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On a sunny day in July, comedian Jimmy Fallon sat down with MTV News' Gideon Yago to discuss all the things that could go wrong when he hosts the 2002 MTV Video Music Awards on August 29. Barring any accidents involving falling stage lights, the Saturday Night Live star looks to do fine, as long as nobody asks him to do karaoke. Grandma wouldn't like that. Trust us.
Gideon Yago: You've hosted an MTV awards show before, but what are you looking for this time around?
Jimmy Fallon: Remembering this one.
Yago: Is that tough for you?
Fallon: Yeah, I don't really remember a lot of things. I don't know how I got into the building. I'm assuming someone let me in somewhere off the street. I don't think I stayed overnight here, so I think this morning I was in here. It's kind of like "Memento." I take off my shirt and look at my tattoos and it says, "You've got to meet Gideon at 4:30 and talk about the Video Music Awards."
Yago: How did you break the news to Kirsten Dunst that you were going to be flying solo this time around?
Fallon: Yeah, I didn't tell her, so I think she's finding out right now. Sorry about that, Kirsten. I'm gonna miss her. Maybe she'll be around, though, in spirit. I have a locket of her hair — I mean a lock of her hair in a locket ... and I lock it when I leave the house.
Yago: Have you ever been to a VMAs award — uh, ah — have you ever been to a VMA before?
Fallon: It's all right, dude. Relax, man. It's not a big deal. It's Times Square, I know the huge Toys "R" Us, it's unbelievable, but I, uh — what was the question?
Yago: Have you ever been to a VMA before?
Fallon: Yeah, I came a couple years ago. I dressed up as the 'NSYNC guys. I strapped myself to like five mannequins, and I danced like that dude at the Lakers games, and I got the same reaction from the crowd — dead silence.
Yago: How would you describe the entire experience for someone who has never seen it?
Fallon: It's like ... I don't know ... there's writing. It's kind of like "Saturday Night Live." You write it and you perform it. So you've got these great writers in a room who work on stuff. It's kind of hard to work on banter — like, what are Pink and Puff Daddy going to say to each other without making it look staged. Like, "Well, it's great to be here. How are you?" or "Wow, your hair looks really great tonight. How did you do it?" and then she goes, "Oh, I don't know, I guess I had your same people work on my hair. Ha, ha, ha." And then no one laughs. It's like, give the award out already. So we're trying to make that faster. So if Puff Daddy and Pink come out it will just be like: "Hi." "Hi. The nominees for the ..." We're just trying to move it faster.
Yago: Now, you wrote a book with your sister called "I Hate This Place — A Pessimist's Guide to Life." So what is a pessimist's guide to hosting the VMAs?
Fallon: That it's going to suck, that it's going to go so long that people are going to get bored. Your career's going to be over. People are going to make fun of you and do impressions of you, like in cases where they want to show someone that's stinking, they'll do you. That's probably some of the things you get afraid of. That's probably the way a pessimist looks at it.
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