An average Joe-loaded on Cape Codders-holds forth on Ben Franklin's discovery of electricity. High marks for the on-camera bathroom breaks. Features Jack Black in brilliant pantomime as BF. (5:00)
The Futureheads' latest, "The Beginning of the Twist," lets you see how the visual sausage is made while you bop to a catchy chorus and danceable groove. (3:48)
This parody of the BBC-Discovery documentary Planet Earth gives us wild animals cursing like drunken sailors. OK, so it's not exactly vintage Mamet, but you might be dropping a few f-bombs if you were being chased by a predator twice your size (1:56, language NSFW).
In this Seth MacFarlane-written sketch, things heat up in a meeting between WGA representatives and some stooges hired to represent the AMPTP. The reveal of the "suits" makes this worth your time. (Runtime: 3:27. Language NSFW).
Up for more Tom Cruise parodies? We can't seem to resist. In this wide-ranging spoof on Tom's now-infamous Scientology recruitment vid, Jerry O'Connell riffs on the plight of the underemployed actor, the power of KFC ... and manages to work in a reference to The Aristocrats (3:16).
Can we officially call Britney Spears crazy? The pop wreck has been bopping around Los Angeles speaking with a British accent and claiming not to know paparazzo boyfriend Adnan Ghalib. Who are we hearing in this video?Britney or her split personality, Mary Poppins? (3:55)
Could Rudy Giuliani play up his 9/11 achievements any more than he already has? With the Florida Republican primary approaching, this comedic video spoofs the former New York City mayor's hyperbolic achievements, and just about every other embarrassing detail about Rudolph Giuliani you can find (2:38).
By now you've probably seen Tom Cruise's Scientology pep-rally vid, which has been whizzing around the Web. Now, the inevitable follow-up parody. Turns out, Cruise is an equal-opportunity indoctrinator. In this new find, "Tom" (played by Jon Kesselman of Jewcy magazine) hypes a religion even more powerful: Judaism. It's pretty much all about KJW: Keeping Judaism Working (2:52).
When we were young, we used to wish for a magical tornado to swoosh down on our neighborhood soccer field and steal the ball, sparing us the embarrassment of actually having to play the game. Who knew it could actually happen? (1:14).
Legend has it that Ernest Hemingway won a bar bet by writing the best life story in six words. The personal essay Web site Smithmag.net picked the best of some 11,000 six-word life-story submissions for a new book. Memoirists include everyday folk and celebs like Mario Batali, Joan Rivers, Dave Eggers, and Joyce Carol Oates (3:06).
If you have any doubt about how much Bill Clinton wants Hillary to win (or at least how much he can't stand to lose arguments), check out this clip. The former president gets into it with a random TV reporter about lawsuits surrounding the Nevada caucus (3:28).
YouTube user "LittleRockRepublican" isn't thrilled with former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee's lenient track record on pardons and commutations, so he spins his frustrations into "Clemency," a tuneful parody of the Beatles' classic "Yesterday." (1:23)
This is an excerpt that Fox News neglected to air in the South Carolina debate telecast on Jan. 10, and it's now buzzing around the Internet. Listen for the applause for "Dr. Paul" in the background, and you'll see why Paul's rabid fans are charging he's not getting a fair shot (2:09).
Say you're in high school and your parents are out of town. You throw a little get-together for, oh, maybe 500 people. Things get just a little out of hand, with thousands of dollars of damage done to neighbors' property and police cars. Then a TV reporter asks you how you feel. And you feel, well, absolutely NO remorse (3:26).
Remember in Office Space when the waiter mentions "a case of the Mondays" to Peter? Well, we think the guys at Funny or Die know a little something about a case of the Mondays. And we're not just talking about the Pepto-Bismol Chicken (1:49).
What started as an amateur YouTube video from a disgruntled Arkansas voter was turned into a televised ad that aired during a recent South Carolina GOP debate. The gist: A mother blames Gov. Huckabee for championing the release of a rapist who went on to kill her daughter (0:57).
Following in the proud tradition of Crank Dat Kosha Boy comes the latest multiculti spoof of Soulja Boy's now-timeless classic, "Crank Dat." Here, the Southeast Asian take: Uncle Vijay and Uncle Ramesh, played by the California comedy duo of Pari Mathur and Harvin Sethi (2:53).
There's a bit of a language barrier here, but in any language, this intrepid reporter is going to feel it in the morning. Maybe he'll think twice before reporting from the middle of a donkey race again (0:19).
The hidden track from Aesop Rock's None Shall Pass is an unadvertised gem of free-flowing lyrics unfurled with precision viciousness. Laid over a time-lapse video of art being drawn on a wall by designer Jeremy Fish, "Pigs" is full of slide guitar and anger (4:30).
This 2006 video disappeared from most Internet sites after Neely accidentally sold the rights to a film festival for $250. But thanks to a loyal fan base that fights to keep it online, "Washington, Washington" is a viral classic (2:23).
