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.
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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