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Assessing Russell Brand’s place in the revolutionary pantheon…

· Humour

I found this quite scholarly work assessing how history is likely judge that later day Che Guevara, Russell Brand. Fascinating stuff.

April 28th, 2015 |

19 comments to Assessing Russell Brand’s place in the revolutionary pantheon…

  • Laird
    April 28, 2015 at 6:24 pm

    Well, it’s hard to disagree with any of that (except #3; I have no frame of reference).

  • Vinegar Joe
    April 28, 2015 at 8:24 pm

    One can only hope Brand ends up like Che Guevara.

  • NickM
    April 28, 2015 at 8:56 pm

    The issue I have against Brand is his description as a “comedian”. He is about as funny as a colostomy. He is less funny than Canon and Ball and I never thought I’d say that.

    He ought to be boiled alive in a cauldron of his own piss.

  • Karl in Texas
    April 28, 2015 at 9:51 pm

    I like it when things are put into perspective.

    The lion is the King of the beasts but remove him from Africa and drop him into Antarctica he is just a penguins bitch.

    Among the masses and with the media support Russel Brand may seem somewhat intelligent but place him among real leaders both good and bad and he is just another dung tossing spider monkey dancing for the organ grinder.

  • Paul Marks
    April 28, 2015 at 10:00 pm

    Errr yes.

    I am one of the most gloomy (not to say paranoid) people about, and even I do not take Mr Brand seriously. He is not a threat.

    Not that he is a comedian, he is not – Mr Brand is just an arse.

  • Mr Ed
    April 28, 2015 at 10:08 pm

    I informally (and unscientifically, but medicine is not science) diagnosed Mr Brand as bipolar on account of his whiny voice (this comes from a couple of years giving advice to people with that condition). I was not surprised to read in the Independent that he has (or had) that condition.

    So at least he may have some mitigation for believing his ‘economics’.

    It is really decent to mock him? Mr Miliband, however, is as tempting a target as a raging blast furnace is to a Sidewinder.

  • NickM
    April 28, 2015 at 10:27 pm

    An arse Paul has a purpose. Not a glamorous one but a purpose. Brand is just a set of buttocks desperately in need of a mattock.

  • Alisa
    April 28, 2015 at 10:35 pm

    Damn, he’s not even funny when made fun of…

  • Veryretired
    April 28, 2015 at 11:38 pm

    What is it with these second-rate celebrities making pretentious social comments, and people pay attention, for reasons that are utterly mystifying to me.

    It’s like going to the supermarket and having some kind of intense reaction to the lunacies featured in the tabloids at the check-out counter.

    Seriously, does anyone with two or more living brain cells actually give a tinker’s fart about what the Kardashion’s did last week, or what this grotesque idiot said yesterday?

    There are billions of people in this world, any number of whom might have serious, carefully reasoned opinions or new ideas about the problems we are facing. It seems beyond bizarre to me that some lounge act can suddenly be quoted in the media as if he or she had something important to say, especially when their big idea is about as sophisticated as a junior high essay on the importance of nature.

    So many people complain about media bias, but the real problems are its endless subservience to anyone who can claim even the most marginal status as a celebrity, it’s painful ignorance about anything and everything in the real world more complicated than who’s getting married or buried, and the moral, intellectual, and physical cowardice it suffers from regarding any significant issue.

    Nonsense, and dangerous nonsense, at that.

  • CaptDMO
    April 29, 2015 at 12:52 am

    Veryretired: “…Seriously, does anyone with two or more living brain cells actually give a tinker’s fart about what the Kardashion’s did last week,..”
    Yes, because “There, but for the grace of God, go I….”
    Well that, and lot of side boob!
    Now, “Here comes Honey Boo Boo…”!
    Why do you THINK “freak shows” were so popular when the circus came to town?
    Personally, I tend to watch adult themed cartoons.

  • Regional
    April 29, 2015 at 1:20 am

    RB represents a mindset that lacks intelligent process and they’re digging their own graves, like how the Germans followed Hitler.
    On the subjects of effwits, Dear Leader Dave was getting stuck into Labor till he delivered the punch line; masochicosadism. If you’re going to hurl epithets get them right or at least be a clever pun the sheeple understand.
    Dave or Red Ted, you Brits are fucked.

  • Nicholas (Self-Sovereignty) Gray
    April 29, 2015 at 1:24 am

    I doubt he will have any staying power. How many movies has he been in, lately? Though it is depressing, the number of celebrities who have socialist tendencies. I wonder if the thirst for numbers inclines them to mobs and mobbish thinking? Could be a new symptom- The crowd-pleasing neurosis!

  • Vinegar Joe
    April 29, 2015 at 8:06 am

    “Rock stars, is there anything they don’t know?” – Homer Simpson

  • Alisa
    April 29, 2015 at 8:30 am

    Sorry, but I beg to differ: it does very much matter what a “celebrity” or any other person with a big-enough soapbox thinks. Fact is, we do notice and appreciate the precious few who publicly express ideas we do like, because we simply appreciate their holding and expressing such ideas as “mere” human beings, and because of that very soapbox – i.e. we think or hope that they have at least some influence on the opinions of people who happen to listen to them (if there are any such people – if not, then we should not be annoyed by the Brands of this world either).

    Luckily, and at least for now, Brand is not a politician, and so is not in a position of any real power, other than the power of speech. By all means mock and ridicule his views, but comparing him to famous political figures (good or bad) is entirely beside the point, as is stressing the fact that he’s “just a comedian”.

  • bloke in spain
    April 29, 2015 at 9:57 am

    Dunno. I thought the bit about the bulldog was quite profound.

  • Leslie Bates
    April 29, 2015 at 9:58 pm

    I have to describe Brand as an incoherent noise source.

  • Andrew Duffin
    April 30, 2015 at 11:25 am

    Ha ha very good.

    But the point about this shallow ignorant tosser is actually that he’s part of the Establishment: leftish, urban, bbc, political class cadet, party member – he ticks all the boxes.

    Brand? Revolutionary?

    Shurely shome mishtake…

  • Richard Thomas
    May 2, 2015 at 6:35 am

    I wish I could be so lackadaisical about Brand. Unfortunately, I believe there is some non-zero chance he could turn out be quite dangerous. There are many who are (and rightly so) disaffected with the status-quo, are itching for a bit of a scrap and are ready to listen to his message. Indeed, even within some of those who I know well and would otherwise consider to be reasonably intelligent.
    Those of us who find him laughable perhaps underestimate his charismatic appeal to others. After all, I’m sure there were plenty who thought Ernesto was a bit of a joke until he had his .45 up to the back of their head.
    Though I’m not stressing too much. It’s probably coming anyway and if it wasn’t Brand, it would be someone else. The preparations are just the same.

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