Unsettling moment Russell Brand jokes with Noel Fielding about being rapists in front of Lily Allen in TV exchange she found 'really horrendous'

This is the unsettling moment Russell Brand joked with Noel Fielding about being rapists in front of Lily Allen during a TV show in an exchange she later described as 'really horrendous'. 

The uncomfortable incident has resurfaced in the wake of Brand, 51, being convicted of one rape and three sexual assaults. 

Actor and comedian Brand now faces years behind bars after the guilty verdict was delivered on Thursday.  

During the minute-long clip, taken from Channel 4's Big Fat Quiz of the Year in 2007, host Jimmy Carr can be seen welcoming Rob Brydon, David Mitchell, Jonathan Ross, Noel Fielding and Brand onto the show, alongside Allen - the only female guest appearing on the show.

Ross looks at Brand and Fielding as he tells Carr: 'I'm a bit concerned because look where you've put us. 

'You've put the only sexually attractive young lady – well, the only young lady full stop, she happens to be very attractive as well – near two of the best known c***smen of the business.'  

'I'm going to insist as a sort of uncle figure in Lily's life that she moves over there because obviously that's the sexless zone,' Ross continues, pointing to Brydon and Mitchell. 

'And then, Lily might go home with her dress still on.'

Lily Allen pulled a grimace during an uncomfortable exchange between Russell Brand and Noel Fieldingon a Channel 4 show in which they joked about being rapists

Allen later reflected on the moment as 'really horrendous' but stayed silent because of the 'culture' at the time

Fielding replies: 'How dare you? We're not rapists,' much to the amusement of the audience.

Carr then asks the comedian why he is wearing a cape if he is not a rapist. 

'It's a Jack the Ripper cape. He wasn't a rapist, he was just...' Fielding says, as Brand adds: 'A serial murderer. There is no direct corollary between capes and rape. It's just a rhyme. Leave him alone.' 

Brand continues: 'What if, horror of horrors, he ain't even done a rape. You could ruin his reputation.'

The audience continue to laugh as Brand asks him: 'Have you done a rape?'

Fielding then placed his cape across his face and said: 'Well, if I have, I'd be leaving the scene of the crime like this.'

Allen can be seen looking discomfited throughout the exchange, glancing down at her hands and making a grimacing face at the comments.

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In 2023 she reflected on the moment as 'really horrendous' but had stayed silent because of the 'culture' at the time.

She told Grazia UK that she had been aware of the clip resurfacing 'where I was on a chat show with Russell Brand and Noel Fielding and Jonathan Ross. And there are comments, I think, about me being raped or something.'

Allen added: 'And I laugh along with it. In retrospect, that's really horrendous. It makes me uncomfortable, but I don't think I felt that at the time, because it was the culture.'

While Brand has now been convicted of rape and sexual assault, there is no suggestion that Fielding has been accused of similar allegations.

Brand and Ross would come to be involved in a separate incident after the pair left lewd messages for the grandfather of actress Georgina Baillie, who Brand was dating at the time.

In what became known as 'Sachsgate', the pair prank called the late Andrew Sachs - who played Manuel in the hit '70s comedy Fawlty Towers - while recording a BBC Radio 2 show and left a voicemail in which Ross blurted out: 'He f***** your granddaughter'.

Their prank prompted a furious backlash - including from then Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

Fielding and Brand were also known to be close comedy collaborators and friends during the early 2000s and 2010s, with the former often mentioning the now-disgraced comedian in interviews.

In 2016, he hinted at Brand's behaviour after being asked in a BBC interview if he would be up for touring with him.

He said: 'I'm game if Russell is. I think a Goth Detectives tour could be fun. A sort of Agatha Christie 'who done it'.

'Someone would get murdered (not for real) and then we would look for the murderer. I'd hunt for clues while Russell seduced the first four rows of the venue (he's trying to cut down).' 

A picture of the pair on Instagram was included with the interview - but has since been taken down.

Fielding again referred to Brand during an interview with Lorraine Kelly on her ITV1 chat show, where he revealed that the pair 'occasionally' meditated together. 

Noel Fielding and Russell Brand, pictured in 2012, were known collaborators and friends 

The clip of their time on Channel 4's Big Fat Quiz of the Year has resurfaced alongside another video in which Brand joked about raping a woman.

In the now-deleted clip from YouTube, Brand was speaking to Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast in 2013 where he claimed he was a 'mundane bloke... from a single-parent family' who became a 'pretty comprehensive show-off'.

But Herring and the audience roared with laughter when the star broke the silence and said: 'Oh I've raped someone once' and 'killed her after'.

In the same video he joked about the ancient Greeks having sex with children while creating mathematics, saying: 'They didn't mind it did they. They were clever weren't they.'

He then mimicked having sex and said: 'I've done another triangle. I'm f***ing a little kid. This is great. F**k the kid with the triangle. No that's too much.' 

He also joked about adults such as babysitters performing sex acts in front of children, including him.

In the deleted YouTube interview with fellow comedian Herring, Brand, who also called himself a 'sex narcissist', says: 'Look at the women in this room. Even a bold estimate would be that I've slept with half of them. Currently.' 

The Metropolitan Police has confirmed investigations are ongoing into two allegations of rape made against Brand, and its chief Sir Mark Rowley said he would not be surprised if 'many more' alleged victims of Brand now came forward.