Jurors were reminded about what Brand had said in his evidence about the impact the programme had on him.
Winter said one “graphic” example of the “truly devastating effect” on Brand was when a hospital “would not permit him to visit the bedside of his baby son after life-saving open heart surgery”.
Winter said: “That tells you the extent to which public opinion has… corrupted.”
Brand previously told jurors that Great Ormond Street Hospital didn’t let him stay with his son due to “material that had been published in the public eye”.
Brand’s lawyer also told jurors that Brand “had an immense amount of sex”, but that “none of it was unlawful”.
“Disgusting, distasteful, immoral, who cares?” he added.
“It’s irrelevant to your consideration.”
Winter said he was “sorry to have to say it’s not criminal to treat women unkindly before, during or after sex,” nor is it “criminal to be disrespectful, or be rude, or to behave like a crazy idiot.”
He also questioned how none of the women came forward during the MeToo movement.
“Many women were questioning whether they had a bad experience sexually at the hands of a famous person. It could not have been more publicised,” he said.
“How is it that not one of them thought what happened to them involved a crime during the MeToo movement?”
Speaking about Brand’s comedy, Winter described it as “radical and different” as Brand was “telling the truth about what was going on consensually between adults”.
The barrister said: “You may think that while his comedy was certainly not to all tastes and very much the product of the time, he was honest then about it, he was honest then about what sort of sex he was engaged in.”
He said Brand’s stand-up comedy was focused on him “telling the truth”, adding: “When you put yourself back to the time, it was radical and different because someone was telling the truth about what’s going on consensually between adults.”
Winter also referred to evidence given by Brand’s wife Laura, saying: “She fell in love with that man in full knowledge of what he was doing.
“She married him, she bore him three children.”
He went on to say that she would not have done so if Brand was “guilty as charged”.
Brand arrived at court today accompanied by his wife Laura and her father Bernard Gallacher, the former professional golfer.
The trial continues.