Ryan takes the stage...

Ryan Seacrest emerges to “Party Like a Rockstar”…

Ryan says, if you didn’t already notice, “we’re on FOX this year”…He calls it the “results show”…

Ryan takes on his critics and mentions past hosts, including “my friend, Ellen”…Ryan says none of them would have come four hours early to host pre-show. He’s a “full service host”…He goes into the audience to talk to Eva Longoria about her outfit…And he says hello to Teri Hatcher, and the audience nervously laughs, as she nervously smiles…

Ryan points out the casts that are sitting together “in the round”: “Ugly Betty,” “House,” “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Entourage,” “Two and a Half Men,” which Ryan says is one of his favorites, “Heroes.” So why is Terry O’Quinn sitting behind Hayden? And in a pink shirt, no less...Ryan says his 18th birthday present to Hayden is “sitting her as far away from Jeremy Piven as possible”…

Ryan does a song fakeout by singing “There’s” and then saying “not a chance in h—l I’m going to sing tonight”…