British actor, author and comedian Russell Brand will host this year’s Video Music Awards. The show set to air live from Paramount Pictures Studios in Los Angeles on Sept. 7, MTV told The Associated Press on Thursday. And MTV is staking its brand on the lesser-known one: Russell Brand. To read about Russell Brand and his expected rise to popularity in the US check out our story about him here. But to give you a rough idea about Russell, he recently co-starred in the Judd Apatow-produced comedy “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” and the Reese Witherspoon-produced fairy tale “Penelope.” He is currently filming the Adam Sandler comedy “Bedtime Stories,” slated for release later this year.

Brand told the AP that he hadn’t started thinking about how he would approach the assignment, not that there’s much planning to be done for the infamously anything-goes show.

“I’ve just been invited to do it,” Brand said in a telephone interview from London. “It’ll be good to preside over what is sure to be only vaguely coordinated televised insanity.”

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