i think people are making a fuss because they are sick of Ross being paid an enormous amount of money to say whatever he likes about who he likes.
It's time he was told to button it.
As for Brand, he is annoying because he appears to have deemed himself as someone also able to get away with anything he likes.
Ross has been annoying me for a couple of years, I don't know why he thinks he's a comedian - he isn't and never has been. Any laughs he gets on his tv show are always at someone's expense and usually crude.
He has said some awful things on his radio 2 show (which I stopped listening to ages ago). He once made a joke about those poor people who died in the back of that lorry. I couldn't believe he'd got away with it.
I can't understand why someone like Angus Deaton got the sack for something he did in his own time, away from his work, and yet these two get away with this.
Having said that, the producers should be severely reprimanded too.
If he gets away with it, Ross will no doubt be making jokes about it all soon enough. He really will be unbearable (literally!)