There was no bigger web phenomenon in 2006 than YouTube. In the first part of our YouTube special, here are our top 5 favourite video clips that kept us glued to our screens.
1 Boris Johnson playing football
Conservative MP Boris Johnson is good at many things presenting Have I Got News For You, offending Scousers, looking like a chubby albino hamster. But playing football isnt one of them. In this pre-World Cup charity match against a German team he bulldozed into Maurizio Gaudino at knee-height, executing a tackle that youre more likely to see at Twickenham than Wembley.
2 BBC interviews Guy Goma
In one of the funniest media cock-ups of the year, BBC News 24 interviewed black Congo graduate Guy Goma who was there to apply for a job mistaking him for white internet expert Guy Kewney. Within days Goma had turned into a minor celebrity.
3 Star Wars Kid
This two-minute clip of a teenage boy pretending to wield a Star Wars lightsaber was viewed 900 million times, becoming the most popular viral video on the web according to marketing company The Viral Factory. Eat your heart out Darth Maul.
4 Geriatic1927
Proving YouTube wasnt just the domain of attention-seeking teenagers, Geriatric1927 aka 79-year-old Englishman Peter kept us all entertained with his fascinating video diaries, becoming the oldest, and probably unlikeliest, star of YouTube.
5 Squirrel plays football
If the feud between Arsene Wenger and Thierry Henry worsens dont be surprised if the Gunners make a bid for this nippy winger, who displayed his skills in a Champions League match against Villarreal in April.
Best of YouTube 2006 - part 2
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There was no bigger web phenomenon in 2006 than YouTube. In the first part of our YouTube special, here are our top 5 favourite video clips that kept us glued to our screens.
