YouTube is an incredible source of inspiration when you have some to triage the shit and come up with some real goods. The head of Google Video told me that it gets 10GB uploaded every minute, and generally speaking only 1% of users tend to create the content they eventually upload. Luckly for me, i have Matt, aka Mr Smivadee to send me some of the best stuff he finds.

The first of note is an oldie, but a goodie. Terry Tate is a character from a set of short comedy TV commercials created by Rawson Marshall Thurber that is pure and simple genius. It’s now been extended to encompass the US election, where he takes out Sarah Palin in full rugy tackle style, as she doesn’t seem to be able to name any of the newspapers, magazines or books she supposedly reads.

I’m seriously thinking about hiring Terry for my office. That’ll shut you lot up for a while.

Terry Tate - Office Linebacker

More on Terry:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Tate:_Office_Linebacker

Normally when TV production companies and broadcasters try to do something “cool”, “urban”, “grass roots” or “viral”, it inevitably sucks in a way only pretentious TV companies can make something suck. An exception to the rule is the idea behind “ToyBoize”, dreamt up by Talkback Thames (part of the Fremantle Media group). Toyboize are a fictional child band from the 80s mounting a 2008 comeback, and it has some great comedy writing behind it to carry the thing through.

You can just imagine the very serious meetings and producers patting each other on the back for such a cool, grass roots, viral web idea. Thank god they have comedians.

Toyboize - They’re Back

The official Toyboize site:
http://www.toyboize.com/