Abernathy wrote: ↑Sat Sep 16, 2023 1:26 pm
Might be worth giving Russell Brand his own thread, particularly since C4 Dispatches is about to run a major expose of some "very serious allegations" of abuse against him .
Brand is a strange character. I never found him remotely funny as a comedian - more deeply, deeply tedious, rather- and in recent years he has re-invented himself as some sort of conspiracy theory espousing crank. Still desperately tedious.
TBH when I first heard that Brand was to be the subject of a Dispatches special regarding some rather unpleasant allegations about him, my first reaction was...
...but as for Brand & his career in general, I've only ever really found him tolerable at best, and that was back at least a decade ago. Never found him "ha ha" funny, just a guy whom had obvious narcissism with a God-like complex and attention seeking problems that would at some point would likely catch up with him - and it looks like now could be the point. He was off-putting as much as anything, you could say that Ed Milliband appearing on camera with Brand during the 2015 election campaign could well have cost Labour more votes than have gained from Brand's endorsement.
As for his acting career, any Hollywood flick I seen him in had Brand essentially play himself, which is not exactly a difficult thing to do in most cases.
Katy Perry's probably glad she eventually dodged that bullet.
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