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Steve Allen - A Little Bit Extra

Russell Brand in trouble again - 26 Jun 15

Steve Allen - A Little Bit Extra

Global

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.3808 Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2015

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Just for the podcasters - a little bit extra from the acerbic wit of London's longest-serving talkshow host!

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0:00.0

This is a download from LBC, Steve Allen's Little Bit Extra.

0:05.8

Morning, everybody welcome along to your free podcast for today. It's Friday the 26th of June.

0:11.2

And the person who dominated the papers, as indeed he does all the time, he makes another complete gaff.

0:16.8

And a foolish example of himself is Russell Brown. His speech to a drugs charity disgusted the sister of Peaches Geldof.

0:24.6

And this is Fifi.

0:26.3

Peaches died of a heroin overdose.

0:28.3

Russell Brand was told to go back to Miliband.

0:31.8

We had all this sort of the other day.

0:34.3

And Fifi was horrified.

0:37.0

I was fairly horrified, but what she was wearing, but that's another

0:38.8

story. And he made a joke about drug abuse and he says from what I've experienced a lot of people

0:43.9

here tonight are on drugs. There was also Van Morrison, Sadie Frost and Suggs there. He said it was

0:49.6

like an avalanche on the back of my toilet and so it went on. I mean the man obviously thinks

0:53.7

he's very funny,

0:54.4

whereas in fact he passed his sell-by date some time ago. It's not, it's just a bit embarrassing,

1:01.0

really. But there again, if you invite Russell Brown to do the speaking, you know he's a loose

1:06.7

cannon, you know he's so mad, he doesn't know what he's talking about half the time. He's got no idea. No idea. So what you have to do, you have to take it with a pinch of salt, and you

1:16.0

have to say, listen, you know, sorry he said that. I mean, presumably he must have known she would,

1:20.7

perhaps he didn't know who she was. Perhaps he thought he was being funny. Perhaps he thought

1:24.7

he was being controversial. Even his spokeswoman, spokeswoman,

1:28.2

they can't speak for themselves these people. He's so keen to jump onto any platform where, you know,

1:32.2

the look at me kind of brigade, that you have to ask yourself, you know, whether or not he is

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