We are getting close to having on demand TV available via the internet with the current ability to download TV shows to a video iPod (if you own one). In the meantime one can satisfy this need by visiting a number of video sights which clip a variety of video content and make it available on the web. There are political sites like Crooks and Liars which provide news clips of interest culling the most interesting and provocative moments from Meet the Press, Hardball, Countdown, O’Reilly and other news shows. Salon.com has Video Dog for premium subscribers with a variety of content. There’s Devil Ducky with a great collection of TV clips, music videos and odd ball selections like Sarah Silverman singing Give the Jew Girl Toys or illusionist David Blaine apparently practicing psychic surgery on himself in David Blaine Rips His Heart Out. Occasionally an internet video sweeps the nation as in the case of "Lazy Sunday." "Lazy Sunday" made the New York Times:
“In "Lazy Sunday," a music video that had its debut on the Dec. 17 broadcast of "SNL," two cast members, Chris Parnell and Andy Samberg, adopt the brash personas of head-bopping, hand-waving rappers. But as they make their way around Manhattan's West Village, they rhyme with conviction about subjects that are anything but hard-core: they boast about eating cupcakes from the Magnolia Bakery, searching for travel directions on MapQuest and achieving their ultimate goal of attending a matinee of the fantasy movie "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe."
“It is their obliviousness to their total lack of menace - or maybe the ostentatious way they pay for convenience-store candy with $10 bills - that makes the video so funny, but it is the Internet that has made it a hit. Since it was originally broadcast on NBC, "Lazy Sunday" has been downloaded more than 1.2 million times..."
I was thankful for this article as I really didn’t get the video at first due to my musical dyslexsia. It was much funnier on a second viewing/listening.
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