'Change is something I'm good at,' Brand claims. Revolution draws on Brand's own experiences and observations both as someone who has experienced considerable social mobility in his life-from a working class upbringing with a single mother in Grays, Essex, to Hollywood fame and fortune-and as a former drug addict who has found solace in twelve-step movements and in spirituality. Paxman posed to Brand the problem: 'How, may I ask, is this revolution going to come about?' The book Revolution, then, is presented as an extended response to that question. In October, 2013, Brand was offered a stint as the guest editor of an issue of the New Statesman, which he chose to dedicate to the topic of 'revolution.' As he wrote in the issue's editorial, 'Imagining the overthrow of the current political system is the only way I can be enthused about politics.' That same week, Brand was interviewed by Jeremy Paxman on BBC Two's current-affairs programme, Newsnight. He had also hosted a variety of radio shows (though had been forced to resign from the BBC after a scandal over prank phone calls) and published a memoir, My Booky Wook, and its sequel, Booky Wook 2.īut increasingly he had also become known for his political views and activism: in 2009, for instance, he attended the G-20 London summit protests, and in 2012 he testified to a parliamentary committee about drug addiction. Russell Brand had been well known for some years as a comedian and actor: he had performed stand-up at the Hackney Empire New Act of the Year in 2000, and took his one-man show, the confessional Better Now, to the Edinburgh Festival in 2004 after various roles on British TV, he had gained critical acclaim for his starring role in Forgetting Sarah Marshall in 2008 and had regular roles in Hollywood comedies thereafter.

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