Russell Brand

Russell Brand pens blog after visiting Wall St protests

Russell Brand dropped by the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York last night.

Russell Brand gets serious as he joins New York protest

Russell Brand has taken a break from making crowds laugh on his tour to join in with New York's Occupy Wall Street protests.

Jonathan Ross regrets crass and rude Sachsgate comments

Jonathan Ross has talked of his regret over his 'crass and rude' comments made during the notorious Sachsgate incident involving Russell Brand on BBC Radio 2.

Comedian, voice actor and Steve Coogan's perfect foil, Rob Brydon chats about his much-garlanded career, from Marion & Geoff to Gavin And Stacey, and all points inbetween. Preceding an interview is a repeat showing for the superb and painfully accurate 2002 comedy-drama Cruise Of The Gods, starring Brydon and Coogan as former actors from a 1980s kids' sci-fi show enduring a fan convention aboard an ocean liner. Watch out for a cameo from Russell Brand, infamously booted off the shoot for drugs'n'strippers-style shenanigans.

Russell Brand fails to make Canadian gig

Comedian Russell Brand has been forced to postpone a show in Canada.

Russell Brand to be first guest on Rosie O'Donnell show

Russell Brand will be the first guest on Rosie O'Donnell's new US chat show.

Russell Brand has cameo in Noel Gallagher's video

Russell Brand has a cameo role in Noel Gallagher's music video for his single AKA... What A Life in which he plays a 'crazed guy with a top hat'.

It's the best house-sharing sitcom since Spaced and last week's opening episode wasn't a fluke. The new series from Peep Show's Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong delivers laugh after excruciating laugh in its second episode tonight as it skewers the student lifestyle and Russell Brand's head into the bargain.

Tonight Robert Webb turns up as an over-eager tutor, ("On Twitter I'm Dan, Dan the Geology Man!") as Kingsley and co attempt to throw a party.

While Vod's sole aim is to cop off with the lead singer in a band, Oregon (who has adopted Vod as her new role model) is desperately trying to hide the fact that she has a car lest her housemates discover that she is (gasp) secretly middle-class and normal.

Once again though it's Jack Whitehall as the obnoxious JP who's trying hardest to impress. The scene involving a rowing machine and a spliff is just superb.

Fears that oddball Vod (Zawe Ashton) may be a bloodthirsty murderer get the second episode of this student comedy from the creators of Peep Show off to a promising start - especially as the victim appears to be Russell Brand. Things become more predictable when Josie (Kimberley Nixon) suggests the housemates throw a party in the hope it might push her and Kingsley (Joe Thomas) together - hopes dashed when her boyfriend turns up unexpectedly. But that's minor trouble compared with the fallout when absentee housemate Paul discovers that JP (Jack Whitehall) has turned his room into a gym.

Helen Mirren backs Russell Brand over Sachsgate

The British acting legend says comedians like Brand are supposed to step over the line.