It all started with GoogleVideo...where they allow *anyone* to upload video of *anything*...up to what would probably be a PG-13 rating (sometimes cussing, violent antics, or crude humor...on occasion I've run into something that I wouldn't have watched if I had known).
There are countless free videos...amazing amateurity...then there are the paid vids...TV shows, Sports, Movies, and Music Videos. GoogleVideo has pages for Popular and Google's Picks and Random of interesting, funny or downright bizarre videos. Certainly not everything you find at GoogleVideo will be even remotely interesting. I suggest sticking to the "Popular" vids...in the "Random" you will have to weed through lots and lots of babies crawling on the floor, college kids drinking, extremely amateur sporting events and miscellaneous, ahem, "musicians", before finding anything worth laughing over. Google Has their own blog for it...the Official Google Video Blog. Downside, some of the vids they feature are paid vids.
There are many blogs and websites that use GoogleVideo as fodder for their sites...always seeking out the humorous or weird.
Google Video of the Day (a.k.a. GVOD) is my favorite and I visit several times daily just to see what entertainment they have dug up. What I like about this site: they let you know about potentially objectionable content. Therefore: no blushing surprises.
But now I've seen it all...announcing GoogleIdol (a.k.a.Gidol). This is a site that pits some of the best amateur videos against each other, openes up the voting, and waits to see what happens.
The first winners? Pomme and Kelly doing "R-E-S-P-E-C-T".
It's a mad mad mad mad world.
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