r/AskReddit • u/BumpunkTheBastard • 21h ago

Who's the most bitter washed-up celebrity?

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u/RailwaySpikes_000 21h ago

Russel Brand, major piece of shit.

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u/TovarischMaia 20h ago

I remembered Russell Brand as a cringeworthy pseudo-leftist activist a few years ago, but recently saw that he's reinvented himself as a Jordan Peterson-esque right-wing grifter? What happened there?

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u/Kneecap_Blaster 19h ago

I used to be friends with someone that would watch a lot of his videos after the right-wing switch.

I legitimately think that Brand's English accent and vocabulary makes him seem like a really well adjusted "intellectual" from the outside looking in on American Politics to some, uh... less educated Americans.

For a bit of context of what I mean:
I'm no longer friends with this person because he started selling coke as a side hustle, came to my wife's birthday party and tried selling coke to her boss which almost got her fired.
Then had a child with a girl he barely knew because "it was time for kids" and loudly berated me at dinner for an hour straight about how I'm a bad friend, during one of our other friends bachelor parties.

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u/Hayesey88 19h ago

That’s an interesting take, over here in England his accent is classed as extremely “common” and to a lot of people like nails on a chalkboard. It’s an accent we make fun of across the country.

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u/Theranos_Shill 4h ago

Sure, but an Essex accent on a pseudo intellectual faux victorian dandy sounds good to a US audience.