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By Robert Hunt   
Last Updated ( Thursday, 29 May 2008 )
 

It should be obvious to anyone reading these posts that I consider YouTube to be pretty much all Seven Wonders of the Modern World (2.0) tied up in a sack, and my admiration for its seemingly endless flow of video material increases daily.

Among the highlights I've discovered in the last few months (some of which I had been trying to find on the Internet for nearly 10 years):

This unusual 1965 Road Runner cartoon:

And another classic Warner Bros. cartoon, now shown on TV only in a censored form:

A wealth of material by Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, including one of the best scenes from "Bedazzled":

And the great opening sketch from Cook and Moore's revue "Good Evening" (aka "Behind the Fridge"):

A very rare Robert Altman short:

A bizarre anti-drug educational film (watch out for that hot dog!):

Two classic Western-themed comic shorts:

Eric Idle parodies Ken Russell (in Catatonic Sound!):

And, perhaps best of all, this nod to "Stop Making Sense":


   

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