Russell Brand just makes me laugh, I don’t think he can help it, and I can’t help laughing along.

He first graced our british screens on MTV, stalking clubbers for the dancefloor chart, then he did some oddball um…. could you call them documentaries..?..  I dunno…  shows for UK Play called Re:Brand.  But like most folk I first saw him as the presenter of Big Brothers Big Mouth (originally EForum) and he instantly became the best part of the whole big brother franchise, and quite often the only reason to carry on watching big brother at all.

To me he’s a traditional great british eccentric, who with a quick wit can turn nothing into everything.

He’s become too big for Big Mouth, and to be frank hasn’t quite found the right TV vehicle since, the closest has been Ponderland where he basically made jokes from random video clips.  Best has been a one-off however, where he toured Jack Caddyshack’s (forgotten his name, he wrote “on the road”) america with his mate Matt Morgon.

The lack of a stable TV formula doesn’t matter however because during his stint on Big Mouth he started a weekly saturday night radio show on BBC 6Music and has been doing it ever since (now on Radio 2 instead).  Its always my highlight of the week, entertainment wise.  There’s also a podcast of it available but i find that it’s so chopped up that it loses its spontaneity.

I also love his cultural references, ranging from old children’s shows (”I’ll get it duckypoos”) to Morrissey (his cat is named after him) and Arrested Development (he’s recently started to pull up his top and declare “take a good look because its the last time you’ll see them!”).

His Autobiography is worth reading too. Thing is he’s now being accused of having too much exposure, but they can piss off ‘cos I can’t get enough of him.  In an ideal world he’d be given a 24 hour station where he can jabber on about any old crap all day and night.

Despite not having a clue who over half the celeb BB lineup are, talk about no-ones. Barrymore and George Galloway make it for me. I admire Galloway greatly for his courage of conviction in the shallow world of politics, even if i don’t agree with some of his opinions. It will be fascinating to see what his character is like over an extended period. Barrymore, well i just can’t wait to see how he is after all this time, he needs an audience and he’s been starved for, well when was ‘the party’ that whecked his career, must be a few years ago now, and he’s the type of character that needs an audience, he almost broke down when the cheers started after leaving the car. Says it all.

Yesterday I went along to the first instalment of dog training, for the first we didn’t bring our dogs so I cannot report on Eddie shaming us, that’s for next week. It was kinda odd though, one of the ppl there I think I went to school with, and I was racking my brain the whole time trying to pin down extra who they were, i didn’t speak to them though and thankfully neither did she, it would have been soooo embarrassing. The woman who runs the class is a paauuush eccentric, as you would expect someone who runs a doggie training class to be, she smokes cigarettes with one of them silly holder things. haha. She’s amazing with puppies though, there was one token puppy, a gorgeous cocker and it did everything the woman wanted even though it had never seen her before. The cocker made me miss Barney so much. They have the most adorable puppies, spaniels don’t get that elongated schnozzle until they’re older so the puppies are all cute with little rounded heads. That’s a pic of Barney BTW, he now lives in Ireland, must be about 3 years old, don’t even know what he looks like anymore

As I’m sure i’ve mentioned before, the only reason we can have our own dog is because of a miracle dog shampoo which neutralises the irritants that would otherwise make my itch like crazy. I’m still undecided whether or not i’ll tag along to the next training session. I would absolutely love to, it would be such a laugh with all the untrained dogs causing havoc, but all them doggie irritants flying around would be hell for me. If only I could get all the owners to use our shampoo on them before they come. Probably a tad too much to ask.