Awesome Videos

(PG-13: Language) Last Week Tonight looks at daily fantasy sports companies, which let you bet – and win – real money on short term performances of athletes or teams. They’re using a legal loophole so that they won’t be classified as gambling, and remain unregulated.

Retro Report looks back at Ray Mancini’s infamous bout with Duk Koo Kim and wonders if American football is close to a similar tipping point, as the NFL continues to deny the mounting medical evidence of the sport’s serious health risks.

Jonathan Hunt’s BoxMac is a lighthearted yet unabashedly serious cooking show where he and his friends taste and compare boxed macaroni and cheese brands. Man, we need to find our niche and get some of that YouTube money.

Chris Fleming and Melissa Strype’s Gayle is an online comedy series about Gayle Waters-Waters, a middle class stay-at-home mom who’s obsessed with having the perfect household. The latest episode sees her prepare for visitors.

To promote its SHIELD gaming system, NVIDIA dropped professional skydiver Jeff Provenzano from a C-130 Hercules transporter while playing games in his living room. They want us to question whether it’s real or fake, but we’re thinking it’s real, given Jeff’s credentials.

(PG-13, Crude humor) The ladies of Saturday Night Live reunite their ’90s girl group with guest host Elizabeth Banks to pay tribute to the men who made them look at couches and shower heads in a different light.

While other scientists are still working on cures for lethal diseases, and engines that don’t need fuel, YouTuber nothd70 is proud to share the unambiguous conclusion of his research: IT FLOATS! CHICKENS FLOAT!

Like Pizza Rat, This dachshund managed to get her hands (er, mouth) on a slice of pepperoni pizza. She’s thrilled with her prize, and nobody is going to take it away from her. Despite her stubbornness, she possesses some will power. Our dogs would have just gulped it down.

“Here’s the view looking down… WHOA” Evan Griffin claims that his dad Joseph borrowed his GoPro for their trip to Las Vegas. But it seemed like the elder Griffin forgot what a camera’s lens looks like. His dad then took the camera swimming without its waterproof case.

While taking up Environmental Studies, Lauren Singer realized she was being a hypocrite by producing lots of trash in her daily life. Through judicious reusing, composting, purchasing bulk products, and DIY, she’s accumulated only one jarful of trash in the past two years.

Canadian sports channel TSN spliced together this highlight reel of an adorable little boy at a recent NHL game between the New York Rangers and the Ottawa Senators. We’re not sure he even watched any of the game, but he clearly was having the time of his life.

Mental Floss shares trivia about the multitalented Jim Henson and his creations, such as why he kept his beard, his dream of ending the Cold War and how he arrived at his college graduation in a Rolls-Royce that he purchased with his puppet show earnings.

Army veteran Ian Parkinson lost both of his legs while protecting our freedom. If that weren’t daunting enough, Ian loves skateboarding. After a long recovery, he has found his way back to the skate park once more, thanks to his astoundingly positive attitude. (Thanks Nick!)

(PG-13: Language) Salomon Freeski TV, six pro skiers, and photographer Reuben Krabbe traveled to an archipelago near the Arctic to take on an extreme first world problem: do a skiing photoshoot during a solar eclipse. The climax is at 26:19. Behind the scenes here.

Nerdwriter1 outlines the rise of Gotham, the fictional city under Batman’s protection. Like many comic book locales, Gotham has no official map or geography. Instead, it has an unmistakable aura, forever straddling the line between a cliché and an icon.

Before Scary Movie and Scream, there was There’s Nothing Out There. Rolfe Kanefsky’s 1991 horror comedy copied horror movies to poke fun at them. But as Charlie Lyne notes in this documentary, Rolfe’s life took a bizarre turn when another movie seemingly copied his.

Builder Arthur Sacek created this neat robotic LEGO contraption which can manipulate the individual pins one of those pin art desktop toys to draw uploaded images. Every time it finishes drawing a frame, it snaps a picture to create animations.

(PG-13: Language) Comedian Greg Benson finally makes the most appropriate use of his expletive-filled whirlwind tours. Watch him go on a fast and furious jaunt through the greatest and grumpiest city in the world.

Micah Ganske’s art is inspired by technology and the future: space stations looming over old factories, a ghost town in an orbital colony, spaceships that form a giant humanoid structure, etc. Video by Alex Amoling and Anchor Light for Distinct Daily.

…or at least a man in a turkey costume. The Undertaker dropped by The Tonight Show to help fellow pro wrestler Brad Maddox roast in peace. We can only dream of being able to lift a 200 lb. man while wearing a grandma’s hat when we’re 50.

(PG-13: Language) “A bunch of girls do it and the s**t looks fun. That’s how they do it where we from.” Missy returns with the help of Pharell’s ice cream beat, throwing shade at the artists and fans who promote a sexualized caricature of hip-hop culture, particularly its dance moves.

Engineers from Carnegie Mellon University and Disney Research have developed a smartwatch technology which uses electromagnetic signals to detect what objects a user is touching, augmenting the world with contextually appropriate applications.

“You know how to spell Horse?” “I ain’t never made it past H.” Kyrie Irving’s youngblood-slaying alter ego returns. While visiting Miami, Uncle Drew hears that one of his rivals is in town – the sweet-shooting Skinny Walt. Baron Davis’ character needs his own TV show.