5. Get your camphone out at gigs
Seeing a good
band? Don't dive into the moshpit or crowd surf from the upper balcony
to the stage. Instead, stand at the back ABSOLUTELY still and record a
song or two using your cameraphone. It doesn't sound much fun, but
plenty of people are doing it, then sticking the results on YouTube the
next day. Particularly popular when a band is playing new tunes, or
haven't played live for a while. Record labels don't like it, but
YouTubers most emphatically do.
Examples: Here and here
6. Be bloody good at videogames
Games never did
live up to their billing as the next big spectator sport, despite a
slew of mooted TV shows which'd let you watch Unreal Tournament geeks
going about their shooty business. Funny, that. But on YouTube, amazing
(or amazingly silly) gaming feats will gain you plenty of attention,
especially when they involve making Halo characters dance about to a
song about cats. Obviously.
Examples: Here and here
7. Corrupt innocent childrens' characters
An old
favourite here, harking back to making your Sooty and Sweep puppets
hurl four-letter abuse at your He-Men when you were younger. C'mon,
surely that wasn't just me? Oh. Anyway, spoofs and parodies of popular
kids TV shows are ever popular on YouTube, whether it's Pokemon miming
to Since You've Been Gone (neat cross-pollination with category 1
there),
Examples: Here and here
8. Drink. Lots.
Fratboy antics rack up views like
no-one's business, dude. So grab yourself a bottle of cheap beer
spirits / cleaning fluid, set your webcam going, and prepare for fame.
If you can manage to be sick at the end of it, so much the better. So
there's people downing pints, bottles and yards of ale, and in one
memorable case, a chap playing the Jeremy Kyle Show drinking game with
snakebite'n'black, and the guy learning to speak French while chugging
white wine. Now that's stupid brave.
Examples: Here and here
9. Rip obscure Japanese cartoons off the telly
Maybe
it's because this stuff is hard to get on DVD over here, but YouTube is
packed with episode-length cartoons called stuff like 'Great Teacher',
'Ayashi no Ceres' and 'Ouran High School Host Club' (I don't think
that's as seedy as it sounds. At least, I hope it's not). If you've got
a supply of this stuff and know your way around DVD-ripping software,
you'll never be short of a few thousand viewers.
Examples: Here and here
10. Make high-quality one-minute vids reviewing hot gadgets of the day
Oh, come on. You didn't think we were going to get through this post without a big fat plug for the video reviews on our sister Tech Reviews blog, did you? We've got no shame.
Posted by Katherine on August 10, 2006 in YouTube Videos | Permalink | Comments (0)
"I'm ugly.... my jaw hurts....(groan) BUUURP!" This is Britney Spears' opening gambit on this more than mental clip of her... quite possibly strung out... quite possibly hamming it up. Watch her contemplate time travel, have a strange nervous tick and, more importantly, watch her keep shouting "HUUUH?"
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Posted by mofgimmers on August 10, 2006 in Britney Spears, Britney Spears & Kevin Federline, YouTube Videos | Permalink | Comments (0)
Mel Gibson? He's gone mental hasn't he? Well, before the official fall from grace, he was interviewed by some pretend punker... and ate cake, sports a tinfoil hat and talks about raspberries looking like sores... What?
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Posted by mofgimmers on August 9, 2006 in YouTube Videos | Permalink | Comments (0)
Eddie Izzard doesn't half polarise opinion. Some see him as a weirdo, babbling on about this and that with no real purpose, others see him as a cutting edge comic and generally superb. Well, the old comedy routines have been scant for Eddie, as he chases acting roles in Hollywood. Here, we can see him on Richard & Judy, talking about his climbing of the acting ladder (from seven years old) and his appearance in 'My Super Ex Girlfriend'.
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Posted by mofgimmers on August 8, 2006 in YouTube Videos | Permalink | Comments (1)
Armando Iannucci is one of the funniest men in comedy. He's one of the few satirists, along with Chris Morris, who is completely unforgiving in his humour. Thankfully he's hilarious to boot. So funny that I've punctured all my lungs laughing at his gags.If you like this, then click this YouTube link to see his spoof interview involving Dale Winton. He's also on our screens on BBC2 at 10pm on a Thursday with the fabulous Time Trumpet (click this link to watch episodes) which looks at the news of the future.
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Posted by mofgimmers on August 7, 2006 in YouTube Videos | Permalink | Comments (0)
Who on earth could make a chat show host 'high five' at sex crimes? It could only be the fabulously odd Borat. What better way to celebrate his imminent film than to watch him stitch a daft American up!
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Posted by mofgimmers on August 4, 2006 in YouTube Videos | Permalink | Comments (0)
Peter Kay, a think, might just be Michael Parkinson's fave comic... watch Peter Kay talk about his nan, the priesthood and packing toilet rolls for Franny Lee. Ace.
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Posted by mofgimmers on August 3, 2006 in YouTube Videos | Permalink | Comments (0)
Eartha Kitt is one strange woman... but boy, can she purr. There is no-one quite like Terry Wogan to get the best/worst out of a guest, and Eartha Kitt didn't disappoint! This is hilarious and surreal in equal measure.
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Posted by mofgimmers on August 2, 2006 in YouTube Videos | Permalink | Comments (0)
Oliver Reed is, without question, one of the greatest actors the world has ever produced. Unfortunately, his talents have been overshadowed by his off-screen antics. His appearance on The Word is now the stuff of legend. So check him out on the Patrick Keilty show getting a horn out of his sack, and downing lethal looking cocktails.
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Posted by mofgimmers on August 1, 2006 in YouTube Videos | Permalink | Comments (0)
