Outside a few allusions, Russell Brand did not address the sexual assault allegations against him during his return to social media
the comedian—who’s faced demonetization on YouTube, in addition to having his work pulled from places like BBC’s streaming offerings and Paramount+—posted on social media this weekend. The three-minute video is, if nothing else, an unsettling glimpse into Brand’s conception of the last week, which has not, in his telling, been the story of a very famous comedian being accused of rape by multiple women across a multi-year period.
of joking about sexual assaults he’s now formally accused of committing, but about the British government trying to control the spread ofIn the video, Brand points his followers toward video hosting platform Rumble, now “the primary platform that we will be streaming from,” after the other ones stopped giving him money.
He briefly mentions “the Deep State.” At no point does he actually address the allegations against him, only noting that “It’s very odd, parallel reality stuff—even as our actual reality continues to fill up with people coming forward with complaints and allegations against him.
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