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Russell Brand’s, um, brand of comedy isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, but, if anything, he’s pretty good at being on his toes when it comes to making light of a dull situation. As such, when Brand was testifying about the UK’s drug policy to Parliament, he made quite the show out of it, which also happened to be better than his stand-up.
A new Olympic Games ad by Argentina captures Fernando Zylberberg, a star field-hockey player, training for London on the Falkland Islands. “To compete on English soil, we train on Argentine soil,” the spot says.
Problem is, the Falklands are a self-governing British territory over which the two countries have fought forever, and naturally, the Brits are ticked.
“The Olympics is about sport and not politics,” said a spokeswoman for Britain’s Foreign Office. “We are also dismayed at the insensitivity and disrespect demonstrated by the filmmakers in their use of a war memorial in the Falklands as a prop.”
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