Reel Pop

CBS and YouTube are in cahoots to turn YouTube into a big after school special. To that end, at CES yesterday evening the network and the video-sharing site announced a contest: If you had 15 seconds to tell the world whatever you want to, what would you say? Whoever says whatever they say best gets their work featured during the superbowl.

While being featured during America's only remaining pan-demographic media event confers eternal fame -- just ask Janet's nipple -- the irony is that YouTubers (and the rest of the vid-sharing wunderkind) have been telling the world whatever they want to for over a year now.

Browsing through the 140 entries thus far, it's hard to suppress a chuckle. There's this guy, doing a fabulous Tara Reid New Year's countdown impersonation. And this guy, who looks like both the Pope and Abraham Lincoln. I'm a big fan of this Street Fighter parody.

There are quite a few anti-war messages, like this one:

And the requisite pimp-my-cute-kid video:

There's also no shortage of world peace videos, which I don't see making the cut, if only because no other countries in the world watch much American football.