European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 3, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 14 stars and stripes july 2007 faces kidding around comedy video Sites use of 2yearold creates a Buzz by Joshua Zumbrun the Washington Post two months after will terrells humor video the landlord went viral and sparked controversy for its use of a Beer toting 2yearold the come Dian is Back online with another Good baby starring the same child As an abusive police the video went up recently on the site a collaboration Between will Ferrell and Adam Mckay director of Ferrell films and Talladega nights and a writer during Ferrell years on saturday night Michael a partner at Sequoia approached them about launching a video sharing site devoted exclusively to creative artists the Hollywood Talent Agency that represents Ferrell and also has a stake in funny or Kvamme got the idea with his teenage an aspiring standup we were sitting around saying that there Are no Good comedy web Sites on the he i looked around a looked at saw there was a lot of comedy up but it was kind of hard to on anyone can create an account and Post comedy but Only videos from celebrities the site features Jason Brooke Jenna Elfman among others Are guaranteed prime placement atop the Home user submitted videos Are posted and then face peer review funny or with enough funny some use submitted videos can end up rubbing shoulders with Alist celeb the landlord was the Sites very first and featured Ferrell arguing with Mckay Pearl played an alcoholic landlord de manding Ferrell pay the rent so she can buy her the punch line Pearl is a cherubic Pearl is again featured in Good baby this time Ferrell is a criminal and Pearl is a police interrogator who will extract her Confes Sion Nype if she must and if you Are not amused by profane this comedy int for but will Good baby cop get the same response As the when that video came also came the with commentators wondering whether this time Hollywood had gone too asked Bill Oreilly on Fox news did will Ferrell damage a 2yearold girl by putting her into an internet comedy bit the to graphic accompanying Oreilly a picture of will Ferrell with the caption child asked the today does Ferrell video Cross the line the segment featured a psychologist worrying that parents might make similar videos with their own Chil a mashup of Oreilly response As if Hes inter viewing wee Pearl appears on it brought publicity to the and Amateur comedians to movie stars Are jumping in on the a More than videos have been posted to the with More than 70 million views in according to funny Ordie executive Mitch the landlord has been viewed if the Sites tracker is accurate More than 36 million making it among the most popular videos Ever posted on the inter net by youtube most popular video of All the evolution of has been viewed around 51 million funny Ordie joins a growing horde of Well funded companies trying to steal away some of youtube viewers Google Man soap Yahoo myspace Al uncut and an entire army of upstarts such As this is Why you need an Alist celebrity arguing with a foul mouthed toddler to even get literally Pearl got offered a movie off of somebody came to Caa with a project with Jackie Chan and wanted to attach Pearl to says the starlets proud father who at first was bugged by the she Doest remember any of she never said any of it she Doest know what get your drink on we know what were doing As Good baby cop will be pearls last acting a release from funny Ordie quoted Pearl saying my Ven Tures As an actor on the internet have been rewarding and spiritually but now i must look to broader Chal Lenges As i approach my 26th Confounder Adam Mckay 2yearold Pearl interrogates will Ferrell left in the Sites latest offering Good baby a Buffet of Wisdom from Buffett two investors put in the winning bid of in a Charity auction to eat with billionaire Warren Monish who will put up most of the said saturday that Hes going to be Well prepared by the time he meets the famed investor at a new York Steak ill probably download the menu and see what we want so we dont waste our time looking at the Cabrai my wife not a big fan of steakhouses but i told her they serve As who manages about million for Cabrai in vestment funds in teamed up with a Friend to bid More than the top bid from last years aug the 43yearold investor said he bid unsuccessfully in the previous four we Are Cabrai we wanted to make sure that this year we blew everyone out of the the which ended Friday benefits the Glide which provides social services to the poor and homeless in san his wife and two daughters will join his bidding Guy Spier of aquamarine capital manage ment and Spiers wife at the Din Ner with the chairman and chief executive of Berkshire hatha the group will Dine at the Smith Wollensky Steakhouse in Buffett new York the restaurant owners contributed to Glide and will Host the projectile from Kenny is House hits girl investigators Are trying to determine who threw objects from a Bluffton compound owned by musician Kenny g that struck a 9yearold girl on the the incident happened june 23 when Brooke Porter was at the Beach with her family and she was hit in the according to los Angeles county sheriffs Detec she needed four stitches to close her sheriffs officials said they believe two teens on the musicians property neither related to him threw the objects that hit Brooke 50 feet although authorities would not say what was Kenny g s attorney said Hershey kisses and a Power bar Energy bar were attorney Lee Blackman said Kenny its wife paid the girls medical
