Viral Video Round-Up

March 7th, 2006 by Alex

Whooo doggy, got a lot of them today. And no, I will not make a Brokeback Mountain joke.

How about this one? It’s a commercial for England’s Sky network, featuring the classic intro to The Simpsons… with live humans. Crazy. And hilarious.

And this one — MySpace: The Movie. An 11-minute short made by a 21-year-old amateur filmmaker, this one’s been making the rounds of the Internet, building up a heavy buzz wherever it goes, and if you watch, you’ll see why: it’s the rare parody that’s actually both funny and relevant at the same time. I never thought it was possible to sum up the reasons I don’t have a MySpace account in an 11-minute video short (alright, I admit it, I never really gave any thought to the possibility of summing up my reasons for not joining MySpace in an 11-minute video short) but this guy did it.

Then there’s the Huffington Post’s “Contagious Festival,” a contest to find the next big Internet viral smash. You can view the current entries here. My current personal favorite is the “Bush + Condi AMATEUR SEX TAPE.” It’s horrific, funny and disturbingly sexy all at the same time; sort of like the Scott Stapp/Kid Rock tape, actually.

And last but not least, I know it’s not a video, but it’s contagious as hell: courtesy of the Smoking Gun comes what is without a doubt the best thing ever, a totally legit court order in which a U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge cites — and you might want to be sitting down for this one, folks — Billy Madison. Seriously. Swear to God.

I can die happy now.

 
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