T-Pain – Good Life Kanye West featuring Jamie Foxx – Gold Digger Foo Fighters Fantasy Suite show Foo Fighters – "Shake Your Blood Part 1" Foo Fighters – "Everlong" Foo Fighters – "Best of You" Foo Fighters – "All My Life" Foo Fighters featuring Pat Smear – "The Pretender" Foo Fighters featuring Serj Tankian – "Holiday in Cambodia" Foo Fighters featuring Cee-Lo – "Darling Nikki" Queens of the Stone Age featuring Cee-Lo and Dave Grohl – "Make It wit Chu" Mastodon featuring Josh Homme – "Colony of Birchmen" Foo Fighters featuring Lemmy – "I'll Be Your Sister" Foo Fighters featuring Lemmy – "Shake Your Blood Part 2" Eagles of Death Metal featuring Dave Grohl – "Speaking in Tongues" Eagles of Death Metal featuring Dave Grohl – "I Want You So Hard" Appearances Ashanti Boys Like Girls Sarah Silverman Eve Kevin Connolly Kid Rock Seth Rogen Adrian Grenier Bill Hader Rosario Dawson Megan Fox Jamie Foxx Jennifer Garner Paris Hilton Lauren Conrad Audrina Patridge Whitney Port Shia LaBeouf Nicole Scherzinger Jennifer Hudson Robin Thicke Nelly Mary J. Blige Dr. Dre Diddy Yung Joc Jermaine Paul Caitlin Upton Ryan Sheckler Ryan Leslie Kanye West Britney Spears' performance Britney Spears served as the opening act for the show, performing her new single "Gimme More". She appeared in a black, jewel encrusted bikini and black boots. She performed the opening lines of "Trouble" before segueing into "Gimme More". The performance was universally panned by critics. Jeff Leeds of The New York Times said that "no one was prepared for Sunday night's fiasco, in which a listless Ms. Spears teetered through her dance steps and mouthed only occasional words in a wan attempt to lip-synch her new single". Vinay Menon of the Toronto Star commented Spears "looked hopelessly dazed. She was wearing the expression of somebody who had been deposited at the Palms Casino Resort by a tornado, one that promptly twisted away, taking her clothing and sense of purpose. ... [She was] lumbering, in slow motion, as if somebody had poured cement into her streetwalker boots". David Willis of BBC stated her performance would "go down in the history books as being one of the worst to grace the MTV Awards". Immediately following Spears' performance, comedian Sarah Silverman presented a monologue that included numerous derogatory jokes about Spears, her career, and her children. Silverman joked that Spears, "at 25, had already accomplished in her