Russell BrandBritish comedian Russell Brand has responded to recent ridicule on Twitter that asserted the prose in his socially provocative tome Revolution would be more at home among the verbose verses of Blur's 1994 single Parklife by recording and releasing his own take on the song.
The parody cover, created in collaboration with Irish comedy hip-hop duo the Rubberbandits, sees Brand delivering rapid-fire, scathing critique of the perceived snobbery and elitism projected by those who fail to take Brand's attempts at social reform seriously. Throughout, the comedian rattles off a list of upper-class targets as he breathlessly details the pervasive class warfare and epidemic of upward-turned noses apparently running roughshod over Britain's streets.
As is swiftly becoming Brand's MO, though, the funnyman and bedroom philosopher has used the joke movement to further draw attention to a more serious issue, releasing another video, as part of his "true news" YouTube series Russell Brand: The Trews, about a 90-year-old Florida man who was arrested for feeding the homeless — and subtitling it Parklife. Way to make us all feel like huge dicks, Russell.
