Russell Brand mocks British films on US TV

Mr Katy Perry sends up ‘extremely British’ gangster films in new sketch for Saturday Night Live (with video)

LAST UPDATED AT 13:20 ON Tue 15 Feb 2011

Russell Brand has well and truly turned his back on the old country with a skit mocking British accents for a Saturday Night Live special. The mock trailer for Don' You Go Rounin' Roun to Re Ro, a take off of gritty UK gangster films like Guy Ritchie's Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels,  was shown as part of Brand's first-ever hosting gig for the primetime US comedy show on the weekend.

Starring SNL's Bill Hadar as an ex-con with a mouth full of marbles, the film promises to have plenty of violence and unfathomable accents, with an American voiceover declaring it to be "a can't-miss British film, if you like movies you cannot understand".Brand also poked fun at Colin Firth's turn in The King’s Speech during the show and dragged up as a grandma during a segment called 'A Spot Of Tea'.    · 

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Russel Brand and Ricky Gervais are both talentless and so should do very well in the US, let's hope they stay there.

Posted by paul mayell, February 19, 2011 - 7:07pm.

Tobias - rather let's hope that Randy Brussells stays permanently in the USA. Preferably with his mouth sealed shut!

Posted by John Collard, February 15, 2011 - 10:12pm.

Oh dear, it is saying something about Russell Brand when he can't come up with anything funnier. It seems SNL has seen its best days as well. These send-ups are such an old hat and flogged to death by SNL (think Belushi, Aykroyd, Crystal, Chase) and the Zucker brothers (Kentucky Fried Movie, Airplane, etc.) in the 70's and are really only mildly amusing now. Surely the Americans should keep quiet about dialects in movies, if we started to do send-ups of their mediocre film fare, we'd have endless amounts of boring material. Anyway, pretty rich coming from a country that responds to hearing British English with "I love your accent", when in fact we speak the original language and they're the ones with the accent.
One can only hope that RB comes up with some more original stuff over in the US...

Posted by Tobias Poensgen, February 15, 2011 - 5:36pm.

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