favourite comedian friendships: Noel Fielding and Russell Brand
“If there’s corruption, we’ll get to the fucking bottom of it ‘cause we’re Goth Detectives.”

Russell Brand Improvises a Shakespearean Backstory for Five Minutes

Famous for his onscreen improvising, Russell Brand has to stick to the Shakespearean text in Julie Taymor’s film The Tempest, where he plays the jester Trinculo. Still, an antic comedian like Brand needs some sort of outlet for his verbal flights of fancy, and so it is that when Taymor asked Brand to expound on his character during rehearsals, he responded with a dizzying, dazzling monologue delivered in character for almost five minutes.