Russell Brand attacks Katy Perry heckler

Comedian Russell Brand turns the tables on a man who was heckling him about ex-wife Katy Perry during a live show

Russell Brand didn't find it funny when a heckler yelled out estranged wife Katy Perry's name during a performance. Picture: AFP. Source: news.com.au

COMEDIAN Russell Brand has lashed out at a heckler at his stand-up show who repeatedly shouted his estranged wife Katy Perry's name.

Brand was midway through a performance in New Jersey when the man began yelling out Perry's name.

When he found the man causing the ruckus, he didn't hold back.

"It's you is it? Oh dear... I thought this guy is confident, probably because he's incredibly handsome. But look at you! You look like something that has fallen off the outside of a church," he said.

"And what is it that you have rattling around your mind, some bizarre combination of alcohol and idiocy ... some cocktail of nothing? And yet the confidence to continue shouting. They say of course, don't they, that empty vessels make the most noise. What an enormous echo of nothingness from you."

Brand still wasn't finished.

"Keep your lips firmly, firmly clamped together. Because everything that comes out of your mouth, from your idiotic announcements to your disgusting halitosis that's coming through this room, is an abomination," he said.