google video

first it was one every few weeks...the most recent funny thing people are posting on their friends/guild/hobby forums. Then it was one every few days. Now it seems there are about 10 to 50 funny videos (and about 500 unfunny ones) hitting the web daily and you can't even keep up with them if you just want to see the best...it's like having a TV with 2057 channels and everything on.

And yet... when you see real talent..someone who gets the medium and is both enjoying themselves with it and entertaining the anonymous masses. Well, you just have to applaud.

This guy Curtis Drew a.k.a. the Parodyking, is flippin brilliant. The Madonna video is just so bad and tongue-in-cheek that it made me laugh. Then I really thought about it...how ballsy do you have to be as a teenager to put that much video out on the web basically making an ass out of yourself? Between stupid and ballsy, I am going to give Curtis the nod for ballsy in that he has a talent, albeit a strange and twisted one, and he's using it for the power of good. Runaway and Feel Good, Inc are both pretty good. I like the way you move has some good style too... I think he perfectly captures the personality of the Bodyrockers vocalist. And he has no mic...the guy is doing all this with primitive circa 2003 tools!

So again, my question is... with such a huge vista of expression and communication out there as the Net, how brave would you have to be to permanently put some video out there of you being a dork? We've all acted like an idiot at some time or other in front of friends or family, and yeah, some people do that routinely at karaoke bars... but to throw it out there on Google video... You are posting your own version of Paris Hilton's video (okay, well maybe not quite that embarrassing) out there to live in infamy. I hope you're okay with the fact that you might own a company some day and perhaps be in politics...yet you're still best known for the rest of your life as one of the Two Chinese Students , I mean Backstreet Boys.

By the way, and if in some way you've been under a rock without Google Video for the last two years, that 'I want it that way' video is still the best. If you don't agree, correct me. Gotta love the roommate in the background ignoring them.

For those of you who don't like any of these...okay, fine, I'm not posting it for you. Your refined sense of humor is probably more suited to Bill Maher or Woody Allen. I suppose you don't like Triumph the Insult Comic Dog either eh? Don't dismiss the stupid! It will live on long after wit and intelligence are gone.