2008 Woodie Awards
Youtube offers top notch video online humor
Joseph Froemming
Issue date: 4/30/07 Section: Intermission
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Web site Review
A simple search on the Web site Youtube.com can result in an eight-hour video watching frenzy that leaves one glossy eyed and drooling.
Part of the Youtube adventure is wading through millions of videos, finding just about anything you want.
Searching for The Beatles' final rooftop concert? It's there in its entirety. Want to see a kid beat "Super Mario Bros. 3" in 10 minutes? That too is on the site.
Almost everything that has ever been video recorded is probably up on Youtube.
Along this journey are, of course, the millions of videos of people doing really lame and boring things.
The video blog is perhaps the worst thing to sit through. Lonely, goofy youngsters crying about how tough it is to be a pimply teen can stretch one's nerves to the edge.
Of course, there are highlights on this site. One of the recent big hits has been "Sad Kermit," which used Youtube to debut the first music video from a depressed, drug addicted Kermit the Frog.
This is a music video of Kermit the Frog singing the Nine Inch Nails song "Hurt." It is filmed much like Johnny Cash's video for the same song, except it goes deeper into the world of addiction.
The video starts with a lonely looking Kermit strumming the opening chords of the song in a dark room.
It soon spirals into the seedy world of heroin addiction and the loss that comes with it.
When Kermit sings "Everyone I know goes away in the end," the video pans up from a photo of Miss Piggy to the late Jim Henson, creator of the Muppets.
The video would be a very depressing one had it not used famous Muppets.
Kermit is seen shooting heroin, masturbating to a photo of Miss Piggy and performing oral sex on Rowlf, the jazz piano playing canine who also starred on "The Muppet Show," for dope.
Another cult hit is a series of videos from "Tim and Eric's Awesome Show Great Job!"
Fans of "Mr. Show" will naturally love the demented series of videos made by these two (Bob Odenkirk from "Mr. Show" was a producer for their Adult Swim show "Tom Goes to the Mayor").
A simple search on the Web site Youtube.com can result in an eight-hour video watching frenzy that leaves one glossy eyed and drooling.
Part of the Youtube adventure is wading through millions of videos, finding just about anything you want.
Searching for The Beatles' final rooftop concert? It's there in its entirety. Want to see a kid beat "Super Mario Bros. 3" in 10 minutes? That too is on the site.
Almost everything that has ever been video recorded is probably up on Youtube.
Along this journey are, of course, the millions of videos of people doing really lame and boring things.
The video blog is perhaps the worst thing to sit through. Lonely, goofy youngsters crying about how tough it is to be a pimply teen can stretch one's nerves to the edge.
Of course, there are highlights on this site. One of the recent big hits has been "Sad Kermit," which used Youtube to debut the first music video from a depressed, drug addicted Kermit the Frog.
This is a music video of Kermit the Frog singing the Nine Inch Nails song "Hurt." It is filmed much like Johnny Cash's video for the same song, except it goes deeper into the world of addiction.
The video starts with a lonely looking Kermit strumming the opening chords of the song in a dark room.
It soon spirals into the seedy world of heroin addiction and the loss that comes with it.
When Kermit sings "Everyone I know goes away in the end," the video pans up from a photo of Miss Piggy to the late Jim Henson, creator of the Muppets.
The video would be a very depressing one had it not used famous Muppets.
Kermit is seen shooting heroin, masturbating to a photo of Miss Piggy and performing oral sex on Rowlf, the jazz piano playing canine who also starred on "The Muppet Show," for dope.
Another cult hit is a series of videos from "Tim and Eric's Awesome Show Great Job!"
Fans of "Mr. Show" will naturally love the demented series of videos made by these two (Bob Odenkirk from "Mr. Show" was a producer for their Adult Swim show "Tom Goes to the Mayor").