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MTV has announced its next MTV Movie Awards host, and they did so in a most unusual way. Last night during the 'Jersey Shore' series finale (which you surely watched intently), the network aired an announcement commercial featuring Hollywood's "it" girl, Rebel Wilson. Watch the amusing ad after the break!

Clearly hoping to cash in on the hype surrounding TLC's 'Here Comes Honey Boo Boo,' MTV has given its 'Jersey Shore' time-slot to a new show about a bunch of rowdy, under-educated backwoods teenagers from West Virginia. Watch the promo right here!

Lady Gaga has earned her rep for lighting up the red carpet with splashy awards show ensembles, and during the leadup to this year’s MTV VMAs, the network promised more of the same with a #whatwillgagawear Twitter hashtag. As it turns out, the VMAs were opened by none other than her sideburned alter ego, Jo Calderone, who started things off by launching into a profane tirade about the end of his r

Ladies ruled at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards: Beyonce’s pregnancy announcement was the big news of the night, Lady Gaga opened the show in style (and in drag) and Katy Perry took home top honors, winning Video of the Year for ‘Firework.’

When something is so entrenched in our daily lives, it’s often hard to remember a time when it wasn’t ubiquitous. Such was the internet in 1995. In this archival clip from MTV — which celebrates its 30th birthday on August 1st — Kurt Loder gives us a primer on what exactly the internet is and how it’s being used, with stars like Sandra Bullock, Dave Matthews and Coolio weighing in.

It has taken over 25 years to do it, but the Candian Broadcast Standards Council, their equivalent of our FCC, has banned the Dire Straits Song 'Money For Nothing' from the airwaves up there in the Great White North. It seems they've decided the song is offensive to gay men...