Awesome Videos

Saturday Night Live pokes fun at how many toys are marketed to kids but are actually bought by grown up toy collectors. Sorry kid, but Taran Killam’s married life is no joke. And bonus points for casting Andy Samberg Jr.

(PG-13: Language) “This was my grandmother’s. She’s old and weak so I’m like, ‘Grandma, I’m taking this.'” Comedian and podcast god Bill Burr shows us how to make a PIE cruuuust! in between cracking jokes.

(PG-13: Language) Last Week Tonight is on hiatus until February, but John Oliver briefly awoke from his hibernation to teach us the basics of regifting. And make numerous inappropriate analogies for unwanted gifts.

(PG-13: Language) After giving us his take on the English alphabet, GradeAUnderA rants about the confusing and sometimes flat-out incorrect nature of animal naming and classifications. It does make us wonder if mountain chicken actually tastes like chicken.

Sure, Frasier has been off the air for years, so it seems like an odd choice of source material, but we’re still impressed with the editing mastery of MovieBitches, who turned sound bites of the classic sitcom into a popular Christmas ditty.

“It’s definitely our friend Claire. You know, Claire from college? Or growing up or something.” A group of girls suspect that something’s up with their friend Claire. They should’ve gone full Twilight Zone and had the joke apply to everyone.

Falmouth, Massachusetts resident and Redditor JTW24 says their neighbor’s turkeys chase down and harass the mailman every time he’s in town, but they ignore everyone else. We bet they’re waiting for the Nigerian Prince’s deposit.

While hiking at the High Tatra Mountains in northern Slovakia, YouTuber Tomas N and his friend found a wonderfully frozen lake. It was so clear it probably has gator belts and patty melts and Monte Carlos and El Dorados.

A flexible weightlifter, a strong mime and acrobats of all ages, shapes and sizes feature in this year’s People Are Awesome compilation. Now we want to see a compilation of unglamorous but essential jobs. Check out the sources in the video’s description.

(PG-13: Language) A New Place 2 Drown is the title for several artworks all made by or with the trip hop phenom Archy Marshall aka King Krule. It’s the name of his new album, the poetry and art book he made with his brother Jack and Topsafe’s short film about him.

Colin Furze’s latest toy is pretty standard… by his standards. The mad inventor made an awesome motorized drift trike using BMX bike and buggy parts, with a 125cc pit bike engine at its heart. Check out his build video here, and his parts list here.

Beyond Slow Motion picked up a stack of colorful Magination magnets, then captured how dropping a single one into the mix causes them all to pull together toward each other. By adding some water and colored powder to the mix, the effect is even more impressive.

(PG-13) This funny promo video for Japanese fashion retailer BUYMA takes a page from a classic Austin Powers sequence, but uses a swarm of drones instead of fruit to cover up the naughty bits of two butt naked ballet dancers. Fully SFW version here.

Celebrity chef Alton Brown dropped by The Daily Dot to rant about specialized kitchen gadgets such as bear paws, the Baker’s Edge and the unbelievably stupid Rollie egg cooker, with the help of Amazon reviews.

The Verge recounts every time the big fuzzball opened his mouth and roared in the Star Wars saga so far, as he paved the way for such later masters of vocal discourse as Hodor and Groot.

Star Wars: Battlefront is already a pretty game, but YouTuber jackfrags shows us a whole new world. He’s using the popular graphics tweaking tool SweetFX and what’s surely an insanely powerful PC. Available in 4K. User-made SweetFX presets here.

We’ve already seen how Ant-Man should have ended. Now find out how the movie began: as a freakin’ draft for Iron Man. Seriously that ending scene was just Marvel taunting folks like us with short term memory.

“You know we used to eat our food.” The Mystery Hour shines a light on the plight of thousands of husbands – and surely wives as well – whose spouses are Instagram addicts. And if you think it’s a parody, prepare to be depressed.

(PG-13: Language) “As soon as something like that happens – some tiny positive improvement – you’re instantly addicted.” After learning how to ride a skateboard and do a kickflip, Mike Boyd tries his balls hands at riding a unicycle.

Comedian and voiceover artist Daniel “Slash” Barker turns in an impressive series of musical impressions, ranging from David Bowie to Busta Rhymes and everyone in between. There are a couple of clunkers (Michael Stipe and Johnny Cash), but most of them are spot on.

Liebherr walks us through the process of turning raw sheets of metal into its gargantuan, 600 ton 282 C Haul trucks at their facilities across Australia. The scale of these things doesn’t sink in until the semi shows up to transport the truck’s hopper.

Nerdwriter1 talks about how Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman used Shakespeare to point out artists’ tendency to have a detached and sociopathic approach to life, and how popular art tends to obscure its sources instead of bringing them to light.

(PG-13: Language) The debut music video of up-and-coming technical rapper Jamal Gutierrez, aka A-F-R-O. From his free mixtape Tales from the Basement. You wouldn’t know it from his booming voice and verbal gymnastics, but the kid’s just 18 years old.