russell brand - C or D?

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/article1858875.ece

Best comedy in the world

Russell Brand has the demeanour of someone who is getting absolutely raped by his agent on royalties. Would any of ILX's namedrop kliq care to comment?

Crime expert and ex-Flying Squad chief John O’Connor yesterday said the “jokes” were “criminal”.

That's a bizarre sentence to just drop in the middle of the story, I don't know exactly why.

Georgina was said to be “mortified”.

I should think so too. They are horrible knickers.

http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00628/SNN2703GX1_280_628992a.jpg
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arghh put the warning BEFORE the link. lol.

Wow @ that story, what a horrible, obnoxious asshole if it's true.

So the BBC has four choices about what to do next:

1) do nothing
2) punish Brand
3) punish Ross
4) punish Brand and Ross

Obviously they're not going to do anything to upset their £18M/yr star player Wossy, and they can't be seen to be taking no action at all, so it's out into the wilderness for Brand.

Or just apologise and see it if blows over.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7692911.stm

I don't think Brand's apology is going to cut it though...

"I would like to take this opportunity to issue a personal Russell Brand apology to Andrew Sachs, the great comic actor who played Manuel, for a message Jonathan and I left on his answerphone, but it was quite funny,"

Somebody should punch him in the nuts.

Well yesterday the BBC were claiming that they hadn't even received a complaint from Sachs. Today they're all "sorry sorry sorry sorry". Brand's apology kind of misses the point - it's not the swearing, it's saying "lol I shagged your grand-daughter".

And as for saying the Daily Mail is a right wing reactionary load of tosh, well fair enough, it is - but Russ son they'll be gunning for you now.

Hard to decide who is the bigger cunt, normally Ross would win this contest hands down but Russ is coming up on the rails

Yeah, nobody slaps the wonderful Manuel about the head oh wait...

I would like it if Cleese were to weigh in on this now.

I don't think he even likes to be reminded of 'Manuel' does he? Or maybe that was a long time ago and now he looks back fondly on it?

Sachs that is, altho' probably Cleese as well.

Hmm, the Daily Mail are going after a different angle...

i.e. their usual one. Look at these shocking photos! And we've got more!

the daily mail REEEEEEEALLY hates women, doesn't it?

how in the world does someone like jonathan ross become anyone's "£18m star player"? i seriously can't discern anything about him which could make him that popular?

I think it's more that middle class women hate women and the Daily Mail is more than happy to play to their needs.

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lexotm

I just cottoned on to this whole thread. Dud. Definitely dud.

In the same bag as Simon Amstell and Fearne thingy off GMTV.

"£18m star player"

Lex, I was being sarcastic - £18M over three years, £6M a year? Did you see him taking the piss out of Daniel Craig on Friday? "If you give me your watch, I'll give you this drinks coaster with a picture of Ricky Gervais on it"

no i know you were being sarcastic but presumably the bbc thinks he's worth that, and he has the ratings to back it up...which is what i'm wtf about.

"If you give me your watch, I'll give you this drinks coaster with a picture of Ricky Gervais on it"

i mean eg i don't even know what's supposed to be funny about this?

he is suggesting that the coaster is as valuable as the watch!!!!!!!!!

No you don't understand, Ricky Gervais coaster is the name of my dog!

That's worth 18 million quid of anyone's money(xp)

how much did they used to pay Wogan? and he didn't even need a desk

Anyone mentioned the licence fee yet?

how much did they used to pay Wogan?

Far too much

I remember thinking Jonathan Ross was OK but that was in 1988 or somnething.

i think he can be funny. but he's not worth £6m of the license fee each year, especially when the beeb is stripping back its news department. if ross is worth that on the open market, let itv or channel 4 or sky pay it.

Ross was new in 1988, and OK in 1990. He is abysmal and unbearable now.

I find it bizarre that a 47-year-old married man, and father of 2 or 3 or whatever, could partake in this disgusting, scumbag activity. But one should not be surprised by anything, re. Ross and Brand. They are scumbags. They lazily mock others, they sail the BBC and British culture into the gutter, they pick up huge salaries for it, and they laugh. They are scum.

I'd be surprised if any of this actually took place at all.

But hey, It's A Good Story and it gets Andrew Sachs publicity!

Still, his wife _does_ have amazing tits.

Ross, not Sachs.

I have no idea what Sachs' wife looks like.

I foresee a career revival for 78-year-old Sachs off the back of this episode

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Why were they wanting him on Russell Brand's show in the first place if it wasn't for "lol he shagged your grand-daughter" related roffles?

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it's good that he got to have sex with that girl though

then he let us sniff his finger

I mean, obviously that was the only reason they phoned him, but doesn't he have an agent or something? Why on earth would Andrew Sachs, who IMDB tells me hasn't done anything for ages, think going on Russell Brand's show was going to be about him?

I really don't think this is about raising Sachs profile.

Quite possibly Andrew Sachs doesn't know who Brand is beyond some basic recognition of his face & name, I mean Sachs is an old guy.

my sachs profile was certainly raised looking at pictures of the granddaughter

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