Russell Brand

Channel surfing I caught the opening of this years Video Music Awards with a 10 foot tall Russell Brand, fagging his way out on stage. I'd read something a few weeks back about his reputation preceeding him back in the UK, something like Amy Winehouse with a cock. This may be coming off a little rough, but I feel it comfortable only because he walked out on that stage and gave up some of the most offensive stand up you will see on TV in front of a happy, sunny, fresh tween crowd. From "8 years of a Retarded cowboy President" to "Alex Rodriguez had something that made Madonna feel like a virgin, a baseball bat...The womans 50." The greatest part of all this was that nobody laughed! He just kept going, they didn't get it, or they did and couldn't believe it? He just kept going plowing straight through those fucking assholes.
This crazy haired british man single handedly dropped a whole lot of MTV executive jaws. I would have offered a standing ovation, not because I agreed with him, not because it was semi political, not because no one else would, but because he walked out and went all balls, no idea if that was a cleared performance, there's no way it all could have been. That's what we need right now people who are not afraid to be heard, to make a noise, to go against their audience and say something that brings out a gasp. For better or worse it shakes things up and brings them to the surface. Russell Brand is now a person I will be paying some attention to.
Thank you for saying something in a room full of smiles.