Jon Stewart, Lorne Michaels Come Out In Favour of YouTube

techdirt writes "Viacom employee Jon Stewart recently announced that he believes his bosses are making a mistake in taking Viacom content off of YouTube. Today, NBC employee and Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels has stated he can't understand NBC's position on YouTube. The interview with Michaels is especially interesting, because it was a Saturday Night Live clip of the infamous 'Lazy Sunday' music video that is often credited with putting YouTube on the map. At the same time, however, almost everyone admitted that it did wonders in revitalizing SNL's reputation (as well as boosting Andy Samberg's reputation to new heights). Yet, NBC's lawyers shot it down, limiting the benefit to SNL. It appears that Michaels understands that, and says he wishes they could put more of the show on YouTube."

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[mgabrys_sf]

The reference YouTube clip has already been removed, and I'm among the first 10 posts here.

Feh.

Re:Dinosaurs

[iminplaya]

Sometimes you'd have to step back and wonder, "Are these corporations run by idiots?" The answer is an emphatic "Yes"

Hmmm, Let's compare your basement to their mansion. Let's compare your lonely splendor to his wife screwing the pool boy, then being drowned in the bathtub and the body thrown into the pool to make it look like an accident (Man! If only OJ had it so easy)...wait a minute...that doesn't work. Oh well, you get the idea.

Re:Who cares, he is not the owner

[Kelz]

Solution: Put small text as punch lines/etc in most popular shows! That way, youtube watcher's don't even get the jokes!

Re:No, you don't get it

[vivaoporto]

"(and am using BitTorrent right now at 25K download rate)"

OMG! So it is you that is clogging the tubes. 25 K is too much, and if you don't understand those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and its going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material. I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday. Why? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the internet.

Ah, I see the problerm.

[Sj0]

You see, I don't know about Lorne Micheals, but Jon Stewart is sane. That means he's not equipped to understand the subtleties of company policy.