There is no doubt YouTube has revolutionised the web. Thanks to YouTube, video and the web co-exist in seamless harmony.

Businesses are using video to more effectively communicate their offerings. Individuals are using video to better share talents, views and clips of functions. Politicians are using video to take their messages to the monitors. As monitors are where eyes are spending longer than they are on televisions in this information age.

With all these groups competing for online video space, YouTube provides an outlet for all to freely and easily upload, then share their visual product with the widest audience possible. YouTube, owned by Google, can be used by us in many ways. One is a way I did today!

Driving to work listening to ABC Newsradio, I heard that U.S President Barack Obama delivered a speech at the White House Correspondents Dinner that had the audience in stitches. ABC provided a snippet of the address, where Obama pokes fun at life in Washington.

As I arrived in work, I opened up YouTube and searched Obama, and it came up with the video of the entire speech in two very funny parts.

OBAMA PART 1/2

OBAMA PART 2/2

While watching these, I saw on the right 'RELATED VIDEOS' section that one of my favourite stand-up comics - Wanda Sykes - also had an outing at the same dinner. I clicked through and watched something even funnier than what Obama himself managed to produce!

WANDA SYKES PART 1/2

WANDA SYKES PART 2/2

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