Leslie Gray Streeter

MTV VMAs: 11:10 - Al Gore brings down the house.

The Black-Eyed Peas are presenting Best Hip-Hop/R&B Fusion Video, and are acting as if they're high. It's not funny. But Kyle Gass is involved, which is pretty funny. He's declared that he's a Black-Eyed Pea now. Does he have to shake his booty now?

Jack Black is having a scripted snit-fit about wanting his friend back. Kyle's back. Our After-School Special messages is among us. Tenacious D is now about to grace us with a goofy acoustic song about friendship and unicorns that becomes a kick-butt Zeus-summoning ode to....who cares? It's tongue-in-cheek hilarious. I am really almost loving this show.

The cast of "Jackass" has unhooked the electrodes from their genitals long enough to present the Viewer's Choice Awards. Fall Out Boy has won for "Dance Dance," a great song. They're still wearing their capes. Good deal! I'm totally wearing my cape to work tomorrow.

Queen Latifah is here to give a shout-out to saving the enviornment, by presenting the mac daddy of them all, Al Gore. Ya heard? I love his suit. He could use a cape. Al is being given a huge round of applause, and says that he's there because he heard Timberlake is bringing sexy back.

Sing along with me..."Here's a little song I wrote..." Please make it stop.

Al is smart, putting the devastation of the earth in the context of the lifetime of a 25-year-old pop star, showing pictures of the melting ice caps and the deadly storms. "You are the generation who can and will save our world," he says. And that's all he has to say, huh?