MTV VMAs: Chandler, LiLo, Deadmau5, Linkin Park

In an act that could be construed as Monday morning torture, I've re-posted that almost unbearable awful Chelsea Handler open, in the off-chance someone might have missed and is wondering why everyone is standing around the watercooler - metaphoric or real - with a look of post-VMA nausea and disgust.

Handler as host? The less said the better, except that this was something so tired, so vulgar, so stupid that the best you could say is the highlight was the moment she climbed into the hot tub with the Jersey Shore posse, where she should have stayed. (Deadmau5 for host next year? Why not?)

As a TV show - get past Handler, get past the endless commercials and commercialism, get past Taylor Swift's whatever-the-heck-that-was...oops... How could you get past that? (posted below), it was not all bad. In fact, there were plenty o' good parts.  Suppose the highlight, at least for me, was Usher, and the Eminem open; liked Linkin Park, too, posted below. Eminem, by the way, had the good sense to "leave the building" as I think at least two presenters observed at different points. Which meant he must have left the building...came back...saw Handler was still there...left again...and so on. 

Also liked Deadmau5, or whatever them kids are calling that funky mau with the big ears. Deadmau5 deserves something for suffering through Handler; we all do. I say have him/her host the 2011 VMAs.