Russell Brand

“It’s not the tragedies that kill us, it’s the messes.” Dorothy Parker (speaking about the Hollywood blacklist and the effect of her political views on her writing career, from interview in The Paris Review, summer 1956)
First, so you know I’m qualified, let me tell you I am no stranger to having my grandfather learn [...]

I’ve long kept a special place in my heart for men who can make me laugh. When I was 16, I dreamed I married Steve Martin. I also bought my very first comedy album, Richard Pryor’s …Is It Something I Said?
I listened in secret, huddled in the family car parked in our driveway. [...]

The Best of What’s Legal, an audio compilation of the best of Russell Brand’s BBC Radio 2 show, is scheduled to be released next week.
These days, it’s difficult to write comprehensively about Brand without touching on what the media has oh-so-cleverly dubbed “Sachsgate.” When I first learned the story behind Russell Brand’s departure from [...]

Self-described celebrity gossip Holy Moly recently named Russell Brand the “top celebrity narcissist on Twitter.1 He bestowed the honor based upon a concocted formula derived from the ratio of the number of followers a celebrity has versus the number of people the celebrity is following.
According to Holy Moly, “Twitter is supposed to be interactive; [...]

All I ever really needed to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned from Russell Brand.1 After a lifetime of searching in all the wrong places, I finally gained the wisdom I sought not from world leaders or motivational speakers, or from within text books or [...]