Russell Brand and David Walliams (Image: The Law Society Gazette) If you were to judge the recent news in Britain in black and white, you may recollect the 2000s very differently to how we actually experienced it at the time. The conviction and sentencing of Russell Brand for rape and sexual assault, followed swiftly by the shocking documentary that covered multiple allegations of sexual misconduct and grooming by David Walliams, have felt as though an earthquake had pierced through the British entertainment scene. Some commentators are already comparing these cases to the #MeToo movement that dumbfounded the American film industry almost ten years ago, with potentially more names to come out. In the Noughties, Brand and Walliams were big comedy personalities in their own rights. Brand was always seen as edgy and he never shied away from sexualised content in his work, which took him, on the most part, post-watershed on places like Channel 4. Later, he had a stint on BBC Radio 2 as a ...