Brand on the run

The ridiculous reaction to the Brand/Ross scandal completely sickens me. Peter Tatchell (funnily enough, Russell Brand once revealed that he referred to a particularly effeminate handbag he owned as a 'Tatchell Satchell') has written a great article here. Being a massive fan of Brand's radio show, I feel like a bunch of outsiders have turned up and ruined my fun. Brand and Ross made a mistake, they apologised. It's taken a fortnight-long Daily Mail hate campaign to stir it up into the frenzy we see now. I did feel slightly sickened when I heard it, because there was a misogynistic undertone to the way Andrew Sachs' granddaughter was being referred to. Brand's major appeal has always been that he's on the side of the bullied, and his jeering exchange with Ross had the distinct whiff of bullying.

But it was a one-off.

It reminds me of the reaction  Pete Doherty gets when he arrives late to a gig. "Babyshambles' frontman acts shambolically." Isn't there a clue in the name? "Anarchic comedian behaves anarchically." 

My one fear is that without the radio show, Russell will lose the humbling influence of a weekly live knockabout, and concentrate on those awful Superbad-style Hollywood films that tend to get produced every five minutes. 

A weekly podcast, anyone?

Gareth