Russell Howard saw 212x more Wikipedia readers than usual

What this article is

Russell Howard is an English comedian, television presenter, radio presenter and actor. He has hosted his own television shows, Russell Howard's Good News and The Russell Howard Hour, and appeared on the topical panel TV show Mock the Week. He won "Best Compère" at the 2006 Chortle Awards and was nominated for an Edinburgh Comedy Award for his 2006 Edinburgh Festival Fringe show. Howard has cited comedians Lee Evans, Richard Pryor, and Frank Skinner as influences.

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 12 edits to this article on 2026-09-04, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Personal life

What changed that day

The article grew by 441 characters that day. The largest single addition was 391 characters. See everything that changed on 2026-09-04 in Wikipedia's own diff view — that is where the reason for a surge is usually visible, written and sourced by the editors who were following the story.

How this was measured

Views are Wikimedia's own pageview counts for en.wikipedia, filtered to agent=user so automated traffic is excluded. The baseline is the median of the previous 60 days, which is used instead of the mean so that an earlier surge cannot flatten a later one. The multiple is the day's views divided by that median.