How Russell Brand ditched his mockney geezer schtick and reinvented himself as a clickbait conspiracy theorist
thesun.co.ukHAVING seen his Hollywood career flop and TV work dry up, Russell Brand has seemingly reinvented himself as a YouTube conspiracy theorist.
The stand-up comedian’s controversial views on the world’s biggest news events have pulled in 5.4million subscribers to his channels — and drawn comparisons to outspoken former footballer David Icke, who believed Earth had been hijacked by shape-shifting reptilians.
Brand’s daily videos, which attract around a million views, have so far questioned vaccines, blamed the US for the war in Ukraine and claimed the Eastern Europe nation’s 2014 pro-EU revolution was driven by “neo-Nazis” Essex-born Brand, 46, welcomes his audience — who he calls “shimmering souls” — to “a journey of awakening together”, to “create new narratives”.
These include comparing Canada’s liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to China’s dictator Xi Jinping, because of the country’s strict Covid-19 restrictions, and suggesting vaccines are part of a plot to impose “digital IDs” on the global population.
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