Russell Brand reprimands and insults heckler at stand-up gig
British comedian Russell Brand unleashed a string of insults at a man who heckled him at a stand-up gig in New Jersey on Saturday (05May12) after taunting him about his ex-wife, Katy Perry.
The Forgetting Sarah Marshall star, who filed for divorce from the Firework singer in late December (11), was performing a show at the Borgata Casino in Atlantic City as part of a live tour.
But his set was continually interrupted by a member of the audience
shouting out "Katy Perry", and Brand decided to take revenge on the
assailant by turning the spotlight on the male and hurling a number
of disparaging remarks at him.
Halting his comedy show, he said, "I wanna see what this person
looks like. Turn the lights on for me because I want to achieve
some sort of confirmation. Who's the person who keeps shouting
that? Come here, let's see ya (sic)."
As other members of the audience pointed the suspect out, he added,
"Let's see how your mental illness looks in the daylight. It's you,
is it? Oh dear.
"I was hoping that your personality was as a result of physical
beauty, then I saw you. I thought this guy's confident probably
because he's incredibly pretty, but look at you. You look like
someone that's fallen off the outside of a church! And what is it
that you have rattling inside of your mind? Some bizarre
combination of alcohol and idiocy... and yet the confidence to
continue shouting!"
Brand continued to reprimand the rude fan and an eyewitness tells
Life & Style magazine, "He went on to attack everything from how
good he thought the guy would be in bed to accusing him of being
impotent. It must have been humiliating for the guy; it seemed to
go on forever.
"Eventually he pulled it together and got back on the stage, and
being Russell, he told the guy he’d just torn apart that he loved
him."