russell brand - C or D?

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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 (seventeen years ago) link

i kinda like him

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Thursday, 15 June 2006 22:12 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

"failed...junkie" hmmmm

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

just? it sounds like quite an achievement to me.

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jed_ (jed), Thursday, 15 June 2006 22:22 (seventeen years ago) link

I think he's great. such an obvious pillhead

Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 15 June 2006 22:23 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

ok that's virtually unreadable.

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

but hate is a strong word, you know?

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

I thought that article was ok.

Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 15 June 2006 22:40 (seventeen years ago) link

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

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

... '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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

yes, exactly. kinda wank, too.

grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 15 June 2006 22:59 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

KATE GET AWAY FROM HIM NOW YOU ARE BETTER THAN THIS

The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 16 June 2006 08:08 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

Justin Collins!!!!!!!!

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

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

Fop has. Close enough, no?

accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Friday, 16 June 2006 08:41 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

ailsa OTM.

aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Friday, 16 June 2006 08:49 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

BOYS SHOULD SHAVE MORE

The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 16 June 2006 08:54 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't recommend R. Brand goes mainstream

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

AND SKINNY JEANS ARE WRONGWRONGWRONG AND WILL NEVER BE RIGHT

The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 16 June 2006 08:54 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

Lex, you liked MINE. And Anna's.

suzy (suzy), Friday, 16 June 2006 08:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Having just watched Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey I'm wondering if Naomi Wolf refers to herself as Evil Naomi.

Monthly Python (Tom D.), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 09:35 (seven months ago) link

youtube have suspended payments from Brand's channel because violation of "creator responsibility policy". Apparently he was making a million a year from it, like wtf?

vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 12:08 (seven months ago) link

Well he has 6.6 million Youtube subscribers, despite having Rumble as his main platform apparently

Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 12:11 (seven months ago) link

I just can't put myself in the mindset of these hundreds of thousands of marks pressing the thanks button to make a wealthy creep richer. They really must hate themselves.

vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 12:20 (seven months ago) link

The knowledge that you're being gulled is all part of the attraction for these bozos! Then they can feel like the dogs they are.

the arkansas ruggerclub (Matt #2), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 12:28 (seven months ago) link

I think the difficult thing with tackling conspiracism is the grain of truth that gets denied so much that you have people latching onto anything that seems like it might reflect what they’re seeing with their own eyes. Stopped clock/blind squirrel theory. Like who hasn’t walked past one of those sandwich board guys saying the government is shit and thought “Man’s got a point,” even as you avoided eye contact? Same principle.

Internet brain breaking a lot of gen x & boomers who are digitally illiterate is exacerbating this. Even my own parents who don’t spend much time in these kinds of places, my mother linked a tweet in some group chat that was complaining about…idk…water charges? She had just seen something she agreed with and blindly shared, I had to be like, you know that’s a white nationalist you shared right? She was pretty horrified; I had to explain I recognised the account name from Twitter poisoning. It just wouldn’t occur to her to look further, and I think by the time a lot of people are at that stage they might be too far in.

ydkb (gyac), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 12:29 (seven months ago) link

I remember reading the first My Booky Wook and finding it a compelling read but thinking the protagonist was an absolute wanker who wasn't painting a very pleasant picture of himself. Think it was a while after it came out but probably a decade pus ago during which he's done several things that make him look a bit of an a-hole outside of this. But i guess taht's already widely known

Stevo, Tuesday, 19 September 2023 12:31 (seven months ago) link

when he made that unblinking denial vid, of which any skilled body language analysis expert (if there is such a thing) would call it as a bizarre performance in the context of what was happening and also 100% GUILTY af and LYING! There isn't even any anger in it, if you were getting fitted up by the deep state for getting too close to the truth or whatever his followers believe - you'd be furious. Anyone that bought that will buy anything, aside from other celeb rapists who have their own agenda.

vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 12:49 (seven months ago) link

all of these weirdo "truth-tellers" are posting vids saying, "This may be the last time you hear from me. They'll be coming after me next."

Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 17:23 (seven months ago) link

See that's exactly their game right, they create a false atmosphere of paranoia and then react to it with fear and go into hiding and it doesn't matter that no one is actually looking for them, that's enough for their audience of redpilled galaxy brains.

omar little, Tuesday, 19 September 2023 17:26 (seven months ago) link

(xp) Fingers crossed.

Monthly Python (Tom D.), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 17:26 (seven months ago) link

I just can't put myself in the mindset of these hundreds of thousands of marks pressing the thanks button to make a wealthy creep richer. They really must hate themselves.

Apparently the vast majority of his income is from advertising rather than the credulous numpties who follow him.

Monthly Python (Tom D.), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 17:28 (seven months ago) link

Lol lmao I stand with Brand obviously https://t.co/BW9o3afTIp

— Anna Khachiyan (@annakhachiyan) September 16, 2023

Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 17:30 (seven months ago) link

wow, so edgy

jmm, Tuesday, 19 September 2023 18:05 (seven months ago) link

I'll probably regret asking, but what's the basic contention she's making? She retweeted this reply:

jaymc, Tuesday, 19 September 2023 18:15 (seven months ago) link

The only IQ test that matters in 2023 is if you believe journalists when they publish a metoo story. If you do, you are an imbecile

— Pericles 'Perry' Abbasi (@ElectionLegal) September 17, 2023

jaymc, Tuesday, 19 September 2023 18:15 (seven months ago) link

i believe the contention is "please continue to acknowledge the dimes square scene"

𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 18:17 (seven months ago) link

I'll probably regret asking, but who the fuck is Anna Khachiyan?

Monthly Python (Tom D.), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 18:23 (seven months ago) link

I think the basic contention she is making is that she and everyone associated with her are garbage

Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 18:24 (seven months ago) link

Yeah, I know she is part of the post-left / anti-anti-anti-feminist whatever, I'm just trying to figure out the logic.

jaymc, Tuesday, 19 September 2023 18:30 (seven months ago) link

There is no logic beyond "fuck you! ha ha, made you look".

read-only (unperson), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 18:31 (seven months ago) link

Anna Khachiyan is from the anti-everything Red Square podcast

Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 19 September 2023 18:38 (seven months ago) link

Brand was defended by various conservative public figures, including Anna Khachiyan of Red Scare, the Tate brothers, Tucker Carlson, Elon Musk and Ian Miles Cheong

She definitely has found her people

Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 18:41 (seven months ago) link

She also hangs with Greg from Succession, who has allegations similar to Brand's against him

Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 18:44 (seven months ago) link

I have yet to understand why anyone thinks Red Scare is something worth paying attention to.

I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 19:32 (seven months ago) link

It’s the pull of anti-establishment being a good view in and of itself. Same reason 4chan is popular

H.P, Tuesday, 19 September 2023 23:16 (seven months ago) link

I’ve no idea why my links to tweets aren’t showing up properly anymore.

piscesx, Wednesday, 20 September 2023 01:30 (seven months ago) link

You have to replace x with twitter

Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Wednesday, 20 September 2023 01:32 (seven months ago) link

twitter dotcom embeds work but not x dotcom embeds, aiui

xp

I Wanna Find an ILXor That'll Flag My Last Post Till I Have To Go (WmC), Wednesday, 20 September 2023 01:33 (seven months ago) link

I can't hear anything at that link (probably because I nuked my account), is she talking a bunch of nonsense? because she seems like someone who could go that way.

I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Wednesday, 20 September 2023 02:19 (seven months ago) link

Talking a bunch of nonsense. People shouldn't be able to accuse abusers anonymously. "Those are the rules, I didn't make them."

Zelda Zonk, Wednesday, 20 September 2023 02:57 (seven months ago) link

lol

Are you sure? He’s a rapist not a racist

— The IP Respecter (@ericthewheeler) September 16, 2023

groovypanda, Wednesday, 20 September 2023 08:38 (seven months ago) link

Russell Brand's dad in 1970?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvFdFBblGQs

Alba, Wednesday, 20 September 2023 10:45 (seven months ago) link

The voice is spookily similar. Great video!

Monthly Python (Tom D.), Wednesday, 20 September 2023 11:07 (seven months ago) link

I just don't think anybody could be afraid of someone talking with a megaphone through the sunroof of a brown Mini.

Lumpy pillows, kiss my ass. Put that in your book (stevie), Wednesday, 20 September 2023 11:31 (seven months ago) link

russell re-branding himself as a philosopher guru reminds me a bit of neil strauss trying to make the pivot into positive lifestyle influencer after years of being a rancid detriment to society. it's all just a grift, and they still try to trade in on their bad-boy image as giving them bonafides of a different sort, it makes them a veteran of certain wars, allows them to reflect upon their behaviors as if they're at a complete remove while enjoying still having the image of people who have had those experiences.

omar little, Thursday, 21 September 2023 19:25 (seven months ago) link

There’s an explicit connection too, I remember being 🤨 at seeing brand’s blurb on one of Strauss’s sex pest manuals (this being post rb’s supposed reformed character)

Boris Yitsbin (wins), Thursday, 21 September 2023 19:33 (seven months ago) link

see also Bill Cosby

Western® with Bacon Flavor, Thursday, 21 September 2023 19:48 (seven months ago) link

seven months pass...

Born again

anvil, Wednesday, 1 May 2024 15:52 (two weeks ago) link

LOLOLOL it’s like a bad version of The Ruling Class.

steely flan (suzy), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 15:53 (two weeks ago) link

Standard trajectory for cunts. Andrew Tate becomes a Muslim, Russell Brand becomes a Christian.

I've left the box of soup near your shoes (Tom D.), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 15:55 (two weeks ago) link

Don't forget Shaun King

Never fight uphill 'o me, boys! (President Keyes), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 16:05 (two weeks ago) link

quite appropriate that he was baptised in a river of sewage

vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 16:34 (two weeks ago) link

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 (two weeks ago) link

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 (two weeks ago) link

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

my bibley wibley

memphis milano: the new trend of the 80s (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 17:13 (two weeks ago) link

Well now he's probably fit to marry Katy Perry

Never fight uphill 'o me, boys! (President Keyes), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 18:02 (two weeks ago) link

Irl lol @ bizarro

m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Thursday, 2 May 2024 01:47 (two weeks ago) link


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