Russell Brand on Sachsgate: Is it that hard to pick up your phone?

Who'd have thought it? Just over a year after Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross's unfortunate message on Andrew Sachs's answer machine, Monkey's still writing about it! Only ourselves to blame, of course. "I apologise for the thing I did wrong to the person I did it to but the whole subsequent scandal was funny," said Brand, who went on to defend fellow comics Frankie Boyle and Jimmy Carr, who have also come under fire for controversial gags. Not quite on the scale of Sachsgate, though. "I've heard them jokes, they're good jokes they are," said Brand. "Frankie Boyle is brilliant and Jimmy Carr is brilliant. They're not trying to be offensive, no one is actually offended, the people saying they're offended aren't actually offended, the whole thing is constructed." Brand returned to the Sachs furore at a DVD signing in London last week. "It would've been nice if he had answered his phone," he added. "No one ever mentions that side of it. Everyone mentions me, but is it that hard to pick up your phone?"