Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #111 in DVD
• Released on: 2009-11-09
• Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1

Synopsis
Controversial tabloid favourite, radio DJ, writer, ladies' man, and now Hollywood star, Russell Brand, goes back to his comedy roots in this live stand-up show. Fresh from his scene-stealing turn as a pretentious rock star in FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL, Brand brings his unique, often surreal, observational musings to London's O2 arena as part of his 2009 SCANDALOUS tour.

Customer Reviews

Russell Brand Breaks the BBC and then tells THE NATION about it
Russell Brand's two previous live DVDs ("Live" and "Doing Life") are funny, but "Scandalous - Live at the O2" REALLY captures him in his element. The 80 minute recording of the April 2009 London O2 Arena show is a tour de force of the UK's biggest and funniest narcissist in full flow.

Russell has described his life as "a series of embarrassing incidents punctuated by telling people about them". Here, fresh from the "embarrassing incident" of breaking the BBC with Manuelgate and also recounting the backlash to some of his jokes after his first hosting of the VMAs, he has plenty of material to draw upon, which he does with his typical swagger and panache. That much of the material is a bit over-familiar is perhaps just a measure of how successfull Russell was at making himself and his antics THE News in parts of 2008! On the other hand, it is good that Russell has recorded here for posterity the video footage of the in-studio performance with Jonathan Ross, which has mysteriously disappeared into the BBC Secure Storage where they hide most of their own Embarrassing Incidents, like "The Borgias".

The DVD extras are good, particularly an extended (45 minute) "In the Psychiatrist's Chair" interview with Frank Skinner. This I suspect will form the basis of the upcoming Channel 4 documentary that has been reporting as appearing in early 2010. It is in Russell's nature to give a performance when interviewed on chat shows, but here would appear to be even more of the "real" Russell Brand than even Dawn French elucidated from him in her previous excellent "Boys That Do Comedy" one.

Amazing!
Excellent. Absolutely loved it, you can tell hes really big now, because of the flash entrance. Me and my girlfriend watched this and laughed from start to finish. I was a bit disapointed because I'd heard some jokes before from Live In New York but I was happy I had them on this dvd, as I'm from Britain and I can't get Live in New York. Russell talks about "Sachsgate" scandal of the year and his experiences hosting the VMAs and about working with Dame Helen Mirram on the Tempest.
I love all of his work, so I think I'm a bit bias as I'm a big fan, but it's just so much fun! I really liked this DVD, really really funny. Recommend it to Brand fans who missed the actual tour like me!

Irresistable
I was at the O2 gig, which was a testimony to how big Russell is becoming and how Sachsgate DIDN'T damage his career. Loved watching the DVD, it brought back fresh memories of the evening. Russell is a flawless stage performer. Every performance comes from the "core" and is freshly charged. His entrance into the arena was sheer magic and the DVD captures this. He milked the Sachsgate scandal for all it was worth, and why not, plenty of other people did, including the tabloids and the government. His take on it is (of course) the most refreshing, and I defy anyone to watch through this without grinning from ear to ear. There is really good interaction with the audience captured in the filming. Personally, I was right at the top at the back at the far end of the arena, so physically the furthest away from Russell. However, I knew before I went in that this would not matter, he connects with everyone in his audience. Despite the vastness of the arena, the gig still had an intimacy you would expect in a smaller venue. The Extras are thoughtfully put together and the interview with Frank Skinner is worthy of a DVD of its own.