"We Elevate People Like Jimmy Savile!" Andrew Neil On 'Vulgar' Russell Brand 

I get the impression Andrew Neil doesn't like Brand.

"It isn't trial by media" Eeeeeeerh looks a lot like it

After all this chatter. What happens if Russell Brand isn’t guilty of anything ?

Idea that Murdoch journalism is real journalism is fucking bizarre.

The reality is that no one is surprised in least about these revelations. Russell Brand has always been a first class creep.

Trouble is you can't believe a word main stream journalists say anymore.

I didn't realise brand was found guilty.......

I find it hard to believe it's been under investigation for the last 4 years and he's never been tipped off by someone during that time considering there's lots of moving parts and people involved.

Funny thing is Andrew Neil was on jeffery Epstein black book so he’s the last person to comment on this 🤣

Beware of anyone who speaks with hate in there heart.

Guilty by the media. Disgusting broadcast tonight. Have we learnt nothing from the Benjamin mendy case?

They’re are strong similarities between Savile and Brand in that they make a joke out of everything and appear to be hiding their true self.

That is out of order comparing Brand to Savile… they celebrated him as a Rock star before and he could well be innocent like Spacey. The culture has changed but so has Brand so it’s a bit out of order having a character assassination 15yrs later…

I love Adam Curtis’ interview with Brand. You can tell Brand is desperate for his intellectual approval and Curtis just dissects him as a nothing more than a Narcissist posing as a jester to his face. You can hear Brands blood boiling, because he’s so desperate for Curtis’ approval.

And to think all this time I've been trying to make my own mind up who and what are/is funny when i could've been checking with Andrew Neil!!

I wonder if Channel 4 will be releasing a well-researched documentary on the "grooming" gangs any time soon ?

Even if he isn't found guilty the job has been done by the media

He's admitted indecent exposure on tape for his Radio 2 show. Let's hope the law catches up with him.

Andrew Neil whom I admire and respect enormously is absolutely spot on in what he says here. Can’t bare the odious narcissistic cocky and arrogant Brand! He is neither funny or a pleasant man. Hate the way he looks and hate his voice. Ludicrous how he has managed to be elevated by swarths of fans thinking he is somehow wonderful. Says a lot also about the type of person who follows him on social media and finds him funny and wonderful. Whether he is guilty of what he’s been accused of remains to be seen but with four women claiming this and more coming out and from what we know of him, all well documented, none of this would surprise me in the slightest. Let’s hope the authorities feel there’s enough there so he ends up in a court of law! That should take the smirk off his annoying face.

This is a unwarranted attack. Absolute garbage, just like they did with Johnny Depp. Team Russell!

They should have taken their evidence to the police, this was a media lynching.

Color me shocked that Piers would be holding a torch for the lynch mob.

We also elevate people such as Kobe Bryant who was allowed to continue playing for the Lakers while under investigation for an allegation that was made contemporaneous to the incident (Benjamin Mendy and Mason Greenwood fans take note!). The allegations were credible and there was physical evidence. He issued a public statement acknowledging that there had been no consent once the victim withdrew her cooperation from the police investigation (causing the case to collapse), and Bryant was rewarded promptly with a $billion contract with Nike, which still has a range of Bryant goods, I think. Compare and contrast with Brand, whose publisher and manager have broken ties, along with a charity he was associated with. YT has demonetized, of course. The message I take from this is that Bryant was deemed valuable, but Brand isn't. What a joke!

The vast majority of so called journalist's these days simply read out other people's opinions from a teleprompter or autocue and then proclaim to be investigative 😂

Should have loved same energy about Jeffrey Epsteins case , please !

IF it’s true WHY do they Wait sooooooo long. He wasn’t hiding. I’m so sick of these allegations and the cancel culture. I want to cancel a few myself but These allegations are so LAME and over 20 years old. Stop already. It makes it worse for people who actually been a victim to step up and speak at all.

Guilty by the media.

Similar characteristics to Saville he was facilitated and enabled to behave like this, society have lost values, this guy is talking sense

It would be better if investigative journalists presented all the details to the Police to investigate, and only published the outcome of a trial, but their only concern is selling papers not treating people as innocent until proven guilty.

Journalism doesn’t exist anymore

History proves that, in times of mass-alienation, charlatans pretending intellectual authority, who at other times would be immediately recognised as mediocre fakes, always find it much easier to become widely-accepted as authentic saviours. Brand even tries to look like the traditional image of Jesus.

There is definitely politics behind why these people are coming out after years to accuse Russell Brand. Someone provided courage and must have opened their eyes to speak up against what was done to them. It is a good thing but must have been supported by strong people who despise Russell.

First time in ages I've agreed with Andrew Neil. "We elevate people of no talent - people of no redeeming value whatsoever"

Questionable morals? Probably? This being a total hit job to shut him up? You better believe it.

Hahahaha journalists doing police work - priceless

Until there's actually some evidence besides he said she said well Russell's innocent

"There should be more of this (kind of journalism)" What? More trials by media before even going to the police? Absolutely insane. He lost me there.

That fact that Brand is revered at all proves how debased our society has become.

Bring legal charges or shut up. Why accuse people in public instead of going to police? This isn’t justice, this is a witch hunt. . .

Nonsense from Andrew Neill. Russell Brand was very popular and had great ratings for someone supposedly "unwatchable". This sort of 'investigative journalism' and the ensuing trial by media is utterly biased and extremely vulgar.

In my country media goes with titles like ''Antivaxer Russell Brand did this and this....'' but when there is serial killer that is vaxed, they just say ''There is a serial killer'' LOL. I'm not saying he is innocent but they try to blame unvaxed people for everything LOL

I dont believe it's right that a woman can accuse you of a crime 10 years after the fact. That opens up a lot of room for legal abuse.

The main reason J Savile got away with it was Kier Starmer when in charge of the CPS deemed him too popular to prosecute so no action was taken until after his death we knew in 1977 there was a problem as they changed the age of people going to TOP to 18 to try to mitigate what was going on with the young men and women who attended the shows.. The BBC has constantly protected those they deemed to valuable for the company and covered up their actions even getting rid of those who complained and smearing their reputations so no one would believe them instead saying it is because they lost their jobs they are accusing famous people of these acts.

Russell brand says corporate media want to silence him but hes got 6m subs, no one is trying to silence him.

Sure, journalists can and should follow leads and investigate stories for the public good. My concern is that powerful people, corporate elites and in powerful politicans seem to have direct line to certain media to be able to order this sort of "investigative journalism". I am not 100% sure that happened here, but it wouldn't suprise me.

Ok, you don't like lawyers, how about the police? You don't like them either?

Companies that ditched Brand thus far: - Tavistock Wood (Russells agents) - Tour promotors for his Bipolirazation tour - RU-vid - Sticker Mule - Vivobarefoot - Bluebird publishing - Trevi Woman's Charity - Wanderlust Festival - BBC - Channel 4 - Paramout+ - Acast - Steven Barlett Hydrant and MET are now involved. This is beyond allegations.

It’s not investigative journalism if it’s so one sided! The dispatches piece doesn’t even consider Brand’s side of the story. True journalism is about exploring BOTH sides of the story and certainly not about allegations from unnamed sources 🤦🏼‍♂️. Ffs, this is utter nonsense!

Wonderful another hit piece on Russell... People have no shame

Can’t believe this ! Guilty until proven innocent !! This is a hit piece to shut him down it’s so obvious

God warns us throughout the Bible against the spirit of lust. Brand is dealing with it's destructive nature.

Andrew’s anger, jealousy and hatred towards Russell gave me more assurance that this is a well intended, objective journalism solely to seek justice 👀

So the posh broadsheet took 4 years of digging and gave RB 8 days to respond - in the gutter🤣

Great stuff. Get a guy in who hates someone. Very objective.

Why doesnt andrew neil explain himself as to why he is on a certain persons flight logs

"I'm not comparing Russell to Jimmy Saville" but you just did . Outrageous, Piers should have pulled him for that.

I can see Russell brand in PRISON for a long time for this ! So sad, we all got fooled, just like with Saville 😢

Media stopped short on Prince Andrew funny that.

If the person accused is named in the press Then so sould be the accuser

I have heard whispers of Andrew Neil's sorded past with women and kids.........someone should investigate 😊

Honestly, this does look like a case of honest old-school type of investigative joirnalism. And I'm no fan of the modern mainstream media, just to be clear. I appreciate Piers' take on covering this story. So far stayed very impartial, didn't jump to add onto the public humilitation of Russel, but also didn't undermine the weight of the accusations by the alleged victims.

Neil is correct about the pernicious model of celebrity worship we've adopted here in the Anglosphere which effectively rewards and elevates the dominant, narcissistic personality, the leader of the gang. The worst aspect of it is how this feeds into our broader general culture and sets the tone, so that every office in the land has become a Poundland version of this dynamic in microcosm. A teenage high school canteen with competing personalities vying to be top dog. However, I would disagree that such swaggering egos lack talent, something which at best eludes definition. The fact is these people are found by the masses to be 'entertaining' precisely because of their narcissistic personality traits one might argue, and such dark charisma comes at a price. Such personalities strike those very instincts within us which, ever since martyrs were thrown to the lions in the Colosseum, demand satisfaction. In a commercial environment, Brand was doing precisely what he was paid to do, to entertain. AS with a nice side-salad, the respectable figure, the moral figure, may be good for us, but alas that isn't often what we want. We find them 'boring' and we do need entertainment to feel alive I'm afraid. Civilisation is a delicate balance and hard to get right.

I was blindly supporting Brand till I looked further. Just listen to him swoon while interviewing Jimmy Saville of all people!

Andrew Neill has an intelligence comparable to Christopher Hitchens.

Russell was a massive drug user but he remembers everything perfectly, its quite piss weak to jump to his defense just because he says things you agree with.

Somebody wants Russel Brand to shut up bc they dont like what he says on his podcast.

Heartbreaking: The worst person you know just made a great point

Savile had access to Thatcher and the Royals. holy crap.

True. We know the bulk of his detractors have history of underhanded behaviour. They don't really care if someone is a monster or not, like in the case of Jimmy saville their spiritual God

I am not on any side but I have seen a few of his podcasts and found he brings up some valid points about big pharmaceutical and other big corporations and I knew he had lived a sordid rock star lifestyle in the past and was thinking that something like this might happen,

There’s something very British with these celebrity predators who flaunts their sleaziness. It’s the British class system with the extreme liability laws, making those money and power almost untouchables!

Women who come out with sexual allegations *decades* after the alleged "fact" should NEVER be taken seriously in any society regulated by the right of Law; in any society that values Justice and has an ethical foundation of some kind, for that matter. On the contrary, they ought to be immediately placed under scrutiny for defamation. You say you have been molested (or worse)? Why didn't you report the crime immediately? What is your justification for waiting 10, 20 years or more? Where is your hard evidence? Wounds? Bruises? A formal statement from a hospital? Where are your witnesses? *Credible* ones, not a bunch of other women like you who "forgot" all about it for decades, only to pop up now and cry "me too!". Can they prove they *actually* witnessed the fact? Can you prove anything at all, for that matter? 99% of the allegations made by "me too" and similar movements turned out to be utterly fabricated. Women accusing men of sexual misconduct are at the top of the list in every statistic of false reporting of crimes, everywhere in the Western world. And don't even get me started with "most women don't report sexual crimes for fear of not being believed and for fear of being shamed": women's allegations are taken at face value, nowadays; where do you think we are living? Afghanistan? In the Middle Ages?

Has Andrew Neil gone senile or is he just bored since he departed This Week? Not sure why it's equating RB to JS. Such a LOW blow there, Andy. And the temerity to DARE to tell the general public what they SHOULD find funny. And to think, I rather enjoyed his mockingly patronising, yet obvious tongue in cheek tone on This Week. Yet here he is, in all his BOLDNESS (spurred on by Piers, no less, to have a good 'ol dig! Get stuck in mate!) to tell us what we should and should not find funny. Oh dear. Who died and made him (and all the rest of the self-righteous media mogul presenters) the HUMOUR POLICE?

No one elevated Russell, he elevated himself

To compare Brand with Saville is ridiculous

WHEN IS CHANNEL 4 BRINGING OUT AN INVESTIGATION ON WHAT WENT ON AT EPSTEINS ISLAND AND ALL THE SLEAZE BAGS THAT WERE INVOLVED?

i used to have a lot of respect for andrew neil but since covid where he showed he has fascist tendencies, i dont support him anymore.

Andrew Neil speaks the truth. Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross should be VERY ashamed of themselves for the way they left lewd messages on Andrew SAchs's answering machine about Brand's relationship with Sachs' granddaughter.

Bang on Mr Neil

When you get too close to the truth...

Your interview with tait opened my eyes to tge media ....make sure they dont after u next piers

When are we going to have a documentary on Cyril Smith? That's been quietly swept under the table.

Hopefully this finishes Chanel 4 and the MSM

Since when has being 'vulgar', 'vile', 'lascivious', 'salacious' or whatever other term people may call Russell Brand, equated to that same person being a rapist or sexual deviant? This disgustingly pious and puritanical attitude Neil has about Brand is sickening. If we are to consider his pathetic viewpoint seriously, that would see Jimmy Carr imprisoned tomorrow, as his act contains a plethora of paedophile and rape jokes. Talking about something and actually engaging in it are two different things. Brand is a natural flirt and always has been. He has been painfully honest on every aspect of his character, even the uglier side, and this whole situation is clearly an attempt to end his public profile. What rape victim waits for a decade before telling anyone about it.... and what rape victim who wants to report the rape, heads straight for Channel 4 and not the nearest police station? Anyone who actually believes there is an ounce of truth in any of these accusations is obviously a simpleton.

This has all the makings of a hit piece. Andrew just seems bitter and jealous of Brands success.

Huw Edwards wasn’t treated this way

Great investigative journalist 10 yrs too late 🤦 doing this in 2013 would have been relevant, doing it now in 2023 is spineless

Yes he was never funny or told a good joke but his life is now about to be broken. If a man says that a female comedian or footballer touched him inappropriately nothing will happen, yet a woman says something about a male and he is immediately assumed guilty

This guy is exactly the reason why media is disgusting. He is proud of the article. They know exactly what they are doing and what will happen.

Very true, Brand isn’t funny, he just comes out with shocking stuff and idiots laugh at him. I thought Brand and Ross were a pair of cnuts for their phone call to Andrew Sachs and nothing they’ve done since has changed that view.

I stand with Russell Brand!

Fantastic work piers , impartial investigative journalism 👏🏾

Everyone should take a deep look at themselves and ask themselves “What did I find funny during those days?” “What did I feed and was it love?”

The middle class are showing their colours

That's right Piers Morgan, Russel Brand has a huge fan base, because we find him hilarious, Russel elevated himself, he pulled himself out of addiction, developed a comical act adored by many, but most of all, these days he's an activist, counterculture, offering a platform to shed light on everything politicians and journalists want to sweep under the carpet. He has a brilliant mind and helps many work their way out of active addiction. Using journalism to influence public opinion, against Russel, is all you can come up with. Yes Russel has been been vulgar, so what, he isn't a hypocrite. As it stands now, Russel Brand is innocent until proven otherwise. No you can't compare Weinstein and Saville to Brand. They are worlds apart

Another hit job, just like Andrew Tate

All the so called victims... that did not show their face while accusing Russel Brand 🤮

How can anyone suggest that criminal proceedings should stem from investigative journalism, when a man has now lost work because of speculations made in the news? They women should have gone to the police in the first place. Whatever you think of Russel Brand, he deserves to defend himself through due process.

even if russell is never charged with a crime afraid his career has taken a serious hit and may be entirely ruined⚛😀

Russel is your new obsession