Awesome Funny Stuff

(NSFW: Language) The funniest episode so far in the True Facts series. ZeFrank makes no effort to hide his hatred of sloths and accompanies each fact with a hilarious and derogatory side comment.

How did the folks at Sqwak elevate the idea of a drum solo to a strange and admirable new level in only a minute and a half, using just 1 tremendous belly and 3 percussionists to create a phat beat?

This promo video for Monsters University takes the form of an ad for the titular institution, where monsters are taught to be the scariest they can be. The MU website is even more impressive.

Our pick among the five finalists for this year’s crowdsourced Doritos Crash the Super Bowl ad contest. We still think last year’s unofficial winner is better, but this one’s pretty close.

While this topic may seem better suited to our other site, YouTuber Mehdi Sadaghdar’s “do as I say, not as I do” approach in talking about electrostatic discharge makes it right at home on The Awesomer.

Angela Trimbur decided to dance off the holidays and not being able to see her family with those who did, at LAX. Love the hat guy who sees her and doesn’t look again until 1:25. Did that just happen?

Flogsta is a neighborhood in Uppsala, Sweden that is home to many students and a weird tradition that allegedly began in the ’70s. Every night at 10pm the students start screaming their heads off.

YouTuber hippykiller1 shares what he claims is the world’s shortest escalator, located in a mall in Japan. The best part? A set of stairs follows almost immediately after the escalator.

We’re not sure the TSA would approve this clip, but it’s still pretty entertaining to watch Deadmau5 lie down and take a ride through an airport X-ray machine – though it’s not as cool as Total Recall.

And now for something completely different. Well, depending on how familiar you are with Paul F. Thompkins’ offbeat humor this rather impressive cover of Adele’s Skyfall might not be too surprising.

ASAPScience provides a good excuse to get drunk – not that you needed any – points out a trick “fact” about the brain, and makes the term “data transfer” dirty in this compilation of amazing trivia.

(Spoilers for The Wire) A clip from the new season of Portlandia, about how the abundance of great TV shows and video-on-demand technology combine to create these asinine exchanges among friends.

Pump yourself up to improve this new year with this compilation of training sequences. The song is of course You’re the Best from Karate Kid, which for some reason is not included in the sequence.

Breaking news! Apple is reportedly working to fix its Maps snafu with a global effort that will soon make their app very useful, if not necessary, to get around. We hope Google Planet is finished soon.

A 5 Second Film about the PISRQ – Post-Interaction Smile Reduction Quantifier, measuring how much our smile fades as we turn away after meeting someone. Watch closely; this might save your life.

The Eleventh Doctor plays Doc Brown in this fan made animated mashup of the timey wimey BBC series and Back to the Future. A gift for Doctor Who fans from writer and animator James Farr.

YouTuber PeregrinusHumilus asks his daughter Payton to say “banana” with an unexpectedly silly result. Considering she knows how to say “apple” this one’s a mystery to us.

A reminder that the dead have been walking long before Robert Kirkman and his comics came along. Though we’re not sure if a mob of hipster mummies would be as scary as zombies.

Etsy seller Michael Bancroft makes replicas of actual signs with badly mistranslated English phrases, including this infamous Chinese sign about a lawn that needs a good night’s sleep.

(Spoilers, NSFW: Language) Criken2 shows us the lighter side of the stealth game Hitman: Absolution. That and a lot of bugs and odd AI behavior. Plus a cool policeman. Bow chika wow chika wow.

Want to contain your cat? YouTuber Marcin Sroka seems to have discovered a way to immobilize their otherwise feisty feline, thanks to a special knot. Either that or the scarf has special powers.

deviantARTist Miguel Lokia aka Lokiable made Game of Thrones-style house banners for other pop culture franchises, complete with mottos. Some of them are badass, but we prefer the funny ones.

Sean Ward’s friend’s son Kieran wanted “to have Spider-Man” for Christmas. Incidentally Sean has a Spidey costume that he uses for his online show. So we guess Kieran owns Sean now.