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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Monkey

Watch out TV execs, Russell Brand will be cracking jokes at your expense next

Further to our previous Monkey on Camp Rock, as hordes of fans descended on the Royal Festival Hall for last night's European premiere House of the Mouse's latest worldwide TV sensation and a chance to see the Disney film's band The Jonas Brothers in the flesh. But inside the auditorium, prior to the screening, the adulation was even reserved for the traditionally less feted figures of ... television executives. As Disney TV's Europe, Africa and Middle East boss (and former ITV exec) John Hardie came on stage to introduce the film he was greeted with screams and whoops from the hundreds of excited children. And it didn't end there. The name of "co-chair Media Networks Anne Sweeney" was met with delighted, high-pitched screams, as was the name of Disney Channel Worldwide president Gary Marsh. And so on. Who says the suits can't feel the love as well?

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