This site didn’t exist in 2009, and I don’t think this video was ever posted here in full, so just for fun, here’s Russell on The View in 2009.
Below the cut, his “exit interview” where he comments on the experience, and also The View’s interview with Aldous Snow.
I’ve always wondered why the US didn’t have an award show for comedy, and now we finally do.
The first annual Comedy Awards, from the people at Comedy Central, will be broadcast on April 10, and Russell is up for best comedy actor for Get Him to the Greek. The film itself is also up for best comedy film. Despicable Me is nominated as best animated comedy film.
The awards will be broadcast across several US networks – Comedy Central, Spike TV, TV Land, VH1 and Nick At Nite.
And you know I’ll have all the Russell highlights here, right?!
Just a brief clip discussing the recording of Russell’s vocals for Get Him to the Greek.
Get Him to the Greek is now out on DVD in the US! To celebrate, here’s a short clip from the bonus disc:
Here’s a Get Him to the Greek review that I missed when originally published — by Lindy West from The Stranger. I love this reviewer.
Don’t Knock Russell Brand. He’s the Most Beautiful Woman on Earth.
Hello. I know that in your small and extremely quaint island nation, Russell Brand is some sort of fancypants celebrity court jester to the stars, and you’re probably completely sick of him, or maybe you’re not, or whatever. I don’t care. Among my people (creepy Anglophiles aside), we hadn’t much heard of Brand until his smallish supporting role in 2008’s shockingly competent Forgetting Sarah Marshall. But with last week’s opening of Get Him to the Greek – a film that’s like a great big Brand-flavored adrenaline needle straight to the heart – America is getting acquainted with the man fast. And deep. And it’s giving me some feelings.
Apologies to that one Indian lady, but it must be said: Russell Brand is the most beautiful woman on earth. Slender as a willow wand, tall as a fairly tall human man, hair like corn silk if the corn had some sort of agricultural blight that turned its corn hairs black and curly, like a bearded Audrey Hepburn with a dirty mouth and an only slightly more serious sex addiction. Confidential to any eccentric fafillionaires reading this: I would like to touch Russell Brand on the mouth with my mouth. I promise not to suck out his soul like a witch, if that helps with the paperwork.
But beyond all that hey-let-me-rub-you-creepily-on-your-boday business (SERIOUSLY, THOUGH), Brand is an exquisitely bizarre and oddly affecting comedic actor.
Ok, not a new interview, but bear with me, it’s a good one!
Russell is his hilarious, irrepressible self as he talks to Artist Direct about Aldous’s iPod, how Danish people have sex, and his favorite Morrissey lines.
Both the Unrated and Original Theatrical Versions of Get Him to the Greek will be released on Blu-ray™ and DVD September 28, 2010 (in the USA, not sure yet about other countries).
Bonus features include:
Additional features available only on Blu-Ray version:
Source: PR Newswire
Aldous’s verse is so awesome – “check it.”