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YouTube video(s) of the week
YouTube is the reason the Internet was invented. Amazing live footage from gigs years ago, adverts you thought you'd forgotten about, amazing news stories flashed around the world in seconds and dogs being stupid. We Love YouTube. This section will be updated regularly - sometimes more often than weekly, and sometimes probably less often - with stuff that we all find amusing. 01/11/2009Chris: I cried when I saw this for the first time. Anything with dogs is a winner, watch this until the end. 16/07/2009Chris: I'm quite the aficionado of 80s and 90s British sitcoms, and particularly their theme tunes. There wasn't a lot to do round our parts, so settling down with a mug of steaming hot mud to see the McGann brothers tear it up again was quite the weekly highlight. So here's the first in an occasional series of a round-up, in no particular order, of some of my faves. Sorry! - starring the diminutive Ronnie Corbett as a middle-aged librarian who still lives with his domineering mother. This song is made by the wah-wah bits. Ronnie Hazelhurst didn't compose this, but it sounds like he did. He conducted the performance, though. Bread - Carla Lane's Liverpool-based comedy about the Boswell family's travails through life. Kind of like a proto-Shameless set during Margaret Thatcher and Mary Whitehouse's reign. This theme tune is twee and rubbish but is made brilliant by the impossibly high 'ooo-WEEEE-ooo-oo-ooooo' about 30 seconds in. The Littlest Hobo - never-ending Canadian series starring a German Shepherd dog who saves the day in various locations. No-one's ever quite sure where he comes from, or where he goes to. Maybe tomorrow, he'll want to settle down. Until tomorrow, however, he'll just keep moving on. Heartbreaking. Still makes me cry. 30/03/2009Chris: Here's a video of Keith Richards dishing out some justice to some freak who had the guts (and lack of common sense) to invade the stage at his gig. I love the way he just straps his guitar back on and gets straight back into the riff. Or should I say, The Riff. All hail Sir Keith Richards, King Of All Things Telecastery.
05/03/2009Chris: Bas Rutten's Self Defence - incredibly quotable piece of Shakespearean literature. 'Dang-a-d-danga-d-dang' indeed.
15/01/2009Steve: Feline electro-genius at work from this avant-garde moggy from the land of the rising sun – every house should have a theremin and every cat should have a go at one.
15/01/2009Davros: Fun with a Kazoo. Fact one: We love kazoos.
11/09/2008Steve: I was sent this link by a feller called Amarik from Bradford, aka ‘The Psychedelic Singh’ – check out his very fine Myspace page first, then watch this – The Bollywood Superman and Spider-girl:
While we’re at it – an old favourite: ‘APACHE! Ha ha ha haaaa!’:
31/08/2008A selection of favoured YouTube clips from mysterious guitarist Davros: Comedy actor and superb voice-over dude Peter Serafinowicz voiced Darth Maul in the first of the new Star Wars films, The Phantom Menace, and you may have seen him in Shaun Of The Dead and Spaced. These are clips from his TV work.
The Butterfield Diet Plan: This, ladies and gentlemen, is how to diet.
The Butterfield Detective Agency: The crap entrepreneur is back with his very own detective agency.
Elephants and Trains: Funny spoof advert.
Rings and Tings: Another funny spoof advert. 08/08/2008Steve: Dogs in hats - quite simply the most sublime and calming 1:24 of your life, probably. Dog + hat = satisfaction. Steve: Edgar Winter Group - 'Frankenstein'. From the Old Grey Whistle Test. Freaky Jimmy Saville look-a-like albino Edgar on the synth/sax/tibales with Robin Asquith from 'Confessions of..' films on guitar, some utter dude on bass and a blonde version of our very own Wayne Insane on drums. Together they deliver the full majesty of rock in nearly 10 mind-bending minutes. 21/07/2008
Chris: This made me cry with laughter when I saw it. Amazing. I could watch this all day long, and it'd still be funny tomorrow. |