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Russell Brand Praises Tim Dillon For Comedy That Exposes Truth


Russell Brand hopped onto social media to share a snippet of Tim Dillon's comedy and assert that this is what freedom in clowning can look...

In endorsing the comedy of Dillon, Brand stirred a hornet’s nest of controversies spilling over both right-wing and left-wing fields even when the tumult coming from sexual assault allegations and courtship legally-skirting are now upon him (the latter, denied). One commenter basically claimed that in densely populated Gaza, the relatively low death count compared with the magnitude of destruction pointed towards precise targeting, with many others debating against that framework of thinking. One commenter summed it up perfectly: “I think it’s awesome that comedians are the true journalists and truth tellers in the world today.” Whether one agrees with this statement is irrelevant; it therefore explains just why comedy has become a major lightning rod in today’s media landscape.

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