Russell Brand will be back to host the 2009 VMAs

Russell Brand will be back to host the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards. The celeb-filled, anything-might-happen 26th annual MTV Video Music Awards is scheduled for September 13 at 9 p.m. ET here in New York City.

This will be the second year in a row, that Russell will be hosting the live show taking place at some of the city’s most iconic locations, including Radio City Music Hall.

Last year was controversial for Russell, you either loved him (I thought he was funny) or, well not so much. “This year will be a controversy-free festival of love and discrete orgasms,” said the “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” star, who stirred plenty of controversy as host last year when he joked about the Jonas Brothers’ purity rings.

MTV has explained that the show, which will take over the entire city of New York, including spots like Radio City Music Hall, and is sure to be as action-packed as last year’s, thanks in part to Brand’s return.

“I’m feeling a series of joyful twitches and spasms beginning at the tips of my tiny toes and traveling up in glorious ways throughout my body as I begin to accept that I am the MTV VMA host again,” he told MTV News. “I feel enlightened and excited.”

“I think I’ll have live sex with barnyard animals onstage. Last year, I wasn’t trying to be controversial. I was just trying to be a good boy and not be any bother, and the controversy happened organically,” he said. “I will be humble and graceful as I try to hold the whole thing together.”

As for the Jonas Brothers, does Brand have any insider knowledge that they’ll be back for more this year? “I hope so. I’m hoping that given their religious principles, they would have forgiven me,” he said. “I think they’re very sweet and lovely young men, and I would be thrilled if they’d be there in some capacity.”

Brand is already thinking up ideas to surpass the headline-making Brüno/Eminem incident at the 2009 MTV Movie Awards in May. “It’s going to be difficult, but having worked with Diddy, I am pretty sure I can negotiate a situation where he breastfeeds me live at the podium,” he said.