russell brandRussell Brand has revealed he got death threats after making jokes about George W Bush at the MTV Video Music Awards last month.

Russell called the current US president a “retarded cowboy” during the show but he didn’t expect people to get that annoyed by it.

He told the Mirror recently: “That [hosting the awards ceremony] was a lot of fun. Especially the death threats.

“These Christian Republicans were watching me and thought, ‘Well this is no good, I shall do a death threat’.

“How can you, while watching the telly, think, ‘Oh I don’t enjoy this, no I’m not enjoying this at all,’ then think, ‘Right I’m going to kill him?’ That’s a huge jump.”

But he wasn’t too bothered by them and even offered his would-be assassins a little advice: “If you are going to kill someone, don’t give them advance notice, which gives you a chance to prepare.”