It’s been a while since I’ve awarded a shout out. There have been a lot of awesome videos in tournament this week, and honestly, I’m a little overwhelmed with what to pick. Not only are the top 25 great, but you can find hidden gems further down the list. So, in the spirit of community and laziness, I’m asking you guys to nominate the next shout out.

Go to the Creators Group forum, and suggest your favorite video. I’ll select the next shout out winner from the list. Remember, the winner gets a swag pack AND is listed as a “recent champion” all over the site. Getting on the list amounts to significant views, and gives you the upper hand in wining a “top plays” award. You can nominate as many videos as you want including your own, but don’t nominate the same video over and over, cause that’s annoying.

I get it, but also, if you’re death and your main objective is to claim lives, then, well, you support everything. #philosophiclassy

- via Eatliver

Congrats and kudos and 500 bucks go to the winners of this weeks Atom Picks. These guys come straight from the LA Comedy Shorts group, and they’re a pair of fancy pants peoples. I could wax on about how we picked Expiration because of it’s spot on observations and great production value, or that It Aint Easy combines the melancholic singer-songwriter ethos with a “giant dong” joke effortlessly, but really, these are just two knee slappers we wanted to acknowledge. Well done guys! Hit the jump to check out these champs!

Awwwww, for the love of Ray J! You would think a person who’s famous for the very embarrassing reasons Ray J is would know better than to be on television, let alone try to express any sort of real emotion in front of cameras. But he did. And now Current TV’s Infomania is showing him what-for! You are famous Ray J, but you’re learning that the price of fame is a broken heart.

Someone go get Ray J a camera crew and a shoulder, he needs to get his cry on.

Punchline magazine’s Matthew Gill  sat down with Nick Swardson to talk about doing stand up and starting out,  and getting wasted.

Pauly Shore shows up, too. That’s cool.

For more info, and  more awesomeness check out Punchline!

Friends: Tony Janning and Sandeep Parikh (of Legend of Neil) have a new series that they wrote called The Webventures of Justin and Alden. It contains at least these things:

• Felicia Day and her band of ninjas
• Trident gum
• A real trident
• A whole grip of web-series stars
• Laughs

So watch it with your eyes and your heart and your funny bone!

Our friends over at our big brother network MTV (home of The Atom Show!) took some time (ok, kind of a lot of time) to remake the Prince Of Persia trailer using Legos! Check it out!

(via the MTV Movie Blog)

It was a pretty exciting first week of the tournament. We saw clips like WWJD shoot up the charts late in the game, thanks to a little bit of promotion on twitter, which just goes to show that it’s anyone’s game. Here were the top ten tournament contenders last week.

1. Scat Porn by Chicken Fried Comedy (won $500 to date)
2. WWJD a Music Video by LKGProductions (won $250 to date)
3. Girls Just Want To Be Sexted by Shark Week (won $100 to date)
4. Chatroulette Freak Show by The Outside Joke (won $500 to date)
5. Phonetourage by The Midnight Show
6. Cooking With Cody Live by Floaters
7. Windjammer Restraurants Employee Orientation Video by Kape
8. Chatroulette Jackpot by migo
9. myPhone iSlap by Erin Brown
10. Danny Glover Poop – Movie Monster by Studio 8

We’re really happy with the quality of contestants, this week and the community support has been great. As always, if you have anything to say, be sure to speak up in the Creators Group!

Finally, I need to touch on a glitch that some of you may have noticed that occurred on Sunday. Due to a bug in our system, it appeared as though the tournament play count turned over at 8 A.M., and not 9 P.M. (EST). Though that didn’t affect our internal counting, and therefore who won the “top plays” awards this week was based off our prescribed rules, we acknowledge it made for a pretty sucky experience for everyone. It’s not exactly the climatic race to the finish we’d wanted for everyone. It was a big, frustrating, eff up for everyone, we’re sorry, and we’re fixing it.

It’s weird how sometimes a single sentence can really sum up an experience. Also, a note to the patrons of this restaurant: “Avoid the Coke.”

(via eatliver.com)

Punchline Magazine has the scoop and a preview on a huge interview with Robin Williams dropping next Monday on Marc Maron’s podcast WTF (that stands for What The F). As someone who knows literally nothing about celebrity, it seems to me that it’s quite a feat to sit Robin Williams down for a chat for an hour, which makes this basically unmissable. Check out the preview here!