If you didn't know who Russell Brand was before today, you will by tomorrow.

The wild-haired, motor-mouthed British comedian is renowned for risque routines, wrote a memoir recounting his drug and sex addiction and called President Bush “that retarded cowboy fellow” while hosting MTV’s Video Music Awards.

On Wednesday, Brand quit his BBC radio show after he and fellow performer Jonathan Ross were suspended indefinitely for leaving lewd messages on the voicemail of a 78-year-old actor.

The calls by Brand and Ross to actor Andrew Sachs — best known for playing Spanish waiter Manuel in the 1970s Britcom “Fawlty Towers” — have drawn more than 18,000 complaints. Who knew that many people even listen to the BBC?!?!

In the ad-libbed messages, the pair claimed Brand had slept with Sachs’ granddaughter Georgina Baillie, and joked that Sachs might hang himself as a result of the news. Baillie, a 23-year-old burlesque performer, acknowledged she had a sexual relationship with Brand but said the calls to her grandfather were “cruel.”

Both Brand and Ross apologized, but should they?