Russell Brand: Hot or not???

Fame Pictures

MTV is about to bring a rockin’ night to the City That Never Sleeps!

Following last year’s show in LA, the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards will grace New York’s Radio City Music Hall before a live audience on September 13 at 9 pm. British bad boy comedian Russell Brand will once again host the iconic music show, and teen star Taylor Swift will perform hits off her multi-platinum album Fearless.

“I’m so excited that MTV and the VMAs have invited me to perform, because I think this year’s show will be unlike anything they’ve ever done!” Taylor gushed.

Source, Bauer-Griffin

Controversial comic Russell Brand is set to host MTV’s annual Video Music Awards Sept. 13 in New York City, the network confirmed in a statement Tuesday.

Assuming hosting duties for the second year in a row, Brand — who is currently filming the sequel to Forgetting Sarah Marshall — was welcomed back with open arms, despite causing controversy at last year’s event by ribbing the Jonas Brothers in his opening monologue.

During the show’s open, Brand (a confessed former sex addict) repeatedly joked about the Jonas’ purity rings, saying they should take advantage of their celeb status to get lucky. He later apologized.

“We are thrilled that despite numerous death threats from Jonas Brothers fans, Russell Brand has accepted our offer to put his life on the line and host the VMAs again this year,” MTV’s General Manager, Stephen Friedman, told Usmagazine.com in a statement.

Country teen queen Taylor Swift will also appear on the live broadcast, performing a never-before heard version of her hit “You Belong With Me.”

Source

Winners are:

Lizzie & Holly

Thanks guys! Stay tuned for more contests!

Russell Brand on the set of “Get Him To The Greek!” in Los Angeles on Thursday.  Work it Russell!

Photos: fame 

Russell Brand, who The New York Times recently called “irresistibly salacious,” rocks the stage in this first original COMEDY CENTRAL stand-up special. Filmed at the theatre at El Museo Del Barrio in New York City, Brand details the difficulty of handling his newfound fame in America, recounts the time he met the Queen and instructs women on how to approach him. Released via COMEDY CENTRAL Home Entertainment and Paramount Home Entertainment, “Russell Brand in New York City: Extended & Uncensored” DVD arrives in stores nationwide on Tuesday, May 19 and will also be available at http://shop.comedycentral.com.

“Russell Brand in New York City: Extended & Uncensored” DVD is a single disc and includes the following bonus material: Brand’s infamous monologue at the 2008 MTV “Video Music Awards;” “An Englishman in New York,” which features the comedian riding around Times Square and conducting raucous man-on-the-street interviews; and deleted scenes from the special of Brand handling a female heckler in the audience titled “Loose Canon Drunk Girl.”

Here’s a clip from the DVD!

Brand is a winner of “Best Live Stand-up” at the 2008 British Comedy Awards, comedian, actor and author. From Brand’s scene-stealing performances in “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” and Adam Sandler’s “Bedtime Stories” to hosting the incredibly successful “2008 MTV Music Awards” and his run of sold-out shows at the Montreal “Just for Laughs” Comedy Festival, Brand has taken the United States by storm.

Next, Brand will be seen in Julie Taymor’s “The Tempest” and in May 2009, he will begin production on “Get Him To The Greek,” a new Judd Apatow-produced comedy, in which Brand reprises his role as Aldous Snow — the once-sober rock star who falls off the wagon before a major gig. Brand’s much anticipated biography, “My Booky Wook,” released in the United States in March 2009, has quickly become a New York Times bestseller.

I have TWO DVD’s to give away! All you need to do to enter is leave a comment in this post! This contest will run 24 hours, so you have until tomorrow afternoon to enter! Good luck! (US residents only, please)

Only $7.99 on Amazon! Go here to order your copy now!

Universal is resurrecting the 1991 movie Drop Dead Fred as a starring vehicle for Russell Brand, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Dennis McNicholas, a cowriter on the production company’s upcoming Land of the Lost, will write the script based on the original, which starred Phoebe Cates as a woman who loses her job and her husband only to find her world further rocked by the appearance of a rambunctious imaginary friend from her childhood (whom Brand will play in the remake). The first Fred was a flop, but achieved some cult-level success.