Any Russell Brand fans here?

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  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    dunkman wrote:
    that post sounded just like him... ;)


    Nah, there was structure, poise, and even restraint in my diatribe. ;)

    Facial-features will go off on one and not have a clue what he's on about. He was attempting some pretence at a stream of consciousness once, being wildly allusive to the poem The Second Coming. The intention, it was clear, was to come across as some worldly genius, a clown with hidden depths and darkness. The problem was, he kept fucking up and attributing it to T.S. Eliot.


    Anyway, why am I even writing about this wankdog? There's a fookin' election going on to decide the future of the planet ....
  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    Nah, there was structure, poise, and even restraint in my diatribe. ;)

    Facial-features will go off on one and not have a clue what he's on about. He was attempting some pretence at a stream of consciousness once, being wildly allusive to the poem The Second Coming. The intention, it was clear, was to come across as some worldly genius, a clown with hidden depths and darkness. The problem was, he kept fucking up and attributing it to T.S. Eliot.


    Anyway, why am I even writing about this wankdog? There's a fookin' election going on to decide the future of the planet ....
    To be honest, attributing The Second Coming to Eliot rather than Yeats is forgiveable, in my opinion, when it's from the mouth of a man who is quite obviously not to be taken seriously in the slightest. At least he's making those references, however clumsily, rather than just telling female guests on his show that he wants to put his winky in their hole like Mr Ross does :p

    He's an acquired taste, for sure, but Russell Brand is funny. He is. Honestly. I promise :)
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    There's a fookin' election going on to decide the future of the planet ....


    not in my world there aint... i couldnt give a fuck who the rednecks vote for.. i just like a laugh... ergo Brand & comdy in general is more relevant to me than 2 well educated men from the US of A .


    (but i knowe what you mean) :D
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    Jeremy1012 wrote:
    To be honest, attributing The Second Coming to Eliot rather than Yeats is forgiveable, in my opinion, when it's from the mouth of a man who is quite obviously not to be taken seriously in the slightest. At least he's making those references, however clumsily, rather than just telling female guests on his show that he wants to put his winky in their hole like Mr Ross does :p

    He's an acquired taste, for sure, but Russell Brand is funny. He is. Honestly. I promise :)

    i agree... i personally couldnt care who he attributed or mistakenly attributes a poem to and/or how wrong he got it... thats hardly a reason to think someones not funny... it shows he might have a shit memory but it doesnt define a stand-up comedians entire act.
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • Trailer
    Trailer Posts: 1,431
    They hyped him up over here for a bit... but he didn't catch on. To be honest, I didn't even give him a chance.:o I watched him for about 2 minutes and then turned it off.
    Whoa, chill bro... you know you can't raise your voice like that when the lion's here.
  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    dunkman wrote:
    i agree... i personally couldnt care who he attributed or mistakenly attributes a poem to and/or how wrong he got it... thats hardly a reason to think someones not funny... it shows he might have a shit memory but it doesnt define a stand-up comedians entire act.
    Exactly, and while he is able to sustain my laughter for an entire show based entirely on dispelling things written in the Sun about him, I'll tip my hat to his ability to make complete and utter shite funny, never mind poetry.

    I mean seriously, anyone who doesn't laugh at that thing about supposedly being part of a womanising circuit with David Walliams and Beppe from Eastenders has just been stuck in 70s comedy mode for too long...

    Not looking at anyone in particular ;)
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Jeremy1012 wrote:
    To be honest, attributing The Second Coming to Eliot rather than Yeats is forgiveable, in my opinion, when it's from the mouth of a man who is quite obviously not to be taken seriously in the slightest. At least he's making those references, however clumsily, rather than just telling female guests on his show that he wants to put his winky in their hole like Mr Ross does :p

    He's an acquired taste, for sure, but Russell Brand is funny. He is. Honestly. I promise :)

    Nah, it's not forgiveable. He was trying to seem sophisticated in his humour for five seconds, and made a shite of it. Comedians can be taken seriously for the content and integrity of their work, as well as being appreciated and laughed at/with. Brand has all the wit and perspicacity of a teen performance poetaster at an open mic who thinks that shouting and talking fast in a manic, rambling fashion while throwing in the odd deep reference in the midst of his scatalogical jizzery will make him the next Lenny Bruce. He's more like Barry Crier with ADD and on helium.

    Comparing him to Jonathan Ross is easy. I won't even get started on that flangenozzle.

    Talking of flangenozzles, I saw Jerry Gobshite Sadowitz on the Clerkenwell Road the other week, munching a sandwich and looking dejected in the same jeans he's been wearing since 1982.

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