November 5, 2007

Watch For NBC To Issue Barack Obama A YouTube Takedown Notice Today

Barack Obama, who guest starred as himself on Saturday Night Live last night, was definitely funnier after the show than during it. And here's why. Liz Gannes from NewTeeVee decided to see if she could find the clip on NBC's new platform Hulu, only to find nothing. Not that it matters much, since most of us don't have beta invites and those outside of the US can't access that platform anyways. Digging further, she realized that she couldn't find the Obama SNL content on open Hulu distribution partners AOL or MSN either. The official NBC.com Saturday Night Live video index: once again, nothing. But where she did find the Obama clip was on Obama's YouTube station BarackObamadotcom! Now if you remember, NBC pulled their content from YouTube a couple of weeks back in anticipation of the Hulu launch and they've been pulling a heck of alot of clips uploaded by users in the past few days. Will NBC order Obama to remove the video today? Now that would be funny!

Via NewTeeVee