How many times can Russell Brand be on Jonathon Ross?

[EachandEveryone]

I'm sick of the sight of him now. The sofa always shuffles away from him as well.

I find him dull now. Same old stuff, over enunciated over and over again.

(On Ross out of guilt? Never quite broke through to big time as expected, but Ross did get his career back after that awful phone call)

Cringe, cringe, cringe. I had to go out of the room after a minute. Clearly, they are great mates though.

Read so many times about how intelligent and articulate he is. Telling it like it is in a way that have never been done before.

I was embarrassed for him, had to turn over - really couldn't bear to listen to his childish nonsense.

I watched it cos I luffs keanu reeves. I watched keanu's own chat and wanted to carry on watching him sat on the sofa but had to change channels as Russell Brand was so cringeworthy.

Missed Keanus chat. Saw him on an Aussie chat show once and he was absolutely lovely. Gentle and humble and funny. He seems such a lovely chap.

I don't know what he's like as a person but he seemed pretty hyper as well.

I missed this.

It was awful. I thought Keanu's body language said it all - very guarded. Utterly lazy and indulgent of Ross to have Brand on the show - he knows him so well that he doesn't have to do any research. Shoddy TV.

Keanu Reeves looked very uncomfortable next to him, when in other interviews I've seen he comes across as a real laugh.

I thought he was very unfair on the female comedian who came on last, he kept butting in.

Last time he was on the other guests all moved as far away as they could.

I like Russell. I don't agree with everything he has to say, but I can't really understand why there's so much venom aimed at him. I think he has far more interesting and relevant things to say and says them with real passion. I'd sooner listen to him than the doorpost K Reeves.

I think it is the hypocrisy of the man, really. His point may be valid, but as a multi millionaire he simply isn't credible. The delivery of his message is manic and makes him seem out of control and irrational.

Looking at him on TV the other night - he may have tried to portray a messy, chaotic look but that jacket looked like it was very well made and therefore will have cost a bob or two. It's all do as I say not as I do.

Russ el is brainy . And when doing stand up he was good with words. (but he isnt les Dawson)

As for not voting the old joke said it all Dont vote, it only encourages them

I have always voted, but it doesnt excite me.

And it is sad that 25 per cent will probably not vote in this election In a close race, a few thousand votes could decide it.

I had to turn over after 5 mins of RB. So hyper, loud and crude - seemed drugged up - just embarrassing!

In fairness to JR, Ricky Gervais was probably busy.

So 007Jam Brand arguing for -

The rewriting of trade agreements to support the needs of people and planet through localised farming.
The cancelation of personal debt.
For communities to use modern high tech communications to take control of politics.
The 'killing' of particular corporations like General Motors, 'sell them off and use the money to compensate victims and former workers, or we could collectivise it and run it as a worker-based cooperative'.
His wanting genuinely participatory democracy along the lines of Porto Alegre in Brazil.
Energy companies being stopped from wrecking the climate through oil refining and fracking, and so on.

Is all of no credit, co's he wears expensive jackets and has made a lot of money through entertainment ?

Seeker33 You make a good point, I've always voted too, but I see less and less point in doing so. When you say a few thousand votes could decide it, the thing is - decide what exactly? Decide which group of empty suits and skirts administers the country/economy in the interests of the corporate elite at the expense of the rest of us?

Russell Brand does nothing more than repeat soundbites of other people's ideas. His Question Time performance was proof of that.

I think he articulates what a lot of people are feeling. Certainly what I feel anyway.

But others have said it too IYO and this makes his points invalid? Don't those that offer no dissenting opinion believe something that could have possibly come first from the pen of someone else?

Russell Brand stated that all profits from his 'Revolution' book are going towards a non-hierarchical, not-for-profit café and production company managed by the workforce 'where recovering addicts like me can run a business based on the ideas in this book'.

What a terrible man! No doubt that was someone else's idea too?

He sounds like a teenager who has just become politically aware ( I remember wanting to go to the USSR to meet all my comrades and weave baskets and sing round a campfire singing socialist songs) or watched too much Citizen Smith.

It's not exactly that his points are invalid.

More that they are extremely facile, but put in really convoluted language.

Clever people usually do it the other way round (ie convey complex ideas clearly and simply) and I don't think he's capable of that.

Well he has only just started airing his political views in public as far as I'm aware. What is facile Viking is the point you're making, I'm sorry to say. You seem perturbed at a working class man daring to use words that should be reserved for his classically educated betters?

Let me put it simply, he's right about the current state of people, planet and politics. A catastrophic environmental collapse is very rapidly approaching with nothing substantive being done to make it better and everything being done to make it worse.

Even if we hate Russell on every level (as so many in the press seem to). And even if we hate everything else he has to say, or where he get’s his inspiration from, every sane person has an interest in supporting Brand's call to action to stop corporate genocide and biocide. Don’t they?

I wish he'd stick to his stand up. I liked that.

He is a sort of latter day version of citizen smith isn't he

Ie a caricature, not a real person?

He actually reminds me of Frank Spencer.

I just find multi-millionaires talking about revolution whilst living the high life cringe worthy.