Laughs »Double Trouble Dancers

double trouble dancersThe Double Trouble Dancers were the dynamic duo of Brittany Hague and Ashley Macomber and, briefly, the forgettable Lion-O. Their short and unexpectedly particular run consisted of performances at birthday parties, punk rock shows and even a lesbian poetry reading.

Tie-dyed jumpsuits and sequined, cropped blazers were easy to come by in local Rhode Island boutiques and the duo took advantage. Whether dressing like a cruise ship starlet circa 1993 or a fourteen year old girl trying to look twice her age, The Double Trouble Dancers burned their image into a lot of people's brains, brains that might still remember to this very day?br/>

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Posted on February 4, 2008

Laughs »Lasagna Cat

lasagna catI have talked extensively here before about the typically abysmal art of comic strips. Lasagna Cat has taken classic Garfield strips and faithfully turned them into live action short films. The new medium adds a very surreal quality to Jim Davis's 'jokes'. There are also trippy musical numbers.

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Posted on January 28, 2008

Laughs »Welcome To My Home

brenda dicksonIt's hard to say which is funnier, the parodies or the real egomaniacal video.

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Posted on January 21, 2008

Laughs »KFC’s Famous Bowl

kfc famous bowlNever been a huge Patton Oswalt fan, he's like a friend's boyfriend you kind of like but just can't manage to get along with. However, when my coworker (the very same one that introduced me to the splendor of Ben and Jerry's Oatmeal Cookie Chunk) sent me a link to this article from the Onion, I read it with an open mind. After all, a story devoted to KFC's Famous Bowl sounds funny?and, in fact, I don't think a piece of writing on this subject could be any funnier. His talent for grotesque description is astonishing:

“Everything inside the store—including the employees and customers—looked like it had been rubbed with sad ham.”

“The corn tasted like it had been dunked in fake-corn-flavored ointment, and the popcorn chicken, breaded to the point of parody, was like chewing a cotton sleeve that someone had used to wipe chicken grease off their chin.”

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Posted on January 14, 2008

Laughs »George F—— Washington

george washington mike stermerMy friend Mike, who is mentioned constantly in these pages is not only an amazing talent now, but always has been. He recently posted an older short film he made when we were in school on youtube and in it you'll discover some strange secrets about George Washington you probably never knew.

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Posted on January 7, 2008

Laughs »Thriller Prison

thriller prison videoThey say idle hands are the Devil's playthings but it seems that could be amended to say idle hands are the Devil's playthings unless you have a Michael Jackson LP and the will and desire to perform large scale choreographed dance routines. In that case, the idleness of a life sentence behind bars might just looks like an opportunity for practice, practice, practice.

This video shows such a jovial scene, one that could be rewritten into a Cedric the Entertainer and Adam Sandler comedy vehicle, where the crazy idea “that just might work” is to stage a dance routine from jail to prove their innocence. Of course, in reality, these prisoners are drug dealers, rapists, and the head choreographer is a mass murderer (for real).

The performances, rather than outbursts of creativity are actually mandatory, the brain child of the prison overseer Byron Garcia. He's been using dance as a form of exercise for the inmates (they have also performed Sister Act and Jailhouse Rock). The results in the prison have been staggering, there are no fights breaking out, and many of the prisoners feel a sense of pride and accomplishment. Maybe it could be rewritten into a feel good comedy after all. You think I'm joking, but I'd put money down that there is more than one script floating around.

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Posted on December 31, 2007

Laughs »Bad Guys Direct TV Commercial

direct tv bad guys villains commercialHannibal Lecter helps with the cooking, The Mummy comes to a child's aid, and other villains like Freddy Krueger, Darth Vader, Dracula, and Jason cavort through fields overwhelmed by the happiness Christmas time brings.

A clever, cute commercial from Direct TV.

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Posted on December 24, 2007

Laughs »Sorry Internet

sorry internet united hollywoodDavid Cross and Richard Belzer make appearances in this funny short viral video made by Frank Lesser and Rob Dubbin, two Colbert Report writers.

In it, cute animals, most specifically piano playing kittens and skateboard riding dogs unite with unitedhollywood.com to support their writer friends on strike.

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Posted on December 17, 2007

Laughs »DDR

ddrDDR stands for Dance Dance Revolution, popular game in living rooms and arcades across the world. From what I've seen with my own eyes as Jim flailed like a madman at an arcade, it has the power to humiliate. Just ask the short tempered, nearly graceful player in this video, or these talented teenage maniacs.

Of course if you are a child it just makes you even more adorable.

The game has spawned intense competitions taken very seriously. Looks like Magic the Gather-ers and Larpers have a new group of friends in the DDR fanatics. Or would they be foes??

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Posted on December 10, 2007

Laughs »Slim Jim ads of yore

Snap into a Slim Jim! Oh Yeaaah!My favorite one involves the Macho Man busting into a high school production of Romeo and Juliet to pose the eternal question, “Art thou bored?”

There's also the one where that kid is folding all those pizza boxes and the Macho Man destroys them with his beefy, juicy taste.

According to family lore, my great grandfather, Lesley Sanders, used to buy these at the grocery store and then fry them up as a bacon substitute. Maybe that's why one day his wife took her grandson shopping for the suit she wanted to bury him in ten years before he actually expired.

Anyway, videos of these phenomenal commercials are harder to find then you might expect. Youtube has the one where he can't tolerate chips and the one where he tears the door off of a locker. Art thou bored continues to elude me. Fortunately it's seared into my brain, so even if it never makes it to the internets, as long as I'm around to re-tell the story, it will survive like the precious piece of of our folk culture that it is.

Too easy to find: the annoying guy with the insect wings some idiots came up with at the advertising firm the beef jerky syndicate went with after the Macho Man bowed out.

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Posted on December 3, 2007