The VMAs: Is Russell Brand Deported Yet?
If you missed the annual bikewreck that is the VMAs, I'm jealous. Nothing happened, and the only reason to watch the show was to complain about it loudly with other people who were also watching and complaining loudly. The two biggest questions going in were:
1. Will Britney do anything notable or interesting?
2. Will Russell Brand be surprisingly good or expectedly terrible?
The answers were:
1. "Not unless you count still smacking bubble gum and sticking her tongue out after all these years 'interesting'" and
2. Absolutely terrible -- even if you had very low expectations! Look, I understand that Russell Brand is considered very funny in England, and I understand that he has funny admirers like Judd Apatow, and I even understand that some of his old comedy -- the stuff he's known for in the UK -- is funny. But whatever his talent is, he left it behind when he came to America. His Jonas brothers promise ring thing would have been medium-funny if he'd left it to one joke (it certainly wasn't shocking), and he just doesn't have the kind of charm to pull off the kind of insult-MC comedy he was trying to do. He's just not likable -- and no man who spends that amount of time on his hair and makeup can be called self-deprecating. Next year, MTV should bring back the best non-accidental entertainment of last year's VMA's: Sarah Silverman. Not that I'll be watching. I'm really done with this show. For real this time.
Posted by Lindsay at 10:20 AM in Awards, Awkward Live TV, That's Your Boyfriend
Tags: Britney Spears | Russell Brand
I thought Russell was more entertaining than most of the hosts MTV has scuttled up there in the past 25 years.
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The one moment that I found Brand to be truly funny is when he would lurk behind the presenter and interrupt him/her/them (particularly taking the wind out of the cast of Twilight's collective sails). Other than that, he was pretty much a let-down, sad to say.
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i was really disappointed with the hosting - this coming from a fan of russell brand.
i think the whole kit and caboodle was pretty flat.
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I thought it was horrible and I didn't even watch it
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I think it's funny that Videogum makes so much effort in putting down Russel Brand. And how whenever Britain is mentioned (Russel is popular in Britain, not just England) the writers here do it with a not so subtle amount of patronizing and a hardly veiled amount of derision.
It seems odd that this is the sister-site to Sterogum, a website that couldn't be accused of being America centric at all, in fact its a site that should be commended for eclecticism in it's chosen field (music).
If so much of what is obviously very foreign to you is lost in translation, then maybe you need to bring someone in on the team who isn't so blinkered by stars and stripes.
You're on the World Wide Web and not the States Wide Web after all.
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L.O.L.
You should host the VMAs next year.
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Yeah Stephen, this site would never spend too much time trying to take down an AMERICAN unfunnyman, like, for argument's sake, Dane Cook.
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he's canadian you fuck
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I don't have cable, so I didn't watch the VMAs (yeah, that's why), but you know how I feel about Russell Brand. I don't think claiming he's my boyfriend is a bad thing at all.
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Stephen's comment is hilarious. If this is what he has to say about the VMAs, imagine what he has up his sleeve for our presidential election or spaghetti cat.
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During Exiled, the vma bugs in the corner of the screen were reaching up high enough to cover the faces of whoever was on screen. It would have been funny except that Exiled is actually a pretty decent show.
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I think Stephen is actually Russel Brand's hair
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i dunno.... i watched russel brand on the late late show with craig ferguson and thought he was hilarious... seriously i dont think ive ever laughed that hard at late night tv
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what a nice pic!))) what a nice pig))))
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