This week, “Saturday Night Live” reprised one of its better skits, “The Rock Obama,” spoofing the health-care debate.
In it, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson does to some politicians just what a lot of us would like to do.
It looks like Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will have her hands full with pretty dicey nuclear and terrorism issues in North Korea and Pakistan this week, but she managed to find time last week to try her diplomatic hand at working out the state of emergency between late-night television talk show host Conan O’Brien and Newark Mayor Cory Booker.
Here are the videos.
Here’s the latest Internet sensation that spoofs Beyoncé’s “All the Single Ladies” hit music video.
This time it is tiny Cory Elliott, getting down with a diaper when he was 13 months old.
Here’s one of the many funny videos from this week’s “Saturday Night Live” 35th season opener, hosted by “Transformers” starlet Megan Fox.
Of course, the video features her in a spoof of the silly action movie, although this one is much more entertaining than the real thing.
Since it was tacked onto the slasher movie, “Sorority Row,” which opened this weekend, many have been posting the brand new trailer for “New Moon.”
The second installment of the “Twilight” vampire series debuts Nov. 20, natch!
But for those who cannot wait, here’s the new trailer, as well as the two older ones.
Suddenly, it seems the AMC series about a 1960s advertising agency in New York, “Mad Men,” is having its “Sopranos” moment–with its stars all over the media, its fans more obsessive than ever, its ratings doubled in its third season and a renewal for a fourth season just today.
So, of course, there are also spoofs galore online too, some pretty elaborate, such as this one with a gender switcheroo. Fascinatingly, it still works.
Here is a slick video about social media that looks at its impact and quick influence, all of which is true, although it does manage to leave out the very pertinent question of whether or not it makes any money or not (because most of it does not yet, of course).
It begins by asking: “Is Social Media a Fad?”
More like a financial dud so far–but, in any case, it is a very fun watch. Created by Socialnomics, a blog by Erik Qualman covering social media, it is also a book that is now coming out.
Here’s a new video that has been making the rounds recently featuring “Roller Babies,” which is essentially a computer-generated bunch of babies on skates doing a rap number.
It’s a commercial for Evian Water, but BoomTown laughs every time I look at it anyway–probably because it reminds me of the most famous of all viral videos on the Internet: The Dancing Baby of 1997.
In a genius pairing of subject and artist, here is the best online viral video this week from Conan O’Brien’s “Tonight Show,” featuring actor William Shatner reciting outgoing Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s recent farewell speech verbatim.
You simply can’t make this stuff up.
In April, DJ Steve Porter remixed the most excellent infomercial–featuring television pitchman Vince Shlomi for the Slap Chop, an entertaining slasher of all foods–into a rap music video.
It has now garnered 3.8 million views on YouTube, as well as now officially becoming an infomercial itself.
Here’s the viral online video, along with another Porter did a month later for the legendary ShamWow.
Why can’t BoomTown stop watching the dopey machinations of the boys of “Entourage”?
Because, it’s always more of the same on the popular HBO show, which is oddly comforting–a revelation that College Humor mocks perfectly in a very funny online video called “Every Week on Entourage.”
“So many twists and turns, you’ll forget they’ve been using the same formula for five seasons,” explains the humor site.
Here is the latest video from the fine folks at JibJab Media, whose online political satires were among the first viral ones on the Web.
Titled “He’s Barack Obama,” it premiered tonight in front of the President at the 65th Radio and Television Correspondents Dinner in Washington, D.C.
The two-minute Obama video is being launched in conjunction with JibJab’s Facebook Connect integration, so all comments on the video will run through Facebook’s platform.
Even if it never makes any money, Twitter certainly does provide fabulous material for television spoofs.
So far, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert have done several funny bits on Comedy Central, deftly mocking the microblogging service.
And now, Conan O’Brien is doubling down with two skits so far dubbed “Twitter TRACKER” on “The Tonight Show.”
In them, a loudmouthed voice delivers pointless celebrity tweets as a flock of blue cartoon Twitter birdies is murdered in various ingenious ways.
Here’s more extraordinary video of Susan Boyle, the Scottish singing sensation.
The unknown 47-year-old appears in new online videos unearthed by Scotland’s Daily Record and shot at a 1984 competition at the Fir Park Social Club in Motherwell.
She is 22 in these videos, but sings “I Don’t Know How to Love Him” and “The Way We Were” just as well as she did recently on “Britain’s Got Talent.”
How much does BoomTown love viral video? Much, in this case.
The Internet sensation that is Susan Boyle just keeps getting better.
The Daily Record in Scotland uncovered a 10-year-old recording that the 47-year-old woman made for a charity CD.
Singing the classic blues ballad, “Cry Me a River,” Boyle more than proves she has the range of the truly gifted artist (not to mention emotional depths that seem endless here) she displayed recently on a British television talent show, which has turned her into a viral Web celebrity.
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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