Russell Brand: Rumble rejects MP's 'disturbing' letter over income

Video site Rumble has hit out at a UK Parliamentary committee that asked if it would cut Russell Brand's income in the wake of sexual assault allegations.

Thank god we don't find rape and cancer jokes funny any more - it'll stop people like Russell Brand rising to the top

Those comedians who can't get over it will die out - not by fire of cancellation, but by fading into insignificance.

Rod Stewart 'pleased to put Russell Brand in his place' after crude joke about daughter

Piers Morgan says Sir Rod Stewart felt 'very pleased' with himself after his encounter with Russell Brand at the GQ Awards in 2006, following the comic's remarks about the singer's daughter.

Russell Brand: How the comedian built his YouTube audience on half-truths

The first time Russell Brand really dipped his toe into the water of conspiracy theories, in early 2021, the effect was swift - a YouTube channel whose videos normally received about 100,000 views was suddenly visited by more than a million people. It won him a new income stream and a fresh army of fans.

Lorraine Kelly quits social media a day after recalling how Russell Brand called her a 'slut'

The presenter, 63, announced she was signing off from the platform as she needed a break, a day after she recalled how Russell Brand called her a 'slut' during an 'uncomfortable' appearance on The Graham Norton Show back in 2007.

Woman says Russell Brand exposed himself to her then laughed about it on Radio 2 show

A woman has accused Russell Brand of exposing himself to her and then laughing about it minutes later on his BBC radio show. The woman says it happened in 2008 when she was working in the same building as the BBC in Los Angeles. The encounter left her stunned, she says.

If Russell Brand's interview with Jimmy Savile happened today, we'd be thankful for the Twitterstorm

In 2007, before Twitter rage and pile-ons, Brand offered up his female assistant to go to Savile's place naked. With little social media to provide a forum for outrage, no action was taken.

Where will Russell Brand get his power from now?

Now Brand has the police looking into claims about his treatment of women, it appears he will have to find a new way to feel important.

Russell Brand may have reinvented himself as an anti-capitalist guru railing against "elites" and the false narratives of the mainstream media in recent years - quite handy should you ever need to discredit any long-standing accusations against yourself when the media finally manage to get them over the line into publishable form - but he is now relying on the capitalists' go-to-defenders of choice: expensive London libel lawyers.

As the painstaking joint investigation by the Sunday Times, Times and Channel 4 Dispatches inches closer to exposure, Brand has been represented by Schillings and Carter-Fuck partner Mark Thomson and his firm Thomson Heath & Associates, who cliam to undertake defamation work on behalf of "senior political figures, advising FTSE companies and their executives, royal families, governments and celebrities". Oooh, sounds a bitlike the global elite! Thomson Heath have so far declined to provide the Sunday Times with any further response to questions after the paper confirmed it had enough detailed evidence to publish last Thursday night. What can it all mean? Is it a conspiracy?

Street of Shame: Brand values

What the papers don't say about their connections with Russell Brand.