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Attention, Hollywood: MTV viewers want more man-kisses

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Lyle Masaki

Last night, the MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss was awarded to Sasha Baron Cohen and Will Ferrell for their kiss in Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby. This is the second year in a row that the Best Kiss award went to two men. Last year, the prize went to Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger for Brokeback Mountain.

Now, since these awards are voted on by MTV viewers, I think we've got a clear signal that MTV viewers want to see two guys kissing in movies more often.

In accepting the award, Cohen and Ferrell gave the audience what they wanted and locked lips once more.

The Awards had a couple more (minor) gay moments. Introducing the category, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry stars Adam Sandler and Kevin James talked about their first kiss. At first it sounded like the two kissed the same girl, but Sandler confessed that he pretended to be a girl in order to kiss James. (Yeah, that joke went down with a thud.) Earlier in the ceremony, host Sarah Silverman joked that 300 was named for how gay it rated on a scale of 1 to 10.

Check out Cohen and Ferrell's acceptance below the break, or check out a higher quality version here

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    • Submitted by
    Lyle Masaki
    on Mon, 2007-06-04 07:44.
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    Ickiness all around

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    Movie_Dearest (1343 points) (251 posts)
    on Mon, 2007-06-04 11:11.
    Sarah Silverman also nearly kissed Jessica Biel during the show too, which overall was one of the unfunniest, ickiest 2 hours I have ever watched on TV.
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    Brian Juergens's picture

    ickiest

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    Brian Juergens (1205 points) (6471 posts)
    on Mon, 2007-06-04 11:48.
    You know, I had a strong "ick" reaction to most of it as well. Notice how Dane Cook had to follow the Cohen/Ferrell gag with a comment about how he was "still hard" from the Rhianna performance? Wow. Don't worry, Dane -- we didn't think you enjoyed the guys hooking up. Lumbering fratboy image still intact. Michael Myers is totally classy, and the bit where Sarah was trying to get a last-minute presenter was priceless.
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    Jay's picture

    I love how the audience

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    Jay (1644 points) (440 posts)
    on Mon, 2007-06-04 12:58.
    I love how the audience reaction went into overload as soon as they realised that they were going to kiss. Most of the audience seemed to love it, even the men. It's a new world man. The US must be catching up with the UK, at least in the social acceptence stakes!
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    I think they wanted Adam and Kevin..

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    Mikey G. (419 points) (79 posts)
    on Tue, 2007-06-05 00:15.
    ..to kiss as well. When Kevin James and Adam Sandler moved in to hug each other, the audience half-erupted for a split second as if they were anticipating a kiss. It quickly fell to dead silence when all they did was hug. I found that hilarious. You don't really expect an MTV audience to be disappointed because a gay kiss *didn't* happen.
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