Video battle sees Russell Brand running verbal circles around Fox News anchor Sean Hannity

A screen-grab from Russell Brand's video to Sean Hannity.

A video battle between the British comedian/actor Russell Brand and the American Fox News anchor Sean Hannity is taking the internet by storm.

It began with a contemptuous dissection, by Brand, of a section of Hannity’s show called Sympathy for Terrorists.

Brand conducted a critical examination of the strong-arm tactics that Hannity uses in order to push his angle. Hannity shouts and points at his Palestinian-American guest Yousef Munayyer and will not let him answer any questions, even at one point ranting: “What part of this can’t you get through your thick head?”

Hannity was quick with his reply to Brand’s piece, gathering a panel and opening with the line: “Russell Brand, a D-list actor, better known for his failed marriage to Katy Perry, recorded himself going on a 12-and-a-half minute tirade against ... little old me.”

One of Hannity’s panel, Bernard McGuirk, said of Brand that he “looks like he cooks meth and sleeps in his car.”

Brand, in disbelief at the crudeness of the comment answers, “Drug addiction is a real issue, that’s not a derisory issue to be bandied around. I’m 11 years clean… people are dying of drug addiction all the time, it’s an attitude of non-compassion, of hatred and antipathy.”

Both videos are must-watches, as Brand runs verbal circles around Hannity.

Brand finishes by saying “Sean, you are a human being, come back to humanity. You’ve lost yourself, mate. Tonight, when you go home, look in the mirror for a little while, take a deep breath, remember how you were as a child, remember how you feel about the people you love … try and speak from a perspective of love, not from vengeance and hatred.”