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After Last Birthday: The World's Most Esoteric Video Birthday Invite

When I worked at Videogum I was a little bit obsessed with the mysterious trailer for a movie called After Last Season, which opened in a few cities for a few days last month. A lot of other people got obsessed with ALS too, as evidenced by this video birthday invite parody made by some funny people with time on their hands:



Adorable! If you haven't seen the original, you really should -- and keep in mind that this was a real feature film. (Thanks for the tip, Tamara!)

I'm Sure This is Everywhere: Yes We Can, McCain Edition

But I'm having a Cleaning and Organizing Day and am not really reading the internet:

Yes We Can, McCain Edition

(Obviously, watch the original first if somehow you haven't seen it yet.)

Matt Damon Video Recalls Funniest Scene in "Eurotrip"

My friend Julie just pointed out that today's big viral Sarah Silverman and Matt Damon video recalls Damon's earlier work in the motion picture feature film "Eurotrip". "Scotty Doesn't Know":

Cute Animals Strike in Solidarity with Writers

I'm a little strike-video'd-out but this one by Frank Lesser and other Colbert folks is actually good (with great cameos!):

Third Time Around

We are living in exciting times:

(Via Fast Hugs - it's explained there for those who didn't get it, which I would say would be 99% of the world and 12% of people seeing it here.)

drummer in the mist

Having a stressful day? Watch this:

If there were a taxonomy of viral video (or internet memes in general and I don't mean those questionaires on MySpace), this would have the "palate cleanser" designation. It's successful - and viral - partly because it changes the subject entirely. (See also: cute overload.)

(Link via my colleague Chris Principe)

(One of my friends just told me this post was "very un-(me)" to which I say "I have many facets!!" and also "'colleague' was jokey fake businessy language for 'coworker, obvs'".)

If You Watch Just One Sopranos Finale Parody...

Make it Max Silvestri's:

I Wanna Leave Bennigan's

Illustrated misheard Lyrics to Pearl Jam's "Yellow Ledbetter" (via the Mental Floss blog):

I'm onto you, "coffee-chick"

(I just bought this cold-brew coffee thing, and I swear this picture on the company's website is Evangeline Lilly before she was famous. Even if it's not, why does she look like there's something a lot naughtier than coffee in that mug?)

In other links:

* Whatevs counts down the best of Acceptable TV. Excellent time-saving list!

* The best jokes are the jokes that only four people get: chapter infinity plus one (Also, "watching confused Gawker commenters embarrass themselves" is a particularly satisfying pastime.)

* Neat: The sound of two bots chatting.

* BWE asks Zach Galifianakis about his Ellen audience appearance: "If you don't dance with the creeps you are seen as a creep."

The Ottoman Video + Blogging Metaphor = Awesome

You know the astounding NSFW Ottoman Humping video that will go down in internet history? Here's the first parody (that I've seen):

"time is going by very very slowly"

Cop steals pot, makes brownies, thinks he's dying.

Ed Helms is a Zombie-American on Funny or Die

My friend and co-worker Nick Poppy made this short funny film, Zombie-American, starring Ed Helms as a Zombie trying to catch a break. CLICK "FUNNY" TO VOTE FOR IT! (This is just the first of three parts):

To see the video in its original context (and grab the link and embed code) go here on funnyordie.

"taskbars and email and shortcuts, oh my!"

Today I'm "stealing" all most of my links from another blog I edit, the Comedy Central Insider blog:

* The Family Guy Rips off the Simpsons:

* Demetri Martin in a new Fountains of Wayne video
(it kind of really reminds me of Jon Friedman's Somebody to Love video from The Rejection Show, but whatever...)

* Speaking of the Rejection Show, it is tomorrow night at UCB.

* I Like: Guyswithfeelings.com -- a comedy podcast.

* Holy Freaking Shit, Chandler and Rachel  Matthew and Jennifer walk us through Windows 95 in "the world's first cyber sitcom" (via The Apiary):

They said "cyber". Heh. Heh.

Thanks; Links

Big thanks to everyone who came out to Ritalin Readings last night! It was so so fun. I am too tired to describe how fun, but so fun, and all the readers were hilarious. Here are some things:

Jon Friedman's "Opening Credits" for last night's Ritalin Reading:

* Emily Gould gets the last word (maybe) at Jimmy Kimmel. I want what she says at the end to be my ringtone.

Air Sex: Where Air Babies Come From

Air sex:

* It's like air guitar, but for sex
* It's big in Japan (or if it's big anywhere, that place is Japan)
* There's already a Fleshbot contest

Has anyone made the obligatory "soon guitar hero will be replaced by sex hero" joke yet?

"Put Your Clothes on and Get the Hell Out of Here"

Suggestion for this weekend: see The TV Set. Here's a great scene:

(Be sure to stay in the theater at the end for a "scene" from 'Slut Wars' starring a self-effacing Seth Green.)

Another Robin Sparkles Episode of HIMYM

Well, sort of -- in this Times article about how How I Met Your Mother creators Craig Thomas and Carter Bays incorporate the internet into their show (and vice versa), we learn that tonight's episode, "The Bachelor Party", will feature a scene too racy for TV that will show up on the show's MySpace page  (and presumably here, since I play right into their hands.)

Until this article, I had no idea Bays and Thomas were the brains behind the hysterical 1999 Late Show hoax boy band, Fresh Step.

- Letters to Fresh Step (McSwy's)

And...let's go to the mall, again:

officer friendly's little boy's got a mohawk

Mark Graham is right: if you watch anything online this week, it should be this sketch.

30 Rock Renewed!

It's a great day for comedy fans: the funniest show on TV has been renewed for a second season. In honor of the occasion, Amelie put up Tina Fey's Paris Hilton takedown video.

Also, I have a crush on Jack Donaghy. Not Alec Baldwin -- Jack Donaghy.

Via EW's Popwatch, some of Jack's greatest moments:

"I've Been Working on this Show For Three $#@ing Weeks!"

From a future episode of The Michael Showalter Showalter, Paul Rudd and MS re-enact the I Heart Huckabees video. Brilliant:

(Via Zach Klein's blog)

David Cross on The Michael Showalter Showalter

I.Love.This.Show:

God Tube Update: Our God Tube is an Awesome God Tube

As Worker pointed out in the comments, God Tube does indeed demand further investigation. He found this awesomeawesomeawesome video:

(Um, Dear God: embedded videos that play automatically are, like, an abomination. Here's the video.)

(Instant update: this has been on regular secular You Tube for a while, says Worker. Still awesome, though!)

The Roast of AJ Daulerio: Best. Thing. Ever.

The coolest thing ever happened last Friday. Because our friend AJ Daulerio is moving to Philadelphia, Will Leitch and Aileen Gallagher organized a surprise roast for him. For over a month, we had to keep it secret, but it was all worth it when it went off without a hitch (AJ was surprised, tons of his friends came out, we were funny, and he loved it). Gawker videographer Richard Blakeley was there to capture AJ's speech at the end of the roast:

One of the best nights of my life! (Note: if only ONE other roast takes place in the next six months, this will officially qualify as a Sunday Styles trend piece.)

Some photos after the jump. (UPDATE: NINE MINUTE long video on Deadspin. Unfortunately, technical difficulties prevented Eric Gillin's roast from being included, which sucks since he was hysterical.)

Meet the Press, For Idiots

(Thanks, Matt Tobey)

Happy Thanksgiving!

I don't usually get serious, personal, or sentimental on this site, but I feel that, this time of year, it's important that we each take some time to be thankful for the people in our lives who ---- JK! Here's a dirty video from Planned Parenthood.

Seeya Monday!

Save Until Manually Erased

I think we can all agree: last night's episode of How I Met Your Mother was, hands down, the BEST EVER.

I've never watched an entire episode of a tv show on the internet before in my entire life, but as Slap Bet Commissioner, I demand you watch it. (You can watch the whole thing for free here, click the innertube link on the right upper corner.)

(Most of) that special, special video after the jump (spoiler alert! watch the show first.)

Make it sparkle!

What's In Your Wallet, It's Not Capital One

* Some things never get old, like the Scared of Santa gallery. (I'd be scared of that one, too.)

* Video: David Cross hilariously skewers that banker guy who sang "One." (I loved that he actually memorized the words.)

* When you saw the Brian Atene Kubrick audition video on YouTube a few weeks ago, did you wonder if he was still alive somewhere in the world? Well, wonder no more (and no, this isn't the parody. This is the real, actual, 43-year-old Brian Atene.)

* 'SYNERGY' ALERT!!! Stephen Colbert was the guest at my estranged alma mater this weekend, and somehow the video ended up on the Comedy Central Blog. Which I keep linking to today because it rocks today, okay?

* As of last night: Team Pam: 84%. Team Karen: 16%. In related news: I am sooooo happy that I'm going to be the Team Pam Office Fangirl for the rest of my life, when really it's just a funny TV show and I don't actually care. I change my mind Claire: gimme some of that shirt money. Seriously.

and...scene!

A good friend of mine just tearfully admitted that she's never seen Mr Show. I said "Shhh, baby, it's okay, relax, I have all the DVDs, we'll have a little party and I'll cue up my favorites...BUT YOU HAVE TO LOVE IT OR WE ARE NO LONGER FRIENDS, CAPISCE?"

So anyway, I found one of my favorite sketches (and I believe, by consensus on nerdy comedy message boards I don't like to admit I read, the most classic Mr Show sketch of all.): THE AUDITION

(Also, I absolutely love it when I'm at work and I use the "are you using this chair" line at the beginning of a meeting and the person I'm talking to says "do you need it? For the audition?" Okay, it's happened exactly once but I still love it.)

3 to 6 men will humble him for several hours each week

* Is anyone else finding something to chuckle at in every sentence of this article about Ted Haggard's spiritual restoration, or am I just 13?

* I don't know why my dear Claire is giving this fucktard more attention, but at least he comes off badly. Like, really really badly.

* Tomorrow I'm participating in Sarah Brown's Cringe TV pilot taping. So tonight my friend Stephanie is going to accompany me to SuperCuts to try to make my hair decent looking, and not just a pixie haircut grown out for a year. Really. Two nights ago, I took my hair down to ask my friend Amanda what to do with it and she said "You look like Charlize Theron. In 'Monster.'

* Reno 911!: Miami movie trailer, via dead-frog:

* And, finally, who is such a blog geek that they want to see a photo of Gabe from corporate-casual sending me a text message from that Spy party? Here: I can find out how many people click, you know. (Also, cute, no? 20 bucks for his number.)

"insurance is my game, raping was another game of mine"

Two things about this: Man ordered to wear "Sex Offender" t-shirt

1. I wonder if all his friends are going to start wearing the same t-shirt in solidarity, like when someone has cancer and all their friends shave their heads? and

2. This classic Mr. Show sketch is actually totally on Youtube!:

"whatever, girl!"

When bloggers start thinking they're celebrities, bad things can happen.

Jessy Delfino's Pussy Is Magic!

Jessy Delfino goes viral! So. Much. Awesome:

(Via a lot of blogs, including Emily.)

More Jessy Delfino right here!

not-moby stole my 'get psyched!' mix!

(Josh Radnor in a rare moment of introspection, from the Kenyon alumni mag '04)

Today's guest-post on the Jane Magazine blog:  Suit Up, Dorks! How I Met Your Mother Season 2 premieres tonight!

Also, trivia: my friend John Green totally went to college with Josh Radnor.

"this is disgusting"

Today's Jane blog post: Justin Timberlake plays my friend Brian's "lovesounds" game on TRL.

is there an emoticon for 'quiet desperation'?

* I'm guest-blogging for the Jane Magazine website again! Today's post: what we need today are funny weathermen (Shhh, just trust me!)

* What we also need today is Mandy Stadtmiller as this week's comedian guest blogger on the Comedy Central blog, reminding us of the brilliance of Gilbert Gottfried (Update: link had to be removed from there, but it's still here.)

The Ultimate Red State Summer Camp Dilemma: Jesus, or Fat?

Coming soon to theaters: Jesus Camp:

I attended an extremely Fundamentalist Christian camp every summer for six years, but even it was not like this. The phrase "spiritual warfare" was bandied about, but in the "let's pray really hard" sense, not the "let's train our children for the coming war" sense. Be very, very afraid. There's really nothing funny about this, actually.

late links

Why do I hate having my photo taken at parties? Because when given the choice of three decent photos and one in which I look like an idiot, my blogger friends will always choose idiot It's almost like a little inside joke at this point. (But in all seriousness, huge congratulations to Will Leitch, whose success couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.) But you know, whatever, I've had an epiphany about the photo thing: nobody f**king gives a sh*t what I look like, so bring it on.

Corporate Schilling: Video: The Reverend Fred "God Hates Fags" Phelps blasts Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert for being "Godless Sodomites". The Comedy Central blog scooped the world on this one. Go team!

Aww, darn, I guess now we all have to cross Fred Durst off our "lists".

Weatherman vs Cockroach: I got wayyy to much pleasure out of this.

boredgirl29

• Can someone just explain to me in one paragraph who and what lonelygirl15 is because unlike (apparently) the rest of the internet, I just really don't have the time to watch/obsess about a bunch of unfunny videos. I'm totally sick of it but I don't even know what it is. Like Rocketboom last month. I'm completely serious: explain it.
• Watch the second episode of American Cookbook on Channel 102. Because it's funny and my coworkers made it (but really, it's funny.)
• "Excuse me, but do you happen to have any corny jokes based on 1980's commercials?" Why, yes.
• "No Flour, No Sugar" ...No need for a book.
• Video: This isn't interesting because it's an interview with JonBenet Ramsey's beauty queen best friend all grown up. It's interesting because HER NAME IS 'THUMPER'!!! (!!!!!!!!!)

senseless acts of beauty

(photo of rough drafts of charades lists by Jen.)
Quick Vermont Highlights:

1. You know how they say you should find the thing you love the most and that you're best at and then figure out a way to get paid for it? Well, unfortunately for me, it appears that my thing is "Charades."
7 people. 4 hours. Most. Fun. I've. Ever. Had. In. My. Entire. Life. Solemn vows have been made about making it a "regular thing", which would improve my life 100%.

2. You know what's fun? Going to the Applebees off exit 26 of I-91 with your friends on a Saturday night and sending a round of drinks over to a (slightly bewildered) random table.

3. You know what's supremely dorky but also worth a year of therapy? Going off by yourself at 3 am on a mountain and looking up at the stars while listening to In the Aeroplane Over the Sea in its entirety. I was having such a great time I threw on some On Avery Island (Song Against Sex, natch) and Mountain Goats at the end. It was enough to make me almost want to ditch the city for the land of Cars 'n' Stars.

Okay, now some value-adding links. You've suffered enough:

* I thought the headline was funny, but then two separate people urged me to read the entire thing, and they were right: When This Meth Thing Blows Over, You'll Come Crawling Back, by Cocaine

* Kids steal fake pot from billboard promoting Showtime's "Weeds":

(via Golden Fiddle)

* THE comprehensive analysis of the famous self-regard of aforementioned blogger Jaqueline Mackie Paisley Passey. (Includes a photo of her most recent bullet-dodging boyfriend!)

Just Set it and Forget It!

My friend John Hodgman's hilarious book, The Areas of My Expertise, is now out in paperback. Here's a funny trailer for it that I found on Elizabeth's site:

(Co-starring Jonathan Coulton.)

When this book first came out in hardback I heartily endorsed it because I really really liked it. Since then, I've gotten email from people I do not know who also loved it. Just from a quick gmail search:

"I just got through reading "The Areas of My Expertise" last night. Holy shit, that book is hysterical and really well-written... Each time I read through a section, I'd think "Okay, that's my favorite part so far..." and then I'd read the next section and think "Nooo, this is my favorite part." - Carol

"John Hodgman: It's a little bit frightening how funny that guy
is. Kind of like when you see a kitten that's so cute you're just
certain it could take over the world if it wanted to. Very important
to always keep kittens like that distracted with balls of yarn. Very
important." - Jeff

If you haven't read it yet, get it here.

you were there, and you were there, and you were there

I know this is everywhere (as it should be), but this commercial by We Are the Web.org warms the cockles of my little internet nerd heart. [And brings back sweet memories - The Tron Guy! The Peter Pan guy! The kittens, my god, the kittens! (Just ignore the subservient chicken, we all know that shit was Burger King)]:

Can't get it to embed but it's here. )

Mark, Rick or Steve

* Great. Now everyone who reads Rolling Stone is going to know what weed smells like.

* On the Comedy Central blog: video of comedian Wendy Spero taking her mom up on stage to read her jokes aloud.

* Dean has friends who, a few years ago, made a video similar to that cartoon idea from yesterday: Something to Cry About.
(In the interest of retaining your trust, the clip is not unfunny but kind of way too long (it was made a few years ago, after all.) So if you want to know what the something to cry about was, highlight the following text: Steel Magnolias.))

* Welcome to New York, Gabe Corporate Casual Worker #3116 Gawker Commenter Extraordinaire! I have a feeling we'll be hearing a lot from him in the future.

* Amelie Gillette: "Things I Learned From Reading US Weekly's "How Vince Proposed"

"I am your conscience"

Mandy Stadtmiller has hilarious video taken from a (non Comedy Central) roast of Emmitt Smith, along with comments by Jeffrey Ross. Watch until the end, it's worth it.

"the remote in your hand is a crackpipe"

The long trailer for Tina Fey's 30 Rock. (Premieres Oct. 11/ Wednesdays, 8:30p / 7:30c)

And

The long trailer for Aaron Sorkin's Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.
(Premieres Sept. 18/ Mondays, 10p / 9c)

I'm really excited about both these shows, and I need to get a life.

he's not ugly

Sunday at the movies I saw this affecting trailer for the upcoming multi-generational drama based on Jhumpa Lahiri's critically acclaimed novel, The Namesake, and I became obsessed with one thing:

Dude, when did Kumar get HOTT?

UPDATE: Let's just ignore this pre-White Castle Playboy Interview.

Fox Bike Prank: Even Funnier Version

(Now with Jodi Applegate's back-from-commercial rant - hilarious.)

The Neistat Brothers also make funny shorts for the Showbiz Show with David Spade, including this shot-for-shot remake of the Jurassic Park trailer on (I knew the name sounded familiar!)

Don't listen to Jodi - if they're selling anything on the internet, be sure to buy it!

Drop Everything: Fox Bike Prank

Uh oh...Mom's mad.

(Best.Video.Ever. - Gawker )

Bagelfest!

* A very funny 1986 anti-crack PSA by Pee Wee Herman.

* My pal Will "nice guy" Leitch returns triumphantly to his hometown of Mattoon, Il for their annual Bagelfest!
Related: Gawker Media Employee Can Eat, Ride Bike At Same Time (my comment is a joke that 3 people will get, as usual.)

* Junkiness Caption Contest (win Kyle Cease's new CD from Comedy Central Records)

* Get ready to be obsessed with dealspl.us (like flickr but for online deals, coupons, offers.)

* Hey downtowners, are you planning to order from Maxdelivery.com any time soon? If so, use my code and get $10 off (and I'll get a $10 credit, too, and it should work even if you've ordered before.): 255638D1
(Gimme a break, I don't have ads. Just give me this one thing, after six years. for Christ's sake.)

unauthorized

* This is old, but I just saw it: Ellen Pompeo being Punk'd. What an asshole! (And it's interesting that she makes fun of the waitress's makeup, since in every episode of Grey's Anatomy she looks like someone rubbed Cheetos all over her face.)

* Stephen Colbert, made out of Legos!

"I was in williamsburg before williamsburg was williamsburg"

The T Bird Show interviews Adrian Grenier in Williamsburg waiting for a car service. I would say something mean now but 1. the current season of Entourage is my favorite thing on TV and 2. Adrian seems actually kind of normal and cool and laid-back here, though all disclaimers regarding celebrities apply.