★★★★☆If you’ve ever thought that Russell Brand comes across as a bit of a berk whenever he pops up on current affairs programmes, his latest stand-up show tells us that he knows it too. The flat-out funniest moments of his first tour for three years, Exposed, have him taking to bits his own shoddy, ego-driven, fundamentally fearful (he explains) way of transmuting from exuberant entertainer into petulant teenage revolutionary. He shows us footage of him taking on “Pax Man” on Newsnight and Nigel Farage on Question Time. He zaps himself for letting his ego take over as he took on a Channel 4 reporter outside 10 Downing Street. He berates himself for his highfalutin yet oafish intervention in the last general election, when he pledged…

Source: The Times November 15, 2016 12:00 UTC