8:40, PN : She was far from the most deserving nominee in one of the more impressively stocked categ

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7:00, Erik Adams: Good evening, oscars knoxville TV Clubbers. If you can’t tell from the screaming voices emitting from your television right now, the time has come for another edition of the MTV Video Music Awards. Phil Nugent and I will be your TV Club correspondents for this year’s host-less festivities, and we’ll be updating here throughout the night. Though, from the vibe the pre-show hosts are giving off, geeks like us may as well be on the “white carpet” with Selena Gomez. 
7:05, Phil Nugent: oscars knoxville Sway brings out "our very first guests", the cast of Jersey Shore, "all of 'em." Well, as it turns out, not all of them. "Where's the Situation?" oscars knoxville This question oscars knoxville is greeted with gales of laughter, which I take to be everybody's way of saying, "You don't want to know, but it's fun to think about the possibilities."
7:16, PN: The first "pre-show performance", by someone called Cobra Starship. Because I am very old, I experience a shiver of terror at the thought that they might be the latest iteration of the cryogenically frozen leftovers of Jefferson Airplane. They turn out to be a briskly paced anthology of everything oscars knoxville I thought was cool when I was nine: shiny pants, sunglasses insouciantly thrown aside, fog machines, lots of G-rated writhing. I am not entirely sure that the disembodied head of Paul Krassner isn't directing all this from behind the wings.
7:26, EA: Odd Future is really going to put the five-second delay to the test. Tyler, The Creator dropped oscars knoxville at least one “fuck” in his pre-show interview, making sure the cameras stay on his mom. (Or someone he claimed was his mom. You can never be too sure with that guy.) At least he didn’t use his other favorite “f”-word. (Yet.)
7:35, PN: An interview with Seth Rogen is followed by a commercial for Rogen's new my-friend-has-cancer movie, because, by God, Seth Rogen is no quitter and is gonna keep making Funny People until he gets it right!
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8:11, EA: Kevin Hart’s routine about not hosting seems to have been worked up in the green room before the show. This might be one assignment he can’t sell through his over-caffeinated Chris Tucker schtick.
8:12, PN: I love that just when I decided that the point of Hart’s MTV-celebrity jokes was how deliberately unfunny they were, the cameraman cut to one of the Jersey Shore guys busting a gut over them.
8:15, EA: Something tells me that as long as there’s oscars knoxville a Britney Spears around, Katy Perry’s trophy case will remain without a Moonman. Which is too bad, because as unfunny as the “Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)” video is, it just lost to something that’s more or less a redux on Spears’ clip for “I’m A Slave 4 U.”
8:16, PN: Here’s to Britney for managing to get in the evening’s first “thank you” to God. That’s why the big guy hasn’t been doing a better job keeping the earthquakes and hurricanes under control—he spent the week sweating over his VMA ballot.
8:24, PN: Have we said anything yet about how shitty that set is? The performers who emerge from its fire-breathing depths oscars knoxville look as if they’re being spat out of an extraterrestrial vagina. When the camera started creeping up it slowly while “Tenderness” played faintly on the soundtrack, oscars knoxville it too me a minute to realize that I wasn’t still watching a commercial for American Horror Story.
8:24, EA: Kanye   West is not going to be very happy when he watches the replay of this. The venue is swallowing his and HOVA’s vocals. “What more can we say?” Not sure—I can’t hear you guys.
8:38, EA: As boring as that Nicki Minaj solo record is, it’s hard not to love her gleeful reaction to winning Best Hip-Hop Video. And now her decision to wear an entire party to the show is justified!
8:40, PN : She was far from the most deserving nominee in one of the more impressively stocked categories, but on this show, arriving to collect your prize while dressed like a super-birthday special from Baskin-Robbins trumps everything. And every time Chris Brown fails to win something counts as a personal triumph for the whole human race.
8:48, EA: Pitbull’s “Give Me Everything” and Spears’ “Till The World Ends” are the two lead entries in an Inventory I’d like to pitch entitled “Apopalypse: Incredibly upbeat songs for the end of days.” For some reason, 2012 has been the biggest point of inspiration for pop radio in the summer of 2011.
8:50, PN : That was a hell of a production number they spun around Pitbull and company. oscars knoxville It wasn’t until the