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Loose Lips
New York, 9:45 AM
Mon Dec 7
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10/30/08
I am someone who has a very keen eye for misogyny and sexual bullying and I have never found Russell to be either. He is a headcase and a sex addict and talks about both those things all the time. Anyone listening to his show or going on it does so with the knowledge that RB is going to be filthy. And the person he is most disparaging of and usually the worst to is always himself.
Anyways, people have different senses of humour, he may have stepped over the line, but he didn't do anything so horrible as to make the government step in.
Culture wars are never pretty.
10/30/08
To some people that's hilarious, sure, but then they should be wise enough to appreciate it when the other side aligns their weapons to retaliate. If that's not part of the fun...what's the point?
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One of the things I love about living in the UK is how edgy a lot of the mainstream comedy is. Russell Brand has a BBC2 radio show, Jonathan Ross hosts the flagship Friday night talk show, and Simon Amstell regularly takes the piss out of pretentious pop stars.
So I'm pretty upset about what has happened. The message Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross left was silly. Admittedly, it did make me laugh - but it was just one of those things, a little joke that makes you cringe, but that you forget about five minutes after it happens. And what has happened is the Daily Mail and The Sun picked this up and ran with it, and would not let go. Any passing embarrassment Andrew Sachs might have (rightly) felt turned into full-scale humiliation as the story was splashed across page after tabloid page and read by millions of mainstream Brits, instead of the few thousand open-minded individuals who had heard the original show on the radio, and knew Brand and Ross were just being idiots again, no harm intended.
And I guess that's what makes me so mad - I hate the fact that the Daily Mail brigade have scored a victory. All those same arseholes who write in to the paper day after day and moan about how 'political correctness' has destroyed this country and how minorities should stop 'getting so worked up' about perceived racism have suddenly decided that being PC is a good thing after all. And tomorrow, they will wake up, content in the knowledge they have got Russell Brand to resign, and will go off to buy tickets to see Jim fucking Davidson and talk about how TV was much better in the old days when blokes like Bernard Manning told the jokes.
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If Graham Norton quits too, I won't have any reason to pay extra for BBC America.
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If I get on a flight now, I can be in London by noonish tomorrow. Shall we meet for drinks? I'll be the jetlagged American girl in the Fusspot Farm tee shirt.
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The guy WANTS to be controversial so he can't exactly be shocked when he gets fired for it (for the second time). I also tend to think that it isn't just this one incident that got him fired but a pattern. Maybe he doesn't belong on broadcast and should switch to podcasts or satellite.
I mostly find him funny, but he's still the guy who dressed up like Osama for a laugh while I was still trying to figure out who I knew was dead. Courting controversy has repercussions.
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See? This is what happens when I like people. I stop making puns and try to stick up for them. And that is not fun. But I love Russ.
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And also, his line that young male pop stars deciding not to have sex was "like Superman just deciding not to fly and to go everywhere by bus," well, that's pretty bloody funny in my book.
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And I thought it was extremely funny. Jordin Sparks ridiculous reaction made it even funnier.
I'm guessing most of the people bitching about him have never even heard his radio show. It kills me that they are complaining so vigorous about something they know absolutely nothing about. Shut the fuck up.
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The miracle of life is not for the faint at heart!
10/29/08
All I can say is TEN centimeters! I had no idea what that referred to until I saw the DIAGRAM! Child Birth frightens me now....
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Manuel probably had to sign a release for those voicemails to be played. Or it could have been a set-up, him faking not being home.
In any case, the funniest, filthiest sex dragon has been railroaded for the sake of some PM's idea of morality. Sux.
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Small points, but important ones I feel.
10/29/08
No-one - especially a blameless elderly man - deserves to be called up and yelled at by someone claiming to have just (and I quote) f***ed his granddaughter.
It's interesting - because this is really dividing people over here in the UK. That said, there is hardly a commentator, left or right wing, who feels able to defend what came across not as humour but a pretty puerile piece of bullying by phone.
And RB wasn't sacked - he and JR have been suspended, and RB resigned this evening. I respect him for that. Even he recognised in his statement that mocking both Sachs and his granddaughter (who he had had a brief relationship with) wasn't funny.
10/29/08
PS Sorry - that was meant to be at Jabbotage. And Sachs did ask that the recording NOT be aired - and was ignored.
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