Russell Brand is due to be awarded The James Joyce Award for outstanding contribution to language and literature by the Literary and Historical Society of University College Dublin.
Past recipients of the award include the following:
Noam Chomsky
Jesse Jackson
Hans Blix
George Galloway
Robin Cook
Bill Bryson
F.W. de Klerk
John Nash
Richard Swinburne
Rory Bremner
Eddie Izzard
JK Rowling
Michael Palin
Confessions of a randy dandy (Russell Brand features)
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Russell Brand's 'retarded cowboy' jibe at George Bush shocks MTV audience
8th September 2008[/align]
Russell Brand faces being blacklisted by the American media after causing outrage with a string of offensive jokes at the live MTV Video Music Awards. The Essex-born comedian labelled President George Bush a 'retard', called Britney Spears 'the female Christ' and poked fun at young virgins.
Brand, 33, who was hosting the ceremony live, had already been forbidden by MTV bosses to mention the C-word or, more bizarrely, Scientology. He began his opening monologue by saying: 'Please, America, elect Barack Obama. On behalf of the world. Some people, I think they're called racists, say America is not ready for a black president. But I know America to be a forward-thinking country because otherwise why would you have let that retard and cowboy fella be president for eight years?' He added: 'We thought it was nice of you to let him have a go, because in England he wouldn't be trusted with a pair of scissors.'
Brand also hailed the ceremony as the 'launch of a very new Britney Spears era'. He added: 'Consider this the resurrection of Britney Spears. If there was a female Christ, it's Britney.' Brand, who is relatively unknown to the American public, then decided it would be funny to poke fun at the country's views on virginity. He repeatedly joked about the decision taken by teen sensation the Jonas Brothers to wear purity rings as a symbol of their vow to not have premarital sex. At one point he shamelessly brandished a ring as if he was given it by a Jonas Brother.
But he was forced to apologise after American Idol winner Jordin Sparks said: 'It's not bad to wear a promise ring because not every guy and a girl wants to be a slut, OK?' Later Brand said: 'I've got to say sorry because I said them things about promise rings. So promise rings, I'm well up for it, well done everyone. It's just that a bit of sex occasionally never hurt anybody.'
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haha, I'm glad he apologised about the important bit... I'd been worried that he had too many stars in his eyes lately, but all this has got him right back in the good books.
Russell Brand's 'retarded cowboy' jibe at George Bush shocks MTV audience
8th September 2008[/align]
Russell Brand faces being blacklisted by the American media after causing outrage with a string of offensive jokes at the live MTV Video Music Awards. The Essex-born comedian labelled President George Bush a 'retard', called Britney Spears 'the female Christ' and poked fun at young virgins.
Brand, 33, who was hosting the ceremony live, had already been forbidden by MTV bosses to mention the C-word or, more bizarrely, Scientology. He began his opening monologue by saying: 'Please, America, elect Barack Obama. On behalf of the world. Some people, I think they're called racists, say America is not ready for a black president. But I know America to be a forward-thinking country because otherwise why would you have let that retard and cowboy fella be president for eight years?' He added: 'We thought it was nice of you to let him have a go, because in England he wouldn't be trusted with a pair of scissors.'
Brand also hailed the ceremony as the 'launch of a very new Britney Spears era'. He added: 'Consider this the resurrection of Britney Spears. If there was a female Christ, it's Britney.' Brand, who is relatively unknown to the American public, then decided it would be funny to poke fun at the country's views on virginity. He repeatedly joked about the decision taken by teen sensation the Jonas Brothers to wear purity rings as a symbol of their vow to not have premarital sex. At one point he shamelessly brandished a ring as if he was given it by a Jonas Brother.
But he was forced to apologise after American Idol winner Jordin Sparks said: 'It's not bad to wear a promise ring because not every guy and a girl wants to be a slut, OK?' Later Brand said: 'I've got to say sorry because I said them things about promise rings. So promise rings, I'm well up for it, well done everyone. It's just that a bit of sex occasionally never hurt anybody.'
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haha, I'm glad he apologised about the important bit... I'd been worried that he had too many stars in his eyes lately, but all this has got him right back in the good books.
Nice one! He always goes a bit mad when he presents award ceremonies. My favourite has to be the MTV awards where Geldoff called him a cunt and he got him back in spectacular style.
Here's a bit of Ol' Russ at this VMA thing:
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Here's a bit of Ol' Russ at this VMA thing:
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I heard this at the time and thought it was a pretty poor idea for some entertainment, but I suspected Sachs might be in on the joke. Apparently not.
This was definitely more Jonathan Ross's fault than Ol' Russy, he was egging him on like mad and he was the one who shouted out "HE FUCKED YOUR GRANDDAUGHTER!" But then they both took it too far and then too farther still.
I can't believe what car crashes his recent shows have been - I'm starting to get put off him lately.
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I heard this at the time and thought it was a pretty poor idea for some entertainment, but I suspected Sachs might be in on the joke. Apparently not.
This was definitely more Jonathan Ross's fault than Ol' Russy, he was egging him on like mad and he was the one who shouted out "HE FUCKED YOUR GRANDDAUGHTER!" But then they both took it too far and then too farther still.
I can't believe what car crashes his recent shows have been - I'm starting to get put off him lately.
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This story shows the proof and has the audio. The comments are brilliant - I aspire to creating that much outrage!
This story shows the proof and has the audio. The comments are brilliant - I aspire to creating that much outrage!
I fucking hate the British public again - all these idiots screaming about something that wasn't important just shows how stunted they are. Apparently 2 people complained on the night when it was broadcast, but since then around 5000 people have complained after reading about it.
Even Galloway last night was going on about how he would never have believed that Radio 2 would have swearing on it! He had one guy on his show who said he'd phoned in to complain, at which point Galloway asked him if he'd got the number from him when he read it out erarlier - the guy said 'No, I had the number already' What kind of pathetic little arse has the complaints number for the BBC to hand?
Andrew Sachs didn't deserve these stupid calls, but he's been in show business all his life, so I'm sure he's seen and heard a whole lot worse than this in his 80 years.
Even Galloway last night was going on about how he would never have believed that Radio 2 would have swearing on it! He had one guy on his show who said he'd phoned in to complain, at which point Galloway asked him if he'd got the number from him when he read it out erarlier - the guy said 'No, I had the number already' What kind of pathetic little arse has the complaints number for the BBC to hand?
Andrew Sachs didn't deserve these stupid calls, but he's been in show business all his life, so I'm sure he's seen and heard a whole lot worse than this in his 80 years.
I've just remembered that not so long ago Russ did the same thing to Duncan Bannatyne - leaving three or four of this type of message on his answerphone - and nobody gave the slightest damn. The next week, Bannatyne rang the studio and good naturedly told Russy off, saying it was the most ridiculous performance he'd ever heard, and then they just generally had a laugh.
The moral-highground types are really pissing me off the way they're jumping on this bandwagon - it's more the fact that they see an opportunity to pretend to be appalled in the hope the BBC will be forced to sack Russ. That thing about there being only two complaints at the time (and none to do with Sachs specifically) and then as soon as it's in the papers there's thousands of people coming out from under their stones...
And I don't know what happened with the Che thing, maybe it's on hold because of the similar Benicio Del Toro movie.
I noticed the Russ fansite is down. It wouldn't surprise me if they got loads of dickheads joining just to post bullshit.
The moral-highground types are really pissing me off the way they're jumping on this bandwagon - it's more the fact that they see an opportunity to pretend to be appalled in the hope the BBC will be forced to sack Russ. That thing about there being only two complaints at the time (and none to do with Sachs specifically) and then as soon as it's in the papers there's thousands of people coming out from under their stones...
And I don't know what happened with the Che thing, maybe it's on hold because of the similar Benicio Del Toro movie.
I noticed the Russ fansite is down. It wouldn't surprise me if they got loads of dickheads joining just to post bullshit.
Yeah, the fansite went down today. We have to remember that this whole debacle is over a week old - the fansite was discussing it as it happened and there's tons of threads there about it. It's only since the Mail decided to get around to pretending to be all shocked that it's got into the mainstream media.faceless wrote:Had you seen the fan site in the last couple of days Kate? I didn't even think to check...
It's amazing how this has got everyone talking - even Rich Herring is posting about it on other people's blogs and he's also come under attack since in defense of Russ he mentioned that he's often said inappropriate things too but he's edited them out of his podcast (which he has always billed as an un-edited rant! oops!)
If things carry on like this, in 20 years we'll have people asking us if we remember where we were when he first heard that Russell fucked Manuel's granddaughter...
Apparently she had Brand as her top pal on MySpace.
Funny if it turns out he has fucked her...
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Funny if it turns out he has fucked her...
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