TAG: funny

The Art of Indie Music in Commericals

New York comedian Aziz Ansari breaks down the advertising music licensing business.

Tags: funny music business advertising video comedy


The Ten Video Games That Should Be Movies (and the Directors Who Should Make Them)

Duck Hunt by Wes Anderson and Second Life by David Lynch may be my two favorites.

Tags: funny movies videogames lists


Baby Got Book

"You know Baby Got Back that anthemic early 90’s tribute to a woman’s behind? Well Sir Mix-A-Lot didnt have shit on this Biblically minded remake."

Tags: funny religion books video music


Fight For Kisses

Baby versus daddy.

Tags: funny video advertising commercial


douche stamps!

"perfect for business cards, junk mail, obnoxious documents and postmodern philosophers."

Tags: funny


Spam One-liners

"experiments with hand lettering...a ongoing series based on spam subject lines in my mailbox"

Tags: funny spam art design typography


if taglines were honest

"Ikea: One day you’ll be able to afford real furniture."

Tags: funny marketing copywriting


The Back-Up

"Put your shotgun where you can reach it, instead of some out of the way place where it does you no good!"

Tags: funny strange culture


UR-txts

"Dear AT&T: Whenever you send me a service-related text message that says something like "now U can make international calls from UR phone," I want to punch you in the face."

Tags: funny mobile marketing copywriting


Font Talk with White and Sajak

"Sure, she gives too much love to Arial, but at least she bats sans-serif. And it's clear she's a Mac nerd. Sajak, for his part, deflects nicely."

Tags: fonts funny video


Exploits of a Mom

Ahhh . . . the wonders of database humor.

Tags: cartoon geeks funny programming


No Shirts at Improv Everywhere

Improv Everywhere takes on Abercrombie & Fitch

Tags: funny video nyc fashion culture


Stephen Colbert: I am running for president

"Stephen Colbert has announced his candidacy for president on "The Colbert Report," tossing his satirical hat into the ring of an already crowded race."

Tags: politics funny comedy


Theory: The life of a buzzword

"A buzzword is no black swan, but when one breaks out of the long tail into the short head and hits the tipping point it still makes me question the wisdom of the crowds. But because the world is flat, I've listed a freakonomical list . . . "

Tags: funny language web2.0


The Onion Letters Policy

"The Onion neither publishes nor accepts letters from its readers. It is The Onion's editorial policy that the readers should have no voice whatsoever and that The Onion newspaper shall be solely a one-way conduit of information."

Tags: funny newspapers


Craigslist Meets WallStreet...Classic

An economic look at marrying rich.

Tags: economics funny craigslist gender money


the songs I sing to my son as reviewed by an anonymous music critic

"As the only cover in this artist’s portfolio, Wheels [on the bus] pays homage to the previous generation and all that their songs made possible."

Tags: funny music


Talking Points

"Why waste your time staying informed when pretending to be informed is sooo much easier? Eric Ledgin gives you your weekly Talking Points."

Tags: funny video television news culture insight


QVC aims to own 3.8% of alphabet

"But this short post isn’t really about QVC, or the absurdity of owning a letter. It’s about the absurdity of owning just about anything."

Tags: marketing branding funny


mii wedding cake toppers

My friends Kim and Adam are getting married, and in perfect geek fashion their wedding toppers are their Miis.

Tags: funny videogames food


That's What She Twittered T-Shirt

"In the old days, people had to guess what their friends were doing every 5 minutes. How'd we ever get by?"

Tags: funny tshirts twitter


Pitchfork Gives Music 6.8

"Music, a mode of creative expression consisting of sound and silence expressed through time, was given a 6.8 out of 10 rating in an review published Monday on Pitchfork Media, a well-known music-criticism website."

Tags: funny music journalism


Sparks of the Tempest

"Introducing the Danger Squad Action Kickass Team! When you're in trouble and you'd rather call in a rogue group of vigilantes instead of the normal authorities, D.S.A.K.T. are your men." New series from Team Tiger Awesome.

Tags: funny video


Internet People!

"An animated tribute to the internet people of the world, wherever you may be. Animated by Dan Meth, with music by Dan Meth and Micah Frank."

Tags: video animation funny internet


Segway World's Greatest Invention

"A spoof commercial produced in 2004 highlighting the Segway."

Tags: funny advertising video


Sex, pies and videotape

"Philandering dwarves? Cherry pie allergies? Spatula-wielding neighbours? Trapped In The Closet has baffled and delighted its cult following. Chuck Klosterman salutes R Kelly's hip-hopera"

Tags: music video funny


Miss Teen USA 2007 - South Carolina answers a question

Why do so many Americans have trouble locating the US on a map? She's got all the answers.

Tags: video funny maps


Hard To Tell If Wikipedia Entry On Dada Has Been Vandalized Or Not

"There's a mustache drawn on the photo of Marcel Duchamp, the font size keeps changing, and halfway through, the type starts going in a circle. Also, the majority of the actual entry is made up of Krazy Kat cartoons . . . "

Tags: funny art


Green Backlash

"For only $19.99 on Cafe Press, you can thumb your nose at the fashionsta flock while helping the environment."

Tags: green funny culture


Bob Keefe is not Fake Steve Jobs. But he is the "Intel Sticker Guy."

"The man who took the road less traveled by and, in a moment where he had the unprecedented chance to ask Steve Jobs any question ever, asked him about why Apple doesn’t put Intel stickers on Macs."

Tags: funny apple interviews


Damn, I am so busted, yo

Fake Steve Jobs: "Now you've ruined the mystery of Fake Steve, robbing thousands of people around the world of their sense of childlike wonder. Hope you feel good about yourself, you mangina."

Tags: funny journalism blogs apple


40cozy.com

That's right, beer cozies for your 40oz.

Tags: beer funny


Lessons of "Simpsons" marketing: Clip and save

"These, in other words, are the “lessons� you can apply to your film or brand. I’m revealing them to you now! Are you ready? Here goes! You heard it here first!"

Tags: funny movies marketing television cartoon


This post brought to you by the numbers seven and twelve

"It has long been held that there are seven basic plots in literature. . . . So is it really the case that advertisements need twelve whole categories of their own (Slate), almost twice as many as either fiction or humour?"

Tags: advertising culture funny


Guy on Subway Responds to iPhone

"Oh man, I gonna buy that shit now son. That shit be stunnin. I'm gonna buy that piece and stand on the corner late nights and just STUN. I ain't gonna even use that shit. I'm just gonna stun that shit on the block late nights know what I'm saying."

Tags: funny iphone quotes


I'M IN UR NEWSPAPER WRITIN MAH COLUM

Rapidly spreading Web photo-posting phenomenon centers on felines with poor spelling

Tags: funny cats internet meme


Smell of Prince

"I take this time to contemplate how weird it is that, 20 years after 'Darling Nikki,' Prince is the one with the moral hang-ups, and Tipper is the one with the pothead son."

Tags: funny music quotes


Got a minute for Bud.tv?

"This is like brand panhandling"

Tags: marketing funny


IPhone: The Musical

"David Pogue [of the New York Times] ditches his old cellphone for the iPhone in this sing-a-long sequel." Who said the old gray lady can't get down and have fun sometimes?

Tags: nytimes iphone video funny gadgets


iPhone Day!

"Out with the old and in with the iPhone. Everybody wants one. But not everybody’s going to get one!"

Tags: video funny iphone


One of these things is not like the other

"Guess someone's got a web 2.0 strategy, but didn't hear about the naming conventions."

Tags: funny drugs web2.0


Dramatic Look

Is it a hamster or a prairie dog is the real question.

Tags: funny video


Microsoft Surface Parody

"The future is here and it's not an iPhone . . . it's a big ass table."

Tags: funny video microsoft design


Phrase of the Week

Irish Goodbye: "Leaving the bar or anywhere for that matter, without closing niceties, like a kiss goodbye to that annoying girl or mentioning something to your friends"

Tags: funny bars language


Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo

"Bison from upstate New York who are intimidated by other bison in their community also happen to intimidate other bison in their community." Head = exploded.

Tags: funny language strange


Keywasher

"Michele read a couple weblog entries and heard an NPR story about how you might be able to clean your computer keyboard in the dishwasher. So she organized a bit of an experiment."

Tags: video funny howto


swearing is always fun!

Great Bud Light ad.

Tags: advertising commercial video beer funny


Did pirates really say "arrrr"?

"Probably not. Both that phrase and the accent that goes with it are strictly Hollywood. They originated with Robert Newton, the actor who played Long John Silver in the movies and on TV through much of the 1950s." I'm crushed.

Tags: history funny language movies


Sign of the times

"I wrote “3pm� in an Outlook email this morning, and the spell checker asked me if I meant MP3."

Tags: funny culture mp3


Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Highlight Reel

"A selection of rip-roaring laughs and jokes from the joint interview between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates at the D5 conference."

Tags: video interviews funny apple microsoft


twattering

twittering for busy execs

Tags: funny twitter business


A Muppet Family Christmas part 3

My favorite Muppet joke (maybe ever), happens at 4:03 . . .

Tags: funny video youtube


ThoughtVertising

"For the first time in advertising history, brand owners are offered the opportunity to buy meda space within someone's mind."

Tags: advertising marketing funny brain


Emo - the silent killer

An incredibly helpful news station exposes the dangers/pitfalls of emo.

Tags: funny culture emotions youth video


not funny haha, just like, funny on the inside. LOTI.

A fairly amusing video from Microsoft that features a restaurant conversation between 'advertiser' and 'consumer.' Like Amber said, not funny on the outside, but rather disturbing you're laughing on the inside.

Tags: funny video marketing microsoft


someecards.com

Such gems as "good luck finding shameful entry-level employment."

Tags: funny


we are starbucks

"I’m reading a well-reviewed contemporary novel, trying to look hip. I’m wearing a beret to hide my bald spot. Hopefully one of these young women will talk to me. I am Starbucks."

Tags: funny advertising starbucks


Meta Brand News: April 2007

Seems that everything is 'becoming a brand'.

Tags: branding funny marketing


Feeley Meeley Game by Milton Bradley

"The game that gives you a funny feeling." So odd.

Tags: games funny


10 of the Strangest (non-porn) Sex Scenes

Including woman on duck action from Howard the Duck. (Somewhat NSFW)

Tags: funny sex video movies


Inside the interactive mind - or something resembling a mind

Strawberry Frog's process for making websites.

Tags: marketing advertising design internet funny


mantrum

"A violent demonstration of rage or frustration by a full-grown man in protest of or reaction to a difficult household chore or home-improvement project"

Tags: culture language funny


Grocery Store Wars

A public service video from the Organic people. Love Obi-Wan Canole.

Tags: funny video marketing food health organic


First!

"I have a philosophy: I post first!"

Tags: funny video blogs


David Lynch on Product Placement

Tell us how you really feel David.

Tags: advertising funny video interviews youtube movies


advert of the century

"Living rooms, bedrooms, dinettes . . . " Amazing rhymes for a furniture salesman."

Tags: commercial funny advertising youtube


Apple Unveils New Product-Unveiling Product

iLaunch: "Today, Apple is releasing a piece of innovative new technology that will forever change the way innovative new technology is released."

Tags: funny apple


Printable Cold Sores

"Printable cold sores allow us to take action! Bring these people back down to our level, and tell advertisers that you don't agree with their message. How can you help? It's easy..."

Tags: advertising culture beauty funny


Mildly Disturbing Greeting-Card Messages.

"Happy Easter! May the blood of Jesus, spilled for you, splatter your holiday with warm crimson cheer."

Tags: funny lists holidays


Hollywood to immortalise pop frauds

Universal is making a Milli Vanilli movie. Thank goodness.

Tags: movies music history funny strange


Sloths

They sleep 18 hours and party 24.

Tags: funny video youtube television


The WNYC's Amy Sedaris Craft Challenge Pool

It's food . . . with googly eyes!!!!

Tags: funny photography food flickr


White Castle Valentine's Day

"Make your Valentine’s day STEAMY! Take your Valentine to White Castle on Wednesday, February 14 between 5 and 8 p.m. and enjoy hostess seating, candlelit dining and your own server."

Tags: funny food love relationships


Skymall Liberation

"Rip out all of the faces from the Skymall Catalog. You will see from all of their smiling faces that they are pleased with their liberation. The images can then be used to create data visualizations of Skymall demographics."

Tags: funny demographics magazines race visualization


indexed

Graphs for everything you can imagine.

Tags: blogs funny visualization


The problem with one right answer

momus shows the world there is often more than one answer, especially to popular riddles.

Tags: funny culture


Stephen Colbert explains the whole AT&T thing!

"AT&T just bought Cingular? Cingular was already owned by AT&T? Bellsouth owns who?! Let Stephen Colbert help you figure this out!"

Tags: funny video phone mobile business politics


I Survived My Internet Vacation

The dangers of seven days without the web.

Tags: funny internet culture


Get a First Life

Go outside, membership is free.

Tags: funny secondlife


Socialising: is it a fad?

"These 'networkers' start conversations with random strangers and often reveal personal information, such as their favourite films or which celebrity they think is most attractive."

Tags: funny socialnetworking community likemind


Spiders On Drugs

What happens to their webs when you give spiders different drugs?

Tags: funny spider video


RAD: Greatest. Movie. Ever.

Couldn't agree more. Where else are you going to see a BMX slow dance?

Tags: movies funny sports


Ikea instructions for making Dick in the Box

Inspired by the SNL sketch.

Tags: funny ikea


The Confession of an American Jew

"Everybody wants to know, but nobody wants to ask: Why are Jews funny? In search of an answer, WAYNE GLADSTONE travels far from the roads of good intentions."

Tags: funny religion comedy bestarticlesof2006


HornyManatee.com

So completely absurd . . . Don't worry, it's safe for work.

Tags: funny sex strange


White & Nerdy

"Weird Al" Yankovic's new music video, from the album "Straight Outta Lynwood"

Tags: funny video music geeks


10 Steps to Guarantee You Make the Digg Front Page

Everything you could possibly need to know.

Tags: seo tips funny geeks


CHRIS CHRISTMAS RODRIGUEZ

Vote Chris Christmas Rodrguez to replace Santa this Christmas

Tags: funny holidays video marketing


spamosphere

the latest in junk e-mail trends.

Tags: funny email spam


'Beer goggles' effect explained

"Scientists believe they have worked out a formula to calculate how 'beer goggles' affect a drinker's vision."

Tags: alcohol mathematics culture funny research sex


Burritos Freed From Sandwich Shackles

A Massachusetts denied an attempted injunction by a sandwich shop to stop a burrito shop from opening on its turf, in turn officially setting the record straight that a burrito is not a sandwich.

Tags: funny food law


Flags of the World

"This is a pretty funny flash animation created by Clayborn Creative Consulting. It shows you flags from around the world, and comments that clients would say if the flags were presented."

Tags: design flags funny marketing


Nature's Call

An exhibit of urinals that look like flowers, shells and other natural things.

Tags: bathrooms art funny


Truth in Advertising

Finally, some honesty in the business.

Tags: funny video advertising business


On the 7th Week...He Kicked Ass

Jeff breaks down this weeks games on Da Bears Blog by comparing the mascots.

Tags: sports football funny


Mom Jeans

Finally, jeans made just for moms.

Tags: video funny fashion


Colbert Demands Royalties From YouTube/Google Merger

"Colbert demands royalities from Googles recent acquisition of YouTube and runs throught all the great entries in the Colbert GreenScreen Challenge."

Tags: funny video youtube google business media2.0


Should I Make a Flash Site? Flash Website Flowchart.

"As you can see, it gets pretty complicated, but hopefully you can apply this flash website flowchart the next time you are trying to decide whether or not you should create a flash web site."

Tags: funny flash seo


Pitchfork Reviews Jet's Shine On

This is the most incredible review for an album I've ever seen.

Tags: funny music reviews


if you talked to people

"If you talked to people the way advertising talked to people, they'd punch you in the face."

Tags: advertising marketing comics funny


Just in! Facebook worth more than Antigua and Barbuda

"Yes ladies and gentlemen, Facebook is reportedly valued higher than the GDP of Antigua and Barbuda."

Tags: funny facebook internet money


Three New Mac Ad Ideas.

"Your sleek design may be more aesthetically pleasing and practical, but it falls apart immediately when used as a weapon. I may be clunky and old-fashioned, but I'm easily heavy enough and sturdy enough to crush a man's skull."

Tags: funny advertising apple


Best of 2006 List Cheat Sheet

"Just refer to the Catbirdseat Handy Music-Blogger 'Best Of 2006' List Cheat Sheet, and you can quickly and easily have all your favorites categorized for you, and you don't even have to think about it! "

Tags: funny bestof2006 music


Lonelygirl15 Press Conference

The purple monkey comes clean about the whole thing.

Tags: funny video youtube celebrity


The Ultimate Blog Post

Great list of popular blogs and their stereotypical post.

Tags: blogs funny


Resume Font Offends Employer

"The decision to set his résumé in default-font Times–New Roman "deeply, personally, and irrevocably" offended a prospective employer of Seth Hershey Monday."

Tags: funny jobs fonts


Three Of Man's Closest Relationships With Brands

"Three of the five deepest emotional investments of local resident Ken Bowman are currently Apple, American Apparel, and Starbucks, sources close to the 27-year-old graphic designer said Monday."

Tags: funny branding business cocreation relationships


The Politically Incorrect Alphabet

"Lacking any tact or decency, I therefore determined to create an alphabet using only subjects that, while they might have been unremarked a few decades ago, are now outside acceptable usage."

Tags: funny language


Country Snoop Dogg Dogg Gin And Juice

Snoop Dogg listens and sings along to a country version of Gin and Juice that I first saw online. This is incredibly meta in some kind of bizarre way I can't figure out right now.

Tags: video music funny


solve for x

Aa ATM equation to get your money: "To make a withdrawl, please solve for x: y=264^15/99xyz*2n+1-(Pi+Phi). Then press ENTER."

Tags: funny culturejamming money


Shivtember

THE SHIV IS NIGH! FESTSHIVITIES BEGIN 09.05.06

Tags: funny


Suck it Up

A defense of the much-maligned word.

Tags: language slang funny


Carte Blanche.

"Authoritatively declaring your mastery of rounded corners, drop shadows, gradients, glows, friendly fonts and The Web2.0 Filter, this card promises to establish your dominance and subdue even the hardiest filter-hater."

Tags: funny web2.0 design


The Letter e: The Interview

"In an exclusive e-mail exchange with our editors, the reclusive vowel talks about what he’s been doing since the year 2000, his investment strategy, and his thoughts on whether we’ve entered a new technology bubble."

Tags: funny interviews web2.0


Geek out

Time Out Chicago reviews Team Tiger Awesome . . .

Tags: video funny


Logos Redone Web 2.0 Style

Lots of shinyness and bright colors.

Tags: logos funny web2.0


Portuguese Football Action Figure

Watch him fall! Again and again and again and again and again.

Tags: funny video soccer cheating


U.S. Trendsetters Go On Strike

"If a collective-bargaining agreement cannot be reached, trendsetters will likely be replaced with scabs."

Tags: funny marketing culture


CatsThatLookLikeHitler.com

Further proof there's a place for anything on the internet.

Tags: funny cats photography germany history


Bush Pilot

The story behind the man that powers our president.

Tags: funny video politics germany


Hi Steven

An amazing ad on the side of a building from an ex wife to her husband . . .

Tags: funny advertising


Put Your Words in Materazzi's Mouth

Brilliant. An advertising agency tests out copywriter's by having them write subtitles for the Zidane headbutt exchange. (You can also just do it for fun and send to a friend.)

Tags: funny video soccer copywriting advertising viral marketing


Notes on "Sweet Child O' Mine," as Delivered to Axl Rose by His Editor.

"Hi Axl, Just got your manuscript and demo for the song "Sweet Child O' (sic) Mine." I think we need to talk."

Tags: funny bestof2006 criticism music writing


Guerilla in the Board Room

A conversation between an advertiser and a big company about consumer generated media . . .

Tags: funny advertising business marketing cgm


Captcha Mashup

Prove your human by identifying hot people.

Tags: funny internet security


It was a wonderful headbutt

"I suppose the football fans will be less than pleased with the example that Zinedine set, but a young headbutter really could do no better than to emulate him in every detail."

Tags: funny soccer sports


The Second Crop of Mac Ads is Finally Here!

Amazing spoof of the current "I'm a Mac" ads from Best Week Ever.

Tags: funny video commercial apple advertising


Diving School!!!

Only practice could make some World Cup players this good at diving.

Tags: funny soccer video sports cheating


Starfish & Coffee

Prince meets the Muppets and sings about Starfish and Coffe.

Tags: funny music muppets video


Disney Uber-Sells Depp's Jack Sparrow

Disney has "registered the trademark for Johnny Depp’s pirate character, Jack Sparrow, in a tsunami of categories, including bikinis and bolo ties and badminton sets, licorice and lemonade and leg warmers, bagels and bowling balls and BBQ mits!"

Tags: funny disney movies


Pigeons May Coo but They Aren't Cute, the Mayor Says

"Under an unusual agreement, a pigeon-advocacy group has been allowed to scatter corn in a corner of the square [Trafalger in London] for 10 minutes at 7:30 every morning, then leave."

Tags: strange funny london pigeons


Extortr

Online blackmail for the masses.

Tags: funny web2.0


Neuter Your Bunny Day

"OK, I’ve heard of some strange cooperative marketing campaigns—but this one takes the cake."

Tags: funny panasonic rmg marketing pr


Toilet Calculator

Figure out how many hours you've spent on the toilet in your lifetime.

Tags: strange funny


It's "Mandy" vs. Hot Rods

Officials in Sydney are going to pipe Barry Manilow music into a park "in an attempt to rid streets and car parks of hooligans." Awesome.

Tags: funny music politics australia


F*ck Kill Marry

Like "hot or not," but not.

Tags: funny internet


Girlfriend 6.0 vs. Wife 1.0

"Wife 1.0 has an undocumented bug. If you try to install Mistress 1.1 before uninstalling Wife 1.0, Wife 1.0 will delete MSMoney files before doing the uninstall itself."

Tags: funny geeks romance relationships software


Colbert Tells College Graduates: Get Your Own TV Show

"His suggestions for securing the U.S.-Mexico border went beyond walls to include moats, fiery moats and fiery moats with fire-proof crocodiles."

Tags: funny politics college celebrity


Wes Anderson American Express Ad

"The brilliant Wes Anderson My Life, My Card ad starring Jason Schwartzman and a cast of, er, um many!"

Tags: video advertising commercial creditcard funny


Jakob Nielsen's Usability Fighting Styles

XML Thumb Strike! Blue Underline Grab!

Tags: funny usability geeks


Mobile-Phone Models That Improve Upon the RAZR, SLVR, and PEBL.

McSweeney's: "ANGL HAR PSTA"

Tags: funny lists mobile


Classic quote

Shaq compares the guards he's played with to Vito Corleone's sons in the Godfather trilogy.

Tags: funny basketball sports


Skunks

"I'm not afraid of raccoons or possums...and they are basically stinkless skunks. Has anyone ever heard of a skunk biting someone? They just stink you."

Tags: funny skunks


THE "BRIEF SAFE"

"The "Brief Safe" is an innovative diversion safe that can secure your cash, documents, and other small valuables from inquisitive eyes and thieving hands, both at home and when you're traveling."

Tags: funny security travel


Thanks. No.

"Hi. The person who sent you this link is a friend who likes you a lot but who wants you to respect their email address, their privacy, and their time."

Tags: privacy funny email


Top Ten Stock Photography Cliches

"What to watch out for when picking photos for your marketing materials"

Tags: funny design photography stock marketing


Creative Department Douchebag

"The name's Trev. I'm 27, totally super fucking hip, and am a copywriter at a global ad agency in New York City."

Tags: advertising cartoon funny nyc marketing


The Printer's Devil's Dictionary

Definitions of design terms. My favorite: "Over-analyze, v. 1. To perform even the most cursory critical study of a design artifact. 2. To analyze."

Tags: design language funny


Cookie Monster Searches Deep Within Himself and Asks: Is Me Really Monster?

Cookie monster tries to come to terms with his monsterous tendencies.

Tags: funny muppets bestarticlesof2006


The PingMag Standards Wish-list

Five things that need to be standardized across the world.

Tags: design standards funny lists


The International Symbol for Man Tells All

A conversation with the symbol that represents man on bathrooms across the country and numerous other signs.

Tags: funny design interviews


Five suggested Flickr tags

My personal favorite: “Rows Of Seated White Men Typing At Conferences�

Tags: funny lists flickr geeks


Tiny Ohio town freaked out by Mario prank

Some teenagers made giant power-up icons out of boxes and the town thought they had been attacked by terroritsts . . .

Tags: funny videogames terrorism


Gawker Walker Tour: A Young Manhattanite Follows the NYU Vomit Trail

Includes a stop at Josie Woods and this quote: "The era of the “blockbuster� party is over and the price elasticity of the Pleasure Principle has been stretched and snapped into the millions of niche gatherings at the shallow end of humanity."

Tags: college funny nyc nyu


Ask A Ninja

You Got Questions, Ninja Got Answers.

Tags: funny video podcast


Klosterman's April Fool's review of Chinese Democracy

My favorite line: "Several songs make thinly veiled references to the architect who designed Rose's backyard topiary garden, a move that may confuse casual listeners."

Tags: funny music


"Other Music" by Human Giant

"An average day at NYC indie record store Other Music. Produced by Human Giant for the 2006 PLUG Awards." Starring Aziz Ansari.

Tags: funny video music culture


Microsoft iPod packaging parody

What if microsoft redesigned the ipod packaging?

Tags: funny marketing microsoft ipod design


Team Tiger Awesome

They call themselves the 13th best sketch comedy website on the internet, I say they're at least 11th.

Tags: funny video


I'm Your Biggest Fan

"There are many reason to pepper a celebrity with fan mail: admiration, a sense of kinship, obsession, even boredom. Any are acceptable, all are believable, until you try to explain your motives to others."

Tags: funny celebrity blogs education


What Web Designers Really Want for Valentine's Day

There's nothing quite like geek humor.

Tags: css design funny geeks


The Toxic Twins

"Use the dream on! patches for as long as your body says you need to and let the unwanted side effects of 21st century life seep away as you sleep away."

Tags: funny alcohol


If Poets Named Breakfast Cereals.

McSweeney's: "Bran and Plump Raisins, Pregnant With Earthy Promise"

Tags: funny lists food


Truly Groundbreaking Advertising Ideas.

"Mom takes her hands off her temples and looks into the camera with a painless, stoic stare, just in time to silently lip-synch the line "The sun's not yellow, it's chicken.""

Tags: advertising funny


Matthew Barney and Bjork Place an Ikea Phone Order

Just in case you were wondering what it might sound like.

Tags: funny ikea


Mike Tyson's Punchout Live [Video]

An orchestra and actors perform Mike Tyson's Punchout live in front of your eyes.

Tags: video funny videogames


Top 20 "Best Of" Lists of 2005

The best of best ofs of 2005.

Tags: bestof2005 funny


Do you get less wet if you run in the rain?

An incredibly complex mathmatical answer to a fairly simple question. (By the way, the answer is no, unless you're running to shelter.)

Tags: funny mathematics weather


The Chronicles of Narnia Rap

"Instead of auguring a new day for SNL, maybe it points up what's missing in mainstream rap—an awareness that it's OK to be goofy. Who needs Biz Markie and Tone-Loc?"

Tags: hiphop funny music nyc video viral television culture


Viral Video: Best of 2005

IFILM's best viral videos of 2005. Clearly there are some fantastic videos I missed this year.

Tags: video viral funny bestof2005


Passion of the Spaghetti Monster

A Wired interview with Bobby Henderson, creator of Pastafarianism.

Tags: funny interviews intelligentdesign religion


Dear cab driver napkin

For those nights when you aren't in any shape to direct the cab driver home.

Tags: funny


Airbag predicts 2006

"Having written an app for everything already, Google will unveil an API to their cafeteria allowing bloggers to choose what employees will eat at lunchtime — Lutefisk will go ranked number 1 for 47 weeks straight."

Tags: funny design future


Art Direction

Part three in The Official AdLand Advertising Tutorial, the dos and don'ts (as well as some serious advice) for art directors.

Tags: advertising design tutorial funny


The Other I.D.

"An interview with Don Wise, creator of "incompetent design""

Tags: intelligentdesign funny evolution


How to make a hip end of the year best albums list

"If you don't plan on naming a couple of Import albums that don't come out in this country until the Spring of next year then stop reading right now and get the fuck out of my blog."

Tags: funny bestof lists music


An Open Letter to Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.

"Have you forgotten the rejection by your own father, Donner, who forced you to cover your nose in black dirt just to please Santa?"

Tags: funny holidays


Hudson Repro

CMYK jokes in advertising. Awesome.

Tags: advertising design colors funny


Tuba Christmas

"He sends letters to 400 tuba players around the country and asks if they would like to be part of a Christmas concert. Three hundred say 'yes.' Woops. Better find a venue."

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Socially Awkward Situations During Which It Would Be Acceptable to Mess With Texas.

McSweeney's: "Texas needs you to cover rent "just until I get back on my feet, man, I swear.""

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Working Titles for a Movie About an Openly Gay Quarterback Who Leads His Team to the Super Bowl After Being Thrust Into Action Midseason When the Regular Starter Went Down.

McSweeney's: "Under Center"

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The Beerbelly

"A removable spare tire that also serves as a stealth beverage."

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The History of 404

How a room at CERN turned into the message "404: File Not Found"

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PHALLIC LOGO AWARDS

Readers around the world were polled and the winners have been announced.

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I love subway pranksters.

Somebody created a subway service advisory about their crush.

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Key Points of Creating Viral Advertising

Some fairly amusing, and a few good, pointers for creating that perfect viral ad.

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Questions I want answered

Important questions from My Blog is Poop

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Intelligent Design

“Just to make everyone happy,� said the Lord God, “today I’m thinking oceans, for contrast.�

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Why didn't I think of it? Why why why?

The five stages of dealing with The Million Dollar Homepage

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Web 2.0 Checklist

Everything you need to have in a Web 2.0 app

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Meet the IT Gigolo

Systems Engineer "Ray Digerati" enjoys fixing computers and having sex. So he combined the two.

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The Case For Intelligent Design: Spaghetti as the Creator

Bobby Henderson is getting an $80,000 advance to write The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster

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Reasons Bloggers Hate the Mainstream Media.

McSweeney's: "Bloggers got stood up at prom. By the MSM."

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Copy Goes Here

Coudal Partner's 12 minute short film.

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Wackiest web names ever

Some great URLs including the one for Pen Island (penisland.com) and Mole Station Native Nursery (molestationnursery.com)

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Comments from 2001 about the iPod release

Boy, those are a bunch of upset Apple fans. I expect they're eating their words at this point.

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Covering Teen Wolf: One Coach's Guide.

"What follows is the best strategy my staff and I have come up with to limit Teen Wolf's effectiveness on the court."

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Scouting for Camel Toads

One concerned Godmother writes a letter to the local newspapers about her Godson's possible addiction to 'camel toad.'

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An Open Letter to the Vice President of the United States, Dick Cheney.

"But you and I together can continue the struggle for which Scooter Libby has become a martyr. Between us, we can shove the timid Colin Powells to the side until, as my future girlfriend Ann Coulter said the other day, "it's morning in America again!""

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Maple Sugar Smell Mystery!

The other night all of New York City smelled like maple syrup. It was really bizarre.

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If Fox News Had Been Around Throughout History

Some screenshots of Fox News' coverage of important events through history

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Squirrels on crack

"NATURE lovers fear that squirrels could become hooked on crack cocaine plundered from addicts' hidden stashes."

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Other Places Jimmy Buffett Wasted Away.

"Slipperynippleberg"

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Did you say dogging or blogging? Brits confused

"A survey of British taxi drivers, pub landlords and hairdressers -- often seen as barometers of popular trends -- found that nearly 90 percent had no idea what a podcast is and more than 70 percent had never heard of blogging."

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Such a tease

"Jon Stewart is very funny and on his cult US television show he's a rare scourge of the rich and powerful, especially Bush and his court. Gary Younge puts it to him, is he really angry with America, or is he a man on a mission for the next joke?"

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Parasiticadvertising

Bugs are pretty much the only thing left without any advertising . . . not for much longer.

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How To Turn Your Hamster into a Fighting Machine!!

Who hasn't ever thought of this? (You're lying if you say you haven't.)

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His 'Secret' Movie Trailer Is No Secret Anymore

NYTimes covers Robert Ryang's remixed Shining trailer

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Shining Redux

Ever wonder what would happen if The Shining was just a little more cheerful?

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BugMeNot Registration

BugMeNot requires registration for any "employee, partner, affiliate or legal representative of any site which enforces compulsory user registration" with some great questions.

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Unique Gifts for the Home

Penny Arcade pokes a little fun at the Delta SkyMall catalog

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Indie Fantasy League

"I see the entire world as a market. To fill this niche I present you Indie Fantasy League. Um, I mean, capitalism sucks."

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Fuck Everything, We're Doing Five Blades

"If two blades is good, and three blades is better, obviously five blades would make us the best fucking razor that ever existed. Comprende?"

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Methods Other Than Song by Which One Can Be Killed Softly.

McSweeney's: "Chinchilla attack"

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George Bush asks to pee

Photo of a note Bush was writing while at the UN saying he has to pee

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The Laugh Judgment

The top 10 most offensive religious jokes (as well as the 10 funniest). Both are very questionable lists.

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Oddjack Cultural Oddsmaker: O.C. Season 3

"Seth suggests hiding in Sandy Cohen’s eyebrows—500/1"

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Making Roberts Talk

Questions democrats should ask Roberts: "Would you consider instituting a casual Friday dress policy on the bench?"

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The modern rules of advertising?

"He has drawn up a list of seemingly unwritten rules which, he concludes, might as well be the Advertising Bible."

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The iTunes 5 Announcement From the Perspective of an Anthropomorphized Brushed Metal User Interface Theme

"His color is a lot like yours, but smooth and shaded like Unified. And thinner. No borders. It’s a very chic look. Reminds me of you, back in the day."

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Open Letter to the Kansas School Board

The letter that got the whole Flying Spaghetti Monster thing started

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But Is There Intelligent Spaghetti Out There?

"Is the super-intelligent, super-popular god known as the Flying Spaghetti Monster any match for the prophets of intelligent design?"

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Things Koala Bears Would Say.

McSweeney's: "Camus is boring. I find Karl Jaspers's philosophy much more enlightening."

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Not a Word

Searching for a fake word in the New Oxford American Dictionary

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