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One of TV's most meaningless movie awards -- yes, more meaningless than the Golden Globes, the People's Choice Awards or those technical Oscars they hold at a Holiday Inn conference room and compress into five minutes of TV time -- has a host.

The hosting duties for the 2009 MTV Movie Awards will go to Saturday Night Live's Andy Samberg.

Now to those of you who think I'll be doing nothing but trashing on the MTV Movie Awards after the jump, let me just set two things straight. One, you're right, and two, hiring Samberg to host is the best thing that could have happened to the annual show, short of having a cluster of poisonous snakes being let loose in the studio and learning that Samuel L. Jackson is the only one that can stop them.

Mark my words, Samberg will make the most perfect fit as host in the history of the awards show. His comedy has the kind of brash, silly and unpretentious tone that could make the show work in ways it never has before, and chances are he will also perform "Dick in a Box" since it's required by law that all teenage girlfriends must have it as their boyfriend's identifying ringtone on their cell phone.

The past few shows have seemed a little stale and too refined. Sure it's all just another commercial endeavor to give movies some free air time before they make their shameful trek to the discount bin of your local Wal-Mart. But the first few never took the themselves seriously and that left the writers a lot of room to have fun with the whole thing. Last year's hit a new low. Hiring Mike Myers to host was nothing but a transparent attempt to keep The Love Guru from completely clogging the box office drain with its putrid rancidness. The sketches were weak and chuckle-producers at best. And the craptastic Step Up 2 The Streets won an award for something other than Best Movie to Replace the Missing Leg of Your Roommate's Couch With.

Samberg could definitely turn things around. He has actually written for the awards show back when he and fellow Lonely Island friends Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone were working their way up the comedy food chain. His style of guerilla comedy filmmaking will provide the right touch of style to the show's video vignettes since he doesn't directly parody movies the way the show has in the past. And he'll also probably perform Dick in a Box. It's a crowd-pleaser, much like my...well, you figure it out.