Back in February on Super Tuesday I posted"Super Online Videos For Super Tuesday."
Now that the primaries are over and the official presidential campaign
is in full swing, I don't know about you, but I'm ready for a few
laughs. What better way to get them then by checking out the latest
online videos that take a humorous look at the campaign and the
candidates?
Need some humor in your life? Have I got some YouTube videos for you!
Recently during one of my regular YouTube forays, I uncovered a stockpile of entertaining movie trailer parodies, or recuts as they're sometimes called. I happen to hate "Mary Poppins." What's that got to do with movie trailer parodies? Read on.
First up, a work of true genius and my favorite clip. Based on the blockbuster 1997 movie, "Titanic." It's called, "Titanic: Two The Surface," and tells the story of Jack Dawson after the sinking.
My next favorite, "Dirty Dancing," turns that harmless little movie about a family's vacation in the Catskills into something much more sinister.
In the world of online video Hulu is the new kid on the internet block. The name Hulu is funky 'cause I keep wanting to say Hula, like the Hawaiian dance. Maybe the domain was taken, but considering this new website that allows visitors to watch full length movies and TV shows is backed by the mucho money of NBC Universal and News Corp., they could have probably bought it at auction.
Anyway, in spite of that, Hulu is pretty cool.
This week the site finished a year of beta testing and launched full on. I just finished registering for and surfing through the site and I was impressed. And that's not just because you can watch episodes of my favorite show "Buffy The Vampire Slayer" there.
Other TV shows available are classic "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" from the fifties to "Arrested Development" from just a couple of years ago. There are episodes of "Bones," "House," and "Chuck." You can watch comedy sketches from "Saturday Night Live," like the very funny one from last week parodying the famous Hillary Clinton "3AM Phone Call" ad.
The selection of movies runs the gamut from "The Usual Suspects," to "The Forty Year Old Virgin" to "The Full Monty."
You can browse movies and TV shows by title, by genre or by movie studio or network. How do they provide all this stuff for free? Why, by commercials of course. But the quality of the clips is great and the site has a slick, clean look that is easy to navigate.
Jason Kilar, Hulu’s chief executive was quoted in a NY Times article:
“We won’t stop until we have everything in terms of premium content. That is our mission,” he said. “I just think back to the fact that 24 months ago, there wasn’t anything online legally in terms of full TV episodes or films. In just 17 weeks, we have gone from nothing to over 200 premium titles.”
It's no coincidence two TV/movie companies are involved in this little venture, because the networks are beginning to see the writing on the wall about how traditional TV viewers are watching a heck of a lot more videos online, not to mention all the free streaming of shows on network websites.
Take my word for it, this site's gonna be a huge hit. It's the future and it's here.
I'm happy to announce you can now read my bright and pithy observations not only here at Megan's Minute and over at BlogHer, but at a new blog called Video Runway.
Video Runway is a blog designed for those with very little time, but who still want to stay on top of the television and online video world. The posts are short and sweet and the topics timely.
The blog is part of the WOW Women's World website which covers a variety of topics of interest to today's women, including webcasts, podcasts and social networking. So be sure to check it out.
Super Tuesday has finally arrived. It's the day 22 states have presidential primaries and the votes cast will go a long way toward determining the eventual nominee of each party.
In honor of Super Tuesday I've put together a list online video clips you just might want to take a peek at. Either to help you make your decision or to help you justify to your friends and family why you've decided the way you have.
Some are serious, some are wacky and some are just mindless entertainment. And in the spirit of how the media and the politicians love to lump all voters into pre-programmed voting blocks I've decided to do the same.
Videos For Political Junkies With No Lives:
The beauty of the internet these days is you don't have to get up early on Sunday to see the Sunday morning talk shows. Just go to You Decide 2008, for a Sunday morning roundup of the candidates.
Am I the only one who hasn't posted a video on YouTube yet? It seems like everybody's there. Even the Queen of England has her own channel. And I don't mean Helen Mirren. It's getting to a point where saying that you haven't posted on YouTube is like saying you've never done a Google search. Was it just ten years ago that we were marveling at cell phones that took pictures? Things are moving entirely too fast for me. But part of my beat with my new gig at BlogHer is to cover the goings on over at YouTube. So I'll make an effort to keep up. Here's a round up of what I've been viewing lately.
A few weeks ago after Ike Turner's death I wanted to see Ike and Tina Turner's performance of "Proud Mary" for old times sake. Now you have to understand, whenever Ike and Tina Turner, the Supremes, or Gladys Knight and The Pips, or any of those classic black groups were on television, everything in our house stopped so we could sit down and watch. My cousins would start singing, my mother and aunt would do a hipper version of the funky chicken and my grandmother would beam and say how all good music ever created came from black folks.
Those were the days. Anyway, I don't know what my grandmother would think of all this, but how cool is it that today on YouTube I can choose from several different versions of the performance of Ike and Tina Turner's "Proud Mary?" The best one, at least quality-wise was a live performance aired on the old NBC show, "The Midnight Special" in 1974.
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