Awesome Videos

James Corden continues to rack up the star power in his Range Rover, this time scoring a ride with Sir Elton John in the passenger seat, singing along to some of his classics, and sharing tidbits about his vibrant career.

LEGO machine building expert Arthur Sacek was approached by Arrow Electronics to design and build a LEGO contraption that could take a sheet of paper and turn it into an airplane. The result was not only a cool machine, but a great commercial. Behind the scenes video here.

(PG-13: Language) “My daddy Alabama, Momma Louisiana, you mix that negro with that Creole make a Texas bamma.” Beyoncé drops the hammer on all manner of haters and uses herself as bait to remind us of her home states’ woes. The song is exclusive to Tidal.

During the 2016 Waste Management Phoenix Open, a golf-playing robot known as LDRIC was allowed to take its shot at a little time in the tee box. Here, on the par-3 16th hole, it struts its stuff with an Eagle. Oh, and it can talk, kick footballs, and soccer balls too.

Comedy siblings Ylvis trolled the patrons of a gym in Norway with a simple but effective slapstick prank. They paired their phones to the gym’s speakers then used a synthesizer app to add sound effects to people’s movements.

YouTuber Dan and his wife strapped a GoPro camera to their kid then played hide and seek with the baby. The family pet quickly put an end to the game, but at least we were all spared the horror of watching the kid take to the stairs.

To celebrate its 12th year, Facebook rolled out Friends Day Video, which automatically puts up to 16 photos of you and your friends into one video. The site warns that you may not get one if you “don’t have enough content.” Tell that to Redditor Hey_Mike’s friend Tyler.

Vsauce talks about how cardists use patterns and probabilities to create long-winded tricks that seem to ensure a random outcome, even though what they’ve really done is the opposite. And then your eyes will glaze over as he explains that 52! is a large number.

“I can’t sleep since you took my puppy!” The second part of Bad Lip Reading’s football special takes on esoteric topics such as fudge, face tattoos, Peyton Manning’s jokes, but ironically it’s best bit didn’t need to be dubbed.

(PG-13: Language, SPOILERS) Alt Shift X talks about the Horn of Winter, a legendary artifact in both HBO’s Game of Thrones and the novels. Supposedly, it has the power to bring down the Wall, but we don’t know exactly how it can do that or why it was made.

Mazda sent us to Colorado to test their latest all-wheel drive tech (and we’ll cover that on 95octane soon enough.) But they also gave us a special treat – time behind the wheel of new MX-5s shod in Bridgestone Blizzak tires, then set us loose on the ice and snow.

Roger Anderson was fed up with telemarketers, so he developed custom software which is designed to waste human and robo-callers’ time. The end result is both useful and hilarious. Sign up and support the project on Kickstarter. More sample calls on YouTube.

(PG-13: Language) “Just go play it live. Just play it live.” Foo Fighters’ frontman Dave Grohl spoke to Off Camera’s Sam Jones about Kurt Cobain, embracing mainstream success, his advice to (good) aspiring musicians and more.

Beat Breakdown reveals how Madlib sampled Johnny Guitar Watson’s Give Me My Love, Junie Morrison’s Suzie Thundertussy, Larry Graham’s Stand Up and Shout About Love, and Ghostface Killah’s Mighty Healthy to make the barebones music for Kanye’s latest single.

While Larry David’s appearance on this week’s Saturday Night Live had some funny moments, it was cast newbie Jon Rudnitsky who broke out with a hilarious Weekend Update audition for a live TV version of Dirty Dancing – a movie that Jon has apparently never seen before.

Editor Semih Okmn gathered together some classic movie moments in which the bad guys celebrate their insanity with a smile. Barry Manilow’s Can’t Smile without You makes for the perfect backing track to the madness. After all these years, Norman Bates still freaks us out.

Blue Dog Films used a Canon 5d Mk3 to capture this incredibly ominous and awe-inspiring time-lapse footage of a storm brewing over Maroochydore, Australia, churning away like something from the ark opening scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark.

(PG-13: Language) YouTubers BriTANicK come back from the dead with a skit about a rec league basketball player who can’t shoot a free throw because he’s distracted by his teammate’s comment about his head.

College Humor comedian Mike Trapp pleads with prospective parents to stop naming their children Michael, making some very valid points about the massive quantity of people in the U.S. who share the same first name. We suppose things could be worse though.

Awesomer favorite Marquese “Nonstop” Scott gives us a glimpse inside his mind and the inspiration that drives his amazing dance performances, then he performs his smooth moves 115ft off the ground, dangling from a building on a rope and a harness. BTS here.

After attaching a pulsejet to a kettle, a bicycle and a go-kart, Colin Furze continues his fiery tradition by attaching the jet engine to his motorized drift trike. A rider is probably optional with this mod. Turn the volume down.

After nearly cutting off a limb with her chopping robot, engineer Simone Giertz built another somewhat askew robotic assistant, though this one is much more likely to make her die from embarrassment than blood loss. We think she should marry Mehdi Sadaghdar.

(PG-13: Language) Videogamedunkey plays Yakuza 3, the PS3 Tokyo sim and brawler where you practice chiropractor-style karate, upend the charcoal economy and avenge your friends… but not before getting ice cream.