It’s always the ones you most expect. That, at least, has been the conclusion online after the rape conviction of Russell Brand. Rather than admit that Brand’s conspicuous, hypersexual persona was a rather effective sleight of hand — one which successfully distracted production companies and audiences from his criminal private life for two decades — social media has spent the past week telling itself it can spot a wrong’un a mile off. So it is that long-buried clips of Brand making rape jokes on Channel 4 quiz shows have popped up on our timelines: see, these posts say, this is what a rapist looks like.
Why nobody stopped Russell Brand
