The PC and Perpetually Offended Brigade

[ldj]

Anyone heard about this Dispatches documentary on Channel 4 tonight? They're doing an investigation into (so far unspecified) behaviour by famous UK comedians. Russell Brand has already come out saying it's about him and denying what they're going to accuse him of.

Makes you wonder if he knew this was coming and his recent swerve into the world of alt-right youtube was a calculated move to gain support before the story even came out.

Be interesting to see what the allegations are though, and what proof if any do they have, you'd hope it would be solid if they're airing a whole documentary on it.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/d4d93e74-5478-11ee-bc18-cbdd58145dc6?shareToken=6b8bc0b8fd52ac511a904a732ae8dda6

[Kunt 4 Life]

He looks like he's going to be pretty fucked after this evening's telly.
And not in a way he likes.

He's a bit of a wanker anyway.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Unless he gets a prison sentence, I don't think this will have any impact on his career, given the new "alt-media" persona he's created and the audience he's been more and more unambiguously gearing it towards over the last few years. Actually saw a revealing tweet about that aspect just a few days ago:
https://twitter.com/lewlewwaller/status/1702361149885300821

[astfgyl]

Ah brand was always a gimp with his booky wooky and shit. I'm not surprised that he was ripe for taking down in the mainstream, given he's their rival now.

What's he done anyway?

[hellfire]

Accused of four rapes. Best day he ever had he was annoying.

[Kunt 4 Life]

Doesn't come across very good at all in the documentary. I like that they added a bit of his YouTube defense he put up only yesterday.

Was he not a bit of a leftie but I hear people say he's alt right now cause hes anti vax? (Don't keep up with his YouTube stuff). Surely you get anti vaxers on both sides?

Actually I don't get left and right stuff and all that politics bollox.

[Eoin McLove]

I have listened to him once or twice, either on his podcast when he has interviewed someone I like or when he has been interviewed himself on a show I follow. He is an interesting character, if often incredibly overbearing and a huge waffler. He has a lot to say, some of it sounds like wisdom which you would expect from somebody who has lived such a wild and action packed existence,buy much  of it is verbal diarrhoea that makes your head spin.

Generally he comes across as having a very positive world view but if all of these allegations are true he deserves proper punishment.

[Carnage]

He has a lot to say.

I would disagree with this entirely, I have never heard anything approaching logic or sense coming out of iys maw in the 10/15 years I've been aware of it. Gibberish as a policy, throwing the word 'paradigm' into every other sentence does not make what you're saying suddenly valid.

[hellfire]

I passed something on YouTube with the title "They're coming for me" presumably its implying a conspiracy. I don't care enough about that bearded bimbo to watch it.

[StoutAndAle]

I couldn't give a shit about Russell Brand. He seems to have lost the plot in recent years. If he did something illegal then he'll be punished and rightly so.

However - this is hardly fresh news - wasn't he boasting and then subsequently crying (on the treatment-trail portion of his career) about doing this sort of thing at the height of his fame with people lapping up how much of a hedonistic scoundrel he was? Or am I mistaken?

If only he'd written "Stairway To Heaven" or "The Jean Genie".

[astfgyl]

Surprised it took so long tbh

[Pentagrimes]

Exactly. He probably put the "they're coming for me" spin on it knowing it was coming. Even as someone who has no interest in showbiz this is the probably the most open secret since Saville.

[mickO)))]

Not a fan of Russell either never found him funny and his videos for the most part have clickbait headings. I didn't see the documentary but I wonder if he had of groomed an under age boy like Phillip Schofield did would he have gotten the same sympathy treatment from the media instead of what he is getting now.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Better question: If Phillip Schofield had spent most of his career making regular jokes about being a sex pest and had then been accused of violent sexual assault by the lad he "groomed", would he have gotten any sympathy treatment?