Gawker: Video

'Weekend Update' With Vlad and Niko

ian spiegelman — Sun, 11 May 2008 09:45:38 EDT

Grand Theft Auto IV has the residents of Liberty City pissed. Last night, Vlad and Niko showed up on Saturday Night Live to complain about the stereotypical way Rock Star Games has represented their home town.

Sneak Peek at The Hills Season Finale

ian spiegelman — Sat, 10 May 2008 16:05:49 EDT

OMG! The final episode—for now!—of MTV's semi-reality trainwreck The Hills is almost here and who can wait? I have no idea what's going on, but Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt sure do look shouty and angry! Watch it here. [via OhNoTheyDidn't]

One More Thing

ian spiegelman — Sun, 04 May 2008 17:50:56 EDT

The Sopranos, edited for PAX Christian Television. And, yes, I do think Mad TV is classic!

While We're At It: The New Indiana Jones Trailer

ian spiegelman — Sun, 04 May 2008 16:22:32 EDT

Movie studios like me, that's why they release their new trailers on the weekends. Here's the brand spanking new one for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. And, unlike the first one, it looks really good!

Better quality version here. [via EmpireOnline]

Tom Hanks Endorses Barack

ian spiegelman — Sun, 04 May 2008 12:34:27 EDT

Ouch, Hillary! Hollywood nice guy and Oscar collector Tom Hanks just released a video endorsing Senator Barack Obama for President.

The New Dark Knight Trailer

ian spiegelman — Sun, 04 May 2008 11:41:40 EDT

So here's the new high definition trailer for The Dark Knight. There were a couple of crappy bootleg versions on YouTube for a few hours last week until Warner Bros. pitched a fit. Video after the jump.

Bigger version here. [via Coudal]

'The Empire Strikes Barack'

ian spiegelman — Sat, 03 May 2008 13:22:59 EDT

Here is the only pro-Barack Obama (or pro-anyone, really) YouTube video that I've been able to sit through in its entirety. But, then again, I'll sit through pretty much anything involving Star Wars. Because Star Wars is the greatest thing ever. Period.

[via Hollywood-Elsewhere]

Conan O'Brien's Grand Theft Auto for Yuppies

ian spiegelman — Sat, 03 May 2008 10:53:38 EDT

Do you shop at Whole Foods? Live in gentrified Brooklyn? Read the Sunday Times with no seething sense of rage? Then Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City isn't for you. But fear not, Conan O'Brien and his pals at Late Night have developed a kinder gentler version. Sample clip after the jump.

Trapped In An Elevator For Six Minutes

Hamilton Nolan — Fri, 02 May 2008 16:31:48 EDT

Getting stuck in an elevator could be the new path to media stardom. It did wonders for the guy from BusinessWeek who got trapped in one for 41 hours and ended up losing his job and his mental health. But he did get in the New Yorker! Now the parodies have begun, and this one, from Max Silvestri of 23/6, is actually pretty hilarious. Be warned, though: it makes light of the serious issue of elevator survival skills. Clip below.

It's Alive!

ian spiegelman — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:40:25 EDT

A remake of the 1974 splatter classic It's Alive—in which a cuddly widdle baby eats everyone!—is coming soon. The trailer was just released at Cannes, so now it's on YouTube, so now it's here. Yay!

Here is a Plane Crashing into a Crowd of Germans

ian spiegelman — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 13:08:07 EDT

Seriously, don't go to air shows. What good ever comes of it?

Willie and Snoop: Together at Last!

ian spiegelman — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 13:30:37 EDT

Stoner heroes Snoop Dogg and Willie Nelson got together in Amsterdam to perform "Superman." Video after the jump.

A Drunken Sidewalk Scuffle In Virtual New York

Nick Denton — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:36:08 EDT

A gamer with an early copy of Grand Theft Auto IV, the videogame set in a hyper-realistic version of New York City, has already tried out the one new feature we were most intrigued by. Niko Bellic, the hot Serbian immigrant at the center of Rockstar's videogame, can now stumble around intoxicated, and make drunken booty calls. View a clip by clicking the thumb; the longer gameplay is at Gametrailers.com. And here, if you missed them, are screenshots of Liberty City, the alternate New York City in which the fifth borough is not Staten Island but an industrial wasteland loosely based on New Jersey.

Chihuahua Vs. Karate Kid

ian spiegelman — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 14:09:59 EDT

It's on! Vid after the jump.

[via Cynical-c]

Jimmy Kimmel on "Between Two Ferns"

ian spiegelman — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 12:06:17 EDT

Funny or Die comedian Zach Galifianakis sits down for an interview with Jimmy Kimmel on his talk show "Between Two Ferns." In it, he suggests a hilarious gag Kimmel and his girlfriend Sarah Silverman can play at their local Long John Silver.

Here's the clip. (I know, I know... But I only learned how to embed YouTube vids. Dammit.) [via OhNoTheyDidn't]

Keeping Up with Tionna Smalls

ian spiegelman — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 15:20:49 EDT

An adorable little blonde person ventured out to the East New York home of former Gawker advice columnist Tionna Smalls to ask her what she thinks about Internet fame. "It's all a lot of fun of games in the beginning." But. "If people think you're getting more burns off their site than they are, they'll get rid of you. It's jealousy."

"Even with all the jealousy Nick Denton has for me, I would do it all again," she says. The video's at pop17.com [via The Fake Nick Denton]. But, seriously? Who is that tiny blonde girl? She's just darling!

LA To NYC In Four Minutes

Nick Denton — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:31:47 EDT

Michel and Oliver Gondry created a time-lapse video of a cross-country road trip, from Los Angeles to New York City, for French pop star Laquer. The entire journey is compressed to four minutes. Someone should film the reverse trip: from Manhattan socialite to trashy Hollywood reality star in four short years.

See more funny videos at CollegeHumor

Crazy Socialite Brings Broadway Divorce Battle to Youtube

ian spiegelman — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 09:49:35 EDT

Socialite/playwright Trisha Walsh-Smith is the soon-to-be ex-wife of Philip Smith, president of the Schubert Organization—which means he's super rich because Schubert owns all those theaters and produces all those fabulous Broadway plays. But the silly blonde went ahead and signed a pre-nup with the old man, who's 25 years her senior, and now she's all in a fuss. In some kind of whacky bid for leverage, Walsh-Smith is hitting YouTube to air her fears that the old man and his daughters are out to destroy her—trying to kick her out of her swank Miami pad, stealing her $500k annual pension in the event of Smith's demise, and leaving her with all sorts of dirty sex paraphernalia that Smith certainly never used on her.

In the video, she reveals that Smith blamed his high blood pressure when he stopped having creaky senior sex with her long ago. But she found a whole stash of condoms, viagra, and porn that he left in their place. What to do with them? The jilted Walsh-Smith calls his assistant and asks. [Vanity Fair]

Spy Footage Of Murdoch's Tirade

Nick Denton — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:10:01 EDT

For a spoof, this video of the Australian media mogul in full tantrum is incredibly slick. Rupert Murdoch, enraged by a tabloid parody of his Wall Street Journal, demands News Corporation executives have every copy burnt. In the best line, the News Corp boss thinks to bring in Roger Ailes, his lieutentant at Fox News. "We need to get Roger on this. He's a sadistic shit. He'll take care of it." But here's the mystery: who would go to the trouble of creating a video that will go viral in the media towers of Sixth Avenue, and no further?

Incidentally, the Murdoch imports at the Wall Street Journal continue to tread on the newspaper's delicate sensibilities. You'll remember Marcus Brauchli, the Journal's managing editor, had a speech ready to welcome his new overlords, but they never called on him. That was just the first humiliation.

The latest: Tina Gaudoin, who came in with the Journal's new publisher from Murdoch's Times of London, has talked of her plans for the business newspaper's new weekend magazine. The luxury title will cover modern wealth with wit and irreverence—which, says the Murdoch import, "may come as a shock to some of the people at the Journal.” Such diplomacy.

MILF Island

Nick Denton — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:11:58 EDT

On last night's season premiere of Tina Fey's brilliant 30 Rock, Alec Baldwin's Jack is riding high on the huge success of a new reality show. MILF Island's conceit: "20 MILFs; 50 eighth-grade boys; no rules." The idea, which Baldwin's GE executive had floated in an earlier episode, is so preposterous, so outrageous, that I thought for a second that it was a real show. In this late phase of reality television, in which VH1 picks up a bisexual dating game with a Myspace star, the more baroque the premise, the more plausible it appears. After the jump, the full episode from 30 Rock.

Update: Hulu embed isn't working. Ugh. Here's a link to the episode instead.

In Case You Missed It

Nick Denton — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 12:07:40 EDT

Here's yesterday web hit, Richard Blakeley's video montage of every accident that can befall a television news reporter.

Videogum

Nick Denton — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:36:02 EDT

Gabe Delahaye, who wrote the Unethicist for Gawker and brought some sort of funny to the Huffington Post's 23/6 humor site, has a new project: Videogum, part of the Stereogum combine. For his launch stunt, Delahaye woke up at 4.15am to insert a sign into the Today Show. Sure enough, there's a man with the demeanor of a killer holdiing up a message to Videogum's co-author: LINDSAY, UR MY PRINCESS. Videogum's selection of funny videos is promising, though I doubt they'll sustain such early starts. (Click image to enlarge).

Dayum, Hillary, Can't You Quit Lying?

ian spiegelman — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 10:05:21 EDT

Senator Hillary Clinton has been telling a heart-wrenching yarn of late about an uninsured woman who died, and lost her baby, when an Ohio hospital refused to treat her because she couldn't afford to pay a $100 fee. But... Oops! "The woman, Trina Bachtel, did die last August, two weeks after her baby boy was stillborn at O’Bleness Memorial Hospital in Athens, Ohio. But hospital administrators said Friday that Ms. Bachtel was under the care of an obstetrics practice affiliated with the hospital, that she was never refused treatment and that she was, in fact, insured." Video, after the jump.

I've been trying to stay off the Hill-hating band wagon, but she's really starting to creep me out. Initially, I tried to take that whole Bosnia thing with a grain of salt, but the more she talked and backtracked and recast the tale, the more she sounded not like some windy exaggerator, but like someone with "a pathology a thousand times more savage." (Thanks, Dr. Lecter!) And now there's this depressing display.

“'We implore the Clinton campaign to immediately desist from repeating this story,' said Rick Castrop, chief executive officer of the O’Bleness Health System. Linda M. Weiss, a spokeswoman for the not-for-profit hospital, said the Clinton campaign had never contacted the hospital to check the accuracy of the story, which Mrs. Clinton had first heard from a Meigs County, Ohio, sheriff’s deputy in late February." [NYT]

Rove Supporters Create Awesome New Chant

ian spiegelman — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:14:32 EDT

Are dirty hippies and anti-war wusses breaking up your awesome conservative circle-jerk? Well now you have something funny to scream at them! Former George W. Bush bag man and current Fox News talker Karl Rove was giving a speech at George Washington University Friday when some students held up a sign reading "WAR CRIMINAL" and started trying to shout down the pudgy master of evil. Ho-hum. But as they were being escorted out by security, some Right Wing funsters got up a chant of "Tase 'Em! Tase 'Em!" You know, coz that one guy said, "Don't tase me, bro"? Video after the jump.

You can watch it here, actually. (Ug, will someone please teach me how to post videos??) Rove, who we recently learned is just a great big ball of fun, later goofed with a student who asked why "his detractors believe he is a 'fundamentally bad human being.'" Rove told the lad, “First of all, the tail and the horns are retractable," and, "I don’t know! I’m a myth. I mean, I’m like Grendel of Beowulf; I’m not often seen but people talk about me a lot.” [thinkprogress.org]

A Visual History of Home Video Games

ian spiegelman — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 16:14:19 EDT

What was your first? The 2600? Pong? Colecovision? Good God, not Sega Genesis! Well, they're all here. [via cynical-c]

Did You Think There'd Be No JA Today?

ian spiegelman — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 17:05:39 EDT

Here is cute-to-some, hateful-to-others Star magazine editor-at-large Julia Allison singing along to Madonna in a sushi place. Watch it!

On Digg

Nick Denton — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:11:06 EDT

Tom Cruise's Insane Scientology Birthday Party Video

'Kristen' In Girl-Near-Girl Video Action

Nick Denton — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:35:56 EDT

High-class prostitutes are no different than any other women trying to get male attention. Here's Ashley Alexandra Dupré, the 22-year-old hooker who slept with Eliot Spitzer, putting on a free girl-on-girl dance show in a restaurant a few months ago. Ashley, known to the New York Governor and other clients as Kristen, is the girl on the left. Thanks, N, for the cameraphone clip. (Incidentally, this is a sign of a new era in trashy journalism. Ashley has left a much wider trail, in web pages, amateur music, and video footage, than characters in the sex scandals of earlier decades.)

Secret Video: The Scientologists Celebrate The Birthday Of The Prophet, Tom Cruise

Nick Denton — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 13:55:21 EDT

Andrew Morton wrote in his best-selling biography of Tom Cruise that the Hollywood star was prominent in the hierarchy of the Church of Scientology. Of all of the author's claims, it was the one that most enraged the sect: "Insinuations that Mr. Cruise is second-in-command of the Church are not only false, they are ludicrous," the Scientologists maintained. "He is neither 2nd or 100th. Mr. Cruise is a Scientology parishioner and holds no official or unofficial position in the Church hierarchy. Claims to the contrary are offensive to both Mr. Cruise and the Church." But if Cruise was merely a humble parishioner, why in Xenu's name did the sect spend six figures to celebrate his birthday in 2004? In a video obtained by Gawker, watch Scientology chief David Miscavige lead the sect's most famous follower into an extravagant celebration of the Hollywood star on Scientology cruise ship, Freewinds. Cruise's entrance is, of course, to the theme music from Top Gun, one of the movies for which the actor is best known, or was, until he took up his new role as evangelist for the bizarre Church. After the movie clips are played, and the bands perform, Cruise exclaims: "This is incredible... It's the best birthday ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, and I mean ever!" We agree! The best moment: watch Cruise in a duet of Old Time Rock and Roll, demonstrating the dance moves we first saw in Risky Business, the picture that made his name. He was so young then; and we, thankfully, knew so much less about him. VIDEO»

Rapist Unsuccessfully Terrorizes The Village

Hamilton Nolan — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 12:01:23 EST

New York's latest sex fiend has been spotted on film! The villain who attacked two separate women in the West Village early Sunday morning was captured briefly by a surveillance camera while standing in a doorway. The mockery of a man was fought off by both women and forced to flee with his weasel tail between his legs [NYP]. One victim in fact confirmed that the rogue "looked like a little punk." The surveillance video below offers only a glimpse of the scoundrel; if any clue arises, contact your local constabulary. [Day Editor's note: Sometimes Hamilton, like all of us, gets a little too excited after reading a Post report of a sensational crime. Forgive his perhaps inappropriate old-timey language.]

The Onion A.V. Club Hates Your Stupid Popular Video

Nick Douglas — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:23:44 EST

Everyone knows that the most popular web videos are almost always crap. Did the Onion A.V. Club not check this before launching Videocracy, a daily list of "the most-talked-about online video content," or did they not care? Because in their ~~inaugural~~ chart [a commenter points out that the feature's a year old, which makes it even less explicable], each editorial description is a variation on "fuck you." Clip number 3 is "honestly not that impressive," #5 is "boring" (and like five years old), #6 is "annoying," 7 is "never-funny."

This isn't just the product of a snide writer, it's true; but why bother telling me not to watch these things? If they're so important and buzzed about, save me the time and sum them up instead of just saying "Man, we hate this guy." You're writers, aren't you? Give me a run-down or go find me something worth watching, so you can at least rack up pageviews with the embedded video.

The problem is, while there's lots of good and popular web video (even if 90% of it is on Super Deluxe), none of it is the most popular thing on any given day. The upside is that if you don't watch the "buzzed-about" crap that tops the charts, you actually don't miss out. The guy who shoved a soda can in his mouth is not getting a movie deal. Sometimes a breakout talent shows up in the top charts, but you can usually pick it out anyway and ignore the other 9 in the YouTube Top 10.

That said, you actually do need to see this clip called "Ronald McDonald Insanity." But skip to the three-minute mark and just watch ten seconds. Which is honestly how to watch all top-10 videos.

Video Gallery: A Dozen More Movies Responsible For Your J-School Bills

Maggie — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 12:53:13 EST

Yesterday's gallery of journalism flicks, whose soaring soundtracks are partly responsible for infecting your mind with the Pulitzer bug, was a collection of some of our favorites. Twelve of yours, clamored after in the comments, are after the jump. Can we talk about Michael Keaton's secret burning desire to be a scrappy little news guy? Robert Redford too. 'Course, if the role of scrappy news guy came with a dressing room, an Alan Pakula script and six or seven figures, we'd be all over it too.

Shattered Glass (2003)

Zodiac (2007)

The Year Of Living Dangerously (1982)

Up Close And Personal (1993)

The Pelican Brief (1993)

The Insider (1999)

Almost Famous (2000)

Ace In The Hole (1942)

Live From Baghdad (2002)

The Parallax View (1974)

The People Vs. Larry Flynt (1996)

The Quiet American (2002)