Taped in New York, it's Monday Afternoon!

I've wanted to see Saturday Night Live live for as long as I've lived close enough where it is an actual possibility (aka, in DC). One reason is that you can see the dress rehersal where they decide which jokes, skits, etc. actually make it onto the show. SNL just released a behind the scenes video on Hulu featuring some jokes that didn't make the show and outtakes from bits that did make the show. It's really worth watching, especially since Stefon appears in the video (at 3:20 into it).

Thanks THUNDERSNOW for the "Ice Cream Guy" meme

Last week DC experienced the awesomeness of THUNDERSNOW (said awesomeness depends on if you made it home in under an hour)! One of my favorite parts of the THUNDERSNOW was the creation of the new meme, "Ice Cream Guy".

Ice Cream Guy is the product of some excellent timing by a Washington Post photographer who was sent outside to get shots of people reacting to the snow/sleet/rain/THUNDERSNOW. The photographer happened to see a man running down the street, wearing no jacket and holding something, and snapped a few photos. One of these photos ended up on the Washington Post's website, and then the front page of the Post the next day (see below).

Project Popcorn = MST3K + Vodka

Did you know that the Russians are ripping off MST3K (that's Mystery Science Theater 3000 for those of you not in the know)? Yep, they are. It's only fair since we stole Yakoff Smirnoff.

They've made a few changes to the show, however. First, they call it Project Popcorn, which is good since everyone loves popcorn. I'm assuming that in Russia they cover their popcorn in vodka and not artificial butter oil like we do (Yay me! That's two stereotypical Russia jokes in one post!). Second, they've reimagined the robots as a penguin and a dog, because why not? Check out the intro below. Chances on if you like this you're a dork (to be fair, if you enjoyed MST3K you're probably a dork anyway).

Comedy is where the mind goes to tickle itself (that's what she said)

I love NBC's Thursday night line up. I've mentioned my love of Community (twice), 30 Rock (twice), and Parks and Recreation before (three times last week), but not The Office (or Perfect Couples or Outsources, but who cares about those shows anyway?). Well, The Office's time has come. It was funny last night (or at least the few minutes were). Check out Ricky Gervais' cameo and then tell me that you don't want more (I dare you):

Oscars Stuff on the Internet Rundown!

While I was away this week (by away I mean actually doing work at work), Oscar nominations came out. There weren't really any surprises this year, besides Winter's Bone being nominated for Best Picture. Seriously, that movie should have been called "Winter's Bore" (and with that zinger I'm back!).

Since I love movies and the internet, here are a bunch of things that I've come across dealing with the Oscars:

I've been busy. Get over it.

I've actually been busy at work this week, hence the three or four posts total this week. Sorry. I'll make sure that I'm not busy next week so I can focus on what's really important at work, not doing any work. Here's a video of  a rapping squirrel trying to drum up business for a law-firm in New York. Why not.

24 Hour Nazi Party People

The Daily Show was really funny the othe night (I know, surprising). Here's my favorite clip from the episode.

Angry Birds + Cute Kid = Cute Video

Here's another Angry Birds video. This one features a little girl getting pelted by stuffed Angry Birds. It's funny and cute. You'll enjoy it.

I am showing you my teeth!

Most of my posts are me writing two or more lines of hilarious really funny humorous chuckle-worthy text and then introducing a video (typically it's of cats, but to be fair, that is representative of what's on the internet). This post is completely different. In this post I'm going to write two lines of text and then link to a funnier blog entry on a funnier blog. Sorry for blowing your mind.

Here's the premise for the funnier blog entry (as quoted directly from the funnier blog): "What happens when a gorilla sets up a profile on the dating site OK Cupid (with the username "iamagorilla") and then starts messaging girls? See below."

It's a cat in a box!

Here's a video that features a kitten trying to either save it's friend from a plastic box (and being very unsuccessful at it) or tormenting it's friend who's stuck in a plastic box. Either way, it's funny. As for something funny to say about the video, I'll leave that to this song parody that I stole from a commenter on Jezebel.com:

Favre out!

Ok, here's hoping that this is the last Favre item that I ever post. Today's interweb video of the day is Brett Favre: Rise. Watch it, laugh at how horrible he is, and then forget that he exists. That's my plan.

Yep, that's a hummingbird peeing

You demanded it, so I'm posting it. Thanks to all of you that wrote in demanding to see a video of a hummingbird peeing. It's always great to hear from my reader(s). Why you asked for such a weirdly specific video, I don't know. Anyway, here it is. Enjoy it.

Here's my obligatory Colbert Report video for the day

One of my main duties at work is to watch the Daily Show and the Colbert Report while checking my email (that is singular for a reason. I typically get one email a day that requires reading.) and drinking my coffee. This leads me to post a lot of Daily Show and Colbert Report clips, btw you're welcome.

While I really, really enjoy the Daily Show, I think that I actually laugh more at the Colbert Report. Colbert has a direct line to my funny bone (that sounds like it was written by an 80 year-old grandmother talking about Bob Hope). So, here's today's obligatory Colbert Report clip (this is the clip where he rips on Palin. It's really good). Enjoy.

Aziz Ansari: Difficult name, difficult to not see everywhere you look

For the exciting conclusion of my 3 part blog-a-rama about Parks and Rec, I’m focusing on Aziz Ansari. Why you ask? Why not focus on Ron Swanson (aka Nick Offerman), who I’ve already insinuated is the show’s star?  Because, Aziz Ansari is currently featured on every blog that I read.

Is he on Gawker? Yes. Is he on Splitsider.com? Yes. Does he have a feature on Bear Quarterly? Weirdly, yes. He has funny videos posted on all of these sites. Now they’re posted on my site. Check them out.

Did you realize that Amy Poehler used to be a Candy Striper?

Yep, another Parks and Recreation post (AKA, part 2 of 3 in my blog-a-rama about Parks and Rec). We’ve already discussed Rob Lowe and his not-very-blissful ignorance of Park and Rec’s break, now we’re on to the show’s star (no not Ron Swanson) Amy Poehler.

I think Amy’s a super funny actor, but I never realized that she was also a model. Her modeling past was just recently discovered. It turns out she did some stock photo modeling (Check out the photos below).

Are you aware that Rob Lowe's face hasn't been on TV recently? That will be fixed tonight.

Here's part 1 of my 3 part blog-a-rama about Parks and Recreation, which returns to TV tonight after being off the air for the last five months.  I’m betting you didn't realize that Parks and Rec has been off the air that long. Want to know who else didn't realize that? Robert Boethius Lowe. Watch the clip below to get that reference, and to laugh.

I'm only posting this ironically

Have you ever wondered what superheros would be like if they were hipsters (I know that hipster is a broad term, but just go with it)? No? Good. That would be stupid and a complete waste of your time.

The people at CollegeHumor.com are stupid and are paid to waste their time, therefore they created a little video (it's little in the sense that it's not very long as compared to Gone with the Wind, or even an episode of The Simpsons) that shows what superheros would be like if they were hipsters.

Just a compilation of British animal voiceovers. Have fun.

I present to you animals with British accents. Is it just me, or do they sound smarter than American animals?

This is the best clock ever!

This clock slows down during your lunch hour then speeds back up to display the correct time, which gives you an extra 12 minutes of lunchtime (that's 1 extra hour a week). Awesome! Here's a video that explains it all.

Ricky Gervais actually made the Golden Globes worth watching (no, seriously)

I'm not typically a big fan of awards shows (seriously, I don't care who any of these people want/have to thank), but this Sunday's Golden Globes was actually watchable. This was due 99% to Ricky Gervais and his unflinching insults/jokes at the expense of the celebrities in the audience (okay, not all were in the audience, but enough where). Check out his opening monologue below, and you'll get a sense of what I'm talking about. On a side note, the head of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (the people that put on the Golden Globes) called Gervais' jokes totally unacceptable, so that's cool.

Hey Anderson, Here's a Headline!

This week's Digital Short on SNL was awesome. Did it include gratuitous amounts of Pee Wee Herman? Yep. Special guest appearances? Yep (including a foul mouthed Chairy). Even though the rest of the show was very mediocre, the record executive meeting featuring C-Lo was really bad, this made it worth watching (or at least worth checking out Hulu for the good stuff). Check it out.

Have you heard about this show called Portlandia?

PORTLANDIA. PORTLANDIA. PORTLANDIA. PORTLANDIA. PORTLANDIA. The entire first episode is available on Hulu now. PORTLANDIA. PORTLANDIA. PORTLANDIA. PORTLANDIA.
Happy Friday!

Kitty Kat Korner (The cutest KKK article ever)

It's Friday and I'm tired.Therefore, I'm just going to throw some cat videos up here and let you go "awww".Only 3.5hrs till the three-day weekend.

Law & Order: Bad Teeth Unit

The British are always trying to steal our stuff. First they tried to steal our tea in Boston, so we had to throw it in the water (I didn't get much sleep last night, so this is as funny as it's going to get. Sorry). Now, they've stolen the most beloved TV series in US history (and by that I mean it aired on TV in the US for quite some time, and then we cancelled it), Law & Order. Here's a clip from Law & Order UK. It's like our Law & Order, only slightly more polite.

Take my breath away? Wait, how about Every breath you take? No, that's no good either.

I'm going out on a limb here, but I'm guessing that you've seen Sarah Palin's response to the Arizona shootings on Saturday (the blood libel one). Here's a cut of that video that vastly improves on the original (hint: this cut keeps it concise, which is almost always good).

This is a Dave I'd like to know. Ya know?

Splitsider did a look back at The Kids in the Hall today (which is very much worth a read and is better than this post, so I won't be upset if you click over and read that instead). In their look back, they posted one of my all time favorite skits "A Good Attitude Towards Menstruation" (watch the skit below).

 It's not only a great skit, but it's perhaps the best menstruation video ever made. I dare you to find a better one, mainly because I'm scared to do a search for fear that 1) I'll be approached by the IT department about my internet browsing, 2) who knows what scary videos the internet has on this topic, and 3) you only really need one video on the topic.

Did you read that article that featured the new Portlandia clip?

Yes, I am excited that Portlandia is coming to IFC soon. I've mentioned the show a few times before, and I am going to keep mentioning it (why do you have a problem with that?). In this clip Fred and Carrie take on those people that are always one-uping you about articles that they read (I may be this person).

Sell outs are totally "in" in 2011

Vampire Weekend, the band that make's Georgetown seem "edgy", and The Black Keys (I have nothing witty to say about them because I haven't listened to them) appeared on last night's Colbert Report to settle who would win Best Alternative Music Album of the year. To settle this dispute, Colbert challenged both band's to a "Sell-out Off." Turns out, both bands are fairly whorish. Good for them.

Losing sucks, but The League is awesome

Did you watch The League this season? No?!?!! Well, you missed out on a great comedy (I feel like I've mentioned that people should watch The League before...). Really, how can you not like a show that has parent's lying to their kids by saying that an elf is a spy for Santa, and that if they misbehave, the elf will narc on them (by the way, the elf's name is Kegel).

Below is a clip from the two-part season finale that aired last week. It's on Hulu now, so you really should watch it. It was so good that I've had this post as a draft since the day after the episode aired on TV. At that time I was heading into the playoffs with joy and hope in my heart.

I could use some menergy today

Damn, Tuesday sucks. It's the pretty much the worst day of the week (Monday sucks too). At least Monday has some residual weekend fun on it. For example "man, last weekend was so much fun! I can't believe I got to go swimming with dolphin! The best part was when they ate Tyra Banks. Weekends rule!" That's how I roll (sorry that I just wrote "that's how I roll").

On Tuesdays, all that fun is gone. You're stuck wishing for a snow day that never comes (come on DC, give me one snow day this year!), or trying plan for the weekend which seems 3 years away. Tuesdays suck, all day it's like having that "2:30 feeling" (thanks 5-Hour Energy for introducing that into my vocabulary). Days like Tuesday require gratuitous amounts of energy. In lieu of that, here's the Powerthirst video.

Aflockalypse: SOLVED

We've all heard about the Aflockalypse (the thousands of birds dying off in Arkansas and elsewhere). There have been many theories as to why this is happening. SNL proposed that it was bird on fish sex that caused the mass culling. The repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell has been blamed (obviously). A random crazy dude thinks that BP's reckless drilling for oil is the cause (again, duh). These maybe crazy (except for the BP one), but the truth is out there.

To find the truth we need to look at what we know about birds and what we know about Arkansas. Well, birds lay eggs and they can be protective of them. Arkansas is home of the University of Arkansas Razorbacks, which has a pig (it's more of a boar, but close enough) as a mascot. Therefore, the only reasonable conclusion is that the pigs of Arkansas stole the birds' eggs, and they died flinging themselves at the pigs in order to get their eggs back. If you're still confused, check out the video below.

The Chaser's War on Everything: Australian for Candid Camera

Oh those crazy Australians, always deep frying onions, correcting people on what is and isn't a knife, and having another word for beer (for those of you playing at home the answer to the previous references were: Outback's Blooming Onion, Crocodile Dundee, and Fosters). Well, now they've gone ahead and created a hidden camera show called The Chaser's War on Everything (which isn't a new show, it's been on since 2006), and it is somewhat funny (well, at least this clip is). 

The premise is simple: a guy in with pantyhose over his head goes into stores to buy things. As you can see, this is a prime set-up for comedy gold.

Someone ate their Wheaties on Saturday

Marshawn Lynch slipped into "beast mode" (His own words, not mine. Also, yes, those are his teeth.) on Saturday and broke off a 67-yard touchdown run that people are calling the best post-season run of all time. This lead to the 7-9 Seahawks beating the 12-4 Saints in the playoffs. I feel sorry for the Saints, but damn, that was an amazing run.

I didn't watch the game live, but I have watched this clip about 5 times, and the Tecmo Bowl version of the run, and the Mario Bros. themed clip. So really, you owe it to yourself to watch it at least one time.

John Oliver is a funny, funny man

As a Christmas present, my wonderful wife bought me tickets to see John Oliver do stand-up comedy (stand-up is much better than lay-down comedy, as it's a lot less awkward and you can see the performer much better when they're standing up). I've been a fan of John's (we're on a first name basis now) work on The Daily Show and on his podcast The Bugle, but I hadn't seen his stand-up material before. Let me say that he did not disappoint. Below is a little clip of his stand-up that was not bootlegged during his show (he mentioned a few times that he hates people recording his shows on cell phone cameras).

Biggest Greek miss since "My Life in Ruins"

Things haven't been going well for Greece lately, what with all the economic woes and all. But, at least they have sports. Sports make everything better (or, if you're a Vikings fan, so much worse). Here's a nice clip of some Greek footballers (f-it, soccer players) attempting, and missing, some spectacular goals. At least the Greeks have feta cheese, that's really good.

I love Bill Hader

It's no secret that I think Bill Hader is extremely funny (one might say that I have a man crush on him, and if one did they'd be wrong). He's so funny, that yesterday I watched 10 minutes of VW ads because he was in them (the Touareg commercial is the best one). I've posted his amazingly awesome Stefon clips, his Greg the Alien clip, and now I bring you his creepy, spot-on impression of Dateline's Keith Morrison:

A good day for science (aka Jenny McCarthy is still crazy)

Maybe you've heard that vaccines cause autism in children. Super smart people, like Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carry, have gone on, and on, and on about how they do. This is all based on a 1998 paper by Andrew Wakefield in Lancet (which has been retracted). Well, that was all B.S. According to a new report in the medical journal BMJ, the 1998 study was based on doctored information. That's bad for McCarthy and her bunch. 


Still this probably won't stop the anti-vaccine people from claiming that vaccines cause autism. It does add more ammo to the pro-vaccination side's war to properly inform the public about what vaccines actually do (hint: they prevent deadly diseases). Here's a fun video of Penn and Teller (the bastions of public health knowledge that they are) talking about the benefits of vaccination (fyi, they use bad words).

Sometimes, being a weather person is the pain in the ass

Being a weather person is a hands on job, which can be very hard, but they just have to suck it up. Sometimes it's a mouthful and it can be a hard job to swallow. Other times it's easier and the words just spit right out.

That was the case for Weather Channel meteorologist Stephanie Abrams. She had a wonderful 30 seconds of weather related sexual innuendo. Check out the clip. It's really wonderful.

Nope, that's isn't Ice.

The image to the left isn't ice, it's beef fat. Yep. I'll let that sink in a little longer. Big blobs of beef fat (which was my nickname for my man-breasts in high school) are floating in a shipping channel in Houston.

15,000 pounds (or 250,000 gallons) of beef fat spilled out of a tank it was being held in. That's right, they have  big tanks filled with beef fat in Houston. Houston, 2005's fattest city (it hasn't left the top 10 since), will have to close down parts of the channel for the next four days to clean up the mess. H-Town!

Here's another photo that's also gross:

I'm a Monster

I've mentioned it before, but the new Kanye album is really, really good. I'm also really glad that it features Bon Iver, that way I can keep all my hipster-street-cred points (if you listen to a hip-hop album that's very popular it needs to either be listened to ironically, or feature an indie rock darling). One of my favorite tracks on the album is Monster (which features Bon Iver!). Someone in internet land has gone and done the most logical thing and dubbed the song over Sesame Street. Now I can watch it with my niece!

Supercuts: more than crappy, cheap haircuts

According to the Washington Post (the end-all, be-all of what's hip and now) vial videos are so 2010 (that means they're out). Supercuts reign supreme in 2011. Here's some supercuts for you. The 100 Greatest Movie Insults of All Time and The Other 100 Greatest Movie Insults of All Time. All hail supercuts! Death to cost cutters!

30 Rock seems like a much different show in Japan

I love 30 Rock. It's random, sweet at times, and terribly funny. However, if you watch the intro for 30 Rock that plays in Japan, I'm pretty sure you'd have no f-ing clue what the show is about. I like it!

Seriously, all I do at work is watch cat videos

We've all seen Dramatic Chipmunk before. We've seen James Van Der Beek do his own version of Dramatic Dawson. Now it's time for Dramatic Kitten. The Internet knows what you want, and it delivers.

I still like Pacey more

James Van Der Beek is still around and trying to capitalize on his super funny animated GIF "Crying Dawson". To cash in on his internet fame, he's created jamesvandermemes.com. Here's a video of him explaining the site. After watching it, I'm still planing on going to Pacey-Con. Enjoy.

Everyone says this is the best "internet video of the year" (including your mom)

Radiolab, is there nothing you can't do exceedingly well? Yes, they are a terrible death metal band (their drumming just isn't fast enough and their guitars not heavy enough). They are really good at putting complex things into simple and meaningful thoughts though.

Take for example 2010's BEST INTERNET VIDEO OF THE YEAR: Words. I've been wasting time at work reading a ton of blogs (where else am I going to steal content from for this website?), and this was consistently on every top blah blah blah list of 2010. After watching it, I agreed. Check it out. You'll agree too.

Cats: The Enemy Within

A good friend of mine was staying over at my deluxe condo in the sky the other night and my cat decided to give him a little present. The present? My friend called them sausage links, but you probably know it better as cat turds.

Unfortunately for my friend, Stephen Colbert didn't air his Enemy Within piece on Cats until last night. Had I seen his special report on the Caboodle Ranch (I want to go to there), I would have locked my cats up in a Gitmo like detention center. If you watch one fear-mongering report on cats today, make it this one. It may save your life (but it probably won't, because cats are pretty harmless).

Movie Review time: Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith

Wait, didn't Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith come out 7 years ago (nope, 5 years ago)? Why would anyone be reviewing a movie that came out 5 years ago? Well, because they're (Mr. Plinkett) very thorough in their reviews of movies (the review is about 1.5 hours), and because this is the third Star Wars review that they've done (check out Episodes I and II). Why should you care about watching this review? ROGER FUCKING EBERT! Even he posted it to his blog (I think that now means that we're blog buddies). So carve out 90 minutes from your day and watch the review.