Yes, yes, we know what you're going to say: we're unhealthily obsessed with virtually every fascinating word issued forth from the mouth of The View co-host Sherri Shepherd, the ascendant, Earth-flattening daytime TV superstar who's provided so many memorable moments in her short tenure on the show that we hardly miss Rosie O'Donnell's daily thrashing of a physically overmatched Elizabeth Hasselbeck.

What a year it's been here for video! Men flashing newscasters, babies getting kicked, couches getting humped, Forbes editors weeping and swearing, Fox News explaining donkey-punching—life is grand! Our Richard Blakeley has reviewed the year here at Gawker on video, and assembled both this marvelous cut-to-the-chase montage and ranked the ten best.

Though Claus, after enjoying a goodbye buggering of Rudolph (played with lusty relish by real-life sexual partner Demi Moore), briefly must suffer the indignity of taking an internship within Katalyst, the jolly icon does eventually get his obligatory happy ending. This is, after all, a Christmas greeting; watching a down-on-his-luck Santa succumb to a more realistic Hollywood fate—a crack addiction, a stint on Santa Monica Boulevard turning tricks in Mrs. Claus's clothes— would be far too depressing a prospect as we all head off to our holiday vacations. Enjoy.

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· This one from Ellen doesn't need any dressing up: Richard Simmons dances, falls down. All in a mere twelve seconds!
· Tom Cruise has trained his older kids to call "Kate" "Mom."
·This is what happens when you let it slip on Craiglist that your year-end bonus was over $700K.
·Nothing says Christmas like the Alien and Predator on a promotional tree ornament.

We still haven't fully recovered from the emotional devastation of watching helplessly as the kids' primetime community failed, but this video, alleging to show scenes of a Nation reunion, does makes us feel a bit better; even though we're well aware that there were no survivors after the network detonated a small atomic bomb in the town square in an effort to erase their God-playing mistakes, we're nonetheless touched that CBS bothered to pre-shoot such a happy epilogue to the tragic series in case things didn't go as planned, allowing us to pretend—however briefly—that the Great Candy Riot of 2007 never happened.

In all fairness, when the ladies of The View rendered their initial opinions on The Jamie Lynn Spears Knocking-Up Controversy yesterday, they'd had precious little time to sort through their thoughts on a very complicated and polarizing situation; under the circumstances, who can blame Sherri Shepherd for indulging her gut reaction by brandishing a steak knife and declaring that she'd like to "cut the evil bastard-making stick off the virginity-stealing heathen" that unexpectedly put Jamie Lynn in a family way?

When I said Silicon Valley needed more show tunes, I should have been more specific. In journalism, the cliche is that two's a coincidence, three's a trend. But as Liz Gannes at NewTeeVee points out, when it comes to year-end wrapups as musical numbers, three may well be a cliche. JibJab, WallStrip, and the Richter Scales all produced look-back videos to the tune of Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire."

Christmas Eve for Jews is depressing! Especially for me, in part because I hate Chinese food. Also, it's the birthday of Christ (who my people killed) so that makes me feel bad. But, one way I could see feeling better about myself is going to The Ball, an event where "4,000 Jewish Singles take over 5 Chelsea/Meatpacking Nightclubs (Hiro, The Park, The Cabanas, Highline Ballroom and Earth)." A) My mom would be pleased as punch! B) I don't know, I always get this frisson of excitement when I find out not all Jews are bookish. Some are actually complete losers. C) Jewish girls totally put out at Christmas.

Those who stayed tuned for the local news after last night's Gossip Girl (please don't judge us—there's truly nothing on TV these days) may have seen a segment on Paul Karason, a man whose longtime ingestion of some kind of magical cure-all liquid has turned him blue. We were too paralyzed with awe by the story to hit record on the TiVo, but we were delighted to discover that our more-vigilant colleagues at Consumerist have excavated some video from an even better treatment.

The beta testers on Hulu, News Corp. and NBC's video site, like hot girls just as much as the rest of us. The two most viewed videos of all time? A clip from 30 Rock called "Wear a Bra" and another from Keeping Up with The Kardashians that showcases a comely blonde sunbathing. See both videos after the jump. Other top clips? Most from Saturday Night Live, including "Lazy Sunday," the video that kickstarted YouTube for the masses, and Natalie Portman rapping.

On this week's "Gossip Girl," the world's richest poor kid Dan Humphrey totally got a story published in the New Yorker! Whatever, we bet it was the Fiction issue, they'll let ANYONE in there! Later Serena gave him a nice present (a watch, so he'll be punctual meeting editors!) but he's such a fuckwad with class hang-ups that he can't accept it. But now we've "obtained" an excerpt of "his story" and we understand all.

Before Fortune magazine's little dustup about Facebook's controversial new advertising products, Andy Serwer's court jester, David Kirkpatrick, produced a hardly hard-hitting video on the subject. Just how much of a puff piece was this? Fortune managed to dig up some intercutting shots of a very enthusiastic Facebook user. Recognize her?

Having only pre-shot Spears-related pregnancy segments involving scenarios in which the reliably troubled, impressively fertile Britney is knocked up by either one of her record producers, a Starbucks barista with whom she spends more quality time than her children, or a Child Services case worker lured into her sex dungeon during a routine home visit, the media found themselves scrambling to deal with the wholly unanticipated news of Jamie Lynn's impregnation that broke late yesterday.Defamer videographer Molly McAleer has compiled this brief sampling of how some TV outlets (such as local ABC and NBC affiliates and the always-nimble TMZ) responded to this story of unparalleled international importance, wrapping it up with today's coverage from The View that had the advantage of an entire night's worth of Whoopi Goldberg's thoughtful contemplation.

More details on Perez Hilton's YouTube woes: Apparently it was his posting of this video of Liza Minelli collapsing on stage that caused his account to be banned. Normally YouTube removes a video when it receives a DMCA message and that's the end of it. This time though, says our tipster, Idolator editor Maura Johnston, it "was a 'repeat offender' thing". No surprise there. Hilton has built his entire site on images of questionable legality. Our timeline after the jump.

We're just getting into the weird and wonderful and actually quite fragile world of video responses to monster-dragon-cat Atoosa Rubinstein's femilady empowerment project of Alpha Kitties. Minnie Fay, the adorably vacant Connecticut teenager, as we learned in her most recent post, is a vegetarian: "I don't eat things with immune systems." Her boyfriend, Rory, is also an Alphakitty and has his own channel! Sadly, he doesn't have eyeballs, only dark recesses under his bangs. But! He sure does love wristbands.

Preferring to keep to herself the naughty Yuletide tales of how a couple of glasses of brandy-infused apple cider and a tantalizing proximity to some dangling mistletoe release her Rent-A-Santa-craving, hot-flashing office party freak, The View's Barbara Walters decided to celebrate the season by sharing with America the Christmas cards her famous friends have recently sent her.