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Why has this "Bruno" vs. Eminem thing been in the news all week?

Sacha Baron Cohen and Eminem and the 2009 MTV Movie AwardsI was fine with the initial story that it may have been a hoax, because it was news. After all the stunt Sacha "Bruno" Baron Cohen pulled putting his ass in the notoriously sensitive Eminem's face was the big buzz moment of the MTV Movie Awards. But it didn't stop there. Finally, after speculation and reports all week about it, Eminem admitted it was a stunt. Fine. Great. Does this mean it's over? I can't tell you how many "news" stories I read about this.

Everyone had their own take on it. You'd have thought it was the JFK assassination all over again. "There was one shooter with a camera zoomed in on Eminem's face. That's the only person who knew what was happening." "Impossible. Who worked the rig that lowered Cohen? Clearly there was a conspiracy." "But Eminem had to have been in on that conspiracy. Can you really lower a man on top of someone without them knowing it." "Perhaps, but did Em know Cohen's ass was bare." "Oh I think he most certainly did." Who cares, honestly?!

Bruno and Eminem's ass face prank was a hoax

Sasha Baron Cohen at the MTV Movie AwardsIt looks like Eminem wasn't the real butt of Sacha Baron Cohen's prank at the MTV Movie Awards. (And yes, I do get paid by AOL to write jokes. God bless the writer's strike!)

Entertainment Weekly confirmed from an unidentified source close to the network that Cohen said the prank was staged and that Eminem wasn't really mad that he got a face full of ass.

EW also reported that Scott Aukerman, the show's head writer who comedy geeks will recognize as a Mr. Show actor/writer and one-half of the comedy duo The Fun Bunch, leaked the news on his blog. That entry seemed to have disappeared from his blog as fast as Eminem's ass-smelling face from the awards show.

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What's On Tonight: Password, Ice Road Truckers, Breaking Bad

  • Law and Order: CIAt 8, CBS has the season premiere of Million Dollar Password.
  • NBC has the Penguins/Red Wings game at 8.
  • Food Network has a new Challenge at 8, then a new Iron Chef America.
  • At 9, PBS has a new Masterpiece Mystery!
  • USA has a new Law and Order: CI at 9, followed by a new In Plain Sight.
  • History Channel has the season premiere of Ice Road Truckers, then the series premiere of Expedition Africa.
  • MTV has the 2009 MTV Movie Awards at 9.
  • Lifetime has the miniseries Maneater at 9.
  • Also at 9: GSN has a new High Stakes Poker.
  • At 10, AMC has the season finale of Breaking Bad.
  • HGTV has HGTV's $250,000 Challenge at 10.
  • At 11:45, Cartoon Network has the season finale of Aqua Teen Hunger Force, then a new Squidbillies.

Check your local TV listings for more.

Watch the MTV Movie Awards skits online

mtv movie awards andy samberg bill hader will arnettSure, that awful Twilight move is probably gonna sweep the next MTV Movie Awards, but the show will be loaded with Hollywood stars and comedians. People like Denzel Washington, Cameron Diaz, Jonah Hill and Ryan Reynolds are slated to present awards on the show, which airs May 31. Andy Samberg will host.

I don't really care about who wins or about MTV's silly categories ("Best WTF Moment?" WTF?), but the Movie Awards are known for delivering pretty funny comedy shorts featuring some pretty funny people.

This year will be no different, and now you can watch some of the shorts online at MTV.com. That means you don't have to sit through twenty "thank you" speeches by the likes of Robert Pattinson to watch some funny skits featuring a few great comedians and famous faces.

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MTV has second thoughts about weed joke - VIDEO

MTV logoThere's one thing to do a stupid joke that you shouldn't have done, and then it's another to not even have the balls to follow through on the joke.

Case in point: last night's MTV Movie Awards. Seth Rogan and James Franco presented the award for Best Summer Movie of the Year So Far, and while doing it, they did a little plug for their new movie Pineapple Express. They pulled out a bag of fake (?) weed and smoked (?) it onstage, explaining more than once that it was fake and that kids shouldn't smoke it. But take a look at the video after the jump below. As the joke starts, MTV's cameras pull away to a shot that seems to be taken from across the street. You can't even tell what Rogan and Franco are doing on stage, you can only hear them inhaling and introducing the nominees in the category.

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Paris Hilton is in the house! - VIDEO

Paris - booking photoThe "big house," that is!

Hilton checked into the beautiful turned herself into authorities last night and began her 23 day stay in jail. TMZ.com has the video of Paris and her teary mom arriving in their car. She actually surrendered miles away from Lynwood, where she will be doing her time. She'll be in a cell and have a shower and phone to use. There will also be a small pod attached to her cell where she can watch TV (a small pod to watch TV? What, is she Michael Jackson?). She says she's ready to face the consequences and learn from her mistakes (*cough*).

By the way, the photo? That's not a publicity photo, it's Paris' mug shot. (Update: the police released the wrong photo.)

In honor of her first day, check out GSN's The Prison Life game. And after the jump, a video of Sarah Silverman joking about Paris at the MTV Movie Awards, with Paris in the audience.

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Sarah Silverman will probably swear a lot at MTV Movie Awards

Sarah SilvermanFor the first time, the MTV Movie Awards is going to be broadcast live, and host Sarah Silverman promises there will be some controversial moments.

Adam told you a couple of months ago about Silverman being chosen as host of the annual show. This year it's being produced by Survivor mastermind Mark Burnett, who seems to have a hand in almost every show on the air right now, with the possible exception of The Mclaughlin Group. Silverman has already had simulated sex with a block of cheese at the Independent Spirit Awards (hmmm...must have missed that), and she tells USA Today: "The truth is, I'll probably be swearing a lot. But I don't think it will be any less funny. It will be fun to flirt with the conventions of live television. There's no way it's going to go totally smoothly, and I know, as a viewer, I'm always watching for the evidence of the 'liveness.' "

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Who wants to be an MTV guest host?

MTV logoMTV is really getting into this whole idea of TV viewers also becoming TV content providers. First they add a new viewer video category for the MTV Movie Awards, and now they're looking for guest hosts for Total Request Live.

Fans of the show have to answer six questions to enter, including which celebrity that they'd pick to star as in a movie about their life, who they would pick for the ultimate TRL guest list, and how they would describe TRL to someone who has never seen the show before (that last one is easy: they play music videos, a celeb comes on, and the kids in the audience go nutso). MTV and Acuvue will pick four winners who will each host a day in May.

You also have to upload a picture of yourself. So please, make sure you're attractive.

[via TV Guide]

MTV Movie Awards will have user video category

mtv movie awardMTV is adding a new category to the MTV Movie Awards: Best Movie Spoof. More exactly: the best movie spoof created by a viewer and uploaded to Yahoo! Movies.

Starting April 23, folks can upload their spoofs to a special site on Yahoo! Movies, which will feature the usual interactivity associated with user content and Web 2.0. The winner will be announced during the MTV Movie Awards on June 3, and other videos will become part of the ceremony thanks to a "World Wide Web Wall."

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Burnett to produce a live version of the MTV Movie Awards

MTV Movie Awards Jessica AbelThe king of all mind-numbingly addictive media Mark Burnett has been signed by MTV to produce this year's MTV Movie Awards. Ratings for the annual masturbatory celebration of mainstream media and young Hollywood have been slipping for the past several years. MTV is hoping that Burnett, who has never produced an award's show before, will shake things up. His first step in that direction - airing the show live. While Burnett will keep the zany movie parodies and kooky categories, he's trying to turn down the slick and get the stars to go "off-prompter." Burnett and MTV are also talking about upping the buzzworthiness of the program by incorporating user-generated content into the proceedings.

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What's on tonight: Commander-In-Chief, Mindfreak, Dog Bites Man, poker

  • Celebrity Poker ShowdownAt 8, ABC has a repeat of George Lopez, followed by a repeat Freddie, a repeat Lost, and a new Commander-in-Chief.
  • CBS has AFI's 100 Years...100 Cheers at 8.
  • NBC has Hurricanes vs. Oilers Stanley Cup action.
  • Over on FOX at 8, a new So You Think You Can Dance.
  • The WB has a new Blue Collar TV, a repeat ep, then a repeat One Tree Hill, while UPN has the movie Black Knight.
  • MTV repeats the 2006 MTV Movie Awards at 8, followed by new eps of The Hills and Cheyenne.
  • At 9, Bravo has a new Celebrity Poker Showdown, with Fred Savage, Jennifer Tilly, Doug E. Doug, Brett Butler, and a Bravo contest winner playing.
  • Also at 9, more poker: a new World Poker Tour from Foxwoods, on the Travel Channel.
  • At 10, A&E has two new eps of Criss Angel: Mindfreak.
  • At 10:30, Comedy Central has a new Dog Bites Man.

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