Russell Kane
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Multi-award-winning comedian, presenter, actor, author, and scriptwriter Russell Kane is best known as the host of three series of BBC Three's Live At The Electric, regular appearances on BBC One's Live At Apollo, BBC Three's Unzipped, ITV2's Celebrity Juice, and I Am Celebrity Get Me Out of Here Now.
Russell was nominated four times for prestigious Edinburgh Comedy Awards before winning Best Show in 2010. He then made history as the first comedian to win both the Edinburgh Award and Melbourne Comedy Festival's Barry Award in the same year. His award-winning show Smokescreens & Castles was recorded in front of his home crowd at the Palace Theatre in Westcliff-on-Sea and released by Universal Pictures in 2011. Renowned for his critically acclaimed tours, Russell has been performing sell-out shows worldwide.
His talents are boundless, having published his first novel The Humorist, which was nominated for a literary prize. He has also written, directed, and starred in three plays, two of which have toured, and one, blank verse, was performed in the main house of the RSC in Stratford-Upon-Avon.
Russell also traveled the world with YouTube stars, filming the survival program Stupid Man, Smart Phone, which aired on BBC Three in 2016.
Russell has also captured the social media market by storm with his signature videos, the "Kaneings," in which he uses his unique style to tackle current trending topics. The Kaneings regularly go viral and have received millions of cumulative views to date.
