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viralmeExcuse this moment of gratuitous self-promotion, but we feel the need to direct you to Current TV’s 50 Greatest Viral Videos this weekend.

Why? Well, partly because it’s a breathtakingly entertaining rundown of the 50 biggest-ever videos to set YouTube on fire – featuring Dramatic Chipmunk, Chocolate Rain and Keyboard Cat to name but three – but also because it’s ludicrously hecklerspray heavy. Tune in and you’ll see contributions from erstwhile hecklerspray editor Stuart Heritage, plus appearances by the fearsome and enigmatic C J Davies – plus it’s all being hosted by Brett Domino, who we seem to have adopted as our bloody mascot this week.

You want proof? Fine, here’s proof – have a sneak peak of our well-edited witticisms after the jump…

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Keyboard Cat, Play Him Off Keyboard CatThe internet can move at a phenomenal pace sometimes. Why, no sooner has hecklerspray twittered ‘I’m outside your window with a pair of binoculars and a dagger’ to an ex-girlfriend than the police are called and we all have a good old chuckle about the misunderstanding. In court.

Anyway – further proof of this ultra-speedy Web 2.0 culture is the previously-webthumped Keyboard Cat. No sooner has someone uploaded a video of their cat being ‘manipulated’ to look like it is playing a zippy keyboard tune (which, as YouTube content goes, is already roughly sixteen-billion times better than the standard ‘why Muse matter more to me than anyone in the world’ nonsense) … than it takes on a whole new life.

‘Play Him Off, Keyboard Cat’ might just be the most meta concept in the history of the web. Already-famous internet videos are given the keyboard cat treatment to create something genuinely bizarre. Occasionally the results are lame. Occasionally – as with the Chinatown clip – they’re the funniest thing you’ll see all day.

And guess what? Some kind bastard has only set up a site compiling these vids! Take a look, why don’t you?

http://playhimoffkeyboardcat.com/