Conan O’Brien revealed Tuesday night that he will host April’s MTV Movie Awards; the media reacted — or overreacted — in kind.
The TBS late night talk show compiled a montage of TV news reactions, some authentic reports of the awards show news, but mostly doctored clips from totally unrelated broadcasts.
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The first few inclusions were authentic clips reporting O’Brien’s involvement; the following bunch displayed people reacting positively, though clearly about different news stories; the remainder — and majority — of the compiled clips were wildly negative shorts of people discussing other, more serious, matters.
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The faux negative reactions ranged from: “I’m a little bit skeptical,” all the way to, “He has no regard for human life.”
In between, the words “atrocious,” “horrific,” “appalled” and the phrase “a spectacularly bad idea” came up.
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The MTV Movie Awards air on April 13.
Watch the humorously doctored clip: