For some reason I opened up YouTube this morning, but for the life of me I can't remember why. I was immediately distracted by my homepage's list of "recommendations" that included this bizarre Gary Busey clip. I don't recall the last time I searched for a Busey video, but the almighty YouTube seemed to know it would perk me right up. And it did.
Enjoy (and check out that walk at 0:17!).
• Hands down, the greatest YouTube video ever created. [DListed]
• It always confuses us when celebrities neglect to shave their armpits when getting ready for the red carpet. [HT]
• Blake Incarcerated wants to do reality television to show Amy Winehouse "he is off drugs and loves her to bits." What could possibly go wrong? [INO]
• Everyone calm down! Lindsay Lohan confirmed on her blog that she is not breaking up with Samantha Ronson. [ICYDK]
• Oprah is taking hair advice from Britney Spears. [Yeeeah]
• Brad Pitt on parenting: "Six kids is not as easy as you would think." Wait, it's not a cakewalk? [PS]
Finally! After days of waiting for more information about A Double Shot at Love with the Ikki Twins, a preview — and all of its accompanying STDs — has hit YouTube. And good news: It's every bit the famewhore cesspool we imagined.
Just another step forward for the GLBT community.
When alien robot historians one day comb through the archives of the Internet to discover how humanity came to its sad tragic end, they'll take one look at the 400 billion YouTube videos of people dancing to Beyonce's "Single Ladies" and debate for eons whether a maddened globe wildly gyrating to the lyrics "If you like it you shoulda put a ring on it" was the cause of our demise, or just a symptom.
The celebrities are evidently hibernating thanks to the descent of winter, so instead of boring you with news of Full House's Stephanie Tanner's divorce or Travis Barker's lawsuit against the makers of the plane that crashed a couple months ago or Jessica Simpson's lame reaction to becoming an aunt, here's a riveting video of a cat on a Roomba. Happy weekend!
Lipstick Jungle, the NBC Sex and the City-style show that's still in danger of being axed from the network's prime-time lineup, must be getting really desperate to create a buzz. On the show's "behind the scenes" YouTube channel, a video just went up with this caption: "Oh. My God. You're NEVER gonna believe what I caught on the set of Lipstick Jungle!!! Robert Buckley AKA Kirby OUT OF CONTROL!!! AND HOTTER THEN EVER!! GRRRR!!!"
Uh, no. We're not going to complain about Robert Buckley stripping down to his skivvies, but this is so painfully set up and awkward that we can't help but roll our eyes. How did this one show get so out of touch with reality?
Clips from the Britney: For the Record documentary are being leaked on YouTube, prompting Perez Hilton to be all, "EXCLUSIVE!!! WE CAN REVEAL EXCLUSIVELY THAT BRITNEY SAID THIS!!!" even though it's all over the Internets. Anyhoo, there's a big fuss over Brit's admission that she probably married Kevin Federline for less-than-ideal reasons. Gasp!
This earth-shattering revelation overshadows the clips of Brit recording "Womanizer" in the studio — and she sounds just slightly less tone deaf than The Real Housewives of Atlanta's Kim. It's a good thing she's a pro at lip-syncing.
Taking a break from Britney and Kim and all things that make us weep for America: The cult classic Little Shop of Horrors has once again become relevant, thanks to the magical powers of YouTube. You see, the 1986 musical about a blood-sucking plant has an alternate ending that was changed at the last minute due to whining from test audiences. It apparently cost $5 million and 11 months to produce and was released for a mere five days back in 1998 until a copyright scuffle caused the DVD to be recalled. During the ongoing legal battle, Warner Brothers believed the original ending was lost in a studio fire — but voila! Here it is, lurking around the Internets.
The 24-minute alternate ending begins above and continues after the jump. It's magic! CONTINUED »
Transgendered boy queen Chris Crocker, who's looking more and more like the haunting spectre of a Top Model reject, went against his promise to quit YouTube and on Friday uploaded to the video sharing site an endorsement for That One, Barack Obama.
The whole thing is more or less a grating disaster, but it is nice to see a Democratic voter fighting idiotic faux patriotism with idiotic faux patriotism: "Anyone that's not voting for Barack Obama does not care about our country and is not American."
Full video after the jump.
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Ashley Todd and her woeful tale of an attack at the hands of a violent black mutilator are famous! Unfortunately, it seems as if most of Todd's new fans, like the police, are having a hard time believing the young lady. Here's a screen cap from her YouTube channel page.
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YOUTUBE'S PRODUCTION DESTROYS H'WOOD'S "Each day, there are 13 hours of content uploaded to YouTube per minute. That … is the equivalent of Hollywood releasing 57,000 movies per week."
Mark Wahlberg, the man behind both "Good Vibrations" and Entourage, isn't exactly known for his warm and friendly demeanor. So it should come as no surprise that Marky Mark had some harsh words for Saturday Night Live after the show featured a clip of him (played by Andy Samberg) talking to random animals. The sketch was bizarre and slightly humorous (still, it's no "Fancy Pants"), but Wahlberg was not amused.
Someone showed it to me on YouTube. It wasn't like Tina Fey doing Sarah Palin, that's for sure. And Saturday Night Live hasn't been funny for a long time. They've asked me to do the show a ton of times. I used to watch it when Eddie Murphy was there and Joe Piscopo and Bill Murray. I don't even know who's on the show now.
Oh, Marky Mark. You should probably be grateful to SNL for this whole thing — it's the most attention you've had in years. Click through for the clip and judge for yourself. CONTINUED »
Can someone please take the camera away from Diddy? The obnoxious mouth-breather took to the Internets again last night in hopes of encouraging all the "boys and girls" to vote for Barack Obama after John McCain referred to him as "that one" during the latest debate. Does Diddy have a right to be angry about this? Sure. But the way he refers to his viewers as "boys and girls" reminds us of John McCain's usage of "my friends": Both send us into fits of blind rage.
And, once again, we'd like to point out that Diddy's endorsement of Obama is much like Aubrey O'Day's or Lindsay Lohan's: It's not needed. In fact, it's probably doing more harm than good.
YEP, TV'S STILL DYING "More than half of the viewers for 'Saturday Night Live's' recent skits featuring Tina Fey as Sarah Palin watched the sketches on the web as of Sept. 29, according to a survey conducted by Solutions Research Group. About 51% of viewers who have seen at least one of the skits are watching on the internet, indicating that viewing preferences for this type of content are shifting toward the computer. About 23% of all views came from YouTube, including video of other talk shows that showed clips of the skit, with 17% of views attributed to NBC.com and 4% to Hulu.com."
Damnit, Diddy! Why did you have to open your mouth again and post a stupid YouTube video about how much Sarah Palin scares you? You almost — almost — forced us to agree with you for once, until you busted out that odd heavy panting and hiding under the covers bit. This isn't the Blair Witch Hunt, Puff. And you probably just won McCain a few new votes out of spite.
Just … stop. Please.
YOUTUBE CONTINUES DESTROYING TELEVISION "John McCain's snub of David Letterman last week may have deprived the 'Late Show' host of some needed star power last week, but it's given him a hit on the web. So far, video of Mr. Letterman's tirade against Mr. McCain, who bowed out the day of the telecast, has generated more than 3.5 million views on YouTube. One problem: CBS is barely making a dime from the clip. That's because the vast majority of the views — 3.2 million — are attributed to pirated versions of the 'Late Show,' according to tracking firm TubeMogul."
Uh oh! Will.I.am, he of crap.py quartet the Black Eyed Peas, got a big head in light of the success of his "Yes We Can" video. Prepare to be positive video-ed to death.
On Thursday in New York City, Will, his band mate apl.de.ap, musician Angelique Kidjo, actress Kristin Davis and model Elle Macpherson all helped launch a "new" campaign to halve global poverty by 2015. Neat, if not really new.
In fact, this campaign is an initiative to help revitalize a plan originally put into motion eight years ago by the United Nations. Many of the countries the UN had hoped would be well on their way to destroying poverty by now are nowhere near achieving their goals. Clearly, this is a job for apl.de.ap.
Meet Bo Burnham, YouTube sensation (not of the Chris Crocker variety) and the latest member of the Judd Apatow family. This kid just turned 18 and he's already been tapped to write the music for — and star in — a new Apatow comedy that is being billed as "the anti-High School Musical." Sounds awesome already.
We did a little research, and it turns out dear Bo is no stranger to music: He has been writing songs for the past couple of years and performing them in his bedroom for a camera resting on a stack of books. Upon viewing some of these videos, we have officially fallen in love: He's crude and absurd, but he's charming in that "I went to an all-boys Catholic school and am therefore perfectly harmless" kind of way.
Click through for one of his fantastical raps.
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