's fall from grace, in October 2017, presented a serious threat to 's lucrative showbusiness career, not to mention his reputation.The comedian had been reinventing himself as a dutiful father, after marrying two months earlier. But his prior behaviour sat awkwardly with the enlightened new 'MeToo' era. A noted predator, who claimed to have clocked up more than a thousand sexual conquests, he was notorious for using stand-up shows to tell misogynistic 'jokes' about his degrading exploitation of women.Three years earlier on a West End stage, for example, Brand had uttered the punchline: 'Oh, I've raped someone once... and killed her.' On a previous stand-up tour, he'd boasted about performing grotesque sex acts on partners until 'their mascara runs a little bit'.
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