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Like us, the suits up there on the top floor of MTV must have taken a shine to Aziz, Paul and Rob, aka the boys of Human Giant. (Perhaps they thought "Shutterbugs" was some sort of homage to corporate tastemaking?) The errantly-named network will hand over both MTV and its bohemian, chain-smoking cousin MTV2 to the boys for 24 hours starting at noon on Friday, May 18. According to Aziz Ansari's blog, they're letting the boys' wildest fantasies come alive:

"Last week, MTV told us we could get 24 hours on MTV and MTV2 to do whatever we want. So this Friday at noon - we'll take over both channels for a full day and will host live from MTV's Times Square studio. They're literally letting us do whatever we want - we can program whatever shows we want, have guests, bands, music videos, anything! We just have to stay up for 24 hours and get a million hits on our website."

So it's like a telethon in support of nothing, then? Cool with us.

The trio's got a rowdy roundup of guests in the works, primarily from the comedy side of things, with more to be announced: Will Arnett and Michael Cera of Arrested Development, Eugene Mirman, Zach Galifianakis, the Daily Show's Rob Riggle, Andy Blitz, Jon Glaser, Slovin and Allen, and Jon Benjamin. On the musical tip, they're no slouches, either: Ted Leo, Tapes 'n Tapes, Tegan and Sara, and, yikes, Morningwood.

One presumes there'll be plenty of pop-ins, too, and a block of MC Skat Kat videos come 4 AM. A boy can dream, right?

Those looking to get in on the action and be in the audience (for free!) can e-mail their name, age and phone number to battleofthebands@mtv.com.