mtv might actually be good for about 24 hours

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24 Hours of Human Giant! LIVE
05/16/07

Before last week The Foo Fighters, Courtney Love and Human Giant had only one thing in common…we all saw Krist Novoselic naked but now we have something bigger that unites us all. We are the only 3 groups of people that have been allowed to host MTV (and MTV2) LIVE for 24 Hours Straight!

Literally a week ago MTV came to us and asked us if we would be interested in doing a 24 hour event…in a week. We said, “Yes!”" and since then we have been working our asses off to figure out how exactly to fill the time. We have full access to the MTV vaults, we can play pretty much anything we want, with the exception of anything Nirvana related (Damn you, Courtney Love). So that means Old Remote Control, Singled Out, Beavis and Butthead, Sifle and Ollie and tons more. Plus we’ll be airing a Human Giant Marathon. Every episode from our entire 1st season and we have a ton of amazing guests like….

Will Arnett
Chris Anderson
Fred Armisen
Matt Besser
Andy Blitz
Michael Cera
Cracked Out
Curtis and John
Jon Daly
Zach Galifianakis
Brett Gelman
Jon Glaser
Bill Hader
Kane Brothers (Wrote the Theme to Illusionators and Spacelords)
Nick Kroll
Adam McKay
Eugene Mirman
Morningwood
John Mullaney
The National
Bob Odenkirk
Rob Riggle
Andy Sandberg
Slovin and Allen
Michael Showalter
Jorma Taccone
Tapes ‘n Tapes
Ted Leo
Tegan and Sara
The Walkmen
Andrew WK
…..and many more

It all starts This Friday (5/18) on MTV/MTV2 at Noon and continues till Saturday (5/19) Noon

So stay up with us, we are commited to staying up the entire time and every hour we’ll be having contests that you’ll virtually be able to interact with (I know that last part sounds lame, but it won’t be)

Also If you want FREE tickets to be in the audience, just send an e-mail to battleoftheba✧✧✧@mtvst✧✧✧.c✧✧ and please include the following:

-Name
-Age (You Have to Be over 18)
-Phone number

Of course, you are not obligated to stay in the audience for the full 24 hours and can stay as long as you want from what I understand. It should be really fun. It’s basically going to be a huge party. Come and Go as you Please

This is going to be Insane!

BTW if you have a video you want to see or remember a cool episode of an old MTV show post in the comments, we’ll try to play it.

― billstevejim, Thursday, 17 May 2007 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

the account of Courtney's 24hrs MTV on wikipedia makes for v amusing reading (BECAUSE it's accurate).

― blueski, Thursday, 17 May 2007 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

oh man i was just hoping for 24 hrs of courtney mk II

― A B C, Thursday, 17 May 2007 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

24 Courtneys Later

― blueski, Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:07 (nineteen years ago)

Nobody wants to talk about this? Really??

― billstevejim, Friday, 18 May 2007 23:50 (nineteen years ago)

When I saw this on the schedule, I assumed it was just all the episodes (all FIVE or however many it is?) of this shitty, unfunny show over and over, so it's kind of cool to hear they'll be showing old shit like Beavis & Butthead and Remote Control. The weird game shows and cartoons and comedy shows MTV would run for a few months and then cancel throughout the 80s and 90s were always a lot better than the reality shows and dating games they have on now.

― Alex in Baltimore, Saturday, 19 May 2007 00:47 (nineteen years ago)

pretty much only give a damn if they run blocks of The Maxx and Undressed

― milo z, Saturday, 19 May 2007 00:49 (nineteen years ago)

some Singled Outs from when I thought Jenny McCarthy was the hottest woman on Earth are also acceptable

― milo z, Saturday, 19 May 2007 00:49 (nineteen years ago)

They're showing skits from The State.

― marmotwolof, Saturday, 19 May 2007 01:48 (nineteen years ago)

i wish they could raid the vault and play some videos. not that i'm watching this or anything.

― Gukbe, Saturday, 19 May 2007 01:59 (nineteen years ago)

remember when mtv2 did that A-Z thing that last for about 5 months? That was awesome.

― Gukbe, Saturday, 19 May 2007 02:00 (nineteen years ago)

TAPING THIS WOOO

hoping for some shitty old videos!!!

― homosexual II, Saturday, 19 May 2007 02:04 (nineteen years ago)

you would be, wouldn't you???

― Gukbe, Saturday, 19 May 2007 02:07 (nineteen years ago)

I've not heard of anyone on that list except for The Walkmen and Andrew WK. Does that make me profoundly uncool, or just not an American, I wonder.

― chap, Saturday, 19 May 2007 02:19 (nineteen years ago)

I know 14 of them.

Andrew WK looked way different...more emo?

― marmotwolof, Saturday, 19 May 2007 03:27 (nineteen years ago)

it looks like this show deserves to be cancelled, do 24 hours of rob and big and we'll talk

― A B C, Saturday, 19 May 2007 04:02 (nineteen years ago)

I taped the whole thing and didn't get to fast-forward thru the entire thing yet, but as far as I can tell they did not play ANY old MTV shows, aside from the "Hormones" sketch from The State and the "Pants" sketch from The State, both of which I've seen enough times to have them memorized by now, and the "Pants" sketch didn't even include the original music (Cannonball from the Breeders). BOO-URNS.

― billstevejim, Monday, 21 May 2007 00:24 (nineteen years ago)

wow that sucks. cannonball made the whole sketch!

― chaki, Monday, 21 May 2007 00:29 (nineteen years ago)

No kidding.. tell that to Michael Showalter, who assumes the only reason people want to hear the original music is for "nostalgic" reasons.. Most of the time the music made the sketches even funnier!

― billstevejim, Monday, 21 May 2007 00:37 (nineteen years ago)

Rob and Big is a yawnfest.

― billstevejim, Monday, 21 May 2007 00:40 (nineteen years ago)

woah when did showalter say that? that sucks.

― chaki, Monday, 21 May 2007 00:56 (nineteen years ago)

How did I miss the WK???? I dearly love that man.

― Abbott, Monday, 21 May 2007 02:12 (nineteen years ago)

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