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American Copywriter points to this humorous infomercial, which imagines a DeVry-type technical school for viral-video training. Asks the announcer: “You’ve seen them on the World Wide Web, spreading like wildfire from inbox to inbox. But what makes videos like ‘Alabama Leprechaun’ and ‘Exploding Whale’ so hugely successful?”

—Posted by Tim Nudd

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