Awesome Parodies

(NSFW) Another self-deprecating single from comedic rapper Lil Dicky. This time he pokes fun at rappers who brag about their misdeeds while claiming that he’s just as bad as they are, what with his jaywalking, torrenting and stuff.

We saw some of the new faces in the Star Wars: The Force Awakens teaser, but the old heroes were nowhere to be found. Saturday Night Live and guest host James Franco imagine what Luke, Leia and Han will be like in the movie.

Key & Peele poke fun at pretentious theatrical plays by making one. Marvel at how the the greatest of concepts are succinctly and eloquently embodied by two dudes punching each other in the groin. Note how much it hurts.

We’ve seen what Star Wars: The Force Awakens would be like through George Lucas’ eyes. Now let’s see the teaser dressed up in the quaint antique dollhouse style of Wes Anderson, courtesy of YouTuber Jonah Feingold.

YouTuber timtimfed imagines what Star Wars: The Force Awakens would be like if George Lucas was still at the helm, especially in light of the awful second trilogy. Prepare for visual effects overload (and trade negotiations.)

Enjoyed the Star Wars: The Force Awakens teaser? Tom Barker thought it didn’t have enough of J.J. Abrams’ trademark lens flare, so he enhanced the footage for us. We can already imagine the lights floating off the screen in 3D.

(NSFW: Language) FoxADHD mashes up the Cartoon Network classic with HBO’s Girls, as Bubbles, Blossom and Buttercup move to the Big Apple and become self-absorbed 20-somethings with more important things to do than fight crime.

Adult Swim follows up Too Many Cooks with another pitch-perfect parody. This time it takes aim at consumer technology companies, with their buzzword-heavy pitches, frivolous social features and disregard for customers’ privacy.

YouTuber Andy Rehfeldt managed to turn Van Halen’s classic Running with the Devil into a mellow jazz track more fitting of Steely Dan than David Lee Roth. If you enjoyed it as much as we did, buy Andy a beer.

How It Should Have Ended points out the many ways that Guardians of the Galaxy could have turned out differently, from that unchecked slave in The Collector’s office to Ronan not being duped by Star Lord’s silly gambit.

(NSFW: Language, Strobe Lights) Andy Sum’s GAME OF THE YEAR 420BLAZEIT is a parody of tacky first-person shooter montages. It’s bursting with overused memes, dubstep and the bestial rage of adolescents being fragged.

HBO’s Last Week Tonight is kind of a big deal. Watch how many celebrities they got to join in on this childish segment about the salmon cannon, a device that sucks and shoots fish to help them make their way around dams.

(NSFW: Language) Us Vs. Th3m proves just how easy – and wrong – it is to make a clickbait headline with its hilarious generator. It can even set up the headlines on a fake website to troll folks on social media.

“Crunchy is my favorite word… but tomorrow I have a feeling it might be lava.” An amusing and affecting satire of pretentious commercials, with a pompous philosophical monologue befitting True Detective’s Rust Cohle.

(NSFW: Language) At first, this appears to be a fan-made lyric video to Lenny Kravitz’s Fly Away. But does the song really go like this? Then you look at who uploaded it and it suddenly makes sense. I WANT A MILKY WAYYY

Animeme’s hilarious parody of Frozen’s Do You Want to Build a Snowman?, told from the perspective of Breaking Bad’s Walter White as he eggs on a reluctant Jesse Pinkman. This is some serious South Park level musical theater.

(NSFW: Language) CollegeHumor pokes fun at Apple’s self-inflicted branding dilemma now that it’s resorted to adding “Apple” instead of “i” to its product names. We guess the company’s CEO is no longer with us.

Despite the huge number of Marvel and DC Comics films in production, they have yet to dig into the archive of the more obscure superheroes. But when they eventually run out of ideas, there’s always the man with the power of rainbows.

This beloved parody not only apes the infamous adult novel Fifty Shades of Grey – telling the story of a chef seducing… a chicken – it’s also a legitimate cookbook. It also has 50 chicken recipes and lots of beautiful images.

A rapper keeps it real and admits that he wants hipsters to move in his ‘hood. It’s a funny eureka moment from sketch comedy show Friends of the People. Seriously, would you rather deal with thugs or folks with dumb outfits and opinions?

Key & Peele poke fun at “scared straight” programs. Donny Herrera used to be a punk like you, but then he turned out to be living proof that karma is a bitch. An exponential and tangential bitch. CON SE QUEN CES!

YouTuber ChiefBrodyRules imagines what an ’80s Captain America movie would have been like by remixing scenes from the decade’s action movies, using synthwave tracks and adding crummy video artifacts and graphics.

Animation Domination HD presents a modern retelling of a children’s classic, about a chimpanzee who was forced to obey The Man with The Yellow Hat. Will he find it in him to say, “NOOOOOOOUHHH”