Forward this and you'll see a funny clip

You won't. It's technically impossible for a simple text message to execute anything on your computer. That includes viruses, trojan horses, sounds and video clips.

Given the success of these simple hoaxes, many people apparently don't mind bothering 11 friends to see a simple video clip or hear a funny sound.

Links

We haven't found many sites yet which have bothered to comment on this obvious hoax. We did find a short comment by David Emery of the urban legends site at miningco.com:

http://urbanlegends.miningco.com/library/blvideo.htm