47 seconds of nail biting intensity – Man! Versus! Toddler!
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Results tagged “humour”
Amusing puns – and imaginative scissorcraft – with the humble leaf.
Appropriately Autumnal, for those north of the equator.
From the site intro:
What happens when a 28 year old guy makes a profile of a hot girl on a free dating site? A bunch of WTF.
No First Date: actual laugh-out-loud goodness.
Chris Lilley (Summer Heights High and We Can Be Heroes) has a new project called Angry Boys:
Lilley has landed a co-production with ABC and HBO – not only an Australian first, but with an order for 12 episodes, 4 more than Summer Heights High. It will also air on the BBC.
Shooting in a mock documentary style, the series will explore ‘what it means to be a 21st century boy by putting the male of the species under the microscope.’
It’s a way off, but this will definitely be one to watch.
Tom the Dancing Bug illustrating just how the banks have been punished in the wake of the global financial crisis. It’s funny until you realise there’s nothing funny about it, at all.
Here’s a new show with an unlikely cast that I suspect will prove amusing. Premieres September 30 or whatever.
Jason Schwartzman high-fived me once. He’s a stand-up guy.
Ah Tom the Dancing Bug, your blending of disparate situations never ceases to amuse.
It’s weird to see Sacha Baron Cohen not in character for once. He seems like a pretty ordinary guy (although I don’t think he’s a fan of the musical stings that Letterman’s band give him – boodoom).
Via BuzzFeed.
Videogum nails what I’ve been saying all along … Entourage Season 6 in a Stupid, Boring, Lukewarm Nutshell.
Via Peach & Shag.
In the same vein as 42 Below’s classic Flash ad from the olden days, Wellington City Council or someone have made a clip trying to entice Australians to visit New Zealand’s capital:
Captures Welly nicely! I like this line:
There’s a Bohemian style cafe or bar on every corner, literally buzzing with Bohemians, buzzing about Bohemia.
I’ve watched this way too many times. The Katie Couric duet is my favourite … very thin ice, indeed. Auto Tune The News.
Via Kottke.
Reminiscent of the popular trailer mashups (such a trailer for The Shining edited so it appears to be a sweet, heart-warming tale), this is the original opening of 80s sitcom Diff’rent Strokes set to a creepy score: Disturbin’ Strokes.
Get out of there Willis! He’s evil!
Via kottke.org.
Noel Fielding from The Mighty Boosh runs around impaling people with a big nail in this video for Kasabian’s “Vlad the Impaler”.
Via CR Blog.
I discovered Rich Hall at the Comedy Store in London’s Leicester Square. The guy’s a deadpan genius. Here’s one of his standup routines, in two parts:
The parallels to a certain fictional band are just too weird. An aging, once-popular metal band reform for a North American tour that falls apart. Here’s the trailer for “Anvil! The Story Of Anvil”. And it’s real! This looks awesome.
Via Jon.
The latest film from Sacha Baron Cohen – Bruno is a gay Austrian fashion reporter. Same formula as Borat and Ali G: lampooning unwitting Americans. It’s slated for release in the US on July 10.
Brüno trailer. Slightly NSFW. Very funny.
(Also worth linking to this classic Bruno interview from a few years back.)
I’ve had email addresses that were difficult to explain down the phone, but they were trivial compared to these beauties.
Via Daring Fireball.
Pithy truths expressed mathematically. Very clever (I particularly like this one).
Via my erudite colleagues.
A happy bag, spotted by Karin in our office.
Great article by Armando Iannucci in The Observer about his experience on his debut film, “In The Loop”:
Now Steve [Coogan], who’s in the middle of filming something else, spots a Friday he’s got off, and comes to shoot with us. Within seconds, I realise how much I’d forgotten how spontaneously hilarious he is. It’s like we were only working yesterday. The words and actions and improvised asides flood out. His character berates the minister for “flying all over the world drinking … what is it? What d’you call that wine?” There’s a pause. “I don’t know,” says Tom Hollander, who then improvises a scene with a clothes peg bag that he mistakes for a little girl’s dress. The scene goes on for half an hour, then, as the minister leaves to get in his car, Steve shouts across his mother’s back garden at the top of his voice: “Chateaux Neff du Pap! I knew I’d remember.”
