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Viral Video: “The Artist” French Dude Is Très Funny

Kara Swisher in Media on February 14 at 12:24 am PT

Fantastique!

Viral Video: SNL’s Classic Adele-icious “Someone Like You” Skit

Kara Swisher in Media on February 13 at 12:15 am PT

Sometimes it lasts in love, but sometimes it hurts instead. But sometimes it’s funny.

Viral Video: Julian Assange Is a Samantha (But a Charlotte to the Swedish Police)

Kara Swisher in News on December 21, 2010 at 12:15 am PT

How much are we loving these Julian Assange spoofs on “Saturday Night Live”? Here–a day late–is the WikiLeaks leader commenting on Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg recently beating him out for Time magazine’s Person of the Year.

Viral Video: Miley Cyrus Just Says No (Sort Of)

Kara Swisher in News on December 20, 2010 at 12:38 am PT

Here’s a skit from “Saturday Night Live” this past week that makes fun of the controversy over what former Disney star Miley Cyrus was smoking from a bong, seen in a video that recently rocketed around the Internet.

Viral Video: Katy Perry Defiles Elmo

Kara Swisher in News on September 28, 2010 at 12:14 am PT

Okay, it’s admittedly a very funny mock skit from this weekend’s season premiere of “Saturday Night Live,” featuring singer Katy Perry and her problems related to a canceled appearance on “Sesame Street.” But must poor Elmo suffer? You’ll figure out why right away.

Viral Video: Terrific "MacGruber" Trailer and More Awesome Mullet

Kara Swisher in News on January 21, 2010 at 2:01 am PT

Television comedy skits from NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” don’t always translate into movie gold–remember the dreadful “It’s Pat” and “A Night at the Roxbury”? But this trailer for the upcoming “MacGruber” is really funny and chock full of techie jokes.

Viral Video: The Rock Obama Returns

Kara Swisher in News on October 19, 2009 at 5:02 am PT

This week, “Saturday Night Live” reprised one of its better skits, “The Rock Obama,” spoofing the health-care debate. In it, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson does to some politicians just what a lot of us would like to do.

A Search Engine With a Real Eye for Videos

Katherine Boehret in The Mossberg Solution on November 18, 2008 at 5:52 pm PT

Web video has transformed the way the Internet is used, but finding the exact clip you want can be incredibly hard. And it’s no wonder, considering that sites like YouTube conduct their hunts by looking at a clip’s “contextual metadata” — tags, video title and description — and thus can often be misled by false information.

John McCain Scores on QVC, Oops, SNL

Kara Swisher in News on November 2, 2008 at 11:26 am PT

As BoomTown has noted, one of the best things to come out of this election has been the very funny and very topical humor that has been on “Saturday Night Live” in this political cycle. Headlined by Tina Fey’s perfect impression of Sarah Palin, it has been biting without stooping to the rank meanness from so many other places by both sides. Last night, Republican Presidential candidate John McCain–who has been on SNL before (his “John McCain sings Streisand” skit was really a gem from that appearance)–was in two skits on the show and did a great job in both.