Russell Brand brands words of Marx on his arm for LA Lakers courtside

Quirky comedian Russell Brand took to an American basketball match to root for the working class.

Brand wore an angry expression as he sat in the front row of an LA Lakers game and the words of Karl Marx written on his arm. The inscription read: "Workers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains."

Brand, who is engaged to Katy Perry, might be feeling the ball and chain of impending marriage. But most likely, the Sun newspaper claims, he was trying to get some publicity for the late father of communism.

Brand afterward took to his Twitter account to say: "I've just heard the Lakers are all millionaires! How?! I put my balls in a basket ONCE and I was thrown out of the maternity ward.