The actor spent over a minute of Morgan’s show looking for the verse he read at a court hearing addressing the allegations of rape and sexual assault against him.

Russell Brand gets roasted after struggling to find Bible passage during awkward Piers Morgan interview

The actor spent over a minute of Morgan's show looking for the verse he read at a court hearing addressing the allegations of rape and sexual assault against him.

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Piers Morgan and Russell Brand on 'Piers Morgan Uncensored' on April 24, 2026. Credit:

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- Russell Brand is getting roasted for his awkward new interview with Piers Morgan.

- Morgan asked the disgraced actor about taking a Bible into his February court hearing addressing the allegations of rape and sexual assault made against him.

- Brand then spent over 90 seconds of the interview trying to find the Bible passage that he read in court.

Russell Brand is getting roasted for an awkward moment that occurred during his new interview with Piers Morgan.

On the latest episode of *Piers Morgan Uncensored*, Brand addressed everything from his pivot to right-wing podcasting, to becoming a Christian, to the multiple allegations of sexual assault and rape that he has been battling in U.K. courts since 2023. The *Forgetting Sarah Marshall *star has denied all allegations against him.

At one point during the interview, Morgan brought up Brand's court hearing in February, during which he pleaded not guilty to two charges of sexual assault, including one of rape. The actor could be seen holding a copy of the Bible during the hearing, which he also brought to his interview with Morgan.

"Can I go back to asking you a question about your Bible?" Morgan said. "Is that the one you took into court? What was your thinking of taking it into court? And you were seen looking at some passages — what were the relevant passages?"

Russell Brand on Feb. 24, 2026.

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Brand thanked Morgan for the question, noting that the passage came from the Book of Isaiah, and began flipping through the Bible, muttering to himself about needing to be "chill." However, he spent over 90 seconds attempting to find the passage as Morgan sat in silence, shooting uneasy looks at the camera.

The comedian finally gave up. "I can't actually find the verse that I had that day," he said, "but this is good enough. This is from Isaiah 12."

It didn't take long for clips of Brand's fruitless search to begin circulating on social media, with users mocking it and calling it "painful."

"This is, hands down, the most uncomfortable two minutes I've watched in a long time," one user wrote on X. "Russell Brand is asked to identify a Bible verse relevant to his, um, legal battles and spends a few minutes clumsily thumbing through scripture and arrives at nothing."

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Another user wrote, "There should be a class act lawsuit against Russell Brand for making anyone suffer through this awkward moment. 2 mins of my life I will never get back."

"This two minutes of paper shuffling is significantly funnier than any movie he has ever made," another X user wrote.

"No clip has ever captured the essence of born-again Christians quite like this," another wrote.

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Others speculated that Brand had made the moment cringe-inducing on purpose. "You snobs can't appreciate that Russell Brand just totally reinvented prop comedy," one user wrote.

Morgan himself got in on the jokes, sharing a photo of him and Brand during the interview. "I knew my Russell Brand interview would be an interesting experience when he insisted on saying a prayer for both of us before we started," the TV host wrote.

Brand has been embroiled in a number of lawsuits in the U.K. He was accused of rape, sexual assault, and emotional abuse by four women in 2023, following a joint investigation by *The Times*, *The Sunday Times*, and Channel 4's investigative series *Dispatches*. The incidents allegedly occurred between 1999 and 2005. Just two months after the bombshell investigation made waves, he was accused of sexually assaulting an actress on the set of the movie *Arthur*.

The actor refuted the first raft of allegations in the days following the 2023 investigation, per NBC News, and has continued to deny all the allegations made against him.

Watch Brand's appearance on *Piers Morgan Uncensored* above.

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