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His monologue contains a bad joke about high gas prices forcing Optimus Prime into taking the bus. Chris Brown in a weird leather military-style jacket reminiscent of Michael Jackson comes onstage and tells Myers not to just phone it in and pimp \u0022The Love Guru.\u0022 Myers challenges Brown to a dance battle. Brown is predictably amazing, Myers ain\u0027t no dancer but he holds his own. They mock the \u0022Beat It\u0022 knife routine and then do a pas de deux in which Myers really gets on the good foot. (He clearly took tap dancing lessons at some time in his life.)\n\nAward: Best Female Perrformance\n\nPresenters: Will Smith, Charlize Theron, and Jason Bateman from \u0022Hancock.\u0022 Smith tries to get the crowd hyped up by call-and-responsing \u0022fe-\u0022 and \u0022-male\u0022 with the audience. Bateman is about to do the same with \u0022Han-\u0022 and \u0022-Cock\u0022 before Theron stops him.\n\nNominees: Keira Knightley, \u0022Pirates of the Caribbean: At World\u0027s End\u0022; Katherine Heigl, \u0022Knocked Up\u0022; Amy Adams, \u0022Enchanted\u0022; Jessica Biel, \u0022I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry\u0022; Ellen Page, \u0022Juno\u0022\n\nWinner: Ellen Page\n\nSpeech: She pretends to kiss Bateman, her \u0022Juno\u0022 co-star. (She\u0027s shorter than the microphone!) She marvels at getting the award from this trio. She says thanks very much to MTV and the voters. Diablo Cody applauds. She thanks the director, cast, crew, studio, and singles out Cody and then skedaddles.\n\nRainn Wilson, who calls himself a huge movie star, is sitting in the audience with an Anton Chigurh lookalike warning winners not to go over their allotted time or this guy will kill them with his air compressor.\n\nAward: Best Fight\n\nPresenters: Will Ferrell and Danny McBride of \u0022The Foot Fist Way.\u0022 Ferrell says that stopping illiteracy is the most important fight in the U.S.A., they then make bad illiteracy jokes. The jokes fall flat and they pimp their movies.\n\nNominees: Matt Damon vs. some dude, \u0022The Bourne Ultimatum\u0022; Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker vs. some dudes, \u0022Rush Hour 3\u0022; Alien vs. Predator, \u0022Aliens vs Predator\u0022; Hayden Christensen vs. Jamie Bell, \u0022Jumper\u0022; Sean Faris vs. Cam Gigandet \u0022Never Back Down\u0022; Tobey Maguire vs. James Franco, \u0022Spider-Man 3\u0022\n\nWinner: Faris and Gigandet \n\nSpeech: Sean thanks MTV, agents, studios etc. Cam thanks, presumably, their fight instructor, and the fans etc. The Anton Chigurh lookalike comes on stage\n\nPresenters: Edward Norton and Liv Tyler of \u0022The Incredible Hulk\u0022 come on to introduce the night\u0027s first musical performers, Coldplay. They talk about the Brit pop-rockers\u0027 hits and activism.\n\nPerformance: Coldplay, \u0022Viva La Vida.\u0022 With a a string quartet on screen the band in their own military style jackets open up the stately, bouncy title track to their forthcoming album. The drummer is banging a huge upright bass drum and Chris Martin and the bass player are manning opposing keyboards. A rain of red confetti showers down mid-song. I think the confetti is shaped like hearts. The song is not terribly dynamic, sort of just strutting along. Now a shower of white confetti flies out. Now blue. Martin, who strolls around in the confetti rain, seems happy even though it sounds like his falsetto might not be quite pitch-perfect this evening. It\u0027s pleasant but not mind-blowing.\n\nAward: Best Summer Movie So Far\n\nPresenters: Seth Rogen and James Franco of \u0022The Pineapple Express.\u0022 They say MTV wanted two stoners like them to give this ridiculous award. They joke that in real life they do not actually smoke weed. They say on set it was all fake weed like this big bag Rogen has, and the joint Franco has, and the lighter Rogen has and uses to light the joint which they joke they are not smoking. (As we see good friends Rihanna and Chris Brown looking on wide-eyed and recovering addict Robert Downey, Jr. looking mildly uncomfortable to be put on camera at this moment). They joke it\u0027s not really, really good weed at all and for kids to not smoke fake pot like they are.\n\nNominees: \u0022Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull\u0022; \u0022Sex and the City: The Movie\u0022; \u0022Speed Racer\u0022; \u0022The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian\u0022; \u0022Iron Man\u0022\n\nWinner: \u0022Iron Man\u0022 (Franco and Rogen now have the \u0022munchies.\u0022)\n\nSpeech: Director Jon Favreau and star Robert Downey, Jr. accept. Downey thanks Franco and Rogen for the \u0022intoxicating\u0022 introduction. Favreau thanks the fans, the cast, the studio,etc. Downey, Jr. signs off by thanking Coolio? Or maybe he was just saying \u0022coolio.\u0022 Oh these wacky kids and their lingo.\n\nFilm package: Myers in drag is playing \u0022Tristan Davis\u0022 an Australian caterer who is dishing about what the stars like to eat, apparently a lot of Nutter Butters. A pregnant Jessica Alba - co-star in \u0022The Love Guru\u0022- comes in to ask for a sandwich. Tristan calls her fat. Jessica protests she\u0027s pregnant. They go back and forth. Oy.\n\nAward: Best Male Performance\n\nPresenters: Sarah Jessica Parker and Jennifer Hudson of \u0022Sex and the City.\u0022 They\u0027re momentarily put off their telemprompter banter by the love of hecklers shouting out in the crowd. They talk about the nominated actors \u0022running\u0022 around in their movies and make a joke about how much harder it would\u0027ve been in heels. SJP looks supertight in a supertight shimmery black mini-dress and Hudson is scrumptious, towering over SJP in a pink and white number that accentuates her, um, assets.\n\nNominees: Michael Cera, \u0022Juno\u0022; Denzel Washington, \u0022American Gangster\u0022; Matt Damon, \u0022The Bourne Ultimatum\u0022; Will Smith, \u0022I Am Legend\u0022; Shia LaBoeuf, \u0022Transformers\u0022\n\nWinner: Will Smith, who brings up his son.\n\nSpeech: He says he remembers being on this stage in 1988 so to be here in 2008 is amazing. (Technically, wouldn\u0027t he have been on the MTV Video Music Awards stage back then?) He knows he hasn\u0027t always made great movies but says that he\u0027s been trying hard. He talks about dedicating his life to making everything he touches better. He thanks the fans for going to see the film even though he was the only one on screen for the first hour.\n\nYikes! Myers is doing a \u0022Wayne\u0027s World\u0022 sketch and the audience gives the intro a standing ovation. Dana Carvey as Garth is with him on the old set. Garth admits it\u0027s been awhile since we last saw them. 1994. The big news: Garth\u0027s gotten pubes. They talk about Tila Tequila and how, since she goes both ways, she\u0027s satisfied no matter what happens when she sticks her hands down someone\u0027s pants. They then pantomime this, to the amusement of Paris Hilton and Benji Madden but to the shocked discomfort of Vanessa Hudgens and Zac Efron. They introduce a top ten list. It\u0027s the  Top Ten Porno Names Based on Last Year\u0027s Hit Movies:\n\n10. \u0022Horton Hears a Ho\u0022 9. \u0022National Pleasure 2: Book of Secretions\u0022 8. \u0022I Am Legend... In Bed\u0022 7. \u0022The Suck-it List\u0022 (Jennifer Hudson doesn\u0027t get it). 6. \u0022I Know Who Drilled Me\u0022 5. \u0022Scat-a touille\u0022 4. \u0022Gush Hour 3\u0022 3. \u0022No Country For Old Balls\u0022 2. \u0022Alvin In the Chipmunks\u0022 1. \u0022Iron Man\u0022\n\nAward: Best Comedic Performance\n\nPresenters: Steve Carrell, Dwayne \u0022The Rock\u0022 Johnson, and Anne Hathaway of \u0022Get Smart.\u0022 Steve and the Rock do a bit on Steve leaning in to the microphone unnecessarily. Carell says he thinks he can handle it. A heckler makes a joke we can\u0027t hear but that cracks up the audience. Then, thanks to Carell repeating it, it\u0027s clear the person yelled out Michael Scott\u0027s catchphrase \u0022that\u0027s what she said!\u0022\n\nNominees: Jonah Hill, \u0022Superbad\u0022; Amy Adams, \u0022Enchanted\u0022; Adam Sandler, \u0022I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry\u0022; Seth Rogen, \u0022Knocked Up\u0022; Johnny Depp, \u0022Pirates of the Caribbean: At World\u0027s End\u0022\n\nWinner: Johnny Depp, who, OMG is back to his supershort, superslick \u002221 Jump Street\u0022- \u0022Cry-Baby\u0022 hair and looks edible. Lindsay Lohan gives him a standing ovation. Hill and Rogen, sitting together, jokingly give him the thumbs down. Diablo Cody grabs her chest in a gesture of, believable, faint-heartedness.\n\nSpeech: Depp says he doesn\u0027t know how this happened since he\u0027s not a very funny person. Not even remotely. He waves to the screaming fans. He calls it sweet and says thanks. Zac Efron wholeheartedly approves.\n\nAward: The Generation Award to Adam Sandler\n\nPresenter: Tom Cruise, who gets a nice reception from the crowd. He explains this award is the highest honor bestowed by MTV, given to an individual who has displayed significant cinematic achievement. He calls Sandler \u0022The Sandman.\u0022 He jokes about Sandler\u0027s career playing various \u0022boys\u0022 and \u0022mans\u0022 (Canteen Boy, Waterboy, Opera Man etc.) He jokes about him winning Academy Awards and a Nobel prize. He keeps calling him \u0022The Sandman.\u0022 He jokes it was \u0022The Sandman\u0027s\u0022 idea for him to dance around in his underwear in \u0022Risky Business.\u0022\n\nClip Package: Clips from Sandler movies including \u0022The Waterboy,\u0022 \u0022The Wedding Singer\u0022 et. al.; \u0022Saturday Night Live\u0022; and even MTV\u0027s \u0022Remote Control.\u0022\n\nAdam Sandler, holding an electric guitar, pops up from below the stage to front a band playing Carly Simon\u0027s \u0022Nobody Does It Better (The Spy Who Loved Me).\u0022 Behind him a huge screen is showing his clips as he sings \u0022nobody does it better.\u0022 When he gets to the \u0022makes me feel sad for the rest\u0022 lyric, photos of Daniel Day-Lewis, Sean Penn, George Clooney, and, oddly, the Cookie Monster flash by. Of course he changes the chorus lyric \u0022to baby I\u0027m the best.\u0022 A group of scantily clad dancers throw themselves around to the tune. Rob Schneider and Kevin James appear to do a little modern dance routine. It\u0027s ridiculous but the only truly funny thing that has happened all night.\n\nCruise comes to give him the award, and kneels before him. Sandler calls it the most arrogant thing he\u0027s ever done and thanks his family, his friends\/writers, his fans, says hello to the troops, and thanks his wife and daughter and daughter\/son to be. Very sweet. Tila Tequila agrees.\n\nBen Stiller, Robert Downey, Jr, and Jack Black do a filmed bit where they\u0027re trying to make a \u0022viral video\u0022 for their movie \u0022Tropic Thunder.\u0022 This essentially involves Downey, wearing an \u0022Iron Man\u0022 mask, pummeling Black, wearing a giant panda head, in the testicles.\n\nAward: Best Breakthrough Performance\n\nPresenters: P. Diddy, Lindsay Lohan, Verne \u0022Mini-Me\u0022 Troyer. They fight over who will open the envelope.\n\nNominees: Christopher Mintz-Plasse, \u0022Superbad\u0022; Nikki Blonsky, \u0022Hairspray\u0022; Seth Rogen, \u0022Knocked Up\u0022; Chris Brown, \u0022This Christmas\u0022; Jonah Hill, \u0022Superbad\u0022; Megan Fox, \u0022Transformers\u0022; Michael Cera, \u0022Superbad\u0022; Zac Efron, \u0022Hairspray\u0022\n\nWinner: Zac Efron.\n\nSpeech: He can\u0027t believe he was nominated. He thanks the other nominees. He thanks the studio, the cast, crew, etc. \u0022Hairspray\u0022 co-star Nikki Blonsky and Vanessa Hudgens are proud.\n\nAward: Best Villain\n\nPresenter: Brendan Fraser\n\nNominees: Johnny Depp, \u0022Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street\u0022; Topher Grace, \u0022Spider-Man 3\u0022; Denzel Washington, \u0022American Gangster\u0022; Javier Bardem, \u0022No Country For Old Men\u0022; Angelina Jolie, \u0022Beowulf\u0022\n\nWinner: Johnny Depp\n\nSpeech: Depp, in all his deliciousness, returns. Tila Tequila and Jon Voight approve. Winning two times in one night is \u0022nutty\u0022 in his estimation. He thanks the voters, calls it a great honor, and thanks his fans for sticking with him on this \u0022obtuse and strange road.\u0022\n\nFour chicks-\u0022American Idol\u0022 runner up Katharine McPhee, Rumer Willis, Anna Faris, Emma Stone- from the new movie \u0022House Bunny\u0022 introduce the Pussycat Dolls.\n\nPerformance: Pussycat Dolls perform their new single \u0022When I Grow Up.\u0022 Shockingly, they\u0027re all dressed from head to toe. Kidding. They\u0027re wearing a variety of bustiers, bikini tops, hot pants, and garters. They\u0027re singing about wanting to famous. It\u0027s peppy with moving platforms, flashing lights, lotsa dancing and dancers.\n\nAward: Best Kiss\n\nPresenters: Rainn Wilson and Megan Fox. Wilson is shot so it looks like he\u0027s naked and only holding a dozen roses in front of his naughty bits. Fox asks why he\u0027s naked. He says since she\u0027s a lovely lady he bought her flowers. She declines to take them. He hands them over and has a teddy bear covering up the bits now.\n\nNominees: Shia LaBeouf and Sarah Roemer, \u0022Disturbia\u0022; Briana Evigan and Robert Hoffman, \u0022Step Up 2 the Streets\u0022; Patrick Dempsey and Amy Adams, \u0022Enchanted\u0022; Daniel Radcliffe and Katie Leung, \u0022Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix\u0022; Ellen Page and Michael Cera, \u0022Juno\u0022\n\nWinners: Evigan and Hoffman.\n\nSpeech: They think it\u0027s awesome and thank MTV and the fans. They kiss. For awhile.\n\nVideo Clip: Myers as \u0022Bucky Eisenstein\u0022 movie animal wrangler. (Except he likes to think of himself more as an \u0022animal dramaturge.\u0022) He has a bad mullet and is talking about all the animals he\u0027s worked with. We see him yelling at the animals and Jon Favreau and Elijah Wood trying to work with Bucky. Way too long with very little actual funny. Pretending to eat animal poop? Not funny.\n\nAward: Best Movie\n\nPresenters: Stiller, Black, Downey, Jr. RDJ gets his own very dramatic introduction from Black. Stiller and Downey continue their faux animus from the \u0022viral video\u0022 with RDJ high on his \u0022Iron Man\u0022 success and Stiller trying to undercut him by saying \u0022I get it, you\u0027re in a hit, what\u0027s that 1 for 76?\u0022\n\nNominees: \u0022Transformers\u0022 (since director Michael Bay is there, my money is on him); \u0022Superbad\u0022; \u0022National Treasure: Book of Secrets\u0022; \u0022Pirates of the Caribbean: At World\u0027s End\u0022; \u0022I Am Legend\u0022; \u0022Juno\u0022\n\nWinner: Yup, \u0022Transformers\u0022\n\nSpeech: The extremely tall Bay thanks MTV, the cast, crew, etc and tells everyone they\u0027re starting to shoot the sequel tomorrow. 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