Comedian Russell Brand charged with rape

It's always the ones you most expect.
- So Jared Leto.
  
  No way, there's absolutely nothing fishy going on with Leto. It's a totally normal, completely above board, women only island cult.
  
  Fun fact Jared Leto has been to my flat before (i didnt live there yet), took a bite out of an apple belonging to my roommate and left it there. He also signed the kitchen table.
  I could easily prove this btw because there is video evidence, but doing so would dox my address so im not going to.
  
  But he was so pretty in ~~fight club~~!
- Noel Fielding?
  
  What makes you think of him?
  Like Brand has been a blatant huge hypocrite for years (Talking about injustice of poor people whilst marrying in to a massively rich family, for example.).

The moment someone starts going all "anti-woke" you know they've got something to hide and they are trying to get acquainted with the pardon-dealing industry.
- Yeah. Forcing himself on women was entirely consistent with his public persona, but shifting hard right just to seek cover makes it so much scummier.
- Nah. It was the moment he turned to Jesus and got baptised I realised he was guilty.
  The right wing shift was for the money.
- The moment someone “gets jesus” it’s time to alert the authorities.
  
  So he's also into kids?
- Pardon dealing industry? In the UK?
  I’m pretty sure only 4 pardons have been given in the last 25 years. 1 was posthumous (Turing) and the other 3 were given to convicts who saved people’s lives while incarcerated.
  I don’t think being anti-woke is going to help anyone get a pardon in the UK.
  I do think it’s a grift, just not convinced it’s a grift for a Royal Prerogative of Mercy.
- I need to just stick off other social media, nice that this is the consensus here

Further coverage from The Onion

"Rapist Russell Brand charged with attempted comedy"

He’ll be in Joe Rogan in about a month
- Freudian slip, but true nonetheless

Well, I've seen this coming for a while now, but I must admit, I actually liked him once upon a time. His comedy specials weren't just funny, they made you think about the abstract ideas of religion and consciousness. He was like a handsome rockstar comedian, the sort of person I wish I could be. Smart, sexy, cool, interesting. Hell, when I got sober from alcohol, reading his book that re-imagined the twelve steps into something less religious actually helped.
But then I heard the rumors, and it kind of fit with the image he gave himself. And then he made that abrupt turn into right-wing conspiracy and that all but confirmed it. To be honest I thought he'd already been charged with something and had just celebrity-ed his way out of it. Sucks, man.
- Hey, help is help, don't let his failings mean that your success is somehow tarnished. I get the sentiment as well. He was a little over the top for my taste but the reboot of Arthus he did still ranks pretty high on my list.
- I loved Dennis Miller back in the '80s, before he made his heel turn into a right-wing douche. In retrospect, I realize I actually just liked the SNL writers coupled with his snarky delivery.

But he's always seemed so sane and stable?
- Certainly not the type of guy they would write a movie about an unstable, unpredictable, impulsive, and self centered rock star with him in mind to play the lead.
  
  And that is basically his character in both Get Him To The Greek AND Forgetting Sarah Marshall
- Yeah, this is some of the least surprising news ever
- especially with those crazy eyes on the thumbnails of youtube videos.
- I hope to god you're being sarcastic

It's always the ones you most suspect.

I am shocked!...it took this long. Dude has been a creep forever. He has been getting exponentially worse as time has went on.
- britian is pretty slow on these types of crime, he pivoted to the right to avoid said charges.

I've been thinking for a while that people that have a sudden right wing or andrew tate sphere turn are really just trying to get with like minded rapist, or whatever they're into, circles. Basically networking and putting out signals.

This explains his sudden turn to Christianity last year. He's going to try the "God forgave me" defense.
- it was pretty obvious when he started to trying to hide behind the pro-rape party of conservatives.
- Actually it was his turn to the right wing grifting. Christianity was just icing on the cake to make evangelicals acceptable to him
- More like "I can't be guilty of such a crime. I'm saved!"

It’s always the people who you expect the most.

Sean Lock was a prophet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7S9qMOmP4o

Hard to believe someone who looks like a rapist and acts like a rapist is a rapist.
- Right? The guy whose acting range was limited to "smarmy creep with an accent" turned out to be a sex pest. Weird!

Charged with rape again, right? Didn't we-the-people already cancel this idiot once?

Rapist Russell Brand charged with Attempted Comedy

Again?

I'm shocked, I tell you, shocked.

Why am I not surprised.
- Because he always been super rapey

I consider his transformation into a double-Christian to be a confession that all the accusations are true. The biggest pieces of dogshit always face consequence mumbling prayers and missives.

Something was always "off" with this guy. You could feel it during his "sexy socialist Jesus" era and it was practically confirmed with his "conspiratorial Ghandi" revamp.
Here's a Channel 4 documentary that goes into further detail about this man's deranged proclivities.
- He always seemed like a cult leader disguised as a comic, using it to attract followers.
  
  he always looked like a crazy homeless person.

after a police investigation into allegations made following the broadcast of a Channel 4 documentary
"The Crown Prosecution Service reminds everyone that criminal proceedings are active, and the defendant has the right to a fair trial.
Were the allegations not brought to the police before the tv documentary? Why didn't the police investigate before? If so there should be an investigation and prosecution of those involved in the "non-investigation".
This failure to investigate is an outrage, many people including me listened to Russel Brand in the 2010s, but the police failed to investigate and now has the gall to say "the defendant has a right to a fair trial"? Does the public not also have a right to a fail investigation and prosecution?
- They may not have been, or the survivor may have not wanted to go to court so it went nowhere.

This feels like one of the least surprising news items of all time.

Kathryn Ryan on Russel Brand
- Blocked in my country (UK) by the British Broadcasting Corporation, to whom I am forced to pay for a TV licence.
  
  I wonder, are the youtube download sites also region blocked?
  
  I'm in the UK and youtube blocked it for me too. I used windscribe a free VPN to pretend I was in the US and it showed fine.
- I love Katherine Ryan. I'm Canadian and British so seeing her do her comedy and be famous back at my home (I consider the UK my home) was great.
  She seems really genuine and you can hear the fear in her voice. You hear people on the Internet say "how come they all knew and could do nothing about it". Like she's explaining why.
- Gave me a captcha wtf

You’re kiddin’! HIM? …Nahhh. He’s always seemed like a super stable, reliable guy. You just never know about some people, you know?
- Don't worry, he can buy a Trump Gold Card, become a U.S. citizen, and Trump will offer him the position of Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues.
- It's always the ones you mostly suspect...
  
  Wait... Is racism back on the table guys??
  That irish fucker with the marshmallows is gonna get it

That’s very unsurprising
- I found this part surprising:
  He has also established himself as a wellness guru.

How likely do you think it is that he'll actually return to the UK to face charges? Or that Trump still extradite him?
- Well, based on the fact that Trump forced Romanian authorities to give the Tate brothers their passports back and allow them to return to the US, I wouldn't be surprised if he decides to step in and protect Russell Brand too. He's a passionate defender of rapists (being one himself) and sex traffickers (having been BFFs with Epstein).
  
  The Tate brothers thing was a bizarre one though. Soon as they landed in Florida they were being investigated again by US authorities and then they immediately hopped on a plane back to Romania.

Again?

Its always the ones you expect

honest question here. unless there is video and audio proof. how the fuck could someone be charged for this 20+ years later over "he said she said"? like how the hell does that work. Could i just pick a random person and say they raped me in 2002 and then they will go to prison?
- Could i just pick a random person and say they raped me in 2002 and then they will go to prison?
  Yes, that is how it works. They will be in prison the next day.
  It's actually really easy. All you have to do is prepare some evidence, such as text messages and emails in 2002.
  Then you need to have several really cool and chill interviews with detectives. You should get your family and friends to lie to the police as well -- tell them to say that you described the fabricated rape to them way back in 2002.
  You should also make up some fake police reports from 2002 which were not pursued.
  The real trick though is getting several other women to do the same thing.
  Then yeah, the next day the police will arrest the person you've accused and they will be jailed without trial.
  You're a fucking idiot.
  
  Relax buddy. He was asking a genuine question, not doubting the victim.
  
  Sounds like a lot of not evidence to me. Also, probably bring it up sooner.
- Are you ok? That is call law and order. You accuse someone, judge look into it, if there is a merit, it goes to trial, and law can determine based on evidence?
  
  Did you read my question and comprehend it? I said other than video or audio proof how could there been be evidence in a case like this other than hearsay?

I can't believe I bought this guys book. WTF was I thinking.
- Dude has charisma and is skilled at improv. He had a story of overcoming addiction and had some good things to say about social issues back then. That kind of thing sells, so lots of scumbags put it in their bios.
- How can this book be more than interesting and novel grammatical constructs saying a lot of bull shit at 200kmh?
- What was it like?

But but but he found Jesus!
- He was under the couch cushions the whole time!

The way he groped Vanessa Bayer on SNL, I can't say I'm surprised
- For anyone who cares to watch:
  Season 36, episode 15. Air date: Feb 12, 2011. Skit: Livin’ Single.
  Over a decade later, it still makes me uncomfortable.
  
  Wait, was that amount of groping not part of the sketch?
  
  Age-restricted videos cannot be watched without Google login
  Lol. Can't watch evidence of allegations of pundits and politicians without giving your phone number and therefor become personally identifiable.
- Do we know that that wasn't consensual? Did she say later that the bit went further than they had agreed?

Every time this person is in my feed it has been against my wishes.

It's ok though. He's given his heart to Jesus now. Makes it all ok.
- Yeah but it's republicunt jesus, not you know... the good one.
  
  There is a good one?

A deportation we can all get behind.
- Don't be silly. That party loves rapists, as long as they're rich in the and/or white.

Russell Brand... Why is that name familiar?
- He's a famous rapist.
- He used to be in movies I guess, he turned rapist once he got outed by the news. Then he pivoted right wing, naturally as a way to shield himself from criticism

After watching Kathy Perry's documentary and what he did to her, I fucking hate this asshole.
- I never watched that, what did he do?

A lot of his movie rolls his character is a womanizing rock star… art immitates life I suppose

Wasn't it somehow clear he did something like that?

You can certainly do one and not the other but yeahhhhhh the edgy jokes types don't seem to handle their personal lives with much more, shall we say grace.

Colour me shocked

This is the guy we should be deporting.
- Wealthy immigrant accused of rape and spewing lies at every turn? Deport him? They going to offer him a job leading what ever department he wants to demolish. Probably justice.

To no ones surprise.

How did his newly found faith in God not spare him of this????????
- He’ll use this in his defence, somehow. Swear blind it’s why he miraculously found God.

gasp
really?
/s

It's always the ones you most suspect.

lol

I mean, he looks like a caveman so.. prob has caveman brain.