Awesome Videos

Stuntwoman Jessie Graff became the first woman to complete American Ninja Warrior‘s new Los Angeles qualifier course, including the 14.5ft warped wall. She was cool, calm and collected the whole way. It’s only appropriate that she dressed as Wonder Woman.

Blank on Blank animates a classic interview with musician Frank Zappa, as he expresses his strong opinions on the nature of trends, the stark contrasts between New York City and Los Angeles back in the 1970s, and some rather divisive thoughts on women’s liberation.

Blind film critic and entertainer Tommy Edison met up with master gunfighter Cisko to learn how to cowboy fast-draw a gun while still hitting a target. Watch the video to see if Tommy can pull off a 1-second shot himself.

Located at the Washuzan Highland Amusement Park in Okayama, Japan, the Sky Cycle roller coaster does away with winches and motors, and instead makes riders raise their already increased heart rates by pedaling the whole way. Who needs guardrails anyhow?

YouTuber Marca Blanca’s latest Street Fighter mashup features cats owning fellow felines or their abusive masters. RKO Cat is OP; Capcom please nerf. Although if you ask us, the moment you take a cat home they’ve already won.

“Lenny, come down from the rock! Your whole family is here!” “No.” YouTuber OlanRogers will help you with your Zootopia withdrawal. He dubbed mundane footage of various animals, turning llamas into gourmands, bees into nectar pervs and more.

“I decided that I wanted to be the person whom he thought I was.” In 2010, Eric’s doctor said he’d be dead in 5 years. He was severely overweight, had high cholesterol, high blood pressure and diabetes. Then a nutritionist gave him a life-changing advice: get a shelter dog.

(Flashing lights) Go “on a surreal journey through the isolation of technology, media consumption, and the commercialization of our hopes and dreams” in Galen Pehrson’s mind-melting animated short for the new art site Ruins.

“But even allowing for his feelings, this was probably stretching the point.” Chuck Jones’ Oscar-winning animated short is about a line who reinvents himself in order to woo the dot of his dreams. Based on Norton Juster’s eponymous book.

20-year-old alternative artist Julien Baker (Sprained Ankle) performed a cover of one of Death Cab for Cutie’s early hits for The Onion’s AV Club, turning the brooding Photobooth into a sincere ballad.

Candice Drouet breaks down the quintessential Coen brothers film. Fargo builds on a simple trick to mess with our expectations and drive its point home: that we get by partly by blocking out the horrible things that happen around us.

Jay Leno shows off one of the more interesting cars in his cavernous garage – the Shotwell. Single-handedly built in 1931 by then 17-year-old Bob Shotwell, this three-wheeled vehicle had well over 150,000 mi on it before Jay had it restored. Test drive at 13:52.

Costumed as Catwoman, composer Sonya Belousova plays her own wonderful arrangement of Danny Elfman’s classic theme song from Tim Burton’s Batman. As much as we liked the music from The Dark Knight, we always preferred Elfman’s take.

(PG-13: Language) During a recent episode of Off Camera with Sam Jones, actor Keegan-Michael Key explained some of the split-second mental processes that partners work through when creating an improv scene to keep it from running off the rails. A fascinating watch.

From the underappreciated corner of YouTube comes musician Simon Fransman. He loves to make covers and original songs using voice synthesizers, then combines them with hilariously creepy computer animation.

There’s something hypnotic about Tito4re’s slow-motion video of molten copper being poured onto a block of dry ice. While the copper eventually defeated the dry ice, along the copper seemed to take on a life of its own.

YouTuber syou2at made a cover of Glorious Crown from the rhythm arcade game Maimai Pink using nothing but notification sounds and other audio samples from Windows XP and Windows 10. Download links are on the video’s description.

Munchies and Brooklynite restaurateur Frank Pinello visited Chicago to sample some of the best pizza that the Windy City has to offer, and talk to some of the best local pizza makers and their biggest fans.

(PG-13: Language, Gross) h3h3 Productions highlights what has to be one of the longest running method acting shticks in the world. Ryan Jaunzemitz makes Joaquin Phoenix look like Jack McBrayer. Remember folks: “It’s the climb, Miley Cyrus.”

Cracked’s devilish salesman Roger returns to talk about cellular phone carriers – a handful of giant corporations that have more or less the same services and efficiency. But look! It’s a map with splotches on it, and there’s a splotch where you live!

Ryan “The Brick Man” McNaught and a team of dedicated LEGO and Doctor Who fanatics spent over 300 hours building this life-size replica of the TARDIS. The sculpture appeared last year on Bondi Beach in Australia, and we presume it’s currently traveling through space and time.

John Oliver looks at what happens when a creditor writes off its bad debt and decides to make a few extra bucks by selling the obligations. Unscrupulous buyers purchase these debts cheap, with little documentation, and pursue the money like a dog with a bone.

(PG-13: Lyrics) Lalalala, la la la laaah… As a tribute to the comedy of Mike Judge, Mylo the Cat gave the 1999 Method Man and Redman classic the Beavis and Butthead treatment in his latest animated lip-sync mashup, and the end result is Internet gold.