Russell Brand

Russell Brand to become a father

Russell Brand's friends say he is overjoyed at the prospect of being a dad. His partner Laura Gallacher is 5 months pregnant.

Comics with spectacular ha-ha homes

There are turrets and timbers, thatched roofs, private moorings and even an island. One home even has a secret garage, another boasts a 400-year-old walled garden. Yes, the titans of the comedy world have done rather nicely out of making people laugh.

How comedy became a language of democratic politics

Like all forms of resistance, comedy can both shore up and legitimate existing political structures, yet it can also, in certain moments, work to encourage revision. Here, James Brassett looks specifically at the critical nature of radical British comedy by the likes of Russell Brand, Charlie Brooker, and Stewart Lee and writes that it raises questions about the nature of resistance and reveals the deeply political nature of the British public.

Gervais splurges £2.75m on a 'little country retreat'

Ricky Gervais, 54, and his partner Jane Fallon, 55, have splashed out £2.75 million on a riverside house in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, a short cruise downriver from Russell Brand's six-bedroom period home in Henley.

Anti-capitalist Russell Brand adds £1m swimming pool

Russell Brand is allegedly expanding his picturesque country home by spending £1million on a luxury swimming pool and private cinema.

Radio Times review

Whatever horrors the world has endured over the past 12 months - war, pestilence, terrorism and Piers Morgan's new presenting gig on Good Morning Britain (only kidding, Piers), then we can always be sure of some traditional comforts. One is that Charlie Brooker and friends will extract some comic mileage in his now-traditional end-of-year round-up.

Joined by contributors Doug Stanhope, Morgana Robinson (complete with her extraordinary Russell Brand impersonation) and Diane Morgan as the fabulously vacuous pundit Philomena Cunk, laughter appears guaranteed. Page Three and Cecil the Lion may all have died this year, but smart, sassy satire is alive and well on BBC Two.

Comedy in 2015: laughing in the face of adversity

A review of comedy over the course of the year, including Russell Brand interviewing Ed Miliband, Simon Brodkin pranking Sepp Blatter, and the return of Harry and Paul to the stage.

It's enough to make you more conducive than usual to the antics of Russell Brand, though the comic-turned-social-commentator is still pretty overbearing company in Brand: A Second Coming, a slick documentary portrait by Ondi Timoner that nonetheless misses a trick by largely taking its subject at his big-mouthed word, rarely needling him into argument or revelation.

In Conversation: Ondi Timoner

With Brand: A Second Coming, Ondi Timoner sets her sights on an intriguing subject - comedian turned revolutionary activist Russell Brand.

'Brand: The Second Coming' review

It's the establishment who are ultimately left laughing in this thoughtful Russell Brand documentary.