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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.

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.

Fans of Flight of the Conchords will be very pleased to see the band's inept manager Murray (Rhys Darby[/o]) starring in this new pilot that could have been written especially for him.

He plays Leslie, head of a team of health and safety inspectors, and his blend of naive enthusiasm and shocking ideas are pure Murray.

The Fun Police was written by Matt Morgan, who was Russell Brand's straight-man sidekick on his BBC Radio 2 and there are a lot of very funny ideas in this.

I especially like Katy Wix as an inspector obsessed with shutting down the sea on safety grounds. She does have a point.

Vic Reeves is in it, too, as a town planner, although for some reason he looks like he's come as Keith Lemon and he's credited by his real name of Jim Moir.

Commission a series of this one please, Channel 4 people. I'd like to see more.

Russell Brand interrupts gig embrace female fan

In June he was pictured holding the hands with a blonde on the set of his film Rock of Ages. Then last month Russell Brand was seen enjoying a day by the pool with a female friend who looked just like his wife Katy Perry. And now the comedian was seen offering out cuddles to a fan on stage as he performs his stand up routine.

Russell Brand talks about the riots

Dismissing rioters as mindless is futile rhetoric. However unacceptable the UK riots, we need to ask why they are happening.

Russell Brand sets up production company

British comedian and actor Russell Brand has launched his own film production company, based in Hollywood.

An interview with Trevor Lock

Trevor Lock is a comedian and playwright whose surreal comedy and collaborations with comedians like Stewart Lee and Russell Brand has earned him a cult following by comedy nerds and non-comedy nerds alike.

Russell Brand's road rage after cut-up on his bike

Bike-riding Russell Brand flies off the handle - after a motorist cuts him up.