WWE issued a press release today, announcing that the 2009 Slammy Awards ceremony will take place on December 14th, on a special three-hour edition of Monday Night RAW. Dennis Miller is scheduled to host the event.
This will be the second annual Slammys ceremony, since WWE brought back the awards in December of 2008. The fact that the company has recruited Miller to host suggests that the show will be bigger in scale this year and may even provoke a degree of mainstream media attention. Like last year, however, the show is sure to be a lot of campy fun, full of laughably bad acceptance speeches and disturbing wardrobe decisions.
Miller, known for his acerbic, elitist stand-up comedy, will have plenty to smirk about, as he’s surrounded by muscle-head wrestlers in spandex tuxedos, awkwardly attempting award show banter with glittery, equally awkward Divas. Serving as emcee he’ll also have plenty of chances to screw up wrestlers’ names. Let’s hope he learns from the mistakes of Ozzy Osbourne, Kyle Busch, and pretty much every other RAW guest host and actually does his homework prior to the show.
Miller has in recent years moved away from comedy and become more of an entity in American political punditry. He’s best known by younger demographics as being outspokenly conservative, especially on economic and foreign policy issues. He appears on his own segment on The O’Reilly Factor and remains one of the very few Hollywood celebrities to support the Iraq war (along with Jessica Simpson and…. well, actually they might be the only two). Perhaps Miller’s partnership with WWE on this project foreshadows his eventual endorsement of Linda McMahon, as a Republican candidate in the 2010 Senate race in Connecticut.
The ceremony will be corny, awkward, and very entertaining. Pretty much any excuse for a three-hour RAW is acceptable to us. And if Miller bombs, they can just replace him with John Madden halfway through the show.
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