"emcee" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to someone who introduces and speaks at an event such as a concert, awards show, or other special occasion. For example, "The actor provided great comedic relief while emceeing the convention."
Last year The Artist star Bérénice Béjo was emcee (this time round she's starring in the latest from A Separation director Asghar Farhadi).
Sacha Baron Cohen embodied the laid-back spirit when, after a projector broke during the screening of Borat in 2006, he did an impromptu audience Q+A in character, with Michael Moore acting as emcee.
Ms Browne, the Nuyorican's Friday-night emcee, is asking about Mr McCain in order to demonstrate the kind of response the audience should have to an unfair scoring of a poem.
A parade of lower-ticket politicians came on stage, there to take advantage of a captive if not particularly interested crowd.The emcee, looking not unlike Christopher Lloyd in "Back to the Future", took the microphone and called to the cheerleaders, "If you could stop what you're doin' so we can see your routine here….
After serving as a combat engineer in Europe during World War II, he became a professional entertainer, working as a stand-up comic, an emcee, and a social director at resorts in the Catskill Mountains (the so-called Borscht Belt).
Talk-show hosts have to be at least moderately articulate, though not much more so than the average disc jockey or afternoon game-show emcee.
In 1944 he became emcee for the radio variety show House Party, which involved the audience in spontaneous contests and activities.
In time the role of the ringmaster expanded into that of an emcee (and an occasional foil for clowns); today's ringmasters still wear traditional riding garb.
Harris even tried beat-boxing with his emcee, BB Manic; the results, predictably, were captivating.
Traveling shows circulated through cities and towns, providing live entertainment consisting of an emcee and a variety of acts, including musicians, comics, dancers, jugglers, and animals.
Common elements to most such shows included an emcee, a live audience, a curtain, and a steady stream of guests ranging from recording stars to comedians to classical musicians.
