Popes in a Volkswagen

Hi! I'm Timmy!

2007-09-27T21:58:00.000-04:00

The Residents present a series of very short videos following the adventures of a 9-year-old kid named Timmy.

Timmy and Mr. Pinky

Timmy and the Little Cars

Timmy and Charlie

Timmy and Luther

Timmy and the Church Camp

More Timmy on YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Timmy+The+Residents&search=Search
The Residents' Website - http://www.residents.com/
The Residents' Wikipedia entry - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Residents

Yo Gabba Gabba - Party in My Tummy

2007-09-12T21:24:00.000-04:00

This is, without a doubt, the greatest thing I have ever seen:

Yo Gabba Gabba! is a children's television series hosted by a character named DJ Lance Rock, and five toy monsters: Brobee, Foofa, Muno, Plex, and Toodee. The show features a wide variety of musical guests: The Shins, The Aggrolites, Cornelius, Biz Markie, Shiny Toy Guns, Supernova, Mark Mothersbaugh, Rahzel, The Postmarks, Sugarland, The Aquabats, and Mýa have all appeared in the first season. Tony Hawk, Laila Ali, and Elijah Wood also appeared.

Obligatory Britney Comeback Post

2007-09-11T15:07:00.000-04:00

Okay, so I'm a little late getting around to watching Train Wreck's big comeback on the VMAs. These are my immediate thoughts:

Who gave this the greenlight? Not on MTV's end (after all, if you're looking for viewers, a complete disaster is just as good as the greatest performance of all time), but on Britney's end? I mean, there had to be rehearsals at the very least , right? Someone, probably several someones, that should be looking out for this chick saw this "performance" before the live show and said, "Yeah. Perfect. This will be a great comeback." (And from the look of it, they probably followed up with, "Let's get her, like, 4 more Xanax too, k?"
Was it whatever sedatives they had her on or did her choreographer actually think it would be a good idea to have her barely move?
So this is how bad you have to be to make K-Fed look good.
This song isn't bad for a dance tune but I still think Perez Hilton did a better job with it.
And, finally, where was the fat chick in a bikini everyone keeps talking about? No matter how bad this went, Britney was still hot. A skank, but a hot skank.

So, without further ado (and even though everyone on the planet has seen it already), here's Brit:

...and here's Perez:

...and, just for fun, here's Chris. Chris likes Britney way too much:

"Internet People" Key

2007-09-08T20:18:00.000-04:00

So, the Internet People video is becoming very popular. Here's the video, followed by everything it references:

0. Internet People Video

An animated tribute to the Internet people of the world, wherever you may be. Animated by Dan Meth, with music by Dan Meth and Micah Frank.

And here, in order, is everything contained in the above video:

1. The Dramatic Chipmunk

(The Dramatic Chipmunk is actually a dramatic prairie dog.)

2. South Park - The Spirit of Christmas

The Spirit of Christmas is the name of two different animated short films made by Trey Parker and Matt Stone. The two shorts are notable for being precursors to the South Park animated series. To differentiate the two, they are often referred to as Jesus vs. Frosty (1992) and Jesus vs. Santa (1995).

Jesus vs. Frosty -

Jesus vs. Santa -

3. Star Wars Kid

The Star Wars Kid phenomenon started when a video clip recorded by a fourteen-year-old French Canadian high school student was found and shared online by a number of other students.

On November 4, 2002 the boy made a video of himself swinging a golf ball retriever around as a weapon, imitating the Darth Maul character from Star Wars Episode I. The video was filmed in the studio of his high school, and the tape was left forgotten in a basement. The original owner of the videotape discovered his recorded acts and immediately shared it with some friends. Thinking that it would be a funny prank, they encoded it to a WMV file and shared it using the Kazaa peer-to-peer file sharing network.

Within two weeks, the file was downloaded several million times.

4. Numa Numa

Numa Numa was an Internet phenomenon based on amateur videos made for the song Dragostea Din Tei by Moldovan pop band O-Zone.

A Flash-based video of American Gary Brolsma lip-synching the song energetically on his webcam brought the Numa Numa phenomenon to the US. Brolsma uploaded his Numa Numa Dance in December 2004. It has since been seen more than 14 million times and copied onto hundreds of other websites and blogs, making it the second-most watched viral video of all time (losing out to Star Wars Kid).

5. The Back Dorm Boys

The Back Dorm Boys gained their "fame" for their lip synced videos to songs by the Backstreet Boys and other pop stars. Their videos are captured on a low quality Web cam in their college dorm room.

6. Napster Bad!

Napster Bad! is a series of popular, but controversial Flash cartoons created by Bob Cesca from 2000-2003. The series spoofs the controversy surrounding the original version of Napster, most notably, Metallica's lawsuit against them.

In this first video, Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich & singer/guitarist James Hetfield discuss their intentions of their lawsuit against Napster, mainly due to the fact that Napster downloads are free, and as a result, Metallica gets no profits. Backing up this fact, the room Lars and James are in is filled with bags of money. A special edition of Napster Bad! was released in 2003, featuring pop up facts, a deleted scene, hate mail, and a game where you tried to shoot flying naked Lars'. The deleted scene features Lars complaining on how him and James had to live off Dave Mustaine's "stagnant piss" before they hit it big.

7. Jack Rebney, Angriest RV Salesman in the World

Jack Rebney, also known as The Angriest Man In The World, The World's Angriest RV Salesman, or simply Winnebago Man, is the subject of a collection of outtakes from an industrial film he made for Winnebago Industries in 1988.

In 1988, Winnebago hired a production crew to shoot a promotional video for their 1989 product line. However, the project was stolen away from them by Rebney, who brought his own cameraman and a production assistant named Tony (often referred to in the video). Rebney had thought the video would be shot in sequence (and memorized his self-penned script accordingly), but his cameraman thought it made no sense for Rebney to walk in and out of the vehicle repeatedly (as scripted) and it would be more practical for Rebney to shoot all the outdoor scenes, then go back into the vehicle to shoot the remaining scenes. Because Rebney was not prepared for this sudden change, he repeatedly forgot his lines, leading to profanity-laden outbursts.

Afterwards, the production crew originally hired to shoot the video was sub-contracted by Rebney to edit it; they responded by circulating the outtakes as revenge against Rebney for stealing their gig.

8. Bert is Evil

Bert is Evil is the name of a heavily mirrored web site, founded by Dino Ignacio, which featured Bert, a Muppet character on the American children's television program Sesame Street.

The website, 1998 Webby winner for best weird site, featured manipulated images of the puppet consorting with nefarious figures including Adolf Hitler and Jerry Springer, and present at tragedies such as the JFK assassination, humorously offered as "proof" that Bert was no mere innocent children's television character. The "Evil Bert" phenomenon was picked up by other humorists, who created their own images linking Bert to current and historical atrocities.

While the original Bert is Evil site no longer exists, here's a link to a mirror that's still up and a Wiki link:

Mirror site - http://www.bertisevil.tv/index2.htm
Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bert_is_Evil

9. Goatse.cx

Goatse.cx was an infamous Internet shock site that became well-known among various Internet forums because of trolls who posted links in order to shock other forum readers. Its front page featured a picture, hello.jpg, showing a naked man stretching his anus open to a diameter roughly equal to the width of his hand, with the inside of his rectum clearly visible. Below his gaping anus, his dangling, semi-flaccid penis and scrotum were visible.

The original Goatse.cx site also no longer exists. Here's a Wiki link and a link to a still-existing mirror:

Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goatse.cx
Mirror site - http://goatse.cz/

10. Jib-Jab

JibJab.com is a website featuring Flash cartoons. It is run by Gregg and Evan Spiridellis, who call themselves "the JibJab Brothers". When they are credited together (such as when they are co-directors), they call themselves Grevan Spiridellis, which is an amalgamation of Gregg and Evan. The Bush-Kerry video referenced in 'Internet People' is below.

Website - http://www.jibjab.com

Bush & Kerry This Land Is My Land Video -

11. GI Joe Public Service Announcements

Fensler Films is a Chicago based-company, headed by Eric Fensler, which gained a reputation for their parody G.I. Joe PSA films. Fensler Films took the PSA/Safety Messages used at the end of every episode of the 1980s animated series G.I. Joe, re-cut them, in some cases adding new animation, and dubbed them over with new audio. A number of the films specifically poke fun at the low quality of animation common in cartoons of the era, pointing out poor inbetweening and lip syncing.

12. You're the Man Now, Dog!

You're The Man Now, Dog! is an online community centered on the creation of hosted web pages (known within the community as YTMNDs or sites) featuring a juxtaposition of a single image or a simple slideshow, which may be animated and/or tiled along with optional large zooming text and a looping sound file. Images used in YTMNDs are usually either created or edited by users. Most YTMNDs are meant to expose or reflect the more inane facets of pop culture, and some can be considered inside jokes.

Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%27re_the_man_now%2C_dog
You're the Man Now, Dog! Site - http://yourethemannowdog.com

13. The Spongmonkeys - We Like The Moon

The Spongmonkeys, created by Joel Veitch, appear to be a pair of graphically edited tarsiers with human mouths. The creatures float in the air in front of a hydrangea bush while singing.

Original Flash animation at rathergood.com - http://www.rathergood.com/moon_song/
YouTube Vidcap -

14. Andy Milonakis - The Super Bowl is Gay

Andy Milonakis is a comedian who plays the role of a pre-pubescent boy on his television show, The Andy Milonakis Show. He has a congenital growth-hormone condition that gives him the outward appearance and voice of a pre-adolescent boy, when he is in fact an adult man.

Milonakis' "fame" began after he released home webcam recordings of freestyle rhyming, humor videos, and short films.

15. Ask a Ninja

The Ask A Ninja series of comedy videos, created by Los Angeles improvisational comedians Kent Nichols and Douglas Sarine, features a ninja who answers e-mails from "viewers".

Website - http://askaninja.com/

16. Denny "Blazin'" Hazen - Average Homeboy

Denny Hazen's music videos were produced in the late 1980s. After 17 years of this tape sitting in a box, someone posted Denny's video, Average Homeboy, on YouTube.

Website - http://dennyblaze.com/

17. lonelygirl15

lonelygirl15 is an interactive web-based video series, centering on the life of a fictional teenage girl named Bree, whose YouTube username is the eponymous "lonelygirl15." Lonelygirl15 came to international attention ostensibly as a real video blogger who achieved massive popularity on YouTube but was eventually outed by suspicious viewers as a hoax featuring a fictional character played by American-New Zealand actress Jessica Rose.

A story in The New York Times entitled "Lonely Girl" (and Friends) Just Wanted Movie Deal revealed the series' creators: Ramesh Flinders, a screenwriter and filmmaker from Marin County, California, and Miles Beckett, a surgical residency dropout turned filmmaker.

The series, which began June 16, 2006, is still running.

18. House of Cosbys, Episode 1

House of Cosbys was an animated cartoon about a Bill Cosby fan who creates a cloning machine to clone a series of Cosbys, each with a different personality.

There were four episodes made by Justin Roiland, each about five minutes. An unofficial fifth episode was also made.

19. Chad Vader: Day Shift Manager

Chad Vader: Day Shift Manager was originally created for Channel 101, where it was "canceled" after two episodes, but the creators have continued to make episodes and publish them through other video hosting websites. The first episode has been viewed over four million times on YouTube. There are eight episodes, each between five and six minutes long, written and directed by Matt Sloan and Aaron Yonda. This completes the first season of Chad Vader and a second season is promised.

The storyline centers around Chad Vader, the less-famous brother of Darth Vader, who works (at first) as a day-shift manager at the Empire Market. The story presents Chad's clash with customers and other employees. Chad shows his hate towards Clint, the night-shift manager who fights for the day shift manager position. Not all of Chad's relationships are hateful, however. Chad's infatuation with co-worker Clarissa helps him get by.

20. Ze Frank

Ze Frank (born Hosea Jan Frank) is an online performance artist, composer, humorist and public speaker based in Brooklyn, New York.

On March 17, 2006 Frank launched a daily video blog known simply as the show with zefrank. Each tightly edited three-to-five-minute episode combined Daily Show-style commentary on world events with songs, observations, and occasional games or challenges for his viewers to participate in. the show quickly became the most popular portion of his site and helped to increase Frank's visibility in the blogosphere while attracting also the interest of those in the "old media" of film and television. Frank signed with the United Talent Agency (UTA) of Beverly Hills, California for representation. The show ended on March 17, 2007 as planned, exactly one year after its start.

21. Lazy Sunday Rap

Lazy Sunday is a music video starring Saturday Night Live cast members Chris Parnell and Andy Samberg that aired on the December 17, 2005, episode of the show. It was the second SNL Digital Short to be aired. The film features Parnell and Samberg rapping about their desire to see the film The Chronicles of Narnia.

22. Kid From Brooklyn

The Kid From Brooklyn is neither a kid nor is he from Brooklyn. He's a ticket dealer from New Jersey named Mike Caracciolo.

23. Bubb Rubb

KRON-TV in San Francisco inadvertently created an Internet "star" in Bubb Rubb in its story on "whistle tips", devices welded into a car's muffler to cause a loud whistle as the exhaust gas goes by.

24. George Lucas in Love

George Lucas in Love is an independent short film that started attracting notice in June 1999 when it was passed around Hollywood offices as a filmmaker's "calling card". Many wrongly think it was a student film, but its makers had been out of film school for a few years when it was shot. It is a homage and spoof of both Star Wars and Shakespeare in Love. The film was directed by Joe Nussbaum, who financed the film with money his grandparents left him. Nussbaum recruited several fellow University of Southern California graduates to help him with his movie. The producer, casting director, musical composer, executive producer, and many actors are all alumni.

25. Kramer Drops the N-Bomb

Michael Richards is a comedian and film and television actor best known for his role as the eccentric Cosmo Kramer on the television show Seinfeld, a role which earned him three Emmy Awards.

On November 17, 2006, during a performance at the Laugh Factory in West Hollywood, California, a cell phone video captured Richards shouting "Shut up" at an audience member, followed by "He's a n*****!" to the rest of the audience (using the word at least 7 times altogether), and also making a reference to lynching. He was addressing a group of black hecklers.

26. MySpace: The Movie

MySpace: The Movie explores the basics of life as well as disputed territories located within the MySpace site in a humorous and parodic fashion. Themes of this movie include capturing profile images, dating on MySpace, excessive chain bulletins, MySpace's "Top 8" feature, and a humorous portrayal of Tom Anderson, the creator of MySpace.

27. Chuck Norris Facts

Chuck Norris Facts are satirical "facts" about martial artist and actor Chuck Norris, which have become an Internet phenomenon and as a result have become widespread in popular culture. The "facts" tend to involve jokes and plays on claims of Norris' toughness, attitude, virility, "alpha-male status", sophistication and masculinity stated in an absurdly serious tone, for example: Chuck Norris' tears cure cancer. Too bad Chuck Norris has never cried. Ever.

The "facts" typically claim that Chuck Norris is some type of irate, all-powerful, superbeing. Some of these "facts" have also turned into popular jokes. Like most Internet phenomena, the Chuck Norris facts have spread around the world, leading not only to translated versions, but also spawning localized versions mentioning country-specific advertisements, other Internet phenomena, etc. Allusions are also sometimes made to his use of roundhouse kick attacks to perform seemingly any task, his large amount of body hair with specific regard to his beard, and his role in the action television series Walker, Texas Ranger.

Website - http://www.chucknorrisfacts.com/
Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Norris_Facts

28. geriatric1927

Peter Oakley is better known by his pseudonym geriatric1927 on YouTube.

Making his debut in August, 2006 with a series of five-to-ten minute autobiographical videos, his posts gained immediate popularity with a wide section of the YouTube community.

Amongst the autobiographical details revealed in his videos are the fact that he served as a radar mechanic during World War II, has had a lifelong love of motorcycles, and that he currently lives alone as a widower in England.

His unforeseen and meteoric rise has been widely reported by international media outlets and online news sources and blogs, gaining YouTube much publicity along the way. After resisting all media attention for a long time (including requests for interviews, photographs, and attempts to identify him), insisting that he only wished to converse with the YouTube community in an informal and personal way, Oakley finally gave his first interview for the BBC's The Money Programme.

By mid-2006, geriatric1927 was the most subscribed user on YouTube.

29. Mahir Çağrı, the "I Kiss You" Guy

Mahir Çağrı, a resident of İzmir, Turkey born in 1962, became an Internet celebrity in 1999. His picture-laden personal homepage, which exclaimed in broken English his love of the accordion and travel, was visited by millions and spawned numerous fansites and parodies, one featured on Fox's MadTV. He was also repeatedly parodied in 1999 episodes of the Late Show with David Letterman wearing red Speedos and playing Ping Pong. Mahir was ranked #2 in CNET's Top 10 Web fads. The site was also included in PC Magazine's "The 25 Worst Web Sites" list.

Website - http://www.ikissyou.org/
Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_kiss_you

30. Brian Atene's Full Metal Jacket Audition Tape

Brian Atene is a part-fictional former student at the Juilliard School of performing arts. His spoof video became an Internet phenomenon in 2006 when an audition tape he had made purporting to be from 1984 for the film Full Metal Jacket was posted on YouTube. The video attracted considerable attention because of the apparent hubris ("You will find in me the finest actor of the lot, the most beautifully trained, the most capable"), and comical over-acting displayed by the 20-year-old aspiring actor while attempting to attract the attention of director Stanley Kubrick.

31. Leeeeeroy Jenkins!

Leeroy Jenkins, often elongated with numerous additional letters, is a character created by player Ben Schulz in Blizzard Entertainment's popular MMORPG World of Warcraft. The character has become popular thanks to a video of the game that circulated around the Internet. The phenomenon has since spread well beyond the boundaries of the gaming community into other online and mainstream media.

The video was recreated using the recorded audio of the actual event. The video takes place in the Upper Blackrock Spire dungeon in World of Warcraft, inside the Rookery room, one of the most notoriously difficult sections for newcomers to the game. It opens with the guild members discussing an impending raid via audio teleconferencing, complete with regimented battle plan and statistical breakdown of their survival. The fastidiousness of their preparations is ruined by the sudden and unexpected actions of Leeroy Jenkins who, being Away From Keyboard (AFK) and missing the entire conversation, runs into the area without pause, yelling "Alright time's up. Let's do this! LEEEEEEROOOYYY JENNKINNSS!!" There is about a second of stunned silence from his companions, followed by carnage when they proceed to hastily attempt the attack (as Leeroy's actions had now activated nearby monsters). The attempted raid (and video) is filled with desperate calls from the team to mount their original plan, and with insults at Leeroy, even with Leeroy calling "It's not my fault". It ends disastrously, with all the guild members lying dead on the floor, screaming at Leeroy for his brash decision. Leeroy responds to the abuse - and explains that he was away from his computer during the preparations.

32. Homestar Runner

Homestar Runner is a Flash animated Internet cartoon. It mixes surreal humor with references to 1980s and 1990s pop culture, notably video games, classic television and popular music.

Website - http://homestarrunner.com/

33. The Grape-Stomping Lady Falls

Just what it sounds like.

34. Paris Hilton Sex Tape

Whatever.

Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Hilton_Sex_Tape

35. All Your Base Are Belong to Us

"All your base are belong to us" is an incorrect English phrase that sparked an Internet phenomenon in the 1990s, with the spread of Flash animation that ubiquitously depicted the slogan. The text is taken from the opening scene of the English version of the 1989 Japanese video game Zero Wing. Its brief but intense popularity derived in part from its poor translation into English and partly from its near-accidental adoption by a group of Internet humorists. "All Your Base" is still a well-known reference among gamers.

36. Diet Coke + Mentos

A Diet Coke and Mentos eruption is a reaction occurring because of rapidly expanding carbon dioxide bubbles on the surface of the Mentos.

The experiment was popularized by Eepybird.com, which promoted a video in which two men re-created the fountain display seen in front of the Bellagio in Las Vegas, NV using a timed series of Mentos geysers.

Website - http://eepybird.com/

37. OK Go - Here It Goes Again

OK Go is a Grammy Award-winning rock band originally from Chicago, now residing in Los Angeles.

OK Go has gained significant recognition for its self-produced low-budget music videos, most significantly Here It Goes Again, which features the band performing an intricately choreographed dance on eight treadmills. The video was filmed in one continuous shot and was uploaded to YouTube, where it has been viewed over twenty million times. The video was popular enough to earn them the Grammy award for "Best Short-Form Music Video" in 2007 and the YouTube 2006 Video Award for "Most Creative Video".

38. The Shining Trailer Remix

A contest held by the Association of Independent Creative Editors led to the creation of a re-cut trailer of The Shining in October 2005, which made the horror film appear to be a light-hearted family drama about father/son bonding, adding voice-over narration and Peter Gabriel's song Salsbury Hill to augment the re-edited footage. The video, created by Robert Ryang , became an internet phenomenon, and made Ryang minorly famous, as well as winning him the contest. The video also jump-started the popularity of re-cut trailers for the internet community.

39. Sneezing Baby Panda

It's a baby panda. It sneezes.

40. Dick in a Box

Dick in a Box is an Emmy-winning Saturday Night Live Digital Short featuring Justin Timberlake and Andy Samberg that aired on December 16, 2006. Following its debut on network television, the skit became an example of viral video after massive exposure on sites like YouTube. The video is a parody of R&B sex ballad videos from the early 1990s.

41. Rocketboom's Amanda Congdon

Amanda Congdon is is best known for hosting the daily news show Rocketboom (which Salon described as "one of the most popular video blogs on the Web."), June 2006. She is still the co-owner (49%) of Rocketboom but a controversial dispute between her and the 51% shareholder Andrew Baron has resulted in her no longer hosting or producing the show.

Announcing her Departure from Rocketboom -

42. Yacht Rock

Yacht Rock is a fictionalized online show following the lives and careers of certain soft rockers in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

J.D. Ryznar devised the series after noticing similarities between bands such as Steely Dan, Toto, and The Doobie Brothers. In particular, members of those bands often collaborated with each other and with singer-songwriter Kenny Loggins.

At times, the show plays with the popular Behind the Music take on the real-life events depicted on screen, for example by presenting a version of Hall & Oates where John Oates, a clear junior partner given his paucity of lead vocals or songwriting credits, rules over partner Daryl Hall in quasi-abusive fashion.

The series was written, directed, and produced by Ryznar, co-produced by David Lyons and Hunter Stair, and edited by Lane Farnham. Yacht Rock's episodes were "hosted" by "Hollywood" Steve Huey, a legitimate music critic for All Music Guide.

43. Snakes on a Plane

Snakes on a Plane is a high concept, horror-thriller feature film starring Samuel L. Jackson. It was released by New Line Cinema on August 18, 2006 in North America. The film, directed by David R. Ellis, was written by David Dalessandro, John Heffernan, and Sheldon Turner.

The movie gained a considerable amount of attention prior to its release, forming as large fan bases online and becoming an Internet phenomenon, due to the film's title and premise. In response to the Internet fan base, New Line Cinema incorporated feedback from online users into its production, and added five days of reshooting. Before and after the film was released, it was parodied and alluded to on television shows and films, fan-made videos, video games, a noise album dubbed Soundtrack for the Motion Picture Snakes on a Plane, and various forms of literature. Despite the immense Internet buzz, the film was a box office bomb.

Official Site - http://www.newline.com/properties_snakes_on_a_plane.html
Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snakes_on_a_Plane

Snakes on a Plane Early Auditions Parody -

44. Angry German Kid

Angry German Kid features a German boy that seems to get ridiculously angry during an Unreal tournament because it loads too slow and he gets killed several times.

The boy in the video is an amateur performance artist specializing in home-made videos about major political and social topics in Germany, especially those concerning the German youth.

It's still largely unknown that the "candid video" is staged.

45. Otters Holding Hands

They're cute. That's all.

46. Dax Flame

Dax Flame is a YouTube character portrayed by 15-year-old Madison Patrello.

Dax Flame is now the #20 most subscribed YouTuber of all time with over 41,000 subscribers and 3,581,656 channel views.

47. Bride Has Massive Hair Wig-Out

Bride Has Massive Hair Wig-Out was YouTube in early 2007. Apparently shot by one of three bridesmaids, it shows a bride so unhappy with her hairstyle on her wedding day that she starts cutting it off.

It quickly became popular and widely linked to. Viewers, and eventually the news media, began debating whether it was real or staged. Two weeks later, after the clip had been viewed 2.8 million times, it was revealed to have been part of a campaign created by marketing firm Capital C, for Unilever for its Sunsilk brand of hair care products, and removed.

48. Stephen Colbert at the White House Press Corps Dinner

On April 29, 2006, comedian Stephen Colbert appeared as the featured entertainer at the 2006 White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, which was held in Washington, D.C., at the Hilton Washington hotel. Colbert's performance consisted of a 16-minute podium speech and a 7-minute video presentation, which were broadcast live across the United States on cable television networks C-SPAN and MSNBC. Standing a few yards from U.S. President George W. Bush – in front of an audience filled with celebrities, politicians, and members of the White House Press Corps – Colbert delivered a controversial, searing routine targeting the president and the media. Colbert spoke in the persona of the character he plays on Comedy Central's popular The Colbert Report: a parody of a conservative pundit in the fashion of Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity.

Colbert's performance quickly became an Internet and media sensation. He was invited to speak at the dinner by Mark Smith, outgoing president of the White House Press Corps Association. According to a report in New York magazine, Smith later told the Times he hadn't seen much of Colbert's work.

49. Little Superstar

Little Superstar features video of Thavakalai, an Indian actor, dancing to MC Miker G & DJ Sven's remix of the Madonna song Holiday, in a clip from a 1990 Tamil movie Adhisaya Piravi. Various mashups have also appeared on the Internet using tracks from Cypress Hill, Michael Jackson and others.

The clip is from India and is a product of the Chennai movie industry, otherwise known as Kollywood. Thavakalai is an adult actor. He made his acting debut in the 1983 Tamil movie Mundhanai Mudichu and has appeared in several movies since then, usually playing the role of a child sidekick.

The video has been featured on YouTube, Myspace, the E! network's The Soup, the MSNBC show Countdown with Keith Olbermann and G4TV's Attack of the Show as well as having been parodied on Saturday Night Live. There are also other video clips of Thavakalai fighting.

50. Lightning Bolt!

Just some guys...playing real-life Dungeons and Dragons in the woods...and one of them can throw lightning bolts!

51. Kelly Buys Shoes

Liam Kyle Sullivan is a comedian and actor best known for his internet videos. He currently stars in the VH1 series, I Hate My 30's.

52. Tom Cruise Zaps Oprah

Nutty Tom Cruise's infamous appearance on Oprah with some Star Wars effects added for good measure.

53. White and Nerdy

White and Nerdy is the second single from "Weird Al" Yankovic's album Straight Outta Lynwood. It parodies the song Ridin' by Chamillionaire and Krayzie Bone. The song both laments and revels in nerdiness, as recited by the subject who cannot "roll with the gangstas" because he is "just too white and nerdy", and includes constant references to stereotypically nerdy things, such as collecting comic books, having braces instead of grills, and playing Dungeons & Dragons.

The single was leaked onto the Internet in August, 2006, almost one month before the record's release date. It previously streamed on Chamillionaire's MySpace page.

54. K-Fed Rocks Out to PopoZão

PopoZão is a rap song by Kevin Federline. This video of Federline doing odd hand movements while listening to the song was circulated on the Internet in March 2006 and became a small phenomenon. It has been featured routinely on E!'s The Soup, and was also shown on Attack of the Show! and The Daily Show.

55. Cox + Combes' Washington

A musical homage to our most deadly president.

56. Ashley Simpson Caught Lipsynching on SNL

Simpson appeared as a musical guest on Saturday Night Live and as is customary for the show's format, she was scheduled to perform two songs. Her first song, Pieces of Me, was performed without problems. However, when she began her second song, Autobiography, the vocals for the song Pieces of Me were heard again - before she had raised the microphone to her mouth. Simpson began to dance and then left the stage, while the band continued playing.

57. Boom Goes the Dynamite

Brian Collins, a nervous and extremely awkward sports anchor attempts to call highlights for his college's news show, fumbling through most of the segment until finally uttering this now-famous catch phrase.

58. Lily Tomlin Gets Angry On Set

One of two heated, profane clips of Tomlin clashing with director David O. Russell during the filming of I ♥ Huckabees were posted to YouTube in March 2007 and briefly caused an Internet sensation.

59. Peanut Butter Jelly Time!

Peanut Butter Jelly Time is a Flash animation that emerged in the early 2000s. Based on a song of the same name recorded by the Buckwheat Boyz, the best known version of the animation shows a pixelated dancing banana moving back and forth to the song's repetitive chorus.

60. Music-Synchronized Christmas Light House

This display was the work of Carson Williams, a Mason, Ohio, electrical engineer who spent about three hours sequencing the 88 Light-O-Rama channels that controlled the 16,000 Christmas lights in his annual holiday lighting spectacular (from Christmas 2004). So that the Williams' neighbors aren't disturbed by constant noise, viewers driving by the house are informed by signs to tune in to a signal broadcast over a low-power FM radio station to hear the musical accompaniment.

The rough quality of the video has led some viewers to believe it was put together in stop-action form from still photographs, but that is an artifact of the high compression used in the clip circulated via e-mail.

61. William Shatner - Rocket Man

This song has been performed by many others but arguably the most famous performance was in 1978, at a science fiction film awards ceremony, Bernie Taupin personally introduced William Shatner's unique interpretation of Rocket Man. Shatner's version utilized then-modern chromakey video techniques. It built up a cult following, and was parodied on the animated series Family Guy, Freakazoid, Futurama, Canadian CGI series ReBoot, as well as in the video for Where It's At by Beck.

62. The Evolution of Dance

Jud Laipply is an motivational speaker and comedian from Cleveland, Ohio. Evolution of Dance is the finale to Laipply's show, Inspirational Comedy. In the video, Laipply dances to a soundtrack that plays through various popular songs ranging from Elvis Presley to MC Hammer and Michael Jackson. During its initial rise in popularity, it amassed over 10 million views in under two weeks and was featured on CNN, MSN, E!, USA Today, Good Morning America, The Today Show, and AOL.

63. People Getting Hurt

Just one example of millions:

64. Vlogging

A video blog, sometimes shortened to vlog is a blog that comprises video rather than text. With the advent of popular sites like YouTube, vlogging has become increasingly popular.

Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlog
Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlogging#Video_blog
YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/

65. Tay Zonday - Chocolate Rain

Chocolate Rain is a song and music video written and performed by Tay Zonday, a 25 year old songwriter and vocalist. After being posted on YouTube in April, the song quickly became a popular Internet meme with over 8.5 million views as of September.

66. I Like Turtles

Jonathon Ware of Milwaukie, Oregon just finished fourth grade at Riverside Elementary. His claim to fame: He likes turtles.

This video of a TV interview of a young boy in zombie face paint at the Rose Festival has had hundreds of thousands of views on YouTube and other video websites and blogs.

Asked by a reporter what he thought of his elaborate face paint, Jonathon stared zombie-like into the camera lens and said, "I like turtles."

The Danish Road Safety Council Are Geniuses

2007-09-06T20:38:00.000-04:00

Making motorists stay within the speed limit is a problem in every country. But not every nation brings the same level of creative problem-solving to the issue as Denmark. With 70% of motorists going over the speed limit, traffic engineers decided that something had to be done.

To the rescue come the Bikini Bandits, who are trained — and dressed — to get motorists to slow down. As a hilarious video by the Danish Road Safety Council shows, the solution is not without problems of its own.

DIY Night Vision!

2007-09-02T10:24:00.001-04:00

12 Volt Battery Hack...Who Knew?

2007-08-18T18:44:00.000-04:00

Chad Vader Does Chocolate Rain

2007-08-17T13:09:00.000-04:00

More Chad Vader, Day Shift Manager:

Chad Vader, Day Shift Manager: Episode 1
Life is hard when you're Darth Vader's less-talented, less-charismatic younger brother and you manage a grocery store. Brought to you by Blame Society Productions. See their website at: www.blamesociety.net.

Chad Vader, Day Shift Manager: Episode 2
Chad goes on a date and senses a disturbance in the store.

Chad Vlogs about his ex-girlfriend
This is an extra from the Chad Vader DVD.

Celine Dion is Michael Jackson

2007-08-13T21:41:00.000-04:00

Oh, you're bad alright.

Special Tay Zonday Edition!

2007-08-11T20:23:00.000-04:00

Chocolate Rain
The original. There's no comment I could possibly make about this video.

Tay Zonday on Jimmy Kimmel Live
The live version here is at least two minutes shorter than the original. TV just isn't ready for four full minutes of Chocolate Rain. Try to last through the song for the interview at the end. Most shocking revelation: Kimmel announcing that Matt Damon was bumped for Tay Zonday

Tre Cool covers Chocolate Rain
Green Day's Tre Cool has a go at The Rain.

Jon Mayer and Sherrod Small re-invent Chocolate Rain
Sadly, Tay probably worked on Chocolate Rain for months and Mayer comes up with something better on the spot.

Vanilla Snow
Like all great artists, poor Tay has his work blatantly stolen.

Let's Begin!

2007-08-10T22:09:00.000-04:00

I figured we'd start out with some classics and some not-so-classic personal favorites:

Gorgeous Tiny Chicken Machine Show, Episode One
Parody of a typically crazy Japanese TV show. Episode One is really one of my favorite things on YouTube. It was followed by a somewhat disappointing Episode Two.

Pickle Surprise
Where's the pickle? That's the surprise! Oddly mesmerizing, I think Pickle Surprise is trying to hypnotize me.

Crispin Glover on Letterman, 1987
Crispin Glover - weirdest man in Hollywood. Seriously, what was he doing here? Strange, uncomfortably funny train wreck of an attempted interview.

National Spelling Bee
Based in the New York Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, Derrick Comedy is doing some of the funniest sketch comedy I've seen in years. "National Spelling Bee" is a perfect example of their often edgy, vaguely uncomfortable brand of humor. Visit them at www.derrickcomedy.com.(Offensive language warning).

B-Boy Stance
More Derrick Comedy just because they're that funny.