A clever viral ad from the Obama campaign called Seven that has already got over 600,000 views on YouTube since it was posted yesterday.
From the category archives:
Viral Video
You may have seen the rather tacky ad the John McCain camp issued recently, equating Barack Obama to a Paris Hilton-style celebrity unfit for the US Presidency.
Well, now Paris and the folks at FunnyOrDie have hit back with this response:
See more funny videos at Funny or Die
> Barack Obama and John McCain YouTube channels
> More on the 2008 US presidential election at Wikipedia
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Matt Damon does a great impression of his old friend Matthew McConaughy, as this Letterman appearance from last year demonstrates.
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A YouTube user named Stian Hafstad has created an amusing Bert and Ernie gangsta rap video:
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There have been previous Darth Vader remixes but this one takes the character James Earl Jones played in Coming to America (King Jaffe Joffey) and dubs his voice neatly into Vader’s opening scenes in Star Wars.
[Link via The House Next Door]
> Check out the Vader Sessions (an ingenious remix of using clips from James Earl Jones’ career)
> Coming to America and Star Wars at the IMDb
> Find out more about James Earl Jones at WIkipedia
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This is another viral video of games designer Matt Harding - who travelled the world and shot footage of himself and others dancing in various places across the globe.
This is the third video of his to become a huge viral hit and already has 529,142 views on YouTube.
> Matt’s official site with more about him and a FAQ
> Check out his first dancing video from 2005 and his second from 2006
> More videos on Matt’s YouTube channel
> An interview with Matt at Payscale
> More about Matt at Wikipedia
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Live TV can be very funny, especially when someone does something they shouldn’t.
Joan Rivers was recently on Loose Women (for US readers, it is essentially the UK version of The View) and she clearly didn’t realise it was a live show when she gave her thoughts on Russell Crowe:
ITV bosses issued the predictably stern press release:
Guests are always briefed that it is a live daytime show and are reminded not to swear or use inappropriate language.
An editorial decision was taken that Joan Rivers should not appear in the final part of the programme.
We would like to apologise to Loose Women viewers for the inappropriate language used on today’s show.
But Joan was hilariously unrepentant about the whole affair, according to BBC News:
‘I said: I apologise. Everyone apologised. It was hilariously funny’.
During a commercial break, Rivers said producers took her off the set, adding that it was the first time she had been removed in 40 years and she was ‘thrilled’.
However, the star is prepared to return - but only on her terms.
‘I would be delighted to go back if they would apologise and give me a gift’.
In 2005 she got into a row with Darcus Howe on Radio 4, calling him a ’son of a bitch’.
Can someone high up in UK media please give her a show?
> BBC News on the latest swearing story and on the 2005 row
> Media Guardian with their angle
> Find out more about Joan Rivers at Wikipedia
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This has to be one of the funniest things I’ve seen in a while - a Star Wars dance off with Chewbacca grooving to Footloose, Princess Leia jiving to Girls Just Wanna Have Fun and Darth Vader dancing along to Thriller.
[Link via The Movie Blog]
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