Brand never worried about death threats

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Russell Brand has said that he never takes death threats seriously.

The 34-year-old comic received a barrage of hate mail after making a joke about former President George W Bush at the MTV Video Music Awards in 2008.

He told Playboy magazine: "I was surprised my agency forwarded them along to me. It was like, 'Look at all these death threats you've been getting!'

"I was also getting sexy letters with messages like 'Hello, Russell. Here are photos of my t*ts. I wish you'd come around and f**k me.' But they never passed those along to me."

Brand added: "Those letters they just burned. All I got were the death threats. I never took any of it seriously.

"If you think about it, a death threat is really futile, given the nature of mortality. If you want somebody to die, just wait."

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