The Eliot Spitzer saga is one that has continued to result in a cornucopia of online videos, popping up all over the Web.
I posted a few mashups on Love Client Number 9 here, but it is also nice now to be able to move professional television content around the Internet so easily.
Here’s, for example, a very funny clip from last week’s “Saturday Night Live,” which I grabbed off Hulu.com:
You knew it was only a matter of seconds before there would be video mash-ups on the Web related to the prostitution troubles of New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer.
Some are pretty racy, of course, because the story is, well, pretty racy, generating the most excellent headline from the New York Post: “Ho No!”
But here are two I liked a lot. The first is from Barry Mitchell on the accordion in a song parody using the Searchers’ ditty, “Love Potion Number 9.” And the second does a very funny take-off of “The Odd Couple,” pairing Spitzer with another Luv Guv–New Jersey’s Jim McGreevey.
Kara Swisher started covering digital issues for The Wall Street Journal's San Francisco bureau in 1997 and also wrote the BoomTown column about the sector. With Walt Mossberg, she co-produces and co-hosts D: All Things Digital, a major high-tech and media conference.
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