Russell Brand might have a pretty short filmography right now, but it shouldn't take too much digging to realize that he's going to be a force to be reckoned with very soon. He surprised everyone in the States with his scene-stealing performance in "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" and then went on to make us love Aldous Snow all over again in this year's "Get Him To The Greek." Somehow he managed to make a drunken rock star surprisingly nuanced and relatable.

Full disclosure: I haven't seen "Bedtime Stories" so I can't vouch for Brand in there. Nor have I seen "The Tempest," since it hasn't hit theaters in the Boston area yet. But what I have seen is Vulture's video of Brand improvising a five-minute long back story for his Shakespearean character, the jester Trinculo, during a "Tempset" rehearsal with director Julie Taymor and co-star Alfred Molina. All I can say is that maybe if Vulture had released this a day earlier, the HFPA would have rethought giving Johnny Depp both of those Golden Globe nominations and maybe spared one for Brand.

It's not your average comedian who can pull up five minutes of Shakespearean back story on the fly on the first day of rehearsal, and honestly his whole monologue is a bit genius. This might not be enough proof to convince Brand-haters that he's more than just a crazy personality with a giant head of hair, but I think it's a pretty impressive display of what Brand is capable of. Given the right director and the right role, I would say that it isn't too far-fetched that this man will earn an Oscar at one point in his lifetime.

Were you as impressed with Brand's dizzying monologue as we were? Can you wrap your head around the idea of Russell Brand: Oscar winner?