*promote
Ahh Phil Hartman you are missed. I'm still at a loss when i think of how his psycho wife murder/suicided him.

8'(

http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20125518,00.html

NewsRadio with Phil Hartman.

But, you know, all comedy is good compared to German comedy.

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Kudlow reminds me of Phil Hartman.


I couldn't stop thinking that! Is this the guy that Phil Hartman modeled for his "anchorman" persona, or was it the other way around?

Kudlow reminds me of Phil Hartman.

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And that's Phil Hartman in this clip, too. *sigh* I still miss Phil.

One upvote for Phil Hartman.

I miss that show...and Phil Hartman.

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No surprises here. The consummate gentleman Walter Cronkite must be rolling in his proverbial grave seeing this guy on Fox News.

Just now noticed that Phil Hartman would have been great at playing Bill.

Haha i love the last line "I'm some dude you never heard of and I approve this message."

He sounds a little like Phil Hartman.

Good clip... but yeah, this isn't exactly from a "recent" episode. It originally aired almost 10 years ago in late '97 (when the wonderful Phil Hartman was still alive and working on The Simpsons)... "Lisa the Skeptic" - Season 9.

As it happens, as does all life and death, chance, luck, destiny, and fate, as well as karma, (for all you atheists and Mennonites), Kurt found a way to bow out gracefully, what anyone can expect from a trip through the glass darkly....

Dropping the third person for a tick, MY absolute favorite fiction/friction writer, hands down....If you have never read ANY Vonnegut, start with anything he wrote, and become instantly addicted.....unless you are the antichrist, or a teamster.....

Love You Kurt, may you be welcomed into the afterlife by a beginning with a gradual process of dissolution, in which the senses and energies that worked in cooperation with consciousness degenerate by stages.....or by Phil Hartman in dreadlocks and pasties!!!

Oh and he fell down went boom, alla Evolution in Action.....good thing he spread his seed about a bit.........TIMES SEVEN!!!!!(dear lord, please send me back as a fig on the family tree......hope for the future, comes in screaming packages....)

arrendek, you did make a *quality point, because technically everything on here is viral. We reserve it for marketing campaigns and videos which are notable for the fact that they ARE viral - i.e., they got news coverage because of how widespread they are, or are known throughout the 'internets' for their online rise to fame. We have a bit of latitude with all definitions but I think the nature of the channel as it stands is becoming fairly well defined. Also, there was talk of making an advertisement or commerce channel, but this is what the Sift Founders decided on. Not to mention not all advertisements qualify for this channel, actually. See the logic I share here -
http://www.videosift.com/video/Phil-Hartman-in-Atari-2600-Ice-Hockey-game-commerical

Wikipedia, you must remember, is not videosift (and vice versa, heh). Their definitions must suit their criteria - being broad enough to include whatever is the term that gets the broadest consensus, really.

<high horse>
At videosift, we are specialists of the art of sifting through videos, which a layperson would be unable to distinguish as being one type or another. It's a byproduct of the stars, the voting, the whole system.
</high horse>

So although you are correct that modern ads for modern products are generally all viral, older ads sifted out of nostalgia such as the Atari clip clearly aren't. You may argue, convincingly, that Atari's current company gets a PR boost even when you discuss their older products, and if it was clear that this was part of their campaign to remember their 'golden oldies' or whatever, then it would totally be appropriate to label it viral.

You'll probably see some contradictorily-labelled clips on the Sift, though, as siftbot went around doing some auto-tagging, but I say the system works as it stands.