Russell Brand: Olympics will be a right balls up, we Brits are no good at organisation

 
28 June 2012
The Weekender

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Comedian Russell Brand has said that London 2012 will be a disaster.

Essex-born Russell sad that although he thought China successfully hosted the Olympics four years ago, we Brits do not have the organisational skills to pull it off.

He told America's Conan O'Brien: "China did such a great job. We are too clumsy, we are too self-effacing as you know with the English the politeness masks deep sexual deviance.

"I think we are under a lot of pressure, because China were clearly able to demonstrate the opening ceremony that 'we can make all these people do the exact same thing at once - don't you dare get in a war with us.'

He continued: "I like England and I am from there. But when it involves organisation it is going to be a right balls up.

"Things will catch fire and people will be tripping over things, then it will start raining and the Queen will do a fart."

Russell also admitted that he did not celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee this month.

He admitted: "It is hypocritical, isn't it? We will rise up. I say it is time for a bloody revolution. Some people are into it and it only takes one to chop off someone's head.

"People need to have things to celebrate otherwise people realise we are oppressed and unable to express ourselves freely because we are at the behest of all these corporate entities.

"So yeah they have a party to distract us from the fact we are being tyrannised."

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