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A side effect of the popularity of viral videos is a renaissance in the novelty song. The increased professionalism of Youtube-able film clips has meant that musical parodies and other comedy songs have increased in both quality and variety while finding bigger audiences thanks to blogs and social networking sites. Here are five of 2008’s definitive musical videos that didn’t involve a cat flushing a toilet.

1. “I’m F***ing Matt Damon”

The “Digital Shorts” of “Saturday Night Live” specialize in NSFW music video parodies like the recent “J*** in my Pants.” (I use asterisks because the clips are probably funnier when the swears are bleeped out.) None has bettered shock comic Sarah Silverman and her musical prank on her boyfriend, talk show host Jimmy Kimmel. “I’m F***ing Matt Damon” has catchy hooks that make it fun listening, despite being the most inappropriate break-up song imaginable. Kimmel’s response, “I’m F***ing Ben Affleck” built to a “We Are The World”-style chorus and proved nearly as funny, but the joke was officially exhausted when Elizabeth Banks sang yet another version, “I’m F***ing Seth Rogen,” to promote Kevin Smith’s Zack and Miri Make a Porno. (more…)

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I just saw this: it’s a cheeky potential theme song for The Quantum of Solace, the next James Bond film starring Daniel Craig, which opens in November. Just who would provide the Solace theme has been an open question for much of the year. Apparently Amy Winehouse recorded a demo track (perhaps because she name-checks Roger Moore in her hit song “You Know I’m No Good”), but the producers have settled on Jack White and Alicia Keys, the first duet in Bond-theme history, for people who keep track of such things. Paul McCartney, who wrote the title song for “Live and Let Die,” took himself out of the running:

I definitely wouldn’t do it again. I have been trying to think of something to rhyme with ‘Solace’ and all I can come up with is ‘Wallace’! I don’t envy whoever is going to do the song!”

This video for British comedian Joe Cornish’s song draws partly from the actual Quantum of Solace trailer (which you can see here), but contains some surprises:

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