Christine Ebersole Ditches TV for YouTube

This morning on ABC's The View, Christine Ebersole, the Tony award winning actress and singer guest hosted. She can currently be seen on the Broadway stage starring in Grey Gardens, the critically acclaimed musical. After showing a picture of her three adopted children, Ebersole proudly announced she and her husband had wrapped up their TV one night and left it in some undisclosed location, "near a bank parking lot.." she quipped. That was that - no more television for their household.

Rosie O'Donnell asked why Ebersole resorted to such a measure. Ebersole responded, "TV was just taking control over us... it was taking over our lives." How does the once Not Ready For Prime Time player of the 1981-1982 season of Saturday Night Live amuse herself if there's no TV in the house? "I love YouTube!" she exclaimed, "You can catch me on there watching YouTube at like 4:00AM. I love the fashion videos and politics. I especially like Ask A Gay GuyWilliam Sledd. He's amazing!"

Ebersole also raved about controversial political video maker and YouTube favorite John Conner - also known as The Resistance Manifesto. Conner goes around stirring up controversy about 911 conspiracies, films the events and then posts them on his website and on YouTube. Ebersole laughed heartily and remarked, "A lot of people think he's a screwball, but I don't."

Along with the talk about loving YouTube, Rosie O'Donnell commented on YouTube's recent voluntary purging of thousands of video clips owned by media juggernaut Viacom. Rosie said, "It's almost impossible to enforce this these days with technology , but YouTube did try to satisfy Viacom's wishes."

Christine Ebersole is a multi-talented actress, comedienne and singer, having had roles in films like Amadeus, Tootsie and Dead Again. She won the Tony award for the revival of 42nd Street and earned rave reviews and the Drama Desk award for her role as Edie Bearl in Grey Gardens, which is still running on Broadway.

Christine Ebersole's honest revelations about what she and her family choose to pay attention to is just another high profile example of how the Internet and websites like YouTube and Associated Content are changing the media landscape of our country and the world. Hot TV shows like 24, The Colbert Report and so many others now offer web content like episode simulcasts, exclusive web produced auxiliary material and many other web only features which continues to supplement traditional mediums like television.

So, is the web becoming more like TV or vice versa?