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Brand is without doubt an extraordinarily witty guy! Shock factor may work on a working-class audience in the UK - but he was in the US!

Fucking Hell! Imagine loads of Putrid Professor Pam Pendings in the audience?

Calm down Brand. They will like you a lot more if you don’t tell them what to do!

what is a putrid professor pam pending

he talked politics in a dry way. He crashed and burnt…

The jokes were funny, the response has been lame. I can understand it of the 12-year-old boyband fans posting on YouTube, it seems infantile in grown Americans. If you don’t want an edgy show, don’t hire an edgy comedian. Russell trailed his interest in both politics and the Jonas Brothers’ focus on sex (the absence of) well in advance of the show.

As with his previous award shows, when the dust settles Russell’s funny lines will survive in the memory: George Bush will go down as many things – a man who should not be “trusted with a pair of scissors” is by no means the harshest judgment history will make. And not how all those disapproving newspapers make sure to propagate the joke while pulling a sober face. puritanical and hypocritical – the classic US combination.

Russell Brand was famously sacked for his response to 9/11 – going into MTV dressed as Osama Bin Laden. George Bush’s response to the same event was to invade a country that had nothing to do with it, killing thousands of men, women and children and making his country a byword for obscene brutality along the way – and the American people gave him four more years of power. Go figure.

The Translator - sorry to contradict but it does exist in certain teenage circles under the age of 16…..

If he is famous in the UK he needs to stay there as his kind of humor is not needed in the USA. Who in the heck is he to try to get into our American Politics. GO HOME BRAND. He runied a great show and I have a feeling he will not be offered any more televised shows here. Way to go Brittney

I’m enjoying reading American mens response to Russell across the internets.

Russell has probably slept with more women than all the men in North America put together, last thursday, and yet they still trot out lines like “wow, he looks like a girl!” etc etc.

Honestly, Russell isn’t the funniest man in the world but he is a bit amusing. The haters are just coming across as, dare I say it, “retarded”.

Shame the awards didn’t feature any faux-lesbian snogging - that would have given the American dudes something to focus on.

I’m quite besotted with Russell but he does sometimes go a teeny bit over the top!
However, the organisers know him and chose him and he did what it said on the box!
And of course, everyone’s talking about it. Success.

I enjoyed reading his autobio but in a secret, plain cover, sort of way as I have children older than him.

He’s almost as funny as Amir Khan’s glass jaw!!! Did you see the slow motion replay of jelly faced Khan’s career ending knock down?

TC - Spasmo. Doing a spaz. No-one says it because its crass …like, retarded. Like a parelcon…

Funny how comedians from the UK always call America racist. The first black congressman in the USA took office in 1868; the first “black” (actually Asian Indian, but the British refer to him as black) parliament member in the UK took office in 1892. In the USA, the first black female was elected in 1968; in the UK, the first black female was elected in 1987. The first black cabinet member in the USA was appointed in 1966; the first black cabinet member in the UK was appointed in 2002. The first female cabinet member in the USA was appointed in 1977; the first black female cabinet member in the UK was appointed in 2003.

I’ll give the UK credit that they have been ahead of the USA when it comes to electing women to office. However, the USA has been at least a generation ahead of the UK when it comes to non-whites in politics. So shouldn’t comedians in the UK start calling themselves out as racist before pointing at the USA. Goshdarnit, we are sexist not racist…just look at our press’s reaction to Palin!

Russell Brand is a f*cking retard.

Yeah, yeah…so he talked politics and as inappropriate as it may have been, it didn’t offend me nearly as much as some of his other comments.

When the Jonas Brothers perform you know that there will be hundreds of thousands of 10 to 14 year old girls watching. These girls, for the most part, couldn’t care less about the presidential election (sad but true). What probably will stick with them though are his comments about the cherry chapstick, about taking the Jonas Brothers’ purity rings and about masterbating. I hope those comments went over most of the children’s heads. Unfortunately, my 13 and 15 year olds got it.

He may have been fine had he been on late night tv, but it was so out of line for Prime Time.

I truly and honestly don’t think it matters if you support Bush or Obama or McCain on whatever. I think the VMAs weren’t the appropriate place for a Brit to make comments on American politics (especially with the, “trust me, I’m famous, so I must be right” kind of attitude). I don’t think the VMAs were the appropriate place for ANYONE to make political comments. And, yes, why he may have gone too far on some of his statements for the mass public, look what he’s done for himself. Everyone knows who Russell Brand is now. 98% of them had no clue this man even existed until Sunday, and now everyone knows his name.

Russell Brand…..What a great influencial speaker for Barak Obama! I wonder what the polls are going to say after this! I bet Barak gets a “BUMP” after this speech!! Get this guy on the campaign trail to open up for Obama/Biden, my god what has the Obama/Biden ticket done without this guy in their corner! Put a dress on him and give him some Pom Poms and watch what comes out of the woodwork for Obama/Biden! Need I say more?