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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)

But not if they're as skinny as Russell Brand (xpost)

― Il mio nome e' Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 16 June 2006 08:58 (nineteen years ago)

skinny jeans on girls = always right; makes their legs look GREAT
skinny jeans on boys = always wrong; makes their legs look like TWIGS

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 16 June 2006 08:59 (nineteen years ago)

Lex has just made me laugh more than Russell Brand has, but in a different way.

― Lucretia My Reflection (Lucretia My Reflection), Friday, 16 June 2006 09:03 (nineteen years ago)

I don't recommend R. Brand goes mainstream

oh me neither in all seriousness, i just thought it was a nice comical image.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 16 June 2006 09:05 (nineteen years ago)

skinny jeans on girls = always right; makes their legs look GREAT

IMPORTANT RIDER: LEGS NEED TO BE GOOD IN FIRST PLACE

― Seriously, Try Punching This Guy in the Face and See What Happens (Enrique), Friday, 16 June 2006 09:06 (nineteen years ago)

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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 (one year 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 (one year ago)

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

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

The least shocking news ever.

― cryptosicko, Monday, 7 April 2025 11:21 (one year ago)

eight months pass...

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/dec/23/russell-brand-charged-further-sexual-offences

― Donald Crump (Tom D.), Tuesday, 23 December 2025 18:05 (five months ago)

I think as the person who baptised this vile serial rapist, Bear Grylls should be investigated next. Anyone associated with this guy has corpses under the patio.

― Father McGammycurry (calzino), Tuesday, 23 December 2025 18:41 (five months ago)

'former entertainer' LMAO!

― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 23 December 2025 18:42 (five months ago)

two months pass...

Absolute unqualified dud of the duds ever since he walked around with mice in his hair, spreading hantavirus everywhere he went. He should have been stopped decades ago. Now he is full MAHA?! I could not be more sick of this guy.

Search "maintenance phase podcast" and the name of this walking hate crime and you can listen to why maybe people in your life are suddenly talking about disgusting creep of the moment Russell Brand.

― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Friday, 20 March 2026 18:57 (two months ago)

the scumbag has always looked and acted like an absolute raving maniac, it boggles my mind that 1) anyone (even hateful/eveil/dumb fucks) would be interested in anything he has to say and 2) he's hasn't been tossed through a glass window or been hit with a hammer or something.

― brimstead, Friday, 20 March 2026 19:09 (two months ago)

instead he kept getting jobs and wagging his genitals in people's faces

― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Friday, 20 March 2026 19:14 (two months ago)

now he is on regular calls with the US government
like this could not be happening in my worst nightmare that "mouse in hair guy" is advising the government!?

― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Friday, 20 March 2026 19:15 (two months ago)

one month passes...

sorry for x link/piers morgan but this is incredibly funny

Piers Morgan asked Russell Brand which passages were relevant to him when he brought a Bible into court. pic.twitter.com/8eI3VCKJIM
— Mukhtar (@I_amMukhtar) April 24, 2026

― Roz, Saturday, 25 April 2026 04:41 (one month ago)

"that didn't hurt, did it?"
"a little bit"

― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 25 April 2026 06:49 (one month ago)

I assumed this guy was meant to be in prison, nit on the telly

― rameau in the main room (dog latin), Saturday, 25 April 2026 07:02 (one month ago)

I feel like Brand is being funny on purpose here as a bit, certainly after a certain point? Like maybe he genuinely can't find the passage he's looking for to begin with but then he's definitely stretching it out on purpose because he knows it's funny. Which seems reckless to the point of sociopathy under the circumstances, but I guess he is?

― Platinum Penguin Pavilion (soref), Saturday, 25 April 2026 07:22 (one month ago)

Being funny would certainly be a first for Russell Brand.

― Clarinet Cop (Tom D.), Saturday, 25 April 2026 07:39 (one month ago)

It wouldn't though? He's obviously not a good guy, and doing comedy bits when you're on tv talking about being on trial for rape doesn't speak well of him, but he was a successful comedian for years, he's good at making people laugh. It makes me feel crazy to see so many people on social media joking about how this is the funniest thing he's ever done and it's unintentional when it seems obvious to me that it is intentional

― Platinum Penguin Pavilion (soref), Saturday, 25 April 2026 09:21 (one month ago)

Absolutely not something to care about either way, if it's unintentional he's an irredeemable shitbag, if it's intentional he's an irredeemable shitbag.

― a ZX spectrum is haunting Europe (Daniel_Rf), Saturday, 25 April 2026 09:25 (one month ago)

he was a successful comedian for years

Which, of course, doesn't mean he's funny.

― Clarinet Cop (Tom D.), Saturday, 25 April 2026 09:47 (one month ago)

The point isn't whether it's funny or not though. It's about a serial abuser continuing to play the class clown in public. Why he's appearing on tv in the first place is a mystery. Why are they asking him about his favourite bible quotes ffs?

― rameau in the main room (dog latin), Saturday, 25 April 2026 10:11 (one month ago)

He’s made a big deal out of converting to Christianity and has just published a book about it. Morgan did a gotcha on him which exposed how shallow and convenient his supposed rebirth is.

― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 25 April 2026 10:17 (one month ago)

He’s made a big deal out of converting to Christianity and has just published a book about it. Morgan did a gotcha on him which exposed how shallow and convenient his supposed rebirth is.

― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 25 April 2026 10:17 (one month ago)

Bloody double post.

― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 25 April 2026 10:18 (one month ago)

they = piers morgan

feels like this is important context

― Throw It Down Binman (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 25 April 2026 10:21 (one month ago)

Also, hate to be that guy but he hasn't actually been convicted of any offences yet. Innocent until proven guilty and all that.

― bored by endless ecstasy (anagram), Saturday, 25 April 2026 10:35 (one month ago)

xp yeah he's on TV because a fellow cunt invited him to a cunt off

serious issue raised by anagram which i will ponder while i'm clicking the FP button

― einmal ist keinmal (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 25 April 2026 11:06 (one month ago)

Multiple friends have texted me that they have had to stop listening to a podcast that details Brand's rise to cultural prominence because he was so awful they couldn't bear it. Of course I listened to both episodes and concluded that someone should have stopped this guy when he had mice in his hair. Unfortunately he persists.

― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Saturday, 25 April 2026 13:50 (one month ago)

(I mentioned it upthread)

― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Saturday, 25 April 2026 13:52 (one month ago)

but he was a successful comedian for years, he's good at making people laugh.

ILX has been anti-stand-up comedy for years. This won't get much of a hearing here, even before you factor in all of the other horrors.

― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 25 April 2026 22:26 (one month ago)

You don't really have to be anti-stand up comedy to not accept that success equals quality either. Stereophonics were good at making people enjoy their music too, doesn't mean I'm anti music if I think they're shite.

― a ZX spectrum is haunting Europe (Daniel_Rf), Saturday, 25 April 2026 22:48 (one month ago)

who is ILX

― brimstead, Saturday, 25 April 2026 23:47 (one month ago)

Mostly cranky old men

― H.P, Sunday, 26 April 2026 02:52 (one month ago)

Apparently

― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Sunday, 26 April 2026 04:28 (one month ago)

Present

― rameau in the main room (dog latin), Sunday, 26 April 2026 05:09 (one month ago)

Xp mostly!!!

― H.P, Sunday, 26 April 2026 05:32 (one month ago)

Stereophonics were good at making people enjoy their music too, doesn't mean I'm anti music if I think they're shite.

― a ZX spectrum is haunting Europe (Daniel_Rf), Saturday, 25 April 2026 bookmarkflaglink

As far as music goes, Poptimism might complicate this a little bit.

― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 26 April 2026 07:35 (one month ago)

Prefer the music of the Stereophonics to the comedy of Russell Brand tbf.

― Clarinet Cop (Tom D.), Sunday, 26 April 2026 07:48 (one month ago)

^^^ IRL Scylla v Charybdis

― einstürzende louboutin (suzy), Sunday, 26 April 2026 08:07 (one month ago)

As far as music goes, Poptimism might complicate this a little bit.

Eh not really, none of the poptimist critics had a blanket "if it sells a lot that must mean it's good" stance.

― a ZX spectrum is haunting Europe (Daniel_Rf), Sunday, 26 April 2026 12:51 (one month ago)

Piers Morgan asked Russell Brand which passages were relevant to him when he brought a Bible into court. pic.twitter.com/8eI3VCKJIM

As seen in IG comments - “I’d have to say…The Best of the Bible”.

― omar little, Sunday, 26 April 2026 14:01 (one month ago)

xp think it's more in the sense of: as it's sold a lot in the first place, then that's where you ought to start and take it seriously.

Whereas ILX pretty much just finds stand ups a wasteland no matter how good or popular it is, despite that it's very popular.

― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 26 April 2026 14:59 (one month ago)

By 2030 every thread will be a poptimism thread

― Throw It Down Binman (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 26 April 2026 15:18 (one month ago)

Arguing over which AI star is more authentic

― The Quaker Gurvitz Army (President Keyes), Sunday, 26 April 2026 15:34 (one month ago)

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