David Walliams and Russell Brand made crude jokes about pretending to be gay during comedy show

Jokes that Russell Brand and David Walliams made during a Channel 4 comedy show have resurfaced this week. This has come after Brand was sentenced to 10 years and six months for rape and sexual assault, and Walliams was named as the celebrity who had tried to put a stop to reports he had been accused of praying on girls as young as 15. He has denied all allegations made against him. 

In 2006, Russell Brand invited David Walliams onto his TV show, called The Russell Brand Show, and the pair kissed one another. The comedians then joked that pretending to be gay, or people believing they might be, is a great “smokescreen” for them.

Fellow guest, actor Matt Lucas, joked: “You are like the two gayest straight blokes there are.” Walliams then called people thinking he might be gay a “wonderful smokescreen”. Brand agreed and said: “Isn’t it though? Isn’t it glorious? It works wonderfully well.”

via YouTube/Channel 4

Last week, Brand was convicted by a jury of rape and three sexual assaults. Now, allegations about Walliams have been reported. In a joint investigation between the Guardian and ITV News, David Walliams has been accused of grooming fans as young as 15, and harassing women in the workplace over a number of years.

In response to the investigation by ITV and the Guardian, David Walliams said: “Looking back, I realise that at times I behaved thoughtlessly towards other people I had casual sexual relationships with. I realise I did not always take people’s feelings properly into account. That is something I regret.

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“And whilst a power imbalance is inevitable when one party is famous, abusing that power is something else entirely and it is something that I never did.”

He added: “I am not a sexual predator. I have not broken the law, but I am devastated that some of the women I met 10 to 20 years ago have now expressed hurt or anger towards me.”

Since the allegations, the BBC has said it is removing content, including Little Britain. A spokesperson for the channel said: “These are serious allegations. As such, the BBC is looking carefully at all material featuring and written by David Walliams on our platforms. We are in the process of removing some programmes, including Little Britain, whilst this review is underway.”

He has also been dropped by his literary agents, Independent Talent Group, and the Labour Party has suspended his membership. 

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