Rebutting Russell Brand

[Sep 24: updated for details on Brand’s dating of wife Laura and Nish Kumar’s revelations on rumours in uk comedy scene. Sep 25: Correct drunken typos, corrected the make amends 12-step to 8 from 5, add info on Russell's father. Sep 28 Correction - Joe Rogan MOVED to Spotify in December 2020, not announced as originally stated. The announcement was in May of that year.] So This is Happening! The titular heading of Russell Brand’s last YouTube video before the publication of credible accusations against him as a sexual predator, rapist and groomer. Since then, he has been largely silent, his only public appearance being his scheduled live show on the night of September 16th, which was after the release of The Times’ article but before the airing of the Channel Four Dispatches expose. The video served as Russell’s attempt to get out ahead of the publication of the accusations. It is almost certain that he did this without the support of his legal team - the standard advice is to say ...

Chapter Five, Tucker Carlson’s Western Chauvinist Vacation We are coming to the end of our examination of Russell’s further, and surprisingly extremist, descent into the right-wing rabbit hole, as witnessed through his Tucker Carlson-themed videos, with this, our fifth and final chapter. We’ll soon move on to Part Two, where we’ll review Russell’s interviews with left-wing journo David Sirota, but that’s for another day because today, Tucker is off on his holibobs to jolly old blighty, and while he’s there, he stops in to visit his good friend, the Squire of Henley-on-Thames himself, Russell Brand! When we last dropped in on Russell and Tucker, it was to witness Russell, once again, act as an apologist for Tucker’s blatant white supremacy. This is hardly surprising because Russell’s output appears to be entirely geared towards American rightwing, white grievance politics. And just like Tucker, Russell’s true enemies are the ruling elites, people just like, er, Tucker Carlson? But that’...