Alanis Morissette's "Lady Lumps"

After watching the first four seconds of this Black Eyed Peas cover, I knew that is was going to be an instant viral success. Why… you ask? Because this great web nation loves any video that mocks celebrity and only takes itself semi-seriously.

Operation Kitten Calender

This short aired as part of VH1's acceptable.tv series last Friday. I think it is brilliantly executed and the idea is so true-to-real-life it’s amazing. The December kitty calendar fold is always the most outrageous. And lets not forget... incredibly CUTE!

Impossible is the Opposite of Possible

Personally, I never found the Vayner video very funny because it was about a guy who REALLY wanted to be successful. Vayner actually thought that by putting his entire heart and career into a video portfolio, he would gain the respect of his colleagues and others would believe in his superiority. Since Cera’s self-aggrandizing antics are only for the sake of parody, I think it is not only funny, but genius. Knowing that Cera doesn’t actually believe his outrageous claims means that I can laugh as loud as I want and sleep soundly at night.

Moral of this story: Hurry up and get this web series out there, CBS! Mockumentaries are what Cera does best and if this new web series is even 1/nth as brilliant as this video or Cera in Arrested Development, I will be a very loyal fan.

Slob Evolution

A response to the wildly popular Dove Evolution campaign, this video deconstructs the sharp, emaciated features of a male model. Watch as the rocker-esque model transforms into “that guy” who lives next door and never leaves the sofa.

Would you really want to see an ad for this lard-o plastered across your fair city? Created by the campaign against real life, this viral argues that consumerism has created the current standard of unattainable beauty. In reality, nobody wants to see the guy next door, except when he is getting the morning paper and cordially saying hello. So maybe, just maybe, the computerized falsehoods that advertisements project are in everyone's best interest....

Brookers Identity Theft

Well gee-golly, it looks like Brookers has found her way back into the spotlight. In her new video, Brookers returns to the spontaneous, whacky shtick that the YouTube community fell in love with. Adding a YouTube-loving twist to the popular Citibank identity theft commercials. In this video, her second to be released this month, it appears that the ce-web-rity may be on the company payroll...Click here to read more

Trapped in the CLAUSet

A hilarious holiday take on R Kelly's 12 part "hip-opera" music video, this claymation features Santa after a long day at the factory. Coming home to a scantily clad Mrs. Clause, Santa finds out if his loving, cup-cake-baking wife has been naughty or nice.
Also here's the links for Part Two and Part Threeof "In the Clauset". Warning: part one is the most PC off the three episode, two and three are not for the easily offended.

Nobody's Watching Friends

Does any one else feel gypped? I can’t believe that I spent 10 years watching the sitcom that Derek and Will highlighted in 90 seconds. In this hilarious short, the characters some how manages to establish all major plot developments and the characters reactions to them.

Nobody's Watching is a scripted web series conceived by Bill Lawrence, the creator of "Scrubs" and "Spin City." Originally intended for television, Nobody's Watching broke the two cameras and a stage sitcom and fleshed out the characters of Derek and Will, two young guys from Ohio who were so over television that they decided to make their own comedy show.

In this episode, Derek and Will play all of the characters in the Friend’s cast. Though all of quirky dramatizations are effective, the Jennifer Aniston bit cracks me up.


Related: Nobody's Watching the Emmys

PMS Survival Tips

A parody of 1950 educational and government propaganda videos this short by has been passed from inbox to inbox. Copyrighted in 2003, this PMS how-to has only been online for a week. With a million and a half views on YouTube, this is one of the most commented and linked to video online. And why shouldn’t it be? It is absolutely frightening.

Offering tips in “home etiquette” when dealing with the dreaded PMS (Prehistoric Monster Syndrome), this clever short is a spoof on both vintage propaganda and the horror of the everyday.

Pre-School Political Ad

Not the most politically savvy journalist you’ll ever meet, politics seems a lot like pre-school to me. With all the mud sligging and cake walking, it seems that localized campaigns get more childish every year.

This campaign spoof convinced me once and for all that if local electoral candidate don’t get his or her way, they may through a temper tantrum or squirt milk out their nose.

There is No "I" in Halloween

It's not easy being vampire pimp. This is actually a party invite for a Birthday Bash I went to a few weeks ago, but I love the vid and it makes me excited for Halloween.



A true tale about the dark creators that lurk in the night. My first thought, this dude looks like Christian Bale. And in this amazing vamp pad, he might as well be.

I may have watched this vid about a half dozen times since the party to get me in the mood for Halloween. And let it be known that being from Massachusetts, I take the holiday's cross dressing and ghost scaring seriously. People have died over this stuff.

When the hunky vamp pulls the fake vamp teeth out of his pocket, I almost died. A subtle spoof on "protection," he converts his hot lady friend for some all-out sloppy smooching. I could go on for another graph or so about the numorous reason that I love this video, but since I actually know these guys, I'm both partial and slightly nervous of them knowing my twisted inner thoughts.

I hear that originally there was a three in a half minute version that was just as spooktacular. I'm trying to convince them to let me have a sneak peek at the unreleased version. Love these guys!

Please comment and tell me what you think!

Real Audio: Jack Palance

Mah-mah... I get gitty over anything that uses "mah" in place of a boring or aggitating voice. Ever since I first heard the repeated trombone riff as the voice of the teacher in Charlie Brown, I realized that "mah" is probually one of the most brilant sound effects ever.

Some times, you just dont care to think up the most mundane or annoying thing for a character to say. And even if you did take the time to think it up, no one would want to hear your brillant attempt at immitating everyday life.

Besides the fantastic addition of an aggitating femme, this Real Audio clip takes an actual voice session with Academy Award-winning American actor, Jack Palance. Best known for playing the characters of Curly and Duke in the City Slickers movies, Palance is also one of the the most sinister cinematic villains of 1950s.

A characture of a not-so-uncommon moment in time, when some one may have wanted to slap this man for being so self-serving, animator Russell Arch brings Palance to life with texture and squiggles.

One Night Stand

This video adds an unexpected twist on the common "what did I do last night?" crawling out of bed scenerio.



I swear, nothing makes me more uncomfortable than seeing a man coming to terms with his own mistakes. There is no happy ending or needless reality in this video clip.

It is just a small glimpse into denial. It's the moment you wake up and realize that the life you are living is so unfamiliar to you that you just need to pick up your pants and run away.

If this bloke looks somewhat familiar, you may have realized that he is Brit. actor Nick Frost. A friend and frequent co-star of Simon Pegg, Frost appeared as his on-screen best friend in my favorite film to be released in the past three years, Shaun of the Dead. The zany zombie feature is comedic genius. I highly recommend that anyone who hasn't seen it should go to the nearest video store or move it up to the top of your Netflick’s list.

Lil' Bush "Nuked" Episode

I wish that Bring your Child to Work Day was this distructive when I was a kid.



Usually, I was stuck in some conference room with a TV and a handful of Disney movies on VHS.

This animated series created by Amp'd Mobile features all the spoils and world domination plots that one would expect of Bush as a child. And even better, it miniaturizes all the
President's closest political confidants and makes them his playmates.

The concept of such well-known national figures being recreated as younger versions of themselves reminds me of the animated TV show Clone High. The series, which lasted on MTV for less than half a season, featured such historical big wigs as Abraham Lincoln, Cleopatra, and Gandhi and put them in high school together. Arguably the most brilliant shows ever created for MTV! Currently in it's second episode, I hold lil' Bush in equally high regard.

My personal highlights of this episode are when Bush gets bullied in school by Kin Jung Il, the inability of the Cheney's to utter a comprehensive thought, and Bush bombing lil' Mikey Moore and the Blue States.

For more lil' Bush check out the pilot titled "hot dogs".

Nobody's Watching the Emmys

Look what happens when Nobody's Watching. I think these guys may have managed to get more camera time than the winner's themselves.



After making it their mission to "get on television as much a possible," Derrick and Will, two ordinary looking guys, disguise themselves as valets and take over the Emmy’s.

When I came across this video on Google, I had a sneaky suspicion that it wasn't child's play. How would these vlogers manage to get the clearances and get the inside the Emmy's and acquire the costumes to pull of this stunt?
After following a few links, I cracked the mystery: must be easy to place yourself just inside of frame of action with the help of NBC.

The creator of "Scrubs" and "Spin City" is the brain behind the characters. Nobody's Watching is another scripted web series.

According to the invisible plot, Derrek ans Will were two "nobodies" working at the family mini-mart in Ohio. Bored of the options that television had to offer, these fictional character posted a video addressed to the TV networks on YouTube. According to their Myspace page, "somebody at NBC must have liked it, because a week later they flew us out here and gave us a bunch of money to make Webisodes."

In retrospect, I realize that I have noticed these guys before. Nobody's Watching Diet Coke and Mentos has been on the most watched videos page for the past few days. And I remember having a similar pang of internal questioning ie How did they make the fire look that good?

The explosive spoof is one of seven videos included on impytherap's (aka Nobody's Watching) YouTube profile that is currently climbing the ranks of popularity:
#4 - Most Viewed Channels (This Week)
#16 - Most Viewed Channels (This Month)
#29 - Most Subscribed Channels (All Time)

So before we have another Who Are They and Where Did They Come From mystery on our hands, let it be known that this playful duo that everybody's watching is a corporate creation.

For more info:
The New York Times wrote an article about Nobody's Watching a few months ago.
Or check out the official website, too see what else happens when Nobody's Watching.

White and Nerd

For most pop culture artists, it would be difficult to keep a niche genre alive twenty three years after they started it.



But Weird Al takes Chamillionaire's popular song "Ridin (Dirty)" and transforms it into cult-worthy comedic farse.

Best known for song parodies, Yankovic's cheeky humor is most effective when contrasting the style of the song with its content or when pointing out trends that have become pop culture clichés. "White in Nerdy" is from "Weird Al" Yankovic's new album "Straight Outta Lynwood" that's available in stores Sept. 26.