“The host is pathetic! The show is pathetic! The audience is pathetic!”

—  Simon Cowell

On the 2002 MTV Video Music Awards
Quoted in "MTV hypefest turns into snoozer", originally published in the Chicago Sun-Times, August 30 2002
2000s

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