Comedy
Wassup Obama?
The 2008 US Presidential election will be the YouTube election. Parody is always hot on YouTube. That’s why this Obama campaign ad, poignantly parodying Budweiser’s classic Wassup ad from eight years ago, is a stroke of pure genius.
This hilarious yet heartwarming spoof has racked up over two million views in its first five days. Fully leveraging the shortform nature of viral video, the ad concisely strikes at multiple hot button issues in a span of just two minutes.
If Obama can run his country as cluefully as he runs his campaign, perhaps America can relax enough to watch a game and have a Bud again. Click here to continue reading “Wassup Obama?”…
Happy Slip’s Alternate Channel
Every good show has an outtake reel. Filipina YouTube comedienne Christine “Happy Slip” Gambito puts up so much content, she could fill a whole new YouTube channel with bloopers and behind-the-scenes footage. In fact, that’s exactly what she just did.
The abundance of storage space on DVDs gave rise to bonus features. Now the abundance of storage space on the Web gives rise to bonus channels.
