# Russell Brand files for divorce... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 5, 2012, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russell-brand-files-for-divorce/608480 "2012-01-05T08:03:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2012, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russell-brand-files-for-divorce/608480/1 "2012-01-05T08:03:18Z")
…admits he spend the last year thinking he was married to Zooey Deschanel. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2012, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russell-brand-files-for-divorce/608480/2 "2012-01-05T14:32:11Z")
[Not only did we discuss this already, but we had a divorce pool going, which was updated and discussed a week ago.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=583231&page=2) ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2012, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russell-brand-files-for-divorce/608480/3 "2012-01-05T14:48:32Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > [Not only did we discuss this already, but we had a divorce pool going, which was updated and discussed a week ago.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=583231&page=2) I believe he’s referencing the fact that [Zooey Deschanel filed for divorce yesterday](http://www.spin.com/articles/zooey-deschanel-files-divorce-ben-gibbard-has-excellent-credit). ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2012, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russell-brand-files-for-divorce/608480/4 "2012-01-05T14:51:06Z")
Also…dibs. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2012, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russell-brand-files-for-divorce/608480/5 "2012-01-05T16:26:26Z")
People made have posted about Brand’s divorce in another thread but I contributed the Zooey Deschanel punchline. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2012, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russell-brand-files-for-divorce/608480/6 "2012-01-05T19:48:15Z")
Wow, was I wooshed or something then? ---
**Author:** ![well\_he\_s\_back](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3ab097/32.png) [@well\_he\_s\_back](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/well_he_s_back)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2012, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russell-brand-files-for-divorce/608480/7 "2012-01-05T19:52:17Z")
I’m with Team Brand ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2012, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russell-brand-files-for-divorce/608480/8 "2012-01-06T00:35:06Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Wow, was I wooshed or something then? I don’t know. I feel one of us is being whooshed. If you’re unaware of what I was joking about, this will [explain](http://punkrocprincezs.buzznet.com/user/journal/7755441/separated-birth-katy-perry-zooey/). ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2012, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russell-brand-files-for-divorce/608480/9 "2012-01-06T00:50:38Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > Also…dibs. Okay, but I call dibs on Zooey. ---
**Author:** ![Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aji_de_gallina/32/260_2.png) [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aji_de_Gallina)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2012, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russell-brand-files-for-divorce/608480/10 "2012-01-06T00:57:28Z")
I know married life is hard and everything, but there’s a vocal minority in my brain saying “HOW THE FUCK CAN YOU NOT WANT TO SLEEP WITH KATY PERRY!!” ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2012, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russell-brand-files-for-divorce/608480/11 "2012-01-06T02:34:41Z")
> [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](#): > > I know married life is hard and everything, but there’s a vocal minority in my brain saying “HOW THE FUCK CAN YOU NOT WANT TO SLEEP WITH KATY PERRY!!” Apparently the problem with his brain was that it was saying “SURE, YOU WANT TO SLEEP WITH KATY PERRY. BUT THAT DOESN’T MEAN YOU DON’T WANT TO SLEEP WITH A BUNCH OF OTHER WOMEN ALSO.” ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2012, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russell-brand-files-for-divorce/608480/12 "2012-01-08T00:47:00Z")
When I first read about their marriage I though- Why? Do these two A-list entertainers really think, what, they’re gonna buy a house in the country with a couple kids and a dog & a cat?! What possible reason could they have had to not just live together. The clincher was that Perry was about 1000 times more successful than Brand. Guys, especially other entertainers, cannot take that for long. Course it looks like he’s got about 30 million reasons to laugh all the way to the bank, even though that just makes him look like an even bigger douchebag… ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2012, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russell-brand-files-for-divorce/608480/13 "2012-01-08T01:19:33Z")
> [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](#): > > I know married life is hard and everything, but there’s a vocal minority in my brain saying “HOW THE FUCK CAN YOU NOT WANT TO SLEEP WITH KATY PERRY!!” It’s not like Katy Perry is the ONLY attractive woman in the world. Russell Brand has been with hundreds, maybe even thousands, of women, and most of them were probably equally attractive. It’s nothing special to him, really. I don’t understand why a woman would marry a guy like that and expect monogamy. I said the same thing about Gene Simmons and his marriage troubles. No, ladies, you are not “THE ONE” who is _so_ special that you are going to change this guy’s womanizing ways forever. Not gonna happen. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2012, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russell-brand-files-for-divorce/608480/14 "2012-01-08T02:55:08Z")
> [@Argent\_Towers](#): > > I said the same thing about Gene Simmons and his marriage troubles. I wasn’t aware he’s having marriage troubles. He’s only been married three months after living with his girlfriend for twenty-eight years. How’d he screw that up? ---
**Author:** ![2ply](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/b2d939/32.png) [@2ply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2ply)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2012, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russell-brand-files-for-divorce/608480/15 "2012-01-08T05:33:24Z")
> [@Argent\_Towers](#): > > I don’t understand why a woman would marry a guy like that and expect monogamy. I said the same thing about Gene Simmons and his marriage troubles. No, ladies, you are not “THE ONE” who is _so_ special that you are going to change this guy’s womanizing ways forever. Not gonna happen. Give the bitches a little credit. I imagine their reasoning often goes: Hey, I’ll get to live the easy life married to a rich man until I take him to the cleaners in the divorce. ---
**Author:** ![Myrnalene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@Myrnalene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myrnalene)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2012, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russell-brand-files-for-divorce/608480/16 "2012-01-08T05:35:21Z")
> [@2ply](#): > > Give the bitches a little credit. I imagine their reasoning often goes: Hey, I’ll get to live the easy life married to a rich man until I take him to the cleaners in the divorce. Yeah, Katy Perry was really hurting financially. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2012, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russell-brand-files-for-divorce/608480/17 "2012-01-08T05:49:22Z")
> [@Hail\_Ants](#): > > Do these two A-list entertainers really think, what, they’re gonna buy a house in the country with a couple kids and a dog & a cat?! Russell Brand is A-list? I never heard of him until KP’s engagement to him blew up the internet. Then I recognized him as just another village idiot. ---
**Author:** ![Barking\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Barking\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barking_Dog)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2012, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russell-brand-files-for-divorce/608480/18 "2012-01-08T06:03:33Z")
> [@Hail\_Ants](#): > > Course it looks like he’s got about 30 million reasons to laugh all the way to the bank, even though that just makes him look like an even bigger douchebag… Is that possible? Isn’t being an enormous douchebag his whole schtick? ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2012, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russell-brand-files-for-divorce/608480/19 "2012-01-08T06:34:10Z")
> [@2ply](#): > > Give the bitches a little credit. I imagine their reasoning often goes: Hey, I’ll get to live the easy life married to a rich man until I take him to the cleaners in the divorce. “The bitches?” What are you, a 13 year old gangsta? ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2012, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russell-brand-files-for-divorce/608480/20 "2012-01-08T09:16:52Z")
> [@Myrnalene](#): > > Yeah, Katy Perry was really hurting financially. > > :rolleyes: And that one instance invalidates the general case! :rolleyes: [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russell-brand-files-for-divorce/608480.md?page=2)