Moment Russell Brand jokes with Jonathan Ross about how being in jail cells is 'tiresome and lonely' - as he makes Lindsay Lohan visibly uncomfortable on chat show

This is the moment Russell Brand left Lindsay Lohan looking increasingly uncomfortable as he joked about prison being 'tiresome and lonely'.

The resurfaced clip, taken from The Jonathan Ross Show in 2014, saw the disgraced comedian and Hollywood actress sat next to one another on a mustard-coloured sofa as they regaled their experiences of getting into trouble with the law.

But the footage - which has emerged as 51-year-old Brand begins a 10-year sentence for rape and sexual assault - has become all the more remarkable given Lohan's uneasy reaction to the comedian.

Throughout the two-minute clip, Lohan, 40, can be seen at first tugging at her skirt to pull it down, before moving as far to the edge of the sofa as possible away from Brand.

But he continues to inch towards her during their chat, leaning in and even at one moment tapping her on the shoulder.

The clip begins with Ross asking Brand: 'You've never been jailed for your behaviour?'

Brand went on to refer to the moment he was arrested after grabbing and throwing a photographer's phone through a window in New Orleans, in 2012. He was subsequently released on bail and sentenced to community service.

The convicted rapist jested: 'No. Sometimes they would leave me in police cells for a while, I didn't like that very much. It was tiresome, it was lonely, it's hard to build rapport.'

This is the moment Russell Brand left Lindsay Lohan looking increasingly uncomfortable as he joked about prison being 'tiresome and lonely' on The Jonathan Ross Show in 2014

Throughout the two-minute clip, Lohan, 40, can be seen at first tugging at her skirt to pull it down, before moving as far to the edge of the sofa as possible away from Brand

Brand continues to inch towards her during their chat, leaning in and even at one point tapping her on the shoulder

After the audience began laughing, Brand touched Lohan's shoulder before quipping: 'Like New Orleans, it's worse getting arrested in your country than it is in mine.

'Everyone else had an orange boiler suit on, I felt so left out.'

Grinning at his light take on being arrested, Brand continued: 'The police [here] are so much more friendly. 

'For a start, in this country we cuff the hands in front and not behind.

'The police cars, all crunched up in there. They took all my drugs from me! In fact it's boring in the cell, that's when you need drugs, take the edge off. Cruel really!'

Lohan appeared to smile politely and gasped 'oh my goodness' before sharing her own, more somber experience of being in prison. 

'I was actually in solitary confinement for 14 days,' she told Ross. 

'Solitary confinement is actually very different, you leave your cell for one hour a day and you don't go outside.

'I don't think anyone knows that but the other girls in the other cells were in there for murder… They [the Prison Officers] said it was for 'safety purposes', I said, 'what am I going to do?'

'I made a mistake, I went to a club and then I drank and I drove home and that's not the right thing to do but to put someone in that position, it was very scary, it was very jarring.'

In May 2010, a judge determined Lohan had violated the terms of her probation by missing several mandatory DUI classes and meetings and was sentenced to 90 days in jail followed by 90 days of inpatient rehab treatment.

The actress served only 14 days of the sentence due to overcrowding, but despite the time inside she found it 'weirdly' cathartic.

'The weirdest part for me was I finally had silence in my life,' Lindsay recalled.

'As terrified as I was and as scared as I was, I finally felt like I didn't have to answer to anyone and I didn't have to do anything for anyone. That was the weirdest part of it.'

When Ross asked if perhaps it was a good thing for her in that case, Lindsay said, 'Two days would have been enough.'

The poignant clip has resurfaced amid a fresh police probe, after at least eight more women accused Brand of sexual abuse and predatory behaviour.

Brand now faces the prospect of a second trial after a number of new alleged victims have come forward, The Mail revealed on Friday. 

Police are also doing final work on files of evidence submitted to the Crown Prosecution Service in relation to claims from two further women, including an allegation that he raped a 16-year-old. 

Brand was sentenced to ten years and six months in prison on Monday after being convicted of rape and sexual assault.

He is currently at HMP Wandsworth - and according to sources the comedian's usual swaggering bravado is evaporating.

'When he arrived, he came floating in almost as though he was the Messiah,' a prison source told the Daily Mail this week.

'There was this air of superiority about him – but you could tell immediately that it was an act.

'He was incredibly pale, almost as though he was going to be sick. Whatever confidence he was trying to project, you could see the fear beneath it.'

Brand was said to have looked 'absolutely horrified' when he saw his new cell.

The source said:  'It was as though the reality of what had happened had finally sunk in. This wasn't a temporary inconvenience or something he could talk his way out of. 

'This was going to be his life for the next seven years. He asked whether he could have some privacy when using the toilet, which gives you an idea of how difficult he's finding the adjustment.

'Prison cells aren't exactly designed with personal dignity in mind.'

One woman visiting her son on Thursday said Brand had been told to be careful how he behaved.

'He's quite an arrogant person really, so the staff told him 'arrogance doesn't work around here',' she said.

The prison source added: 'He's been advised that he might want to consider having his hair cut to make himself look a bit less conspicuous.

'He's already received some abuse from other prisoners. Someone shouted: "You're not a superstar in here, Brand. You're just another nonce."

'Brand is in just about the worst possible position for someone entering prison.

'He's probably the most high-profile prisoner in the country and he doesn't possess the skills needed to survive in that environment. 

'If he tries to be too clever, he'll get lamped. If he takes the piss out of someone or tries to belittle another prisoner, he could get a serious beating.

'At the same time, the problem for Brand is that he doesn't even have to do anything wrong. He could get a beating simply for being Russell Brand. 

'His fame makes him a target, and there will be prisoners who would love nothing more than to make a name for themselves by attacking him.'

Meanwhile, a convicted robber released from the jail on Wednesday after serving half of a six-year sentence told the Daily Mail: 'Russell Brand will absolutely hate it.

'It's the solid boredom more than anything. And the other prisoners won't give a damn that he was famous.

'They've got enough of their own worries and troubles to be impressed by that. He will have his own TV and stuff. But he will feel so lonely.'