Worst Online Comedy Videos

EDDIE: Watching video online is the future. "It'll be great!", those in the know claim. But if the nominees in this category are an indication of our comedy future, then shouldn't those in the know be suggesting we gouge our eyes out instead?

WORST ONLINE COMEDY VIDEOS
Julia Spillard/Gabby Millgate - 35.00%
"They were all terrible, but Millgate's Gillard was the worst."
- Leslie Fakename
"At least Julia Morris' film festival can be excused by the fact that the films were made by amateurs"
- Bean Is A Carrot
"I've had enough of impressionists."
- Daniel G
NOMINEES
Josh Thomas & Friend - 33.33%
JMo Fest - 31.67%

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Like the sound of flies swarming around a turd, there was a certain buzz about Julia Spillard at election time. Or was there? Because last time we looked, the various Spillard videos on Gabby Millgate's YouTube channel seemed to have had around 200 views each. And that's after plugs in national newspapers and a number of radio guest spots. Maybe there were just too many Julia Gillard impersonators vying for the public's attention for Spillard to gain traction? We think the real answer is that Gabby Millgate's impression is, like that aforementioned turd, nothing more than a massive pile of shit.

Josh Thomas and Tom Ward presumably made a couple of videos for the Josh Thomas & Friend podcast to extend themselves and try out some ideas. And that's great, but it tends to help if the ideas you're trying out are yours, not those of other people whose work you've enjoyed. Or, more to the point, the ideas of other people whose work you've enjoyed that have been done to death by about a billion other impersonators.

Julia Morris' JMo Fest wasn't a complete waste of time. The films made by the winner and runner-up were pretty good, and each of the budding young filmmakers took home an expensive video camera as a prize. What we question here is the ethos of this festival, one which isn't so much about giving young filmmakers a go, as rewarding the work of filmmakers who managed to come up with a half-decent film that also happened to remind the world of the existence of Julia Morris. In the corporate world this kind of filmmaking is known as advertising, in the world of self-funded short films it smells a little bit like exploitation.

Speaking of blatant plugs for stuff you wouldn't pay money for in a flying fit, here's a hilarious montage of advertorials from the '50s and '60s. Thank goodness today's television has moved beyond such tacky and blatant commercialism...

EDDIE STEPS BACK TO REVEAL A BRAND NEW CAR SLOWLY ROTATING BEHIND HIM. ON ONE SIDE IS WRITTEN:

Buy this for only $19,990 drive away at www.nicecar.net.au

IT TURNS AROUND TO REVEAL A SIGN ON THE OTHER SIDE READING:

Go to next category, this one is finished now.

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