Any Russell Brand fans here?

Super Vedder

I highly recommend people to d/l his podcast if comedy is your thing (or you're a bit wierd). The latter pretty much covers most people who will see this thread

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/podcasts/brand/

Rygar

Did you say you sent this to Mookie for Christmas?

dunkman

i think he's salubrious in the comedy stakes... i've met him (see claim to fame thread)

:cool:

harmless_little_f***

I wasn't sold on him until his latest TV show.. That had me in stitches constantly and turned my opinion around. He's intelligent, articulate and has the imagination of a genius.

Super Vedder

harmless_little_f*** wrote:

. He's intelligent, articulate and has the imagination of a genius.

are you referring to me now???

seriously tho, download the podcast its an hour of hilarity and leaves you exhausted at the end from laughin so much!

chime

Yep. Trying to watching with the grandparents ... they just don't get it

pirlo21

Any thought on the whole Russel Brand/Jonathan Ross stuff that's been going down this week?!!

Incredible over-reaction if you ask me.

Sorry if people outside the UK have no idea what I'm on about, I was hoping someone else might fill everybody in on the happenings!!!

dunkman

pirlo21 wrote:

Any thought on the whole Russel Brand/Jonathan Ross stuff that's been going down this week?!!

Incredible over-reaction if you ask me.

Sorry if people outside the UK have no idea what I'm on about, I was hoping someone else might fill everybody in on the happenings!!!

2 people complained at the time of the show... since then 31,000 very bored old people have complained.

now i'm not saying what he and Jono said was 'right'... it wasnt.... but it was hardly akin to being a Nazi sympathiser or something deplorable... he said he shagged Manuels grand-daughter... and he did... so it was true. its not like he made it up.

storm in a really tiny teacup.

BBC has lost one of its radio presenters and Ross will take a while to get back to his best after this, i personally fear for the other 'edgy' shows that are out there... like Mock the Week, HAve i Got News for you, etc, etc...

Jeremy1012

pirlo21 wrote:

Any thought on the whole Russel Brand/Jonathan Ross stuff that's been going down this week?!!

Incredible over-reaction if you ask me.

Sorry if people outside the UK have no idea what I'm on about, I was hoping someone else might fill everybody in on the happenings!!!

It's ridiculous that it has been such an important news story, see if you can see what is wrong with this picture for instance.

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/images/one?id=734765&size=f

Having said that, take away their fame or the context or whether Brand slept with the woman or not, calling up any 78 year-old man to tell him you fucked his granddaughter isn't funny. I like Russell Brand, and Ross to a lesser extent but they should know better. It's the BBC's fault as much as theirs though. The suspension was ridiculous. You don't hire a man who got sacked once for turning up to work on TV on September 12, 2001 high on coke and heroin, dressed as Osama Bin Laden if you don't expect some trouble from him.

dunkman

Jeremy1012 wrote:

calling up any 78 year-old man to tell him you fucked his granddaughter isn't funny.

i agree. but i'd shake my head if i heard it on the radio... i certainly wouldnt complain 6 days afterwards having never actually heard the fucking thing!!

pirlo21

It's ridiculous. What they did was bang out of order and I feel for Sachs & his Grand daughter. But what happened since is crazy.

Two people complained after the show. Since then it's more than 20,000 !!
The complaint is that what they did was 'offensive'. Well only two people were caught off guard and offended by it on air.
Everybody else have gone out of their way to either watch it or listen to it on teh net or read about it! How have they been offended?! They knew what they were doing, they'd heard the story, so why complain about being offended?!!

They knew it was deemed to be 'offensive', listened to it then complained about it being offensive!!! DON'T listen to it then!!

Again, I'd like to point out that I'm not defending Brand & Ross, it just angers me when people moan about nothing.

Cuntified C

pirlo21 wrote:

It's ridiculous. What they did was bang out of order and I feel for Sachs & his Grand daughter. But what happened since is crazy.

Two people complained after the show. Since then it's more than 20,000 !!
The complaint is that what they did was 'offensive'. Well only two people were caught off guard and offended by it on air.
Everybody else have gone out of their way to either watch it or listen to it on teh net or read about it! How have they been offended?! They knew what they were doing, they'd heard the story, so why complain about being offended?!!

They knew it was deemed to be 'offensive', listened to it then complained about it being offensive!!! DON'T listen to it then!!

Again, I'd like to point out that I'm not defending Brand & Ross, it just angers me when people moan about nothing.

I don't think they should have been sacked or suspended at all. It's true that that's not really funny but the radio show does have at least one editor who could have stopped it. It was pre-recorded and they could have taken preventative measures well in advance.1

Heineken Helen

I can't stand russell brand... don't think he's funny at all

I heard something about the Ross and Brand thing but not sure the full story though. I love Jonathan Ross

Gossard_Is_God

I have over a gig of his podcasts on my ipod, hes class

chime

Ah well ... just have to watch the new series of Ponderland.

FinsburyParkCarrots

I think he's a pushy, preening, poncing, mincing, whining, in-with-Davina-stage-school-cliquey, luvvie, overblown, narcissistic, ratfaced, spunkhaired little twat. He's about as funny as asbestos, and even if I'm alligned with the Daily Mail readers for once in my life for this one, I have to agree that the airwaves are joyfully purged without his witless gurgling.

Jeremy1012

FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:

I think he's a pushy, preening, poncing, mincing, whining, in-with-Davina-stage-school-cliquey, luvvie, overblown, narcissistic, ratfaced, spunkhaired little twat.

All of this is 100% correct but I still rather like him. It's all an act anyway.

monster95

FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:

I think he's a pushy, preening, poncing, mincing, whining, in-with-Davina-stage-school-cliquey, luvvie, overblown, narcissistic, ratfaced, spunkhaired little twat. He's about as funny as asbestos, and even if I'm alligned with the Daily Mail readers for once in my life for this one, I have to agree that the airwaves are joyfully purged without his witless gurgling.

FPC........brilliant post.. brand is a prick !! as funny as a kick in the stones..how that guy ever made it onto tv/radio..fuck knows....must've spent some nights on the casting couch himself !!!!!..back on topic though...i hope someone now breaks news that they shagged his mum/granny/whatever...see how this prick likes it !!!!!!

facepollution

I think he's hilarious. His stand-up comedy is a lot better than when he's just rambling on some tv show though.

Jeremy1012

facepollution wrote:

I think he's hilarious. His stand-up comedy is a lot better than when he's just rambling on some tv show though.

Yes.

dunkman

FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:

I think he's a pushy, preening, poncing, mincing, whining, in-with-Davina-stage-school-cliquey, luvvie, overblown, narcissistic, ratfaced, spunkhaired little twat. He's about as funny as asbestos, and even if I'm alligned with the Daily Mail readers for once in my life for this one, I have to agree that the airwaves are joyfully purged without his witless gurgling.

that post sounded just like him...