Tag: Humor
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Weird Al Yankovic, Dare To Be Stupid, 1985 on Scotti Bros.
This was the third studio LP from Weird Al, produced by Rick Derringer. Mixture of paradoes and “style parodies” which don’t copy specific songs but a generalized look and feel – like “Dare to be Stupid” which is in the style of Devo. Apparently he approached Prince about doing a parody of “When Doves Cry”…
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Simpsons Intro by Banksy
(via BoingBoing) Banksy directed intro to the Simpsons. The good stuff comes in about 0:36 in, so don’t miss it. Wonder what 20th Century Fox thought of that one? Would have been a fun production meeting to be a fly-on-the-wall for.
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Human Ventriloquism
(via BizarroBlog) An excellent, short, funny video from Paul Zerdin who takes a volunteer from the audience and turns him into a human dummy:
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Funny Headlines
Just had yet another laugh out loud moment reading Criggo and realized I’ve never posted about it. Criggo is basically Jay Leno’s Headlines routine from Monday nights as a blog, with the greater, um, latitude that blogging allows over late night tv. One recent favorite: Check them out at http://criggo.wordpress.com/
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Stupid Browser Tricks
Site Specific Browsers, or SSBs, are a relatively new concept in which you basically create an application which is designed just to browse to a particular website. It gets its own icon, memory space, set of cookies, and the like, so you can treat it just like an application. The best SSB creator, at the…
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Garfield minus Garfield
Old news, I know, but I find Garfield Minus Garfield captivating. It’s sort of existentialist, nihilist, and postmodern all at the same time.
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Irrational Public Radio
Via High Touch I stumbled upon Irrational Public Radio. Go listen to the demo – if you’ve ever been a steady listener to NPR, you will find the whole thing very funny.