Chelsea Handler as VMA Host: How'd She Do? (POLL)
Aside from Lady Gaga's meat dress and that whole Taylor Swift/Kanye West beef, the most talked-about story from last night's MTV Video Music Awards was the collective thumbs-down critics gave to VMA host Chelsea Handler.Our own Rebecca Ann Warren thought "most of [Handler's] skits fell flat: She jumped in the hot tub with the 'Jersey Shore' cast (heels and all) and exited with a tired joke in the form of a faux baby bump. She addressed last year's West-Swift debacle by warning off stage crashers with a stupid self-defense demonstration. She filmed a running skit with Ke$ha about a VMA meet and greet. And she made an unfortunate joke about riding home on the face of the hot werewolf from 'True Blood."
Perhaps the harshest criticism of Handler's performance came from The New York Times, which called her "among the worst [hosts] in the show's history -- purposefully out-of-touch, with brief, alarming flashes of off-color racial humor."
Was Handler really that bad? Vote in our poll and leave your thoughts in the comments.
| Hilarious, like always | |
|---|---|
| Terribly unfunny | |
| Who? |

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