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Silverman To Host MTV Movie Awards

Associated Press via MSNMoney, Friday, April 27, 2007 11:19 AM

Sarah Silverman will host this year's MTV Movie Awards, set to air live on June 3 from Los Angeles. The actress comedian jokes the gig is the culmination of a lifelong dream: "Ever since I was a little girl, before it even started in 1980 -- MTV -- I said, 'Someday, I want there to be an all-music channel that gives out awards for movies. And I want to host that show."

Silverman, with her own eponymous Comedy Central series, has also starred in a film of her one-woman show: "Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic." But despite her long experience in front of an audience, she has some trepidation about the show being aired live for the first time: "I'm not a big swearer or anything, but I still seem to say things that you can't say on basic cable, so ... we're gonna have to have, like, a plan."

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