Bill Simmons picks the best YouTube videos

ESPN.com's Bill Simmons is one of my favorite columnists, and he's got a good one up at the site right now. He picks the best videos you can find on YouTube. He calls it the YouTube Hall of Fame, and while it leans heavily towards TV, media, and pop culture, he has a lot of it right.

He picks some great TV-oriented videos, including Vanilla Ice's meltdown on MTV (I watched this when it first aired - bizarre!); Roddy Piper and Superfly Snuka with a coconut; Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley and that MTV "kiss;" Band-Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?" (his commentary about this is more entertaining than the video, an odd choice on this list); William Shatner singing "Rocket Man," and David Letterman's Late Show speech after the 9/11 attacks.

It's not just the list that he picks, it's the column itself. Simmons is a very good writer, and the column is just as entertaining as the videos themselves.