Best of YouTube 2006 - part 1

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 isn’t 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 you’re 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 wasn’t 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 don’t 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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