First, a few useful links.

Viral Video Chart tracks the number of times a particular video is posted to a blog, aggregates those numbers, and then creates a list of the week's most often-posted videos. It's a handy way to see what's getting play across the blogosophere.

YouTube is the granddaddy of all video sites (not chronologically, but definitely with regard to the sheer volume of crap it's got stored in its house). Here's video on YouTube from Smosh, which I'm posting because of their excellent use of freeze-frame in video to avoid having to deal with stunt effects. It's cheap and effective:

Nerve is an edgier, more sex-obsessed (but usually not NSFW) site with tons of videos. There are a number of series on the site, ranging from dramatic to comic to documentaries. The documentary series Boys and Girls is particularly interesting, as it straddles a line between traditional documentary and all of the satires on documentary format. Here's an episode from Boys and Girls, chosen in honor of last week's National Coming Out Day:

Google Video used to compete with YouTube, but then Google bought YouTube in the celebrated/reviled GooTube acquisition, and so now no one knows why Google keeps the old, DRMed, less-user-friendly Google Video around. On the plus side, because it is Google, you can search all of the video sites at once.

Yahoo Video... heck. Who even know Yahoo had a video site. Well, they do.

And on to the videos.

P0ykpac describes themselves as "a Brooklyn-based comedy troupe consisting of Jonny Gillette, Ryan Hall, Ryan Hunter, Taige Jensen, Jennifer Lyon, and Maggie Ross." CLick the link above to see all their videos. Highly recommended is their "This is P0ykpac Live" video, in which two of the members talk to their viewers, and the widely posted "Hipster Olympics." If you're a gamer, you should also check out their "tribute" to "Mario: Game Over."

Mr. Deity is, as you might have guessed from the title, a satire of religion. But it's sweet, really. And extremely funny. Check it out, and then be sure to watch the promos for the second season. Note that the "show" has "seasons." This has major implications for television, which has seen its viewership continue to decline in recent years...

Kelly is a force of nature. Her latest feature video is "Let Me Borrow That Top," but many view "Shoes" as her crowning achievement. They're wrong, of course. "You Can't Text Message Breakup" beats them all. And now Kelly is on the Vh-1 show "I Hate My 30s." Watch and see why:

Barats & Bereta are a comedy duo with a large number of videos online. You can use the link above to see all their films, but this one is my favorite. If you've got at least one sibling, it might become yours, too:

And here are more worthwhile videos.

Ready Set Bumbo is a trilogy of stop-motion films featuring, um... a baby, a pomerian, a foam-seat-thing, and assorted clones and other babies-in-foam-seat-thingies. It's hard to describe, really.

It turns out there are a lot of comedy collectives out there releasing videos online. And there are a lot of sites that gather together all of these videos for your enjoyment.

Funny or Die is like a YouTube devoted to comedy. It was through Funny or Die that I found the following videos.

"Switching to a Secure Frequency" is a great example of tight writing combined with minimal, easy-to-create effects to produce a really clever little video:

Calculus is another really odd group making little nuggets of comedy neurotoxin. I'm especially intrigued by their decision to put all of the dialogue on screen. It's like a moveable A Softer World. Very cool. Check out all of the Calculus "topics" at the link above, and watch their latest for a taste of their dementia:

And finally, something really interesting and not-comedy-oriented. A group of five impoverished Belgian filmmakers decide to make a sci-fi movie. After each episode airs, they'll read the comments posted by viewers, and direct the action according to what the viewers say. It seems to be a pretty cool approach, but it's too early yet to really judge. Watch the first two episodes here, and click on the link above to go to their website:

That should give all of you a whole lot to think about as you work on Narrative 2.