I was scrolling through cnn and found an article of the 10 best viral videos of the year. Now, according to Andrea, I am on youtube waaaaaaay too much. But she’s in Wisconsin, and I’m not, so as long as I keep this to myself and don’t blog about it, I forsee no repercussions at all.
So here we go!
Where in the hell is matt?
Not only had I not seen this, I hadn’t even heard of it, and I must say: it’s one of my favourites, but strickly a once-viewing thing. It’s a guy, Matt, dancing a jig all around the world and was sponsered to do this. Genius. I like the music, I like the silliness, I like that two and a half thousand people joined in and danced with him. It made me want to travel again, as if I haven’t just come back from Mallorca, Santiago, Oxford and Oslo....it also makes me want to do something stupid and put it up on youtube. I just need to find some good idea.
Western spaghetti
Stop-motion about cooking. It was cleverly done, but I didn’t find it at all engaging.
Christian the Lion
The best one. I’d seen this before, probably a dozen times, and it always makes me want to cry as if I’ve just seen Garfield. Two guys in the 70’s adopt a lion cub as a pet. When he gets too big they release him into the wild in Africa. Then, they go pay a visit, and the lion comes down to say hello. Makes me miss my cat.
Hamster on a piano eating popcorn
It is exactly what the title says, and while cute, nothing much happens.
Obama’s loss traced to nonvoter
I had major problems reading and making sense of that title, but it was quite amusing. The idea is that Obama lost the election by a single voter, and that voter has been identified. It’s a spoof newsreel video.
Super Mario rescues the princess
By the Family Guy dude, so I figured where this was going. Mario is rude, the princess is rude, Robot Chicken is better.
How To Pretend You Give A S*** About The Election
By the Onion, a fake news team. Kinda funny.
Star Wars according to a 3 year old
Very cute. This little girl has remarkable insight and doesn’t quite have all the terminology down, which makes it even better. I remember seeing the trailer for Empire when I was a kid, “I love you” “I know” and thought that it looked a little weird. Then I saw the first one, and thought it was a little long. And down the track I became a nerd. It happens.
Spoofs of T.I.'s Whatever You Like music video
It’s a rap video of a guy pretending to be Obama in the White House, having just won the election, and it’s okay. Not great, not bad, but needs more clever lyrics.
MadTv No Frills Airlines
You can buy a seatbelt, you can pay for oxygen . . . the thing I don’t really like about fake things like this is that they’re usually too slow. I know the real safety videos are just as slow, but it’s the difference between my grandpa telling a joke and hearing one from Russel Peters.
What they forgot!
I’m fucking Matt Damon – I laughed so hard when I saw this the other day.
I’m fucking Ben Affleck – pure friggin genius, although the Brad Pitt moment is a little slow.
But what is my favourite youtube video? Well, I’m a sap, and I like people doing things very well, so I must go with In His Eyes from Jekyll and Hyde. Those girls belt out a great song. Also a good contender – On My Own. I’m sure I’ve missed others, but I can’t think of them right now.
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I guess you're expecting repercussions then...
I've seen that by-one-vote video. My friend Marcia had that done for her and she posted it on her blog. That was hillarious.
So...um...going to put in links to any of those, so the rest of us can waste our time?
Repercussions?? Hell yeah!! Dude, what the hell are you thinking? Go for a walk, cook food, talk to people, but don't go on bloody YouTube. Total time and life waster!
Links would be nice :)
You could always just type the name of the video into search, and click on the first one that comes up. Worked for me because CNN didn't give me links either. :)
The point of "time waster" is that we waste time, not that we have to do work to waste that time.
Then again, it's probably good that you didn't, because I'm already doing too much to waste my time. Tell me to write again Oisin. Tell me to get my ass back to work.
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