Not only the funniest video of the year, comic book artist Brad Neely's George Washington creates a sublime new genre, the comic-book video. His unique drawings, and awesomely catchy song only add to the fact that this is the most singular and original creation of 2006.

Again, another insanely catchy and impressively unique music video, Liam Sullivan's Shoes has found it's deserved place in pop culture, and truly set the tone for internet humor: random, quirky and quick. If you think it's just for girls, then you're a stupid boy.

Endlessly argued and scrutinized, this revealing yet unrevealing eyewitness account of campus police brutality wasn't the only one of its kind this year, but definitely the most haunting and compelling. It's reverse-Orwellianism at it's best. Now who's Big Brother?

Hilarious and disturbing at the same time, Michael Granberry's (A Winter's Tale) claymation horror-comedy is a remarkable answer to the common prayer of having a loved one return. It's the macabre cartoon answer to Almodovar's "Volver."

This cutting and fantasically bizarre parody of early 80s futurism is also one of 2006's best undiscovered gems. This should be all over IGN and playing on G4 during commercial breaks, but alas there's always 2007, the year of CUBE!

This wicked satire of Red-Cup culture and gotcha journalism from NYU's Derrick Comedy is one of the first major statements by the men of my generation to draw a line in the sand between Man and Bro. It also happens to feature the best performances in an online video this year.

Online videos rarely get this poignant and emotional; this thesis animation by student Dony Permediis a real coup for the medium.

One year ago, "Lazy Sunday" bombastically announced the arrival of The Lonely Island trio (Jorma Taccone, Andy Samberg and Akiva Schaffer), the youthful saving grace of SNL. One year later, it's clear that didn't happen.

I can't say definitively that it's their fault; I've read Live From New York and watched a little Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, so I'm aware of the bureaucracy that squanders original sketch-writing in favor of mediocrity. But when something like "D*** In A Box" comes around, it definitely makes you wonder why, aside from that Natalie Portman rap, our boys didn't turn that show around in '06. This SNL Digital Short featuring an inspired Justin Timberlake is a funny, provocative, and refreshingly non-MSNBC-parody-based bit -- yet another glimmer of hope for the terminally ill variety program. SNL, the Lonely Island is still the cure for your disease. Godspeed in '07.

We remember first hearing the news that Sofia Coppola would direct a Marie Antoinette biopic. "Awesome," we thought. "That will be really pretty and lyrical and dark, a glam rock guillotine." Then we saw the original trailer, released in early '06, and got really, really excited. "Powdered wigs! Fireworks! New Order! Awesome!"

Today, Marie Antoinette opens nationwide, to decidedly mixed reviews (who can forget the "boo heard 'round the world" at Cannes?) but we're still transfixed by the awesomeness of this early trailer. Enjoy.

The inimitable LisaNova hits her comedic stride in this sharp self-parody.