Awesome Satire

“A President with the conviction to nod, the courage to point, and the experience to cram buzzwords into everything.” Meet Gil. He’ll say whatever gets him money for his campaign. Represent.Us is trying to include Gil in the U.S. Presidential race to highlight corruption.

If you had to choose between losing all of the world’s sports or all teachers, which would you pick? Key & Peele’s (and BMW’s?) satirical SportsCenter for teachers skit reminds us that we value rarity way more than utility.

“Buildings, roads, regular people. These are not superheroes, yet they are consistently shown throughout the film.” The Onion satirizes the overabundance of characters in Avengers: Age of Ultron by demanding the exact opposite.

“I guess it’s just better to leave the memories of the memories as memories.” CollegeHumor points out the commercialization and obsolesence of nostalgia while going through the motions of being nostalgic.

“Babe, it’s not rude! It’s just multitasking.” Writer and director Brad Hasse forces us to confront face-to-fake-face what we’ve become in the smartphone era, a time when even a few seconds of eye contact is sometimes too much to ask.

Stephen Colbert pokes fun of some of the superfluous, first-world problem solvers which have been pitched via crowdfunding. His common sense perspective on the Vessyl smart cup sure makes it look like a dumb idea.

While Captain America might be the world’s #1 patriotic superhero, we’re not exactly leading the world in the things that count. FoxADHD regales us with some sobering facts about our great nation in this cynical, but still hilarious song.

(NSFW: Language) Shots were fired when an Irish TMZ staff member guaranteed that Jay-Z and Beyoncé’s family walk in a Dublin park without incident was due to Ireland’s ignorance. College Times presents a correct different explanation.

Big Lazy Robot steps away from frightening glimpses of a grim future with this much lighter but cynical take on the negative and homogenizing effects of technology. Don’t take it too seriously. We all have an iDiot inside of us.

Horse & Hammer are damn proud of their fave facial accessories: their beards and glasses, so they of course wrote a song about it. If it weren’t for the glasses and bow tie parts we might have had a No-Shave November anthem on our hands.

(NSFW: Language) For his Halloween episode, The Onion’s resident film critic Peter K. Rosenthal talked about the classic horror film The Shining. Or at least that was the plan. No, he’s not Danny Lloyd, and no, we don’t care.