russell brand - C or D?

i wanna see this, i don't think either of them is ugly sorry

krugman cameo was very wtf

arrested for pushing & shoving a photographer & released on bail

http://www.usmagazine.com/celebritynews/news/russell-brand-arrested-for-alleged-attack-2010179

http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2010/12/09/12342/russell_brand_revives_rentaghost

Seventies children’s TV series RentaGhost is to be turned into a big-budget Hollywood film starring Russell Brand.

The comic will play Fred Mumford, a newly-dead slacker who wants to be more productive in the afterlife, so sets up a temp agency hiring out other spirits.

Warner Bros has acquired the rights to the BBC1 comedy show and is said to be developing the idea into a Beetlejuice-style comedy.

So to answer the question, D.

Actually, from what I remember, the 'jester' from back then looked a lot like him.

Timothy Claypole - fucking irritating character.

So, he's not that guy.

Right?

I always thought Rentaghost was shit, even when I was eight. Liked the theme music though.

They could get Snoop to do the theme tune for the reboot, particularly the line "freaks and fools".

Just saw "Hop" (don't ask, please) SO ANNOYINGgrfttftfhrgftfgrhfhfrgrrhrhrHE SHOULD BE CRUCiFIED

This guy is basically the British Yahoo Serious, right?

No. He's much more of a twat.

Whatever charms he may possess (and I'm not sure there are any), I can't get past the grating reediness of his voice. Fuckin' makes Dave Davies sound like Barry White.

Russel Brand atm is holding both #1 and #2 positions in the US box office (hop & arthur respectively)

does dude ever not yell

The more I hear people bang on about kindles, the more I think I fucked up by getting a sony reader, even tho I do love it and think it's awesome. The lack of wifi fills me with jealousy. And it suffers even worse than the kindle in the makes-you-look-a-twat stakes.

wrong thread?

rue sold brand

there is that aspect, yes.

eek. wrong thread! such a berk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qdNBrzAQjo&feature=player_embedded

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122017344

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/aug/11/london-riots-davidcameron

Seriously, why should we give a toss what this fey idiot thinks about the riots?

"For one thing, policemen are generally pretty good fighters and second, it registered that the accent they shouted at me with was closer to my own than that of some of those singing about the red flag making the wall of plastic shields between us seem thinner."

Really? I cannot picture the members of the met sounding like music-hall fop. "You're under arrest, ooh me winkie's a right bad 'un"

Can't stand the guy, does it show?

Fops, plural.

i suppose what he meant, and what you know he meant, was that generally a lot of far-leftists are posh cunts while polis are more likely to be working class.

I know what he meant, was just trying to get a dig in. All the "expert" comentary gets me down. Actually my brother trained as a stage actor and is now in the met, so he may well patrol in a music hall manner, lol hoisted by my own petard, or rather my brother's.

I really liked him when he was hosting BBBM, but then I saw his real persona in interviews (oh oh I know everything there is to know about the aaaaaart of comedy oh oh) and went right the fuck off him.

http://i.imgur.com/FTvsx.jpg

Perrin blown away by Brand onstage:

http://dennisperrin.blogspot.com/2012/02/brand-oh.html

http://gawker.com/russell-brand-destroys-msnbc-talk-show-host-for-treatin-513992493?utm_campaign=socialflow_gawker_facebook&utm_source=gawker_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

Apparently, this happened...

I watched it yesterday and was like huh, that was not really as exciting as the headline made it sound. Couple funny moments though.

yeah otm. my boss sent it to me and was all "oh this is brilliant" and i expected a lot more - it's just a bit rambling and weird.

I don't really know how that show normally goes.

Being 'rambling and weird' (in his sort of fairly strained and uninteresting version of weird) is what he does though isn't it? I don't hate the guy but I've never got his appeal either.

Obv. this sort of (US) TV show is not the usual forum for his shtick though. When did he start dressing like David Essex?

they call him willy and the one dude says, "yeah, i really can't understand this guy when he talks"! i'm not sure what he was supposed to do with that, even if he had attempted to play along. it's not artie on joe buck but he went in on them.

i never got the appeal either but recently i really sort of liked him on norm macdonald's show. the concept of his new show, which he got a chance to explain to norm, sounded horrible, though.

i did not realise until this thing broke that in the US it isn't considered rude to refer to someone who's in front of you by a third-person pronoun rather than addressing them directly.

to me that reads like a definite slight - and so doing it in what's ostensibly an interview would feel like a public insult, and pretty... humiliating?

but if it's not rude in American culture then it must seem like he is throwing a strop about nothing.

Calling him Willy Brandt was sort of funny. I mean, it is easy to get the two of them confused right?

Good Bundesrepublik skillz

xxp: I dunno. It would depend on context. In this case, it seems pretty rude to me.

yeah he was surprisingly good natured here imo? i'd have probably got the raving hump if i was in that situation

the third person pronoun thing was just part of the entire package. what was his response supposed to be when the one guy started riffing on how he couldn't understand brand on the radio but he was fairly comprehensible in person?

All of the hosts seem kinda high.

By which I'm trying to not say "dumb".

how could it not be rude in any place to speak about someone as an object of idle curiositity while in their presence

I think that that one woman was calling him 'he' because she was clearly unsure of his name. She tentatively called him Willy at one point cos obviously the subject of German reunification had been weighing heavily on her mind, but then she reverted to 'he' again after that. So I think it was more awkwardness due to that than it was bad manners.

That would make sense if Mika hadn't emphatically introduced him at the beginning of the segment.

Third person in front you was considered rude as hell when I was growing up in the states, but I am old and from good stock.