I highly recommend you all read this interview that Defamer did with Russell Brand, the British actor trying to make a splash on the U.S. scene when he hosts the upcoming VMAs.

They basically give him a pop quiz on pop culture, and there are a lot of funny bits in there, but here’s one of my favorites:

DEFAMER: Here’s another easy one: Amy Winehouse.
RUSSELL: Amy has been on several of my television shows in the United Kingdom. She’s a very talented and beautiful girl and in my house, to this day, I have a Mexican doll that for a while lived in her hair.
DEFAMER: [laughs]
RUSSELL: You know those Mexican worry dolls? Or maybe they’re Colombian. You sort of tell it your worries. She took it out of her hair once, gave it to me, and I treasure that little worry doll.

So, yeah.

Amy Winehouse keeps worry dolls in her beehive.

Russell should try unscrewing the head off that worry doll. There’s like $20K worth of heroin in there. Just FYI.

Here’s the Britney Spears promo for the 2008 VMAs, with host Russell Brand, whose last name she apparently cannot remember. I don’t know if they even scripted this thing. They probably just turned the camera on and waited, knowing full well that Britney would be unintentionally hilarious at some point.

I have to admit, though, she looks hot here.

There was talk of Britney Spears getting a “do-over” performance at the 2008 VMAs, but since her 2007 performance resulted in three public hangings and an invite-only beheading at MTV’s New York City offices, it looks like the staff thought better of it. Britney will not perform live on the VMAs. Instead, she recorded a promo clip with the host, Russell Brand. (Can’t figure out where you know Russell Brand from? He was the crazy rock star dude in Forgetting Sarah Marshall.)

The spot apparently pokes fun at her god-awful performance from last year, and it seems it involves some manner of literal elephant in the room.

Sigh.