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before he underwent his horrendous rolling stones dandified makeover, i quite liked him. now hes grown his beard and cant seem to take off that fucking scarf, even in the summer, hes definitely dud.

― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Thursday, 15 June 2006 21:58 (nineteen years ago)

i kinda like him

― michael wells (michael w.), Thursday, 15 June 2006 22:05 (nineteen years ago)

last night (qv the big brother thread) i realised he becomes funny when you're drunk.

i admire his skinniness.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 15 June 2006 22:06 (nineteen years ago)

I am torn between thinking he's very funny and thinking he's an irritating nob end. He's probably both.

― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Thursday, 15 June 2006 22:07 (nineteen years ago)

hes still funny, it just harder to laugh at someone when theyre looking so pretty (and trying too hard to look pretty)

― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Thursday, 15 June 2006 22:08 (nineteen years ago)

i feel the opposite way from titchyschneider. he used to annoy me but now he's really being himself (rather than "undergoing a makeover") i can't get enough of him. he makes me LOL night after night.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 15 June 2006 22:09 (nineteen years ago)

oh he still makes me LOL, but he does look ridiculous

― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Thursday, 15 June 2006 22:12 (nineteen years ago)

he looks good!(...maybe) i think that in his previous years on BBBM he was a bit stifled & he's really relaxed into his role this year. this dandified look, rather than being a makeover, is him actually just being himself.

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 15 June 2006 22:17 (nineteen years ago)

Isn't he just a failed stand-up/junkie who reinvented himself by eating a thesaurus?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 15 June 2006 22:17 (nineteen years ago)

"failed...junkie" hmmmm

― michael wells (michael w.), Thursday, 15 June 2006 22:20 (nineteen years ago)

just? it sounds like quite an achievement to me.

xpost

― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 15 June 2006 22:22 (nineteen years ago)

I think he's great. such an obvious pillhead

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 15 June 2006 22:23 (nineteen years ago)

if only he could have kept to a limited vocab and been a successful drug addict.

― michael wells (michael w.), Thursday, 15 June 2006 22:23 (nineteen years ago)

This is kinda why I hate him:

http://football.guardian.co.uk/worldcup2006/comment/story/0,,1794532,00.html

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 15 June 2006 22:28 (nineteen years ago)

ok that's virtually unreadable.

― michael wells (michael w.), Thursday, 15 June 2006 22:35 (nineteen years ago)

but hate is a strong word, you know?

― michael wells (michael w.), Thursday, 15 June 2006 22:39 (nineteen years ago)

I thought that article was ok.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 15 June 2006 22:40 (nineteen years ago)

it would prob have come across better in his artful-dodgery raffish patter.

― michael wells (michael w.), Thursday, 15 June 2006 22:43 (nineteen years ago)

... 'cos it sure as fuck doesn't work on the printed page. where's my blue pencil?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 15 June 2006 22:46 (nineteen years ago)

that articles okay, once you get past the first paragraph which is a bit of a mess. the rest is kinda random

― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Thursday, 15 June 2006 22:50 (nineteen years ago)

yes, exactly. kinda wank, too.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 15 June 2006 22:59 (nineteen years ago)

never used to find him funny, but something seems to have clicked this year; Big Mouth is more entertaining that the BB main show for this reason.

― teh_kit has 21 friends (g-kit), Friday, 16 June 2006 07:01 (nineteen years ago)

Funny watching him on Jonathan Ross as you could see the fear in Ross's eyes as the future spreadeagled himself before him. He tried to tame him but it was like fighting a jellyfish, too slippery, too fast, too clever.

I love the way he drops arcane words into his speech and he's the only person I've heard who's used the crack is moreish gag and made it work.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Friday, 16 June 2006 07:08 (nineteen years ago)

i used to hate him but can't remember why -- thought he was just generic e4 presenter-guy, i suppose -- but bbbm is brilliant this year.

unfortunately saying '...the SWINE' has crept into my stock of lame tv-derived catchphrases.

example of brilliance: on the caption competition, the screen came up and instead of a caption it just said "winning caption". brand said it was a conceptual ploy a la derrida (or words to funnier effect). that's quick thinking, for a crackhead.

― Seriously, Try Punching This Guy in the Face and See What Happens (Enrique), Friday, 16 June 2006 07:18 (nineteen years ago)

He seems designed to irritate, but he's made me laff out loud at least twice this year which is a fair achievement. So I v. grudgingly like him. His patter/patois is irresistably watchable, full of high-speed twisted malapropisms and Uriah Heep tics, he's at least doing something semi-original within the current funnee presenters milieu.

― Shadow of the Waxwing (noodle vague), Friday, 16 June 2006 07:23 (nineteen years ago)

also when he shouted at paul morley for being a square for writing for the guardian.

― Seriously, Try Punching This Guy in the Face and See What Happens (Enrique), Friday, 16 June 2006 07:24 (nineteen years ago)

My little brother helps run a comedy club in London, and he has met le Brand and says he is lovely, and that telly people like him because he is totally professional. If you shout in his earpiece that he needs to make shit up for the next two minutes, he'll do it. It seems like a strange skill in the real world, but is highly prized in tellyland.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Friday, 16 June 2006 07:32 (nineteen years ago)

worst person ever! we don't need a will self for the pete doherty generation. awful taste in music too. and abysmal style.

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 16 June 2006 08:07 (nineteen years ago)

KATE GET AWAY FROM HIM NOW YOU ARE BETTER THAN THIS

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 16 June 2006 08:08 (nineteen years ago)

i like his serial celeb dating despite his confession to the papers that he's got a teeny titchy dinkle. also the trailer w/ him and o'leary - check russell running for the helicopter - sooo foppish ha ha

― beeble (beeble), Friday, 16 June 2006 08:15 (nineteen years ago)

the running joke about him, 'bepe', gaffney, walliams is funny, but now he mentions his 'dinkle' in every ep it's a bit creepy?

― Seriously, Try Punching This Guy in the Face and See What Happens (Enrique), Friday, 16 June 2006 08:16 (nineteen years ago)

So how much coke do you reckon he gets thru a week?

― Il mio nome e' Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 16 June 2006 08:17 (nineteen years ago)

Over exposed - like every single good thing these days. He's trying to keep what was essentially a stand up act going through hours of telly. Is there anyone in the whole wide world who could do that? and ITV want him for the new J Ross or something so that's the end of him. Who's next?

― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Friday, 16 June 2006 08:24 (nineteen years ago)

Justin Collins!!!!!!!!

― Il mio nome e' Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 16 June 2006 08:29 (nineteen years ago)

overexposed?

he's on bbbm and...?

side-point: dermot and bblb have really gone off the boil.

― Seriously, Try Punching This Guy in the Face and See What Happens (Enrique), Friday, 16 June 2006 08:32 (nineteen years ago)

Dermot's wasted on BB, he's actually got some talent, isn't he bored shitless of it all by now?

― Il mio nome e' Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 16 June 2006 08:33 (nineteen years ago)

Until now the word 'dandy' has not appeared in this thread.

― Hotman Paris Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 16 June 2006 08:34 (nineteen years ago)

Fop has. Close enough, no?

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Friday, 16 June 2006 08:41 (nineteen years ago)

The first post mentions "dandified". Is that not enough?

I echo this post entirely: "I am torn between thinking he's very funny and thinking he's an irritating nob end. He's probably both. "

I basically don't like him, yet find myself laughing at him.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 16 June 2006 08:42 (nineteen years ago)

Brand will never be as good as he was when we was running around Homelands/Creamfields etc. going up to random punters with a mic in order to demonstrate that he was even more loved up than they were, on MTV's Dancefloor Chart.

He needs to become the new presenter of a revived Blankety Blank on BBC prime time.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 16 June 2006 08:45 (nineteen years ago)

Prime time is the death of comic talent (not that I think Russell Brand has much of that)

― Il mio nome e' Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 16 June 2006 08:46 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.russellbrandfansite.com

― Seriously, Try Punching This Guy in the Face and See What Happens (Enrique), Friday, 16 June 2006 08:48 (nineteen years ago)

Prime time is the death of comic talent (not that I think Russell Brand has much of that)

he should be ok then?

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 16 June 2006 08:49 (nineteen years ago)

I basically don't like him, yet find myself laughing at him.

ailsa OTM.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 16 June 2006 08:49 (nineteen years ago)

BRAND IS NOT A DANDY

DANDIES HAVWE TO BE WELL-DRESSED

BRAND LOOKS LIKE A TRAMP WITH A SCARF

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 16 June 2006 08:53 (nineteen years ago)

BOYS SHOULD SHAVE MORE

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 16 June 2006 08:54 (nineteen years ago)

I don't recommend R. Brand goes mainstream

― Il mio nome e' Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 16 June 2006 08:54 (nineteen years ago)

AND SKINNY JEANS ARE WRONGWRONGWRONG AND WILL NEVER BE RIGHT

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 16 June 2006 08:54 (nineteen years ago)

they're right on hott gyals.

― Seriously, Try Punching This Guy in the Face and See What Happens (Enrique), Friday, 16 June 2006 08:54 (nineteen years ago)

Lex, you liked MINE. And Anna's.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 16 June 2006 08:58 (nineteen years ago)

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quite appropriate that he was baptised in a river of sewage

― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 16:34 (one year ago)

The 48-year-old comedian had previously called baptism an “opportunity to leave the past behind”

So just let it go ladies, let's move on shall we

― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 1 May 2024 16:36 (one year ago)

Just had a look at his comments section. Most of them seem to be from people who are also born again

― anvil, Wednesday, 1 May 2024 17:01 (one year ago)

They're burying the lede that Russell Brand has finally bathed.

― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 17:10 (one year ago)

my bibley wibley

― memphis milano: the new trend of the 80s (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 17:13 (one year ago)

Well now he's probably fit to marry Katy Perry

― Never fight uphill 'o me, boys! (President Keyes), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 18:02 (one year ago)

Irl lol @ bizarro

― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Thursday, 2 May 2024 01:47 (one year ago)

two months pass...

This guy looks more and more like if Jordan Peterson got stranded in the desert for a year.

― omar little, Thursday, 1 August 2024 13:39 (eleven months ago)

just saw the thumbnails of his latest YT vids and jeez - I didn't know his Musk/Tate-type rightwing BS had become so bad

― StanM, Thursday, 1 August 2024 13:47 (eleven months ago)

Thiel can sure pick the creepy weirdos

― Bad Bairns (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 1 August 2024 13:50 (eleven months ago)

It's "interesting" 🧐 to see which of your Instagram friends follow this guy, or I should say still follow him at this point

― omar little, Thursday, 1 August 2024 14:04 (eleven months ago)

two months pass...

So....per a friend on FB: "Guess who is now selling a "magical amulet" that protects you from WiFi signals and other "evil energies" at $239.99 per amulet."

https://www.thedailybeast.com/russell-brand-now-has-an-evil-repelling-magic-amulet-to-sell-you

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 15 October 2024 17:58 (eight months ago)

Will it protect women from Russell Brand?

― Judge Judy, executioner (stevie), Tuesday, 15 October 2024 18:05 (eight months ago)

I see an opening for Tatty Devine to make the anti-RB amulet.

― guillotine vogue (suzy), Tuesday, 15 October 2024 18:08 (eight months ago)

Makes me sick to know that the only way someone like this ever sees any legal repercussions for his behaviour is if one of his victims is brave enough to step forward and press charges, knowing in turn that he'll set the hounds of hell onto them and probably get off with a slap on the wrist anyway because the judicial profession is stuck in the 18th century when it comes to sexual assault.

Just had to get that off my chest. See also: pretty much every other piece of shit that's been outed as a sex offender in the last few years.

― the nervous laughter of fools (Matt #2), Tuesday, 15 October 2024 18:11 (eight months ago)

this piece of shit does nothing but hide behind false newfound piety, knowing the fastest way to griftdom is to be a shallowly charismatic religious charlatan, interviewing no one except RFK Jr and Jordan Peterson and the worst youtubers on the planet, filming himself in dim lighting and what appears to be deprivation tanks.

― omar little, Tuesday, 15 October 2024 18:17 (eight months ago)

dud

― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 15 October 2024 18:44 (eight months ago)

Not only the judicial profession. People say they stand against abusive men until they have to have uncomfortable conversations. The reason your Brands and your Diddys and whoever else is allowed to thrive is not because they are too big and too powerful to fail, it's because people believed they are too big and too powerful to fail because nobody spoke out and said what needed to be said.

― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 15 October 2024 19:08 (eight months ago)

wasn't Milo Yiannopoulos hawking statues of blessed virgin mother on TV? very predictable outcome

― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 15 October 2024 19:18 (eight months ago)

Milo is claiming that he was never gay

― Raising Azure Asia (President Keyes), Tuesday, 15 October 2024 19:51 (eight months ago)

Really? Has he dropped the conversion angle entirely or is going with simultaneously being converted and never gay in first place?

― anvil, Tuesday, 15 October 2024 20:36 (eight months ago)

Only judging from this

the girls are fightinggggg pic.twitter.com/WntSmqEoEs
— Audrey Horne (@credenzaclear2) October 7, 2024

― Raising Azure Asia (President Keyes), Tuesday, 15 October 2024 20:38 (eight months ago)

I think he's rolling with classic never happened but also happened by looks of it

PATIENT: YIANNOPOULOS, MILO
📅 10/15/24 🏅 3¾ YRS EX GAY
🔻 185 LBS 🔺 STREAK: 46 DAYS
0️⃣0️⃣2️⃣ incidents since Jan 2021
— 𝙎𝙊𝘿𝙊𝙈𝙔 𝘾𝙇𝙊𝘾𝙆 (@SODOMYCLOCK) October 15, 2024

― anvil, Tuesday, 15 October 2024 20:44 (eight months ago)

He retweeted that, which doesnt show in the image

― anvil, Tuesday, 15 October 2024 20:45 (eight months ago)

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/oct/24/oxfordshire-villagers-pishill-russell-brand-pub-studios

In which a bunch of posho nimbys object to Brand buying up a disused and probably derelict pub in their village and turning it into a TV studio / Epstein Island hybrid.

“He talked about making it into a vegan restaurant, which didn’t go down too well around here,” said David Orpwood, a retired farmer. “When he goes, we’ll still be here. He’s going to bugger up the pub and we’ll be left with nothing.”

I love an argument where you despise everyone involved, makes it easy to know which side you're on.

― joe meek's cutoff (Matt #2), Thursday, 24 October 2024 15:24 (eight months ago)

Piss Hill?

― The count has shot himself (Tom D.), Thursday, 24 October 2024 15:28 (eight months ago)

Bugger Up the Pisshill Pub

― Raising Azure Asia (President Keyes), Thursday, 24 October 2024 15:31 (eight months ago)

Totally an episode of "Morse".

― The count has shot himself (Tom D.), Thursday, 24 October 2024 15:32 (eight months ago)

Talking of piss, there's another village near it called Russell's Water.

― The count has shot himself (Tom D.), Thursday, 24 October 2024 15:35 (eight months ago)

Politics is downstream from Pishill

― Raising Azure Asia (President Keyes), Thursday, 24 October 2024 15:39 (eight months ago)

William Stonor, the eighth Lord Camoys – whose family have occupied the nearby Stonor Park since before the Norman conquest..

lol, suck it up buttercup

― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Thursday, 24 October 2024 15:41 (eight months ago)

William Stonor, the eighth Lord Camoys – whose family have occupied the nearby Stonor Park since before the Norman conquest..

Somehow "whose family have not left their village in over a thousand years" doesn't sound quite as impressive.

― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Thursday, 24 October 2024 15:45 (eight months ago)

We have American Rogan, British Rogan, is there an Australian Rogan setting up his podcast/supplement factory somewhere in the Australian Outback?

― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 24 October 2024 16:48 (eight months ago)

Totally an episode of "Morse"

one can only hope

― Book ChancemaN (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 24 October 2024 16:50 (eight months ago)

One where it turns out that Morse is the murderer and Lewis has to tearfully arrest him.

― you gotta roll with the pączki to get to what's real (snoball), Thursday, 24 October 2024 18:27 (eight months ago)

Very much doubt the pub is 800 years old.

― fetter, Thursday, 24 October 2024 18:49 (eight months ago)

The Crown Inn was a pub in the south Oxfordshire village of Pishill near Henley-on-Thames. It dates from the 17th century.

so around 400 years old. But that's 800 in pub years.

― Raising Azure Asia (President Keyes), Thursday, 24 October 2024 19:07 (eight months ago)

We have American Rogan, British Rogan, is there an Australian Rogan setting up his podcast/supplement factory somewhere in the Australian Outback?

Sadly we mostly just import the US and UK shitheads after their star wanes.

― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Friday, 25 October 2024 00:04 (eight months ago)

Mark Latham pivoted to livestreaming on the wrong platform

― Robespierre Delecto (sic), Friday, 25 October 2024 00:09 (eight months ago)

What's Pete Evans up to these days?

― Vernon Locke, Friday, 25 October 2024 05:12 (eight months ago)

five months pass...

Fucking scumbag.

― better than ezra collective soul asylum (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 4 April 2025 14:03 (three months ago)

from 2023:

https://theonion.com/nation-could-have-sworn-russell-brand-was-already-convi-1850849838/

― frogbs, Friday, 4 April 2025 14:12 (three months ago)

I really hope they nail the bastard but British courts are notoriously lenient on rich and famous people.

― Please play Lou Reed's irritating guitar sounds (Tom D.), Friday, 4 April 2025 14:21 (three months ago)

That’s not limited to England. Although didn’t Amber Heard win her case in the UK?

― Crack's Addition (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 4 April 2025 14:26 (three months ago)

Believe me it's a lot worse here, celebrities actually go to prison in the USA occasionally.

― Please play Lou Reed's irritating guitar sounds (Tom D.), Friday, 4 April 2025 15:27 (three months ago)

Reminds me of this joke.

In all seriousness, even after Weinstein's conviction, it's been a mixed bag when it comes to the courts. Cosby was eventually freed and even Weinstein got a retrial (which should happen in less than two weeks). Some other successful convictions (like R. Kelly where they nailed him specifically for racketeering and sex trafficking) but otherwise I feel like settlements in civil cases have been the most reliable and consistent successes to be had, and even then not always.

― birdistheword, Friday, 4 April 2025 15:39 (three months ago)

Don't forget that Felicity Huffman got 14 days in prison

― Iza Duffus Hardy (President Keyes), Friday, 4 April 2025 15:42 (three months ago)

On that tip, Lori Loughlin got two months in prison.

― better than ezra collective soul asylum (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 4 April 2025 15:46 (three months ago)

Russell Brand has been charged with rape, indecent assault and sexual assault between 1999 and 2005.

― Nancy Makes Posts (sic), Friday, 4 April 2025 16:15 (three months ago)

The least shocking news ever.

― cryptosicko, Monday, 7 April 2025 11:21 (three months ago)

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