Russell Brand Dilemma

[Mr Phoebus]

The man (if that's what he is) is sick!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Is that 'sick' as in nauseating? Or... teenage speak for "totally wicked and cool"?

 

[Keith Oates]

I'm not a teenager!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Mr Phoebus]

I'm not a teenager!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Spew it is then.

 

[rich p]

He's a twat. He writes a weekly column in The Guardian which I refuse to read. That'll teach him

 

[Over The Hill]

So it is about 90% hate him and 10% like him.

If someone you did like (or at least someone who did not make you feel sick) did the same routine would you like it?

 

[wafflycat]

I don't like him. He comes across as trying too hard to be different but occasionally, just occasionally, he comes out with a gem line.

But then again, I never found 'The Office' funny... so who am I to say what's funny and what's not! And, to use one of my favourite phrases, the world would be a boring place if we were all the same.

 

[Mr Pig]

And I used to think Keith Allen was a twat when he took the piss out of Reagan.

Can't stand Keith Allan either.

 

[Arch]

I have to say, I quite like him (Russell Brand), but it's probably mostly due to only ever seeing him in small doses. Although he and Noel Fielding were hilarious on the C4 end of the year quiz a couple of years back - the first time I'd seen him. It was the way the pair of them went out of their way to get the wrong answers I liked....

 

[dodgy]

I like him.

 

[Lardyboy]

Can take or leave him. A couple of friends think he's ok, and they've showed me a couple of reasonably comedic items he's done, but on the whole don't really find him funny.

 

[wafflycat]

I have to say, I quite like him (Russell Brand), but it's probably mostly due to only ever seeing him in small doses.

I think that may be key..

 

[Noodley]

He has his uses. I recall listening to his radio show whilst driving home from an audax earlier this year and keeping myself awake by repeatedly shouting "you f***ing twat" at the raido.

 

[Paulus]

He has his uses. I recall listening to his radio show whilst driving home from an audax earlier this year and keeping myself awake by repeatedly shouting "you f***ing twat" at the raido.

His saturday night radio show on radio 2 is Cr+p. he goes on and on chuntling on with his inane drivel. I don't like him.

 

[Night Train]

I don't like his persona, but I've never met the guy. However he comes across as overly vain and believing in his own hype to the point where he probably didn't realise that he would cause offence, believing that he is 'loved' enough to get away with it.

Look how the Americans dealt with their own when the Dixie Chicks apologised for the Iraqi war and said that they didn't vote for Bush. Radio stations refused to play their music, shops destroyed their CDs, American people sent them death threats!

 

[John the Monkey]

Although he and Noel Fielding were hilarious on the C4 end of the year quiz a couple of years back - the first time I'd seen him.

Noel Fielding *is* funny though - I wonder if Brand was merely basking in reflected amusingness there.