Kelly Likes Shoes

About

Kelly Likes Shoes is a viral video starring American actor and comedian Liam Kyle Sullivan as Kelly. The video was originally uploaded on his website liamshow.com in May of 2006.

Excerpt from liamshow.com

Liam Sullivan is the director/performer behind LiamShow.com, a collection of funny short films created by and starring Liam. In late 2006, Liam’s musical comedy video “Shoes” went viral on YouTube, spawning hundreds of fan remakes and launching Liam’s character Kelly into internet stardom. “Shoes” was selected as a viral video to watch by “Entertainment Weekly,” was chosen as one of the top 10 videos of 2007 by YouTube, and went on to win the People’s Choice Award for “Favorite User-Generated Video” in 2007. As of this writing, “Shoes” on YouTube has received over 25 million views.

More information of Liam Kyle Sullivan is available on IMDB.

Sullivan released the Shoes album in 2006.

The original “Shoes” video appears on an archived version of liamshow.com.
http://web.archive.org/web/20060518105537/liamshow.com/videos.htm

The same video was uploaded to Youtube on February 5th, 2007 where it has recieved over 40 million views.

By looking at Google Insights we can see that interest in Kelly Likes Shoes shot up immediately in June of 2006, rising to it peak in 2006, and held fairly steady until about February of 2008 when searches for “Kelly Likes Shoes” finally died down to being about equal with searches for liamshow.

Kelly on Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/kellylikesshoes

Derivatives

Some of the first derivatives came in the form of user generated re-enactments.

Re-Enactments

Parodies and Remixes

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