Huge upsets at the YouTube Awards!
"It's the new Emmys!" crowed Tay Zonday to the Associated Press after winning a YouTube Award, bestowed this year for the second time ever. "It's the next Oscars. The next People's Choice Awards. It'll be interesting to see what happens five years, 10 years (from now)."
Next year there's talk of an actual awards ceremony, complete with a red carpet! But this year winners were merely given trophies in the shape of a "play" button. Six nominees competed in each of these categories: music, sports, comedy, instructional, short film, inspirational, commentary, creative, politics, series, eyewitness and "adorable."
Zonday won best song for "Chocolate Rain," a tune seen so often (16 million views) that it's inspired many parodies.
Best comedy went to a video featuring "Harry Potter" hand puppets having a shouting match over their names to the beat of mysterious ticking.
The biggest surprises among the winners were actually the losers.
BEST SONG: 'CHOCOLATE RAIN'
BEST COMEDY: 'HARRY POTTER' HAND PUPPETS
The Obama Girl's (Amber Lee Ettinger) "I Got a Crush on Obama" video may have been the most widely seen nominee in the political category (7 million views), but it lost to a serious riff, "Stop the Clash of Civilizations."
The infamous clip of a University of Florida student begging "Don't 'tase' me, bro!" to campus security lost the prize for best eyewitness video to "Battle at Kruger," which depicts a baby water buffalo surviving an attack by lions and a crocodile.
See all of the nominees and winners, CLICK HERE. Check out the L.A. Times photo gallery HERE.
Those are fun! Like the tie-in to the winners. Loved those Harry puppets.
Posted by: gertie | March 24, 2008 at 10:14 AM
Chocolate Rain was a better musical than Dreamgirls.
Hell, Tay Zonday has a more expressive face than Jennifer Hudson.
Posted by: Jack Sparrow | March 22, 2008 at 02:06 PM
Tay Zonday, the man with the VOICE. I think he would be great doing voiceovers. His YouTube spoken word segments are mesmerizing.
Posted by: tayfan2 | March 21, 2008 at 11:25 PM