# 2007 YouTube Awards winners announced **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 24, 2008, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2007-youtube-awards-winners-announced/442601 "2008-03-24T22:07:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2008, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2007-youtube-awards-winners-announced/442601/1 "2008-03-24T22:07:21Z")
This week, YouTube announced the winners of its 2nd Annual YouTube Awards, honoring the best in original videos posted to YouTube. Who joins OK Go, Ask a Ninja, and that suicidal kiwi in YouTube’s cream of the crop? [The nominees](http://www.youtube.com/ytawards07) [The winners](http://www.youtube.com/ytawards07winners) Some of my thoughts: **Comedy** : [The Mysterious Ticking Noise](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx1XIm6q4r4) is a very funny video and I’m glad it won (ever since seeing it, I often shout “Dumbledore!” to myself at unusual times), but [Game Over](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpBGRA6HHtY) is a hilarious video, and I don’t know if it should have won over Snape, Snape, Severus Snape. Snape, Snape, Severus Snape. Snape, Snape, Severus Snape. Dumbledore! Okay, maybe a catchy song does have something going for it. [PowerThirst](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRuNxHqwazs) is also very funny, and was so succesful the filmmaker did two others: a follow-up and a spoof for the makers of Brawndo energy drink. **Adorable** : [Laughing Baby](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXXm696UbK). It’s cute, I guess, but I think [The two talking cats](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3U0udLH974) is much cuter. **Creative** : This is the hardest category for me. [Human TETRIS](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0LtUX_6IXY) is a great video and deserves its award, but there are some other great ones: [What Song Is This](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbkNxYaULBw) is amazing, and so is [MS PAINT MONA LISA](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk2sPl_Z7ZU). **Music** : [Chocolate Rain](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwTZ2xpQwpA). One of the strangest and catchiest songs ever written. Now this one I agree with. (\*\*I move away from the mic to breathe in) ---
**Author:** ![myskepticsight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cc9497/32.png) [@myskepticsight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/myskepticsight)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2008, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2007-youtube-awards-winners-announced/442601/2 "2008-03-24T23:11:53Z")
David Blaine Street Magic would have been my pick for comedy. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2008, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2007-youtube-awards-winners-announced/442601/3 "2008-03-24T23:22:54Z")
For some reason I’m irked at the win by _What the Buck?_ (Commentary award winner for _LonelyGirl15 is dead_). I started watching Michael Buckley (who wants to be famous sooooooooooo bad) when he was doing American Idol recaps last year and I thought he was absolutely hysterical, but for some reason he went from screamingly funny to “obnoxiously annoying as all hell” in a very short period even though there was no change in his material. I don’t know if it’s his attempts at singing, the total vapidity of his webcasts, or the obviously scripted material, or the affected gay bitchiness, or what else exactly, but for me he didn’t so much jump the shark as fall into the tank. Of course that’s a personal review, ymmv. For me I think it’s a case of an occasional chocolate doughnut is great but eating a dozen of them makes you sick and bloated. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2008, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2007-youtube-awards-winners-announced/442601/4 "2008-03-24T23:35:25Z")
I am completely amazed that [this guy](http://www.youtube.com/user/smpfilms?ob=1) wasn’t even nominated! ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2008, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2007-youtube-awards-winners-announced/442601/5 "2008-03-25T01:59:42Z")
[QUOTE=anyrose] I am completely amazed that [this guy](http://www.youtube.com/user/smpfilms?ob=1) wasn’t even nominated! [/QUOTE] I didn’t really find that funny. Amusing, yes, but nothing in comparison to Powerthirst or the David Blaine spoof. Maybe if the girl cried or something… ---
**Author:** ![Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brown_eyed_girl/32/3574_2.png) [@Brown\_Eyed\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brown_Eyed_Girl)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2008, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2007-youtube-awards-winners-announced/442601/6 "2008-03-25T02:16:28Z")
[QUOTE=Sampiro] I don’t know if it’s his attempts at singing, the total vapidity of his webcasts, or the obviously scripted material, or the affected gay bitchiness, or what else exactly, but for me **he didn’t so much jump the shark as fall into the tank.** [/QUOTE] Screamingly funny review. Bolded for extra funny. As for Chocolate Rain…BLECH! I don’t think you could get less creative musically. Oh wait. Apparently, [you can](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2x2W12A8Qow). Watch his next video. I’m not much on beatboxing, but I thought even the harmonica/human beatbox vid was more appealing. At least he could play the harp pretty well. I must have lost my sense of humor because I didn’t find Potter Pals all that funny. I thought Powerthirst should have taken it, but then I enjoy parody. MENERGY!! ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2008, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2007-youtube-awards-winners-announced/442601/7 "2008-03-25T03:43:42Z")
[QUOTE=RandMcnally] I didn’t really find that funny. Amusing, yes, but nothing in comparison to Powerthirst or the David Blaine spoof. Maybe if the girl cried or something… [/QUOTE] no! not that particular video (which by the way is from this year) but his whole body of work - particularly The Mean Kitty Song! ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2008, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2007-youtube-awards-winners-announced/442601/8 "2008-03-25T04:40:57Z")
David Blaine street magic definitely should’ve won comedy. I suffered through that Mario: Game Over and didn’t even crack a smile. It was painfully unfunny, unoriginal, and unentertaining. It was also about 3 minutes too long. DBSM is not just funny, it’s good filmmaking. ---
**Author:** ![Surbey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@Surbey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surbey)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2008, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2007-youtube-awards-winners-announced/442601/9 "2008-03-25T05:08:06Z")
[QUOTE=Cisco] David Blaine street magic definitely should’ve won comedy. I suffered through that Mario: Game Over and didn’t even crack a smile. It was painfully unfunny, unoriginal, and unentertaining. It was also about 3 minutes too long. DBSM is not just funny, it’s good filmmaking. [/QUOTE] agreed ---
**Author:** ![nameless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/779978/32.png) [@nameless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nameless)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2008, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2007-youtube-awards-winners-announced/442601/10 "2008-03-25T05:38:35Z")
[QUOTE=Cisco] David Blaine street magic definitely should’ve won comedy. I suffered through that Mario: Game Over and didn’t even crack a smile. It was painfully unfunny, unoriginal, and unentertaining. It was also about 3 minutes too long. DBSM is not just funny, it’s good filmmaking. [/QUOTE] Just because of this thread, I watched David Blaine. “What the eff! What the chopsticks!” ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2008, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2007-youtube-awards-winners-announced/442601/11 "2008-03-25T07:09:51Z")
Ugh. That David Blaine one is painful to watch. The whiny gay affectations are like nails on a chalkboard. Could it possibly be any longer and less interesting? I think you guys are nuts. Apparently you like 5 minutes of loud high pitched whining in your comedy. All the sports ones are awfully impressive. I liked the winner, but I thought the 66 inch vertical leap was the most impressive. The creative ones were pretty cool, though the morphing ones were pretty lame attempts, and I think the guy who sang the Star Spangled Banner backwards should have won. The etch-a-sketch LeBron in sports probably belonged in this category. The Laughing Baby was pretty cute but it was nothing compared to the Otters holding hands for me.