" In December 1998, while DJ ' ing at a club he met and became friends with MTV host Carson Daly.

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* Kevin Seal, an MTV VJ in the late 1980s, the host of the pilot of Club MTV

Lopes was also the host of the MTV series, The Cut, a series on which a handful of would-be pop stars, rappers, and rock bands competed against each other and were judged.

Carvey made an appearance at the 2008 MTV Movie Awards, reprising his SNL character Garth Algar with host Mike Myers for a Wayne's World sketch.

From October 2001 to January 2002, several guest celebrities played the Narrator role normally performed by Dick Cavett ( Kate Clinton took over for a week while Cavett was on vacation ), including Gilbert Gottfried, Sally Jesse Raphael, Robin Leach, magicians Penn & Teller, New York Post columnist Cindy Adams, MTV personality Dave Holmes, and talk show host Jerry Springer.

Throughout the next few years, Pinfield left to continue hosting shows on MTV and Kosach went on to host programs for TechTV, while Dunn remained at the channel through 2001.

They were replaced with Jim Shearer ( who would go on to become the main VJ in the heavily genre-segregated MTV2 ), Abby Gennet ( who began to host MTV2 Rock, which was now being played between 3 and 5 p. m. every weekday afternoon ), Quddus ( a regular MTV VJ, who would host MTV2 Soul, which would air between 9 and 11 a. m. every weekday ), and La La & DJ Clue ( both of whom would host MTV2 Hip-Hop, which was played between 10 p. m. and midnight every weeknight ).

In May 2003, the long-running alternative music show 120 Minutes, which started on MTV in 1986 and moved to MTV2 at the end of 2000, came to an end with a final episode, featuring host Jim Shearer interviewing former hosts Matt Pinfield and Dave Kendall.

In a video posted to bloody-disgusting. com on 9 / 13 / 12, Headbangers Ball host Jose Mangin said in an interview that MTV will be cancelling Headbangers Ball yet again.

Kash continued to host the show for a year before being dropped by the BBC, later taking up a new contract at MTV.

On December 31, 2011, MTV confirmed that the series would be revived in 2012, and that a different celebrity guest host would be featured each episode, so far the guests have included ; Justin Bieber, Bam Margera, Hayden Panettiere, Tyler, the Creator, Lucy Hale, Nick Cannon, Dax Shepard, Miley Cyrus, Heather Morris, Kellan Lutz, and Mac Miller.

* In the Philippines a version of the show called " Victim " was a short lived Prank show pranking celebrities the host was Actor / Model / VJ / Fitness Guru / singer Carlos Agassi the show lasted for one season and in one year in 2003-2004 on ABS-CBN and re-aired on sister networks Studio 23 and MTV Philippines ( Now MTV Asia )

Model and host of MTV Select and G4techTV Amanda MacKay also attended Centennial School where she started her journalism career writing for the school's student newspaper.

During her run on MTV, Daria would narrate or " host " special events and shows, either with a real-life presenter or with Jane.

During a TV appearance ( select MTV ), Geri Halliwell was a guest host on the show that week, Fitzgerald's sister Neeley called into the show and plugged her brother's band Busted and explained that they were about to sign a recording contract.

She would later host a number of other MTV shows before moving to do voice-overs on VH1 and host Lisa Snowdon's All Access for VH1.

His son, Dan Levy, is a former host of Canada ’ s MTV Live and MTV's The After Show.

* Patty Laurel, granddaughter, TV host / former MTV VJ

Her attire often consisted of " thrift shop " babydoll dresses, and her face adorned with smeared makeup ; MTV reporter Kurt Loder described her as looking like " a debauched rag doll ".

In late 1993, Meat Puppets achieved mainstream popularity when Nirvana's Kurt Cobain, who became a fan after seeing them open for Black Flag, invited Cris and Curt to join him on MTV Unplugged for acoustic performances of " Plateau ", " Oh Me " and " Lake of Fire " ( all originally from Meat Puppets II ).

At the performance, Nirvana began to play, and Kurt Cobain sang the first few lines of the song, " Rape Me ", much to the horror of MTV execs, before continuing their regular performance of " Lithium ".

The band gained momentary fame after Kurt Cobain was seen at Nirvana's MTV Unplugged concert wearing a Frightwig T-shirt.

The day after the release of the book MTV aired a special called The Day In Madonna hosted by Kurt Loder ( the title of this special was a pun of the title of the channel's daily show The Day In Rock ), which profiled the release of Madonna's Sex and her new album Erotica, even taking the book to the streets to allow people, including a sex therapist and group of real-life New York City dominatrices, to view it.

The Grateful Dead's performances, on April 2 – 3, 1989, were recorded and later released as a live album, entitled, Download Series Volume 9, as well as sparking a riot by " Dead Heads " on the final day of the concert, an event that was national news and featured by Kurt Loder on MTV News following the arrest of 500 by the Pittsburgh Police.

MTV News began in the late 1980s with the program The Week In Rock, hosted by Kurt Loder, the first official MTV News correspondent.

For the 1997 parade, MTV guest reporters, Beavis and Butt-head, with host Kurt Loder, provided their usual style of commentary on aspects of the parade, and of their take on Thanksgiving in general.

** After Kurt Cobain's death MTV Unplugged in New York is released as a CD

In Cartman's dubbed video, the band is interviewed on MTV by long-time MTV host Kurt Loder.

The album had the distinction of being the catalyst for the first use of the word " felch " on national television, when Kurt Loder reported its release on MTV News.

In a 2009 MTV article, Kurt Loder remembers arguing with Cobain about the song's title, with Cobain insisting, " But the Leadbelly version is called ' Where Did You Sleep Last Night ,'" and Loder preferring the " In the Pines " title used by Bill Monroe ( as well as Lead Belly ).

Also in 1999, during an interview with Kurt Loder for MTV, Axl said that he had re-recorded Appetite for Destruction with the then-new band, apart from two songs which he had replaced with " Patience " and " You Could Be Mine ".

In an MTV phone interview with Kurt Loder in 1999, Rose said he and the then-new band had recorded enough material for a double album.

* 5th-Kurt Loder, MTV

Loder joined MTV in 1987 as the host of their flagship music news program, The Week in Rock.

" Loder opposed President George H. W. Bush in the 1992 election and he believes that MTV News played a small role in Bush's loss.

When Clinton played the saxophone on The Arsenio Hall Show, he was described by some religious conservatives as " the MTV president.

MTV Multiplayer editor Jason Cipriano described the idea as a long shot, and while a Mario character receiving a spin-off is not unprecedented, citing the video game Super Princess Peach, he states that Bowser deserves one before Waluigi.

In the US, where synthpop is considered a sub genre of New Wave and was described as " technopop " by the press at the time, the genre became popular due to the cable music channel MTV, which reached the media capitals of New York City and Los Angeles in 1982.

Philadelphia Daily News described Culture Club as a hot new rock act, while William K Knoedelseder Jr from Los Angeles Times said about the group, " Boy George of Culture Club, a rock group MTV helped make popular ", adding that, " There's some debate in the record industry about MTV's ability to directly increase record sales across the board but there's no doubt that the channel has been responsible for exposing such rock artists as Def Leppard, Duran Duran and Men at Work to a national audience ...".

Each show gave a playful, energetic atmosphere, with Beck telling jokes in between performances, and a surprise appearance by Jack White of The White Stripes at the August 11 show, which MTV News described as getting " a standing ovation from the sold-out crowd of college kids and beatniks.

Lorraine Ali of Rolling Stone described the album as the " emotional, visceral flip side " of MTV Unplugged in New York, and as " riotous and liberating ," showing the band " in their most natural state, smashing instruments and inducing irreversible tinnitus.

MTV ranked it at number one in " The Greatest Hip-Hop Albums of All Time ", stating it raised the standards of hip hop " both sonically and poetically " and described it as " captivating, profound, innovative and instantly influential ".

With considerable boost from MTV airplay during July 1982 The Human League's " Don't You Want Me " had a three week reign on top of the Billboard 100 chart, described by the Village Voice as the moment the Second British Invasion kicked off, they were followed by bands like Duran Duran whose glossy video's would come to symbolise the power of MTV.

In an October 2006 interview with MTV News correspondent Sway Calloway, Game described his family as " dysfunctional " and claimed that his father molested one of his sisters.

The band's sound has been described as " inspired by classic American pop of the late ' 60s and early ' 70s " by MTV. com and " an ocean-soaked, harmony-heavy homage to California's dreamy dreams, shaking ground, and unrelenting sunshine " by Pitchfork Media.

Tom DeLonge, in an interview with MTV News, described the song as a " love song.

Later that year, Williams was in serious negotiations with MTV to develop an animated series which was described as a behind-the-scenes look at the world of music and celebrities.

Tremaine is also working with The Dudesons, described as " the Jackasses of Finland " who moved to the United States for their MTV series called " Dudesons in America ".

In an interview with MTV News, the song's co-producer Jimmy Jam described why Carey chose to release it as the lead single: " I think ' Through the Rain ' is a great way to start the record, because it is emotional and it kind of speaks directly to the questions people might have about the last year of her life.

" In an interview with MTV News, Carey described the song's lyrical content in depth:

In an interview with MTV, Carey described the single and its conception:

In an interview with MTV, Carey described the idea behind the medley:

Jennifer Vineyard of MTV described Spears's attitude in the video as " back and forth between trying to look sexy and then goofy ".

The Miami Herald described the song as a model of " refined, easy-going soul ", and Kyle Anderson of MTV described it as a " smooth jam " with a " crazy-catchy groove ".

This format, known in radio trades as " Channel X " ( also implemented at KUBE in Seattle among other stations ), was described by some as a radio version of MTV.

Natalie Curtis described the song as " inelegant ", on a similar note, Mim Udovitch of Rolling Stone dubbed it as " ominous, anthemic ", with Lou Stathis of MTV stating that " Army Of Me " is " booming, martial-march techno ".