viral videos-related stories
Posted Sep 5th 2009 7:04PM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Video, Children, Reality-Free
WARNING: The following post contains images of a shocking nature and despite its source material, is not appropriate for anyone under the age of 18. And before you get all excited, no, it does not contain naked boobies.
We all remember lovable ol' Fred Rogers, aka TV's Mister Rogers, as a warm, cuddly and caring neighbor who never wore a frown and always had a smile for someone smaller than him.
But what if all those cheerful hellos, colorful sweater jackets and speeches about being special on
Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood were just a mask hiding something very dark and sinister? Specifically, a clown mask?
Continue reading Everything floats down in Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
Posted Jul 6th 2009 11:03AM by Jason Hughes
Filed under: Vs., Music and Variety, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free, Webisodes
I remember long ago in a cable land far away when a little show called
Talk Soup started. It was clever, riffing on talk show shenanigans. We've come a long way since then, with clip shows blanketing the network. And then there's the Internet. On paper the idea of a web video iteration of
The Soup, as it's now called, sounds solid enough, and G4 is a good place for it, but as Michael pointed out,
Web Soup just isn't working.
Even though G4 is the place for techie stuff and they handle web videos already,
Web Soup still manages to feel outdated and stodgy. And Chris Hardwick, while funny when he fills in on
Attack of the Show, is almost mind-numbingly
not funny hosting
Web Soup. But Chris Hardwick and the gang were not alone in exploring web videos on our TVs. Comedy Central threw comedian Daniel Tosh into the mix with the webbily titled
Tosh.0. But which one, if either, is better?
Continue reading Tosh.0 vs. Web Soup
Posted Jun 11th 2009 10:03AM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Programming, OpEd, Web, Game Show
Just because
one network's venture into viral video greatness went belly up like so many silver leotard wearing contestants before them doesn't mean the craze has ended.
Next week marks the premiere of MTV's newest reality game show
Silent Library, based on the game of the same name from the Japanese variety show
Downtown no Gaki no Tsukai ya Arahende!!For those who don't spend time watching videos forwarded to them by their friends and are therefore productive members of society, the game is played by six dunderheads in a "library." They each draw a card, five reading safe and one with a skull and crossbones on it. The player who draws the Jolly Roger has to do an uncomfortable or painful stunt, but must resist the urge to scream. It's the least intelligent use of a library since
The Da Vinci Code hit the shelves.
Continue reading Silent Library video goes from viral to cable
Posted Dec 22nd 2006 4:03PM by Julia Ward
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, NBC, Late Night, Animation, Web, Festivus
The third and final installment of
Conan O'Brien and comedian Jim Gaffigan's "Pale Force" animated Christmas episode can now be
streamed online, and it's a classic. Not only does it manage to satirize every single pop culture manifestation of this most precious of holidays, it also throws in a dig about the Eurocentric depiction of Christ, gives us an animated Andy Warhol and poses the question, "What would the world be like if Conan weren't pale?"
The number of sly references in the three-parter is dazzling as are such jaunty songs as "Not Going to Get Me Down This Year" and "Christmas is the Palest Time of Year." So, move over
Scrubs' Charlie Brown Xmas and
SNL's "Dick in a Box," the "Pale Force Christmas" episode has entered the favorite holiday viral race.
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