Tastes Funny

Nashville Reporter Loses His Cool

John — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:00:30 +0000

File under: Too-old-for-this-shit, Mondays

This is the same Nashville station where an anchor caught a case of the chuckles:

Steve Martin’s 2001 Oscars Monologue

John — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 01:38:04 +0000

A little flashback to see if he’ll repeat himself when he hosts again this year (with Alec Baldwin). Embedding disabled (nice use of social media, Academy!) so you’ll have to click through to YouTube to see it.

The statue joke at the beginning is referencing this, by the way.

Some of my favorite jokes here:

Please hold your applause until it’s for me.

Let’s see, how are we doing on time? Oh, we’ve got five hours.

The movies are too violent. I took a nine-year-old kid to see Gladiator and he cried through the entire thing. Maybe it was because he didn’t know who I was.

If you’re looking for an Oscars liveblog, may we recommend the one at Making the Movie.

World of Wifecraft

John — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 03:04:12 +0000

What if men treated marriage like an MMORPG?

Just a Girl Brushing Her Teeth or, Wait, What?

John — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 02:57:35 +0000

Siskel & Ebert 1984 Outtakes

John — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:49:36 +0000

Weird Russian Lalala Song

John — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:39:20 +0000

[via bb]

These might be from the same show… I don’t read Cyrillic.

Bonus flashback version:

Man, looks like there was some sweet tv hidden behind the Iron Curtain.

Airport Goof-Off Videos

John — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:23:37 +0000

One enterprising young woman snowed in at the Pittsburgh airport recently decided to make the place her playground. Nothing particularly hilarious here, but thumbs up to the impulse. [via bb]

She’s not the only one who has made an airport goof-off video. Here’s some kids doing a salsa dance on a moving walkway…

Here’s some people playing football…

Sorry world readers, American football. Here’s a Nike commercial version of what a professional soccer team does when they have a long flight delay:
None of these are particularly good, but I think this really has potential as a genre of web video. People of the world who are stuck at airports, I throw a gauntlet at your feet! Let’s see some amazing airport goof-off videos.

Why LOST Hates Black People… and Heroes Does Too

John — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:16:51 +0000

Your Valentine’s Chaser: The Pretty Girl Song

John — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 06:29:20 +0000

Pretty Girl: Happy Valentine’s Day – watch more funny videos

‘Pardon Me’ Supertribute, with a Bunny

John — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 17:51:54 +0000

The internet never ceases to amaze me:

You remember the Maxine Swaby song, right?

Well, never one to leave a bizarre found video alone, the internet instead has opted to create a mathematically-diabolical facing-mirror-world of “Pardon Me” tributes. It’s the sort of thing that makes you believe in evolution, if something so strange could emerge without a guiding hand…

Here was the original response…