away now.

Noooooooooooo!

The grass on one side was longer than the other!

Is there no God?

Look at this devastation.

HE SCREAMS

How did this make the news?

The only thing interesting about is I know who cut it.

Ha, ha, ha!

It was me.

Get a life, you fucking bitches.

Boom!

Finally, big news,

have you seen how the Government are trying to control immigration.

The government is reportedly considering launching

a campaign deriding Britain as a place to come and work.

The aim is to put off the potential mass

emigration of thousands of Romanians.

The Government are making a video to make England look

so shit that it will put off Romanians.

What's that going to look like? This?

You, thinking about visiting Britain?

Well, don't.

Here's three reasons to stay away.

Number one, people here are hardly friendly.

-Hello.

-Fuck off!

The kids aren't much better.

This is the prettiest women we have.

Do you fancy a blowjob?

Great Shitain more like.

Let's be honest...

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If that doesn't work, they can just show them meeting Prince Charles.

-It's Prince Charles.

-BLEEP

-you.

Elsewhere, shocking health news this week.

A landmark study found patients who have planned surgery on a Friday are

44% more likely to die than those have their operation on Monday.

-I'll bet everyone who booked for a Friday just got a...

-Liquid ass.

I bet doctors take the piss. "Your operation is on...Thursday.

"You should have seen your face!

"Oh no, it is Friday."

Not that it is the strangest health news.

Have you seen what you can they do during surgery?

To some it is the stuff of nightmares,

the idea of being awake during a major operation.

But patients at one hospital opting for a local anaesthetic,

rather than being knocked out, to help distract them,

they can watch their favourite film while the surgery is taking place.

Patients can watch a film during their operation.

Surely, that's going to put the doctor off. "Can you fix my broken leg?"

"Not until they find Nemo."

Apparently it calms the patient down. Really?!

What if you are watching Saw?

Horror films and operations, never going to work.

The key to a good circumcision, you have to be very gentle.

Fucking 'ell!

AUDIENCE GROANS

Everything all right, Doctor?

Yeah, fine.

From freaky operations to a freaky new gym class

sweeping across America.

This is called animal flow

and the whole class involves acting like an animal.

They are getting fit by pretending to be animals.

"How was your workout?"

"Great. Spent an hour licking my balls."

"Were you doing animal flow?"

"Yeah."

This is great news for lazy people.

"I am being the sloth."

It's ridiculous.

You don't see animals copying us.

I've never turned my dog, "Fancy a walk?"

"No thanks, Russ, I am exhausted from Zumba."

"Me and the girls did it earlier and I am absolutely bushwhacked."

It is madness. Animals and exercise, not a good idea.

SCREAMING

SCREAMING

Especially if they get dogs in the class.

You feel really bloated today.

Take that, yeah!

Mind you, it isn't all bad news.

Scientists have figured out the secret to winning a woman's heart.

It is claimed, carrying a guitar

can increase the chances of getting a date.

Researchers in France have found women are 31% more

likely to give their number to a man with a guitar.

Well, all right.

HE RIFFS

AUDIENCE CHEERS

Do you fancy a blowjob?

Next up, did you see the ingenious way the police got

a couple of car thieves to surrender?

Police say the two suspects were wanted for stealing a car and

ended up fleeing into the stairwell of this Emerson Street home.

Police hostage negotiators threatened to unleash the canine units

but the dogs weren't available.

The dogs werent available, so what did they do? Use tear gas instead?

-No.

-Officers pretended to bark like dogs and it worked.

They pretended to be dogs and the criminals were

so scared they came out.

Can you imagine their faces when they realised what had happened.

"We surrender. Oh, for fuck's sake!"

"I told you those dogs were laughing... One of them knew your name."

Imagine the moment the police came up with that plan.

"I've got an idea. Let's pretend to be dogs."

"That's brilliant, but can I be a cat?"

"Do whatever you want."

"Raaarrrrh."

Just one policeman saying, "Can I be a penguin?"

So insane.

But it is not my favourite case of mistaken identity in the news.

Did you read about this? Get ready. It's amazing.

So what was this terrifying beast?

That is unbelievable, isn't it?

"Hello, police. Yes, it's a tiger, yes, he's walking on two feet.

"He's eating a kebab, you need to get here quickly."

The worst thing, that poor bloke ran into Prince Charles.

Hey! Charlie! Charlie! Charlie!

Charlie Baked Potatoes.

Charlie Cockles, hey!

Oooh-aaah!

-Take that you,

-BLEEP

-tiger

-BLEEP.

In education news, did you hear about this?

Hundreds of thousands of 11-year-olds in England are sitting

a controversial new spelling and grammar test from today.

I'm not surprised, some kids really struggle with spelling.

It gets worse, some of them can't even spell rapper.

That's a very different thing.

Finally, I've saved the strangest for last.

Have a look at this story from South Africa.

AUDIENCE GROANS

Well, that is every single shade of "what the fuck?"

Imagine him in the playground. "Good weekend?"

"Yeah, I spent it in bed with the missus.

"We made a fort...

"Yeah."

"Had a moat and all sorts of shit."

Mind you, I feel a bit sorry for her. "What does my husband do? Lego."

Could the story get stranger? It can.

Look at the reason why the kid married her. How weird is that? His granddad is the horniest ghost ever.

"Wake up."

"What is it, Granddad?"

"I need to ask you a favour."

"Do you want me to tell the family that you are in a better place?

"You are at peace, finally your soul can rest forever?"

"No."

"I want you to fuck Ethel."

AUDIENCE GROANS

Either that... Either that or his brother can do a really

good impression of his granddad.

Just hid under the bed. "Oh, yeah! Marry that old lady!

"Touch her tits and everything.

"That's what happens when you steal my FUCKING marbles!"

As you can imagine, people on the Internet have gone crazy about this story.

This guy is not a fan.

Who does stuff like that

because your dead ancestor told you to do something, don't mean you got to do it.

If my dead ancestor had told me, "Eddie, 1910 the white people

"did some very bad things to me and I want you to go and kill them all."

Hell, no! I'm not going to kill all the white people for your ass.

I don't know you. You dead. I'm going to jail.

I'm not going to do that cos my dead ancestor told me to do something.

You go. I don't even know you, you dead ancestor.

You know I love you because you're my family,

but I don't know you like that. I'm not going to kill anybody.

And I'm damn sure I'm not going to marry an old-ass person when I'm eight years old.

Not a fan.

This is the part of the show I don't know anything about.

There will be a mystery guests who's been in the news. I have to work out who that person is.

Please welcome my mystery guest.

I'm stalking it with my powers. Hello. Nice to meet you.

-Hello, I am Boyarde.

-Boyarde?!

-Yes.

-What a terrific name.

-Thank you very much.

-I've not heard that before, what does it mean?

-It's actually a Russian packet of cigarettes.

-Well, there you go.

So, nice to meet you.

-It would appear to be something to do with art?

-Yes, that's correct.

-We have a naked lady.

-Yes. Quite a good clue.

It's a good clue? We have apples.

-Apples or the naked lady.

-The naked lady.

-Is more...?

-Yes.

-OK.

So do you paint naked ladies?

My goodness, you are getting very warm, yes I do.

In every sense, I'm getting very warm.

I'm getting red hot. Am I going to be painting a naked lady later?

Ohhhhhh!

Well, this could be very exciting.

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I'll give you another clue.

In terms of the naked lady, so it's a unique canvas

so maybe you want to concentrate a bit more on the female body.

It's a very unique canvas.

I can see which bit you are visualising, it's not that bit.

OK, see if you can guess what I am looking at just by the way my eyes are going.

-Round?

-No.

-No.

Small and minute and circular.

I think I'm going to stop there

-because you're going in the wrong direction.

-It was the elbow.

-Ohhh!

-It was.

-OK.

-Did you think I meant the clitoris?

That would be tiring in an art class, just finding it.

Just put your finger there are so I know where it is when I come back.

So why are you in the news exactly, you are a nude painter?

Do you paint in the nude yourself? Is there a twist?

-I specialise in hand painting ladies' bottoms.

-Terrific.

I'm making the headlines at the moment

because my pop-up bottoms are in the media everywhere.

What a fantastic and interesting job.

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Do you paint on their bums or do you paint their bums?

-I paint on their bottom.

-Wow!

Is it only women that you paint?

I've only ever painted one male before and that's my husband.

We had to shoot it twice because it involved olive oil and sand.

It got in places that it shouldn't have got. The final image...

Please tell me he's called Lawrence

and there is some sort of Lawrence of Arabia...

No, actually my husband is called Norrin Rudyard Kipling Braster

so it just gets better and better.

HE MOUTHS

-Norris Rudyard...

-Norrin Rudyard Kipling Braster.

-Awesome!

-I know.

-What does he do?

I'm guessing he doesn't work in Greggs.

He's a very pragmatic man,he's a mechanic. He works with his hands.

He's a mechanic!

But I think it's time that we teach you how to paint

and maybe give you a canvas of your own.

I look forward to that.

-Here we go.

-So... What are we going to do?

First of all I'm going to show you some of my work.

-I'm going to open the curtains.

-OK.

-Here we have, if you want to stand on the other side...

-Absolutely.

-Have a look at my wonderful model.

-Fantastic.

-I see you're not shy of having a look.

-No, I'm allowed. Hello.

-Hi!

Feels a bit weird to just be staring at...

I'm going to just finish a few layers, but basically what I've

done is I've painted the backdrop and she's

blending in with this image, and it's all pop art and you can see

at the bottom there's a lovely sign, "She was explosive and he knew it."

-Nice!

-So if I basically show you...

That could be an anti-diarrhoea ad, couldn't it?

-Well, hopefully that won't be the case.

-How did you two meet?

I imagine that's kind of a...

Did you say, "You've got a lovely bum. I've got some paints."

-She has got a beautiful bottom. It can't be denied.

-Absolutely.

I said, "I'd love to paint you someday," and we have lots of fun creating art together.

See, blokes don't have those chats.

"Dave, can I just say, I know we're enjoying the game

"and everything, but your arse is magnificent."

Here we go. I'm just going to put this final colour on, and then

it would be photographed and we have a beautiful piece of art.

It looks absolutely wonderful. That's worth a round of applause.

So...

if you would like to stand over here.

I look forward to my lady.

And I would like you to pull from this side all the way across.

Madam, for what I'm about to do to you, I'm very sorry.

AUDIENCE GASPS AND SCREAMS

So basically, this is your canvas.

Let's just hope to God that he doesn't get a liquid air.

The problem with your canvas is it's a bit hairy.

The logistics of the hair is kind of getting in the way.

Whoa, whoa, whoa!

What's that? 18-wheeler!

Now he's legal.

You could start again, get some white,

cover it in white quickly, do a wonderful Mona Lisa face. Cover it up.

-There we go. Quick, quick.

-Done.

-Look at that.

-Lovely.

-It really is.

She's a bit sunburnt on one side.

I'm going to do her eyes evil red.

-Yes, fabulous.

-That's one eye.

Amazing.

She's not happy.

There you go! I enjoyed that immensely.

Ladies and gentlemen, please give it up for my wonderful mystery guest!

APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

Have you heard about the new shoe that Google has invented?

This new Google invention gives a whole new meaning to the phrase

sticking your foot in your mouth.

It's called the talking shoe,

a concept from Google that is designed to talk back to its user.

-MALE ELECTRONIC VOICE:

-Here we go.

I love the feeling of wind in my laces.

Google have invented a talking shoe.

I tell you what, if you worked in the factory where they made them,

you'd have some fun. Just programme it to go, "Ow, ow, ow."

Just when they go past a school, "I'm a paedo!"

"No, it's my shoe! It's the shoe!"

It would have been great at the Olympics to hear Usain Bolt's shoes.

Imagine that - "Fucking hell! Slow down, you crazy fucker!"

What if your shoes are evil?

And they just whisper at you.

"Hey, you, I want you to jump on the bin. Jump on the bin!"

Not that it's the weirdest business idea in the news.

Did you hear about this?

Imagine if they did that here? How cool would that be?

-Hi, cappuccino, please.

-Sure.

HE MOUTHS

Just a lovely cappuccino for you there. And now for my payment.

Oh, I don't have any money on me.

Mum!

HE GASPS IN HORROR

You!

Fancy a blow job?

# Mad world... #

It was actually all right. I don't know why I'm moaning.

Next up, a really lovely story about a little boy called Harley Lane.

Cheeky, chatty and very energetic,

Harley Lane is like any seven-year-old.

But four years ago, just walking was a distant dream for Harley

after he contracted meningitis, and his arms and legs amputated.

Now he's walking 1.5 kilometres in the Great Manchester Mini Run,

raising money for the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital.

Hooray! I'll be starting it off

and also be running it. I might be a bit behind.

Please welcome a very special young man, seven-year-old Harley Lane.

He began the day as honorary starter

before heading to the start line himself.

He'd never walk that far on his prosthetics before, so it was a big

challenge for him to do it.

Did you sleep well or are you a bit nervous?

Nervous!

He needn't have worried, as half an hour later,

Harley was taking the applause. The bravest of finishes.

-Tell me what it was like running around there?

-Very, very tiring.

You did absolutely amazing. He's done great. I'm so proud.

It's the first big thing he's done for long-distance,

and he's definitely going to remember it for ever. It's amazing.

In the sporting arena,

Harley managed to prove you can be a winner just by taking part.

What a little legend!

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Thanks very much. That's Good News.

Good night, my friends, good night.

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