Serena battles Kanye for most popular bad-behavior video clip of the week

And in the category of Best Use of Super-Classy Behavior to Launch a Viral Video, the winner is ... Serena Williams, for her ever-so-gentle criticism of a line official at the U.S. Open on Saturday night. Three separate video versions of the outburst, during which Serena offered to place a tennis ball down the diminutive official's throat, have been viewed a total of almost 2 million times on YouTube, with even more versions popping up in droves. However, the race may not be over, as Serena is being chased by the always gracious Kanye West, whose ridiculously rude interruption of Taylor Swift's acceptance speech during Sunday's MTV Video Music Awards has already been viewed over 1.3 million times on MTV.com alone (and a few hundred thousand times on YouTube, via an Associated Press clip). Just imagine if Viacom weren't suing Google, and this clip was distributed on YouTube directly by MTV. Oh, the page views! Kayne's spotlight-sharing moment appears to have eclipsed previous category leader Joe Wilson, whose "You lie!" screech during Obama's speech last week has garnered less than 400,000 views on YouTube via RealClearPolitics.com (at least as far as we can tell). Joe, don't fret. There's always next year's State of the Union address.

—Posted by Mike Shields