Awesome Parodies

A bit from a 2012 Central Park performance by Reggie Watts in which he replicated the esoteric and offbeat sounds of Thom Yorke and the gang from Radiohead. It’s so spot-on that some are calling it a “cover” rather than a “parody.” Download or stream the track here.

Artist Dito von Tease turned classical portraits into selfies, alluding to the opposite backgrounds of the commissioned portrait and the digital self-portrait. The former was a privilege of the rich, while the latter is available to anyone with a phone.

“Now let’s talk about the Apple Hole. This is indeed a mini black hole so it could have many uses.” Bad Lip Reading takes on Apple’s product launches, inventing products such as the Skin Twist, Lickamaforbus, and Handsome Anthony.

“‘Twas the night before Christmas, all through Mother Base, not a genome was stirring, not even Skullface.” Solid Snake voice actor David Hayter teams up with Liquid Snake voice actor Cam Clarke to read a Metal Gear-themed variant of A Visit from St. Nicholas.

Girlfriend Reviews is a YouTube channel that offers a fresh take on video game reviews. Instead of analyzing the game itself, it looks at the value of a game from the perspective of a girlfriend who’s often relegated to watching her boyfriend play the game.

(PG-13: Language) We’ve seen some pretty impressive skateboarding videos over the years, but it turns out that it’s not always about the skill of the boarder. Jeff Won Song and guys at Thrasher Magazine share a little behind the scenes footage of how it’s REALLY done.

Screen Junkies jumped into the Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse hype train in the best way. Presenting Toei’s officially-licensed take on Spider-Man in the 1970’s. He shoots guns, he summons giant robots, he says he’s from hell. Japan has weird spiders.

While many of us thought The Office was a great series while it was on the air, Gus Johnson has a very different opinion. Over the next 4+ minutes, you’ll learn about all of the really basic things the show did wrong during its nine ill-advised seasons on NBC.

Prank-O’s Prank Packs are gift boxes that go all in on fooling your loved ones. All six sides of the pack are printed with graphics about a ridiculous product, such as a boring and insanely difficult puzzle, or a video game about household chores.

April Soetarman’s work went viral when she anonymously installed what looked like a street sign, but actually said “Attention: You Are Wonderful And Deserve Every Happiness.” You can now get that sign as well as others she made by helping her raise funds.

Longshorts is back once again with its NYC Taxi Drivers Calendar. This lighthearted parody of pin-up calendars features “12 of the city’s most scintillating and good-humored yellow cab drivers.” A portion of the proceeds go to the University Settlement.

(PG-13) A man experiences a breakup with his girlfriend in the worst way possible, as her entire Dear John letter is read to him by the electronic voice living inside of his iPhone. Craig Tovey’s short film is an amusing commentary on dating and relationships in the 21st century.

Screen Junkies takes on the masterpiece that is Batman: The Animated Series, a cartoon featuring Bruce Wayne, the master of everything – including insults and jump scares, Alfred the burninator, and rectangular people. Buckle up scum bucket.

Captain Marvel has a much more painful landing, meets Patrick from Spongebob, dancing Peter Parker, and more wacky characters before sending Thanos moonwalking back into his portal in this silly trailer mashup from the master Aldo Jones.

Wow, look at this! It’s like I’m in the movie TRON! Squirrel Monkey’s Wonders of the World Wide Web offers up another bit of retrorevisionist technology – a version of Oculus’ rift virtual reality system designed to run an IBM PC with at least an Intel 80286 chip.

(PG-13: Language) Adam Sandler returns to what made us love him in the first place with his Netflix standup special 100% Fresh. This digital exclusive clip offers a taste of what to expect, a gem of a rap about a man just living an ordinary life like the rest of us.

(Gore) “Jason is an emotionless golem, with a solid chin, one-punch KO power, and seemingly no fears to manipulate…” Auralnauts adds a fight commentary to the 2003 flick Freddy vs. Jason, as the two horror giants battle it out between the real and dream worlds.

Yes, we’ve seen Key & Peele’s parodies of football player names before, but it being football season, we couldn’t resist sharing this compilation that Comedy Central just dropped, jam-packed with more laughs per minute than we’ve had in a long time.

How It Should Have Ended takes on the inconsistencies and illogical sequences in Marvel Studios’ Ant-Man and The Wasp, such as the Wasp forgetting that she can fly, how Janet survived all this time, and of course ignoring the Infinity War.

Funny or Die knocked it out of the park with their mashup of Halloween and Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure, in which everyone’s favorite bowtied goofball really loses his mind and starts stalking Jamie Lee Curtis. We always thought there was a little something “off” about the guy.

(Flashing images) Tom Scott went to great lengths to have a bit of fun at the expense of music videos. In this clip, he breaks down the often incoherent and artificial nature of music videos, while demonstrating said aspects at the same time. It’s the silence that gets us.

If you never played the 1980s computer game California Games, load up a copy today. French creative studio ELMØ decided to reimagine the game for the 21st century, amping up the intensity to 11 for today’s crowd with extra zombies, gore, and garbage.

Saturday Night Live’s latest fake commercial pokes fun at all of those testosterone supplements designed to restore virility and manliness, while reminding us that sometimes we just need to let nature take its course instead of trying to fight it.