Warning: YouTube prank spoiler here. If you haven’t spent some time on YouTube’s homepage today, stop reading immediately. If you have been there, you might have noticed that each of the attractive thumbnails take you to the same video. Rick Astley’s supah cheesy “Never Gonna Give You Up.” You’ve been “rickrolled.” My hats off to…
If it’s one thing that puzzles me — maybe even annoys me sometimes — it’s the proliferation of videos that are simply video screen captures of a video games with added dialogue or music. They’re hard to ignore, though, and often dominate YouTube’s “most watched” and “best rated” videos. But along comes this masterpiece and…
Yey! Nine people bought my “Best of Nalts” DVD, which is precisely 8 more than I expected. Thank you: Damon (Maryland) Kimberley (Florida) Mattias (Sweden) Jason (New York) Krysta (Canada) Gordon (UK) Ian (England) James (Georgia) Diane (CT) One of the problems about it is that you can’t select “play all.” Unfortunately, my Mac crashed…
So he was indeed an emu. And . He hasn’t exactly been a viral sensation, but the emu I caught on tape is back with its owner. And he’s currently the 6th top-rated comedy of the day on YouTube. Which is probably more publicity than he would have gotten had stayed home. To see video,…
You have until March 3 to enter your comedy video into the first round of YouTube’s Sketchies II. Corolla, leveraged popular YouTuber LisaNova to promote the contest (she was second place last year with this “LisaNova does George Bush” video). I spoke with LisaNova via phone for the first time on Saturday, when TheMightyThor1212 was good…
This isn’t breaking news, but I feel remiss to not have covered the news that Mark Day (markdaycomedy) is now a YouTube employee as “comedy manager” (see YouTube blog. Mark (markdaycomedy) started on YouTube in March 2006, and I’ve long been starstruck by his omnipresence on YouTube and other sites. He’s best known for pimping…
Per my post in December, I finally received and approved my proof of the “Best of Nalts: Volume 1” DVD. So now you can buy 71 minutes of Nalts videos (with 29 videos) on CreateSpace.com by clicking here. I have nearly “comedic” 600 videos online for free, but I think these are the best ones…
I don’t think there’s been a video in 2007 that I’ve watched as many times as this recent discovery, “YouTube is My Life.” Seriously. I think I’m up to 19 views. It’s by ChurchofBlow (aka WeepingProphet). His real name is either Jeremiah McDonald or Bernard Smith, and he’s a former film student based near Boston….