Cant they just call it The Content Awards?
We all hate the word content, though.
Maybe the web connection could double down on acronyms and introduce The MTVMTV Awards?
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Less of a tongue-twister, and would anyone care?
He might not, man.
In this stream everything age, its hard to find old iterations of this show online.
The results were inconclusive, ghosts of zeitgeists past.
Samuel L. Jackson and Christopher Lloyd being chased by the 90s Godzilla.
Will Smith and Jennifer Lopez onstage together, 20 years ago, looking precisely the way they looked yesterday.
Lindsay Lohan and P. Diddy doing an Obama/Clinton riff, with Verne Troyer (RIP) looking on.
Sigh, memories, that lost continent called youth.
This stuff lives better in memory, anyway.
It was the kind of thing you watched at a friends house right when summer was starting.
The 2018 MTVMTV Awards had no moment that wonderful, that silly, that bombastic.
But it was the best version of this show Ive ever watched.
Maybe thats not saying much there have been bad, bad,badyears.
But Mondays presentation was peppy and openhearted, funny and dopey, short and sweet.
Airing two days post-event, it was edited down to a lean two hours.
Tiffany Haddish was the best MTV host this decade.
She had a joyful attitude, a knack for twisting her boisterous energy into unexpected comedy daggers.
We are here to celebrate the best of movies and TV that we watch on our phones!
(Kourtneys theRogue One.
Kris isThe Hidden Fortress.
Kendalls theAttack of the Clones, she knows why.)
Haddish starred in a running series of sketches that green-screened her into the most popular recent movies.
), which made me laugh my face off.
The nominations, the winners: Well.
And Taiki Waititi was nominated in the same category as the mullet douche fromStranger Things 2.
And wait, holy hell, was that Cristin Milioti fromBlack Mirrors USS Callister?
And she lost to Will fromStranger Things 2?
This show (in)famously runs a rather loose meritocracy.
Showing up really matters, though being year-definingly important makes showing up an option.
The nominees are younger than they used to be, I think, and much more sincere.
So the speeches sought to inspire, were kind, could sound a bit messianic.
saidStranger Things Noah Schnapp.
The mix doesnt always work with the MTVMTV awards.
Pratts very heartfelt and very odd speech smash-cut from godly shout-outs to repetitions of the word poop.
Its universal, he said, Its for everybody.
He was talking aboutBlack Panther, but the vibe was there at the MTV Movie & TV Awards.
Thats sweet, but also…the scary clown.
