Russell Brand/Parklife

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AIBU to think this is very funny (and well deserved?)

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Sorry, I got distracted by the beauty of Damon

But anyway, yes, very amusing.

Don't make the assumption that all the RB sceptics are middle class. Not true.

Plenty of ex addicts think he is a twat too.

It's the first time I saw the youtube version, but I did see PARKLIFE! in the paper today and just laughed as it is so true.

Wow Damon Albarn was so pretty wasn't he?

p.s. Love the video, RB is a misogynist knob, who the hell takes him seriously?!

Yes, Damon Albarn is painfully beautiful. I just had to watch 'The Universal' as well (love that song) just to see his crooked side smiles that make me go a bit funny!

I bloody love this whole Parklife joke at RB, but I genuinely don't think it was intended to put him down (although no doubt some people are using it as such) - it's a joke purely designed to highlight the particular cadence and use of vocabulary that RB puts on for his persona. And it is put on for his persona - I remember him before he got big famous and he didn't talk like the bastard offspring of Phil Daniels and Jack Sparrow back then!

Thing is, funny though this is, this is exactly the same joke that Harry Hill used to do on Tv Burp back when Phil Daniels was in EAstenders and it was noticed that his character spoke exactly the same as he sang in 'Parklife' - exactly the same joke.

this sums up my feelings on it

RB has bipolar disorder. Just like Spike Milligan it is his hypomanic states that make him funny, and I do think he can be a very funny comedian.
One problem with bipolar, and I say this as someone who has the illness, is when you get too manic you can start to get delusions of grandeur. Recently RB has been getting increasingly grandiose and I wonder whether this is a sign he needs to readjust the meds. I am not trying to be judgmental or put the guy down, I am just concerned.

Well by my standards that DM journo is no less pompous than RB himself. Bit of a twattish review of the book.

I don't really care about RBs education or upbringing. In fact I couldn't tell you what many of his ideas are, I just don't like his delivery. And that's all this parklife thing is mocking really

It's made all the more ridiculous when you consider that he has apparently been working with the discredited hack Johann Hari, who has been helping him script his cynical rebirth as the 'voice of a generation'. As Lena Dunham might say, he's a voice of a generation, and not an especially credible one at that.

Damon was even more beautiful at Latitude this July, in the rain and thunder, magnificent.

I think Russell Brand genuinely means well. His ideas and delivery can be a bit off sometimes, but given he's a stand-up comedian who suffers from mental illness, rather than an Oxbridge educated, PR trained politician it's not exactly surprising is it?

The Parklife thing is quite funny though.

bloody hell, doesn't Damon Albarn look young?

Russell Brand is ferociously clever and is currently playing a smarter game than posters seem to realise. He's a consummate politician. And a flawed but nice bloke.

Who will be delighted about this video.

I doubt it. Basically anything he says now can be swiftly undermined as so much verbose waffle by a well-timed PARKLIFE.

Not quite the crumbling of a career I would have thought, looking at what others have survived.

Oh, I can't see his career crumbling: he and his management company are far too invested to let that happen. But I suspect that he may need to reinvent himself again if this meme follows him.

Yanbu. Its hilarious. Shame he's so self important as I think he probably has some valid points, in amongst the over-wordy, I'm clevererer than you nonsense (I'm tempted to send him a link to the FMR boards but I fear the universe might collapse in on itself under the weight of so many unnecessary words in one place)

I like his principles, but I am suspicious of his motives. Look at who his ex-wife is, and who his current gf is. Is he really a man of the people?

Gosh, Blur were so young then!!

I do think if RB toned it down a couple of notches more people would listen to him.

Sorry to piss on bonfires etc, but I think anything which 'targets' (and I'm not being overly-dramatic or hysterical) one person/one thing smacks of bullying mentality to me. Whether he could/should handle it is a different matter, as is whether he brought it on himself (I happen to think he means well).

Imagine this in a different context; office twat (we all have one!) is mouthing off about how great he is as usual. Everyone else in the company has a quick conflab and agrees to say 'twat' after every sentence he utters. So everyone in the office is responding in this 'jokey' way. Would that be ok because the majority feel the guy is a twat? Or is he still entitled not to be bullied for being a twat (assuming he's not bullied anyone - which as far as I can see, Brand hasn't either).

I accept in advance that I'll be slated for being overly sensitive, but I just find it ironic that these boards on here are full of concerned parents with children being bullied or picked on. and yet us grown ups are happy to indulge in online bullying, and are able to justify it (lesson of the day; it's ok to target someone if we don't like them).

That is perfection. And I can't bear Blur OR Russell Brand.

Sibling, I do see what you're saying but isn't it different with someone who's out there, grabbing every scrap of public attention he can? (And in RB's case, perfectly happy to dish it out to others- e.g. the Sachs thing.)

It doesn't work as almost every clip they have chosen for the vid makes perfect sense, yes, Russell Brand can be prone to the grandiose but they have picked the wrong ones, making it look purile and yes, a bit cunty tbh.