Russell Brand's Got Issues (2006)

Genre

comedy

Country

United Kingdom

Length

1 season, 6 episodes

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Russell Brand hosts a comedy debate show on E4 where each episode starts with a topic but quickly goes off track. The show features street clips and skits, and the format changed after the first few episodes.

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What happens

Russell Brand's Got Issues is a British TV debate comedy show hosted by Russell Brand and shown on E4. The show was written by Brand and his longtime collaborator Matt Morgan. Superficially a studio debate, as each episode progressed the subject was often digressed from heavily. The format of the show changed somewhat after the first couple of episodes with the character of "General Zod's nephew" Andrew Zod being dropped, and the clips of people being interviewed on the street becoming clips of Brand trying out a given activity and acting in a skit in relation to that week's topic. The viewing figures for the first episode were seen as disappointing, being beaten by nearly all of E4's main multi-channel rivals, despite a big publicity and promotional campaign for the show. Because of the poor ratings the show was repackaged as The Russell Brand Show and moved to Channel 4. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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