They could get Snoop to do the theme tune for the reboot, particularly the line "freaks and fools".
― Les centimètres énigmatiques (snoball), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 13:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Just saw "Hop" (don't ask, please) SO ANNOYINGgrfttftfhrgftfgrhfhfrgrrhrhrHE SHOULD BE CRUCiFIED
― lively and fuiud (Pashmina), Sunday, 10 April 2011 17:27 (thirteen years ago) link
This guy is basically the British Yahoo Serious, right?
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 10 April 2011 18:47 (thirteen years ago) link
No. He's much more of a twat.
― did you notice "you spin me round" was playing in the background? (snoball), Sunday, 10 April 2011 20:26 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Funky Mustard (People It's Bad) (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 10 April 2011 20:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Russel Brand atm is holding both #1 and #2 positions in the US box office (hop & arthur respectively)
― kelpolaris, Sunday, 10 April 2011 23:25 (thirteen years ago) link
does dude ever not yell
― borkslovethewu (some dude), Monday, 11 April 2011 00:06 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Yossarian's sense of humour (NotEnough), Tuesday, 12 April 2011 09:35 (thirteen years ago) link
wrong thread?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 12 April 2011 09:37 (thirteen years ago) link
rue sold brand
― estela, Tuesday, 12 April 2011 09:44 (thirteen years ago) link
there is that aspect, yes.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 12 April 2011 09:52 (thirteen years ago) link
eek. wrong thread! such a berk.
― Yossarian's sense of humour (NotEnough), Tuesday, 12 April 2011 10:24 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qdNBrzAQjo&feature=player_embedded
― john. a resident of chicago., Saturday, 23 April 2011 22:23 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122017344
― john. a resident of chicago., Saturday, 23 April 2011 22:26 (thirteen years ago) link
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?
― Proger, Friday, 12 August 2011 02:50 (twelve years ago) link
Fops, plural.
― Proger, Friday, 12 August 2011 02:51 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― you've got male (jim in glasgow), Friday, 12 August 2011 02:57 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Proger, Friday, 12 August 2011 04:01 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 12 August 2011 04:18 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/FTvsx.jpg
― StanM, Sunday, 14 August 2011 06:54 (twelve years ago) link
Perrin blown away by Brand onstage:
http://dennisperrin.blogspot.com/2012/02/brand-oh.html
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 20:12 (twelve years ago) link
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...
― Mark G, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 09:30 (ten years ago) link
I watched it yesterday and was like huh, that was not really as exciting as the headline made it sound. Couple funny moments though.
― ramona & yeezus (some dude), Wednesday, 19 June 2013 10:58 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Shamrock Shoe (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 19 June 2013 11:01 (ten years ago) link
I don't really know how that show normally goes.
― how's life, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 11:31 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Bees Against Racism (Tom D.), Wednesday, 19 June 2013 11:48 (ten years ago) link
Obv. this sort of (US) TV show is not the usual forum for his shtick though. When did he start dressing like David Essex?
― Bees Against Racism (Tom D.), Wednesday, 19 June 2013 11:51 (ten years ago) link
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.
― dylannn, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 11:55 (ten years ago) link
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.
― ✌_✌ (c sharp major), Wednesday, 19 June 2013 12:03 (ten years ago) link
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.
― ✌_✌ (c sharp major), Wednesday, 19 June 2013 12:07 (ten years ago) link
Calling him Willy Brandt was sort of funny. I mean, it is easy to get the two of them confused right?
― dschinghis kraan (NickB), Wednesday, 19 June 2013 12:08 (ten years ago) link
Good Bundesrepublik skillz
― Bees Against Racism (Tom D.), Wednesday, 19 June 2013 12:09 (ten years ago) link
xxp: I dunno. It would depend on context. In this case, it seems pretty rude to me.
― how's life, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 12:10 (ten years ago) link
yeah he was surprisingly good natured here imo? i'd have probably got the raving hump if i was in that situation
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 12:11 (ten years ago) link
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?
― dylannn, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 12:15 (ten years ago) link
All of the hosts seem kinda high.
― how's life, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 12:16 (ten years ago) link
By which I'm trying to not say "dumb".
― how's life, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 12:17 (ten years ago) link
how could it not be rude in any place to speak about someone as an object of idle curiositity while in their presence
― ghosts of erith spectral crackhouse slain rudeboy (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Wednesday, 19 June 2013 12:24 (ten years ago) link
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.
― dschinghis kraan (NickB), Wednesday, 19 June 2013 12:35 (ten years ago) link
That would make sense if Mika hadn't emphatically introduced him at the beginning of the segment.
― Studied keyboard mash (tsrobodo), Wednesday, 19 June 2013 12:48 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Three Word Username, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 13:07 (ten years ago) link
Come on, surely that's considered rude in the US. I've never heard otherwise.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 19 June 2013 13:26 (ten years ago) link
Well, I mean, there are certain contexts where it might not be, but I think in those cases, it would not be rude in the UK either.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 19 June 2013 13:27 (ten years ago) link
As far as what passes for rude in the US -- this wasn't in the US, it was in TV. Cable TV. Morning "news."
― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 19 June 2013 14:12 (ten years ago) link
morning "joe"
― ramona & yeezus (some dude), Wednesday, 19 June 2013 14:30 (ten years ago) link
the guy named joe wasn't even there. if that IS his real name.
I saw this. It's pretty good toward the end when he does an imitation of the inane discussion style of these cable news talk shows, but most of it is just rambling. I could do without the come-ons too, but I guess it's as good a way as any as disrupting the show and throwing people off their guard, which is the point. Whoever that guy was (I guess it's not Scarborough? I've never watched the show) seems like a moron.
― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 19 June 2013 14:31 (ten years ago) link
iirc the dude brought up russell's chest display before he brought up mika's, and her degree of swooning was pretty priceless. just seemed like your standard amusing enough russell brand talk show appearance to me, but i guess maybe people aren't used to his shtick
― da croupier, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 14:38 (ten years ago) link
or maybe they're more familiar with your standard morning joe episode than i am and laughing at the atypical madness
― da croupier, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 14:40 (ten years ago) link
Dunno anything about this show, but that clip implied it was being simulcast on the radio? That might explain the third person/what he looks like stuff.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 19 June 2013 14:42 (ten years ago) link