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Jemima Kiss

Guardian Viral Video Chart

Need a shower?

You will after this gem of a video; Amy Winehouse and Pete Doherty playing with baby mice. Wino appears to have adopted the on-screen persona of an eight-year-old witch of Macbeth, with particularly 'method' fingernails.

"Oh - this one's got a message for Blake," says Wino, disengaging the baby mouse from threads of cotton wool.

"Blake - please don't divorce Mummy. She loves you very much.

"I'm only a day old - I don't know what I'm doing. But I know what love is."

It's not clear if these were born in Wino's hair, or just in something she found in her kitchen. Perhaps she'll explain more in the next thrilling installment.

This week, we're looking at the top 20 videos in the 'viral funnies' chart, mostly because I couldn't stand wading through any more US election propaganda. Maybe next week.

This is a mixed bag. American TV host Bill O'Reilly is having some autocue problems at number one - not funny if you're the floor manager, I imagine.

New Zealand's favourite export Flight of the Conchords are a breath of fresh air at nine with a homage to the wheels that ladies love. Those wheels would be on roller skates, obviously. Hey - who knew you could shoot Polaroid video?

Charlie is still biting my finger at five, Britain's still Got a bit of Talent at eight (with a rather natty mix) and lots of people on the internet still seem to like cats. Rick is also still attempting to Roll, at 15, but some miserablist is taking down all the Rick Roll clips. Party pooper.

The delight in this week's chart, though. comes not from Wino's fauna but from a surprising Darth-Vader-plays-the-blus mash-up. Who knew he had it in him?


Guardian Viral Video Chart compiled by viralvideochart.com

1 Bill O'Reilly flips out
Fox News presenter Bill O'Reilly has a bad day at the office. We've all been there.

2 FaceBook in reality
In reality, Facebook wouldn't be as annoying as this rather obvious video.

3 Winemouse
Blue movie with Amy Winehouse and Pete Doherty.

4 Mom's William Tell overture
Mums love it. The rest of us, not so much.

5 Charlie bit my finger - again!
Just one, and already a bruiser.

6 Hillary's downfall
The cult of downfall videos reaches Camp Clinton; her last moments in the bunker. It's all in the subtitles...

7 Gary Kasparov: Making mistakes in chess
The chess grandmaster on how mistakes are the key to winning.

8 Britain's Got Talent: Michael Jackson
Surprising

9 Flight of the Conchords: Ladies of the world
Latest comedy-pop from the Kiwi duo.

10 Mother's Day
How not to record a Mothers' Day message.

11 Test
ThinkPad illustrates that the tiny MacBook Air is, it says, a little short on specs.

12 Frozen Grand Central
Musical statues without the music.

13 An engineer's guide to cats
Engineers like to work our the aspect ratio of their pets, apparently.

14 Dove Evolution ad
Dove try to make us buy more soap by showing how bad Photoshop is, or something.

15 Rick Roll
By the time you read this, Rick Rolling will have died. As will the link.

16 Hi, I'm a Marvel...and I'm a DC: Iron Man and Batman
Is there room enough this summer for two billionaire playboys superheros with gadgets, women, sidekicks and a loyal butler? (Is Batman really emo?)

17 Brains from Thunderbirds takes centre stage in drench ad
Keep an eye out for the strings.

18 Free hugs campaign - inspiring story! With music by Sick Puppies
Feel good stranger huggers.

19 Blues Darth Vader
Luke's Dad lays it down before he dies.

20 Evolution of Dance
The ultimate in embarrassing Dad dancing in the form of a video THAT WILL NOT GO AWAY.


Source: viralvideochart.com. Compiled from data gathered at 16:00 on 5 June 2008. The Weekly Viral Video Chart is currently based on a count of the embedded videos and links on approximately two million blogs.

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