I like you, Russell Brand, but don’t be a pussy

nme.com:

Russell Brand.I read the booky-wooks. I still have Revolution on my shelves – it was written in one of his spiritual phases and was too hippie for me – but we live in hope that one day I might read it in a time of need.

I went to see a work-in-progress show of his a few years ago and he spent the whole hour ripping the piss out of himself for the stages he goes through sometimes (interviewing Ed Miliband in his kitchen, mouthing off at Jeremy Paxman and telling us not to vote, and, well, marrying Katy Perry).

He knows he can be a pain in the arse, but he can also be very funny, and extremely self-aware.It pains me, then, that last week, he popped up on my screen again for what felt like the first time in months, if not years, seemingly.