Russell Howard & Mum: Globetrotters — Season 3
About this season
Russell Howard takes his “twinkly eyed smasher of a mum” Ninette Howard on an eye-opening trip around the USA, meeting an array of weird and wonderful characters and experiencing their unusual hobbies and obsessions.
Episodes (6)
1. Gap Week in Koh Phangan
Aired 23 January 2019 • 30 min
Russell and his mum Ninette have a full backpacker blowout on the ultimate rave island Koh Phangan, Thailand. They squeeze in the gap year they never had in to one week, drinking mystical buckets of booze, Djing at jungle parties and going full hippy at a mass love-in breathing ceremony.
2. Ancient Arts in Japan
Aired 30 January 2019 • 30 min
Russell and his mum have arrived in Japan. They're stepping back in time to become the ultimate assassins: Ninette is going full Ninja, despite her camel toe, and Russell is throwing on a nappy and getting neck deep in some Sumo man-boob, as well as massacring some teeny tiny trees.
3. City of the Future in South Korea
Aired 6 February 2019 • 30 min
Russell and his mum, Ninette, are in the City of the Future. They're in High-Tech Seoul in South Korea and are taking control of and corrupting a Mega-Robot, joining a crew of cosplayers as a drug addled hedgehog and a pint-sized plumber as well as going on their own Virtual Killing spree across the city.
4. The Road Less Travelled in Vietnam
Aired 13 February 2019 • 30 min
Russell and his mum Ninette have arrived in Vietnam. While in the capital of Hanoi, they taste local delicacies, create melodies with a classically trained wizard and get involved with water puppetry before heading away from the hustle and bustle of town to compete in a rural Olympics.
5. Living the Dream in Mumbai
Aired 20 February 2019 • 30 min
Russell and his mum are in Mumbai, the City of Dreams. Their new mate Alekh is getting them to Act. Act. Act. Bollywood style, share their bedroom secrets with Mumbai's oldest sexpert and meet the record breaker who will put them off chocolate sauce for life.
6. Going Wild in Thailand
Aired 27 February 2019 • 30 min
Russell and Ninette have arrived in Northern Thailand, Chiang Mai to commune with nature - they visit a sanctuary to give some TLC to rescue elephants, are faced with milking deadly cobras and create their own jungle crib.