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Comedian Russell Brand was kicked out of the GQ Awards party on Tuesday after cracking jokes about Nazis.

I have mixed feelings about this brash gobby sex mad young man.

He has a extremely annoying manner, but a lot of what he says is hilariously funny and spot on.
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That's his shtick, I'm surprised anyone is surprised by it.
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Over-opinionated, Vile, Narcissistic, preening, poncified twat.
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oscar;1435540 wrote: Over-opinionated, Vile, Narcissistic, preening, poncified twat.


He should team up with Vinnie Jones. :sneaky:
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Gawd help us all.......lets shoot the guy for being young....... and indulging in silly things.

If you blank everybody that has ever made some mistakes, or who's ego and libido is bigger than average.............you may as well poke your eyes out and wear ear defenders. And you loose the ability to learn by example.................good or other wise.
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Young ???

Have a word with yourself will you ?

The prick Is 18 months off 40 years old.
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oscar;1435560 wrote: Young ???

Have a word with yourself will you ?

The prick Is 18 months off 40 years old.


Maybe Bruv means compared to....................some people.

I think Russell is very cute. I enjoy watching him, usually, & don't care about his prickness.
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Bruv;1435550 wrote: And you loose the ability to learn by example.................good or other wise.
Some people cross a line and can step back. This chap went off a cliff.
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Why would he have been awarded man of the year?
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He is the eternal angry young man, I have seriously never studied him other than watching an occasional performance, or reading about his latest carry on.

He has always grated on me, the same as George Galloway............the phrasing ............the attitude.....the ego. But as with George I have tried to listen to the content and dismiss the delivery of the words.

I have just read his Wikipedia page and I like him more.

He is a very complex fellow, with many faults vegetarian then vegan diagnosed with several mental issues, ex addict, recovering alcoholic...................but outspoken and sensible about many issues including drug rehabilitation.

I am still not a blind devotee of the bloke, but he has far more substance than the headlines he causes.
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Russell Brand Morning Show Video - GQ.COM (UK)
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Thank you Snooze, didn't he do well ?
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Never heard of that clown.

What is funny about calling the sponsors of your act Nazi's?

Watta maroon.
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Bruv;1435583 wrote: Thank you Snooze, didn't he do well ?


In certain situations he can be incredibly funny, didn't like him much when he originally bounced onto the scene but think I am warming to him.

Yes Bruv, he did do well there, that whole situation was a bit surreal.
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tude dog;1435584 wrote: Never heard of that clown.

What is funny about calling the sponsors of your act Nazi's?

Watta maroon.


You are not paying attention, I don't think he did that.

He is a clown, that's how he makes a living...........we call them comedians.

He is not a brownish red colour, did you mean moron...... or is it the accent?
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Betty Boop;1435586 wrote: In certain situations he can be incredibly funny, didn't like him much when he originally bounced onto the scene but think I am warming to him.

Yes Bruv, he did do well there, that whole situation was a bit surreal.


I have cringed at some of his act, but then I realised that it was just that, an act. It might draw from his technocolour lifestyle that bears no relation to mine, but hey ho, to each his own.
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He didn't call his boss a Nazi, he merely pointed out in a rather satirical way that they designed the uniforms. It's no different than some of our late night talk show hosts making snide remarks about the networks that their shows are on... see David Letterman in particular.
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Bruv;1435587 wrote: You are not paying attention, I don't think he did that.

He is a clown, that's how he makes a living...........we call them comedians.

He is not a brownish red colour, did you mean moron...... or is it the accent?


He said, "If any of you know a little bit about history and fashion, you'll know it was Hugo Boss (who) made the uniforms for the Nazis. The Nazis did have flaws, but they did look [expletive] fantastic, let's face it, while they were killing people on the basis of their religion and sexuality!"

Later in his speech, Brand placed a finger under his nose to impersonate Hitler, joking, "I'm a comedian, and it's my job to make jokes about things. Hugo Boss, it's fair enough, he might not have known! 'We're selling a lot of these [expletive] (uniforms), they're flying off the shelves!' Don't take life too seriously, soon we'll all be in the grave. Oh [expletive]!"


OK, not Nazi's. Collaborator, profiteers. Whatever.

If I was the one paying him and the target I would be spitting fire.
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But they did what he said they did. If you've got something like that in your past, you better be prepared to have it mocked if you've got Brand on the ticket.
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I haven't even looked at what the git did this year. The cliff he voluntarily walked off was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_B ... _calls_row
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tude dog;1435593 wrote: If I was the one paying him and the target I would be spitting fire.
You knew who you were paying and his form for outspoken comedy.......as they say "Priceless" advertising
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Týr;1435597 wrote: I haven't even looked at what the git did this year. The cliff he voluntarily walked off was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_B ... _calls_row


Sometimes jokes go too far, nobody died.
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Týr;1435597 wrote: I haven't even looked at what the git did this year. The cliff he voluntarily walked off was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_B ... _calls_row


That's what your fussing about? Pshaw.
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SnoozeAgain;1435600 wrote: That's what your fussing about? Pshaw.That rather neatly highlights the difference between us, Snooze. Yes, that incident is what I'm fussing about. It's utterly unforgivable.
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Týr;1435597 wrote: I haven't even looked at what the git did this year. ]


Sachsgate: Why did BBC let Russell Brand insult Andrew Sachs again? Asks actor's wife | Mail Online
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Well, if he's done nothing else, Brand has managed to unite Oscar and Tyr in mutual animosity for the man.
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SnoozeAgain;1435603 wrote: Well, if he's done nothing else, Brand has managed to unite Oscar and Tyr in mutual animosity for the man.


I wouldn't know. My reaction to oscar and my reaction to Russell Brand are to all intents and purposes identical, and for much the same reason. As far as I can make out they both regard themselves as amusing when they bully whoever they've decided to target.
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Ask yourself this Bruv.

Had Nick Griffin or Tommy Robinson taken the stage and made jokes about the Nazi's, you response would have been exactly the same would It ? Oh he's made some past mistakes but It's all fine now .

I very, very, very much doubt It
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It kind of puts it into perspective when Tyr (with a pretentious accent) loads Oscar and Brand into his lists of people to loathe.

Brand said about the deplorable 'Joke' he perpetrated with Ross......

"The thing that the 42,000 people were offended by is offensive. It is offensive if someone calls up an answerphone, does some swearing, hangs up.

But if incrementally that act is led to by a series of innuendos and in-jokes, then it’s a different thing. It’s still a thing that is wrong, but it’s not the thing that they’re offended by."

Which to me sounds spot on................remembering that most people never listened to the original incident, but were enraged by it's repeated reporting.

Brands jokes about Hugo Boss supplying the uniforms was observational, and funny.

If Griffin or Robinson could tell as good a joke, I wouldn't mind at all.

Most humour is cruel, humourous language that has passed into language "Pratt Fall" "Slap stick" ..............all about somebodies misfortune, slipping on a banana skin ? Hilarious apparently if you are the watcher (I didn't make the rules)
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Týr;1435542 wrote: Damn, I posted with the admin account. Mea culpa.


Ahem...........:wah:



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Bruv;1435619 wrote: It kind of puts it into perspective when Tyr (with a pretentious accent) loads Oscar and Brand into his lists of people to loathe.

I let that one go last night on account of being too exhausted after being back on the 5 hour school contract every day and getting up at 5 am to spend 5 hours with the taxi driver who Is trying to convert me to Islam.
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Bruv;1435550 wrote: Gawd help us all.......lets shoot the guy for being young....... and indulging in silly things.

If you blank everybody that has ever made some mistakes, or who's ego and libido is bigger than average.............you may as well poke your eyes out and wear ear defenders. And you loose the ability to learn by example.................good or other wise.


Not "some mistakes", a series of major faux pas that put others into the shade - the guy's an arse of mega proportions and deserves all the criticism he gets.
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Bryn Mawr;1435748 wrote: Not "some mistakes", a series of major faux pas that put others into the shade - the guy's an arse of mega proportions and deserves all the criticism he gets.


And the praise for his good bits ?
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Bruv;1435761 wrote: And the praise for his good bits ?


Any "good bits", as you term them, are meaningless in the presence of the blundering. Had you been brought up a Christian you'd recognize the concept of graceless, or disgraceful. The chap cannot redeem his actions. It's a theological consequence, not a value judgement.
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Paxman demands Brand explain the Andre Sachs phone call...

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Týr;1435778 wrote: Had you been brought up a Christian you'd recognize the concept of graceless, or disgraceful.


I was and I do.........................and the concept of forgiveness, redemption.
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oscar;1435781 wrote: Paxman demands Brand explain the Andre Sachs phone call...

Jeremy Paxman vs Russell Brand - YouTube


Thank you I enjoyed that..........................what an interestingly complex young man...............I am liking him even more
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Bruv;1435761 wrote: And the praise for his good bits ?


I have yet to find any
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Bryn Mawr;1435789 wrote: I have yet to find any


Have you tried?

Has the forgoing publicity and the young fellows irritating delivery blinded you to the words?
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Bruv;1435785 wrote: I was and I do.........................and the concept of forgiveness, redemption.


I have not been harmed by Russell Brand so forgiveness is not a reaction I can legitimately offer.

Forgiveness, unlike redemption, is a freely chosen human gift. Redemption on the other hand depends entirely[1], I was taught, on penitence. A less penitent fellow I have yet to hear of. The closest he's yet got is unacceptable excuses followed by reiterations of how comic he was really.



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Bruv;1435791 wrote: Have you tried?

Has the forgoing publicity and the young fellows irritating delivery blinded you to the words?


Yes, I've tried - but every time I think I see some redeaming feature he proves me wrong all over again.
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Bryn Mawr;1435793 wrote: Yes, I've tried - but every time I think I see some redeaming feature he proves me wrong all over again.


The sole redeeming feature of Russell Brand is that he's not Jonathan Bloody Ross.
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Bruv;1435786 wrote: Thank you I enjoyed that..........................what an interestingly complex young man...............I am liking him even more


Watching that, there Is no denying his Intellect but I also find a very child like quality.

Have you seen this ?

Russell Brand puts his case to Parliament.





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I don't care, I find the bloke equally irritating, annoying, and fascinating.

I have shuddered embarrased at some of his over the top humour, realised it is for an adult audience, and that I am an adult.

Squirmed at his over florid and excessively animated delivery.

Annoyed by his egocentric posturing, sexual references......................then listened to the core of what he actually says.

I have overlooked his past misdemeanours, accepted his 'excuse'. I shall try to look past all the flannel and concentrate on the essence of what he means......that will do for me.
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Bruv;1435802 wrote: I don't care, I find the bloke equally irritating, annoying, and fascinating.

I have shuddered embarrased at some of his over the top humour, realised it is for an adult audience, and that I am an adult.

Squirmed at his over florid and excessively animated delivery.

Annoyed by his egocentric posturing, sexual references......................then listened to the core of what he actually says.

I have overlooked his past misdemeanours, accepted his 'excuse'. I shall try to look past all the flannel and concentrate on the essence of what he means......that will do for me.


I'm with Bruv after watching the clips that keep being put up. I'd take Brand over Ross any day, and wasn't it Ross that shouted out the offence in the first place? No, Brand shouldn't have run with it, but what on earth possessed Ross to say such a thing, and at least he did seem remorseful. Two people with similar humours got carried away, like children, with no thought of the consequences. For that they were both idiots, but it does seem to be Brand that is continuing to take the flak.
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Betty Boop;1435811 wrote: I'm with Bruv after watching the clips that keep being put up. I'd take Brand over Ross any day, and wasn't it Ross that shouted out the offence in the first place? No, Brand shouldn't have run with it, but what on earth possessed Ross to say such a thing, and at least he did seem remorseful. Two people with similar humours got carried away, like children, with no thought of the consequences. For that they were both idiots, but it does seem to be Brand that is continuing to take the flak.


Not just Brand - I refuse to watch either of them. Their actions have put them beyond the pale
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Bryn Mawr;1435813 wrote: Not just Brand - I refuse to watch either of them. Their actions have put them beyond the pale I loathe Jonathon Ross with a passion. Him and his equally dimwitted brother Paul Ross and Irritating wife of Jonathon Ross, Jane Ross who have all tried their hands at presenting without one shred of talent.

We do not have any of the Ross's In the Oscar household...
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