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_Published 2011-05-31. Among the best Web videos for May 2011 are a movie-trailer marriage proposal, Michael Bolton channeling Johnny Depp, and two very different men named George: Bush and Takei_


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## Transcript

May I present to you, 2011. [ NOISE ] They're the videos that warmed your heart and tickled your funny bone. [ MUSIC ] I am here for you Check out the best viral videos from the month of May. And it's also real fun to say Lights, camera, romance. When Matt still proposed to his girlfriend, Jenny. He up the bar from men, everywhere, with this epic movie trailer. Max secretly taped, Jenni's priceless reaction to the proposal. And, more than 13 million YouTube videos later, its safe to say that the internet fell in love to [ SOUND ] On their hip hop parody track, The Lonely Island has featured guest verses from T- Pain and Akon and now Michael Bolton?

[ MUSIC ] Yup. Bolton joined the trio for a digital short on Saturday Night Live. [ MUSIC ] What? And the 90's crooner got a little too inspired by his favorite movies. [ MUSIC ] President George W. Bush didn't make it to a ceremony at Ground Zero after Bin Laden was killed, this Funny or Die video shows he was spending time at a Sizzler buffet instead. Good evening. Tonight as of 1400 hours military time, I can report to America, the world, and the folks here at this Sizzler's Steak House on Canyon Ranch Road. Will Ferrel revived his famed Bush impersonation for this sketch, which shows the former president making an important announcement.

That I have personally overseen a strategic and covert operation That killed the gopher who's been tearing up my backyard. Even homophobic slurs don't seem as hurtful if someone says, that is so Takei. You might know him better as Sulu from Star Trek, but these days actor George Takei has made a name for himself as a gay rights activist. I've created a t- shirt. It's okay to be Takei. I hope So when a bill went through a Tennessee legislature that would prohibit discussing homosexuality in the classroom. Tecay took action. His campaign? Anytime you need to say the word gay, you can simply say Tecay [ MUSIC ] [ INAUDIBLE ] is over.

I am almost 30 so, I am going to try to do something for myself this year. When he was 20 Sam Klemke sat down in front of a video camera and recapped the 12 months that passed, he repeated the process every year for 35 years. My 49th year. Providing a stunning portrait of the aging process and how camcorders have improved over the decade. [ SOUND ] For Time video I'm Meghan Freedman. [ SOUND ]

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