Hepatitis C Got Majorly Dissed on SNL Last Night

[Forseegood]

Hi everyone, haven't posted here in years, and I hope everyone is doing well< I think of many of you often.  Don't know if anyone saw SNL last night with Russell Brand, but he stood there and joked about Hep C and it cut me to my core. You can probably look up his monologue on the SNL site, for those of you who haven't seen it. I myself went a little further, and jotted down a polite but assertive email to his publicist. If anyone wants to do the same here, here's his publicists contact information. Be well and nothing but good things to all of you!

Kevin McLaughlin
Publicist at 42West  
Write as it regarding Russell Brand on SNL last night.

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[James10500]

Russell Brand not Russell Crowe.  

[merryBe]

hey girl how the he(( are you???  Well, I don't know, if it took R.crowe to get you in here to say hello, then I applaude r. crowe....for that at least

even though he should be eating crow on this one....or, maybe he got it doing too much eating...well scratch that thought...

I just think if you are expecting political correctness from SNL you are dreamin'...
all I ever see any more is lameness, and shuck and jive....
I mean seriously, everything has an arch, and these guys just don't know that their juices have shrived up at this point....like any good jew I gotta ask...whatta they know from funny??

answer, not much...the show reminds me of when J.Crawford or Betty were past their primes...shriveled to where no amount of filler shots or botox are gonna help.  
There's only one true comic left on the show, seriously I think Lauren Michaels should take a hint from MASH and let it die the death.

as far as expecting hollywood types to be sensitive...I grew up around them...can anybody say the word EGO??  Sure there were a few genuine human beings who worked to help others, but for every one of them their was a flaming baby who couldn't get 2 millimeters ahead of their own carnality even if Jesus was coming to dinner.

mb

[willing]

Wow, are those new glasses ? Very stylish -  though I miss the old pic. Great to hear from you, really. You sound in fine form, and as outraged as ever. Hope all is well.

[RobertBeWell]

Did you expect anything better out of network television/Hollywood?

I mean, seriously.

RBW

[Willy50]

Russell Brand told a Hep C joke on Saturday Night Live last night about 5 minutes into his monologue;


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We're still waiting for something *funny*, Ahshole.


Russell said that he had gotten HCV while preparing for years as a sex addict and drug user.  I guess that he doesn't realize that there is little transmission risk when monogamous heterosexual sexual relations are practiced.

On the other hand...the risk of sexual transmission is far greater in anal receptive intercourse, especially in the presence of STDs.  

Is there something that Russell is trying to tell us?


Frankly..... I think that the humor is as desperate and stupid as an AIDS joke.  It's mean spirited, it's factually incorrect and as a joke, it doesn't even work well.
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According to wikipeadia;
". Annual deaths from HCV in the United States range from 10,000 to 20,000; expectations are that this mortality rate will increase, as those who were infected by transfusion before HCV testing become apparent.
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The joke perpetuates the myth/stereotype of sexual transmission.

The joke ignores the unfunny vectors of transmission.

After the "comedian" makes the joke and distances himself from the disease he mentions that he didn't want anybody to worry (that he had Hep C).

Meaning....... that one SHOULD worry if one is around people with HCV.????!

I'm not happy about the joke, the misinformation presented through innuendo and the effect of stigmatizing the disease, causing embarrassment for those who have it and fear produced in the people who know nothing about the disease; only what stunned a$$es in media convey during their mean spirited monologues.  

As soon as he meets a child who has HCV from vertical transmission,
or a mother who was given blood products during childbirth,
or a veteran who was infected through an airgun innoculation,
a health care provider who became infected via a needle stick or in trauma,
or any child who had to bury they young adult parent.......
Or the adult who has had to nurse their sick child who has ESLD due to HCV....

Then maybe Russell Brand will understand how (un)funny the joke is.

Willy

[streamline569]

I think that Russel Brand should make a public apology for his ignorance and irresponsibility towards a very sensitive subject. It wasn't even funny. What a jerk.