#MICHAEL PERRY STOUGHTON OPERA HOUSE SERIES#

Brand appeared in a sketch and performed stand-up at Amnesty International's Secret Policeman's Ball in 2006 and again at the 2012 edition at Radio City Music Hall. The show was released on DVD as Russell Brand: Live. Brand drew on embarrassing incidents in his own life and the coverage about him in the tabloid press. He launched his first nationwide tour, Shame, in 2006. He returned the following year with Eroticised Humour. In 2004, he took his first one-man show, the confessional Better Now, to the Edinburgh Festival, giving what he claimed was an honest account of his heroin addiction. That year, he also made his Edinburgh Festival Fringe debut as one-third of the stand-up show Pablo Diablo's Cryptic Triptych, alongside ventriloquist Mark Felgate and Anglo-Iranian comic Shappi Khorsandi. Although he finished fourth, his performance attracted the attention of Bound and Gagged Comedy Ltd agent Nigel Klarfeld. Career Stand-upīrand performed stand-up at the Hackney Empire New Act of the Year final in 2000. After his first year at Italia Conti Academy, Brand was expelled for illegal drug use and poor attendance. Brand attended Grays School and in 1991, he was accepted to the Italia Conti Academy and had his first year of tuition funded by Essex County Council. He made his theatrical debut at the age of 15 in a school production of Bugsy Malone, and then began work as a film extra. īrand says he had a 'strange relationship' with his father, whom he saw sporadically and who took him to visit prostitutes during a trip to Thailand when Brand was a teenager. Brand then started to use illegal drugs such as cannabis, amphetamines, LSD, and ecstasy. When he was 16, he left home because of disagreements with his mother's partner. When he was 14, he suffered from bulimia nervosa. While she underwent treatment, Brand lived with relatives. When Brand was 8, his mother was diagnosed with uterine cancer and then breast cancer one year later. Brand's parents separated when he was six months old, and he was raised by his mother.

He is the only child of Barbara Elizabeth ( née Nichols) and photographer Ronald Henry Brand. Russell Edward Brand was born in Orsett Hospital in Grays, Essex, England.

3.4 2020–present: COVID-19 pandemic and YouTube channel.3.3 2014–2020: The Trews, Revolution, and political activism.A biographical documentary called Brand: A Second Coming was released in 2015. He has incorporated many of his controversial public acts into his comedic material. Over the course of his career, Brand has been the subject of frequent media coverage and controversy for issues such as his promiscuity, drug use and political views, his outrageous behaviour at various award ceremonies, his dismissal from MTV and resignation from the BBC, and his two-year marriage to American singer Katy Perry.

#MICHAEL PERRY STOUGHTON OPERA HOUSE SERIES#

In 2014, he launched his political-comedy web series The Trews, released a book entitled Revolution, and began work on a documentary about financial inequality with Michael Winterbottom. Since guest-editing an edition of British political weekly New Statesman in 2013, Brand has become known as a public activist and campaigner, and has spoken on a wide range of political and cultural issues, including wealth inequality, addiction, corporate capitalism, climate change, and media bias. In 2013, he released the successful stand-up special Messiah Complex. He also worked as a voice actor in the animated films Despicable Me in 2010, Hop in 2011, and Despicable Me 2 in 2013, and played the title character of the 2011 remake of the romantic comedy Arthur. In 2007, he had his first major film role in St Trinian's, and the following year he landed a major role in the romantic comedy-drama Forgetting Sarah Marshall the film led to him starring in a spin off, the rock comedy Get Him to the Greek, alongside Jonah Hill in 2010. Brand has received three British Comedy Awards: Best Newcomer (2006), Best Live Stand-Up (2008), and the award for Outstanding Contribution to Comedy (2011).Īfter beginning his career as a comedian and later becoming an MTV presenter in the UK, in 2004 Brand gained a role as the host of Big Brother's Big Mouth, a Big Brother spin-off. Russell Edward Brand (born 4 June 1975) is an English comedian and actor known for his flamboyant, loquacious style and manner. From the BBC programme Desert Island Discs, 21 July 2013.

Michael perry stoughton opera house