Awesome Parodies

(NSFW) Nintendo declared 2013 to be the Year of Luigi, but the big N wouldn’t promote this song even if made you buy a Wii U. Luigi’s Ballad is a hilariously juvenile song from Starbomb, the band of Egoraptor and Ninja Sex Party.

Netflix goes above and beyond the call of duty by making a trailer – and a behind the scenes video – for one of its most senseless shows, Fireplace for your Home. Orange is the New Black? House of Cards? Pshhh. Place of Fire yo!

If you’re sick of seeing all the perfect people in the perfect television ads this season, take a break and check out this sarcastic spoof of a popular mall jewelry store commercial. Then go out and finish your shopping.

Sorry Channing Tatum, but a virtual Chuck Norris is enough to shut your copycat down. Visual effects studio DelovDigital imagines how JCVD’s viral commercial would’ve turned out it Volvo got Chuck to do it.

(NSFW: Language) The Dark Knight returns to desecrate classic Christmas movies, including It’s a Wonderful Life and Home Alone. You can watch the full episode where this skit appeared on Pistol Shrimps’ website.

Whoever handles the English press releases of the North Korean government has a tenuous but vicious grasp of the language. Boing Boing set up a template so you can condemn anyone DPRK-style. Death to thrice-cursed traitors!

So you’ve got an old car to sell. Sure, its Blue Book value stinks, but you might stand a better chance getting top dollar if you put together a fancy commercial for it, like this guy did with his 1996 Nissan Maxima. Craigslist listing here.

Now and then we click a dead or broken hyperlink, which leads us to the infamous Error 404. The Association for Computing Machinery’s web server really takes it hard if it can’t find what you’re looking for.

(NSFW) Bobby Moynihan and the Saturday Night Live cast gamely depict a real nightmare before Christmas, starring the reviled celebrity chef Guy Fieri and his motley crew, the worst that TV has to offer.

(NSFW) With Google+ currently looking like yet another failed experiment, CollegeHumor decided it was time to go back to an old sketch that we truly and deeply hope stays as a joke. Because Mountain View has all of us by our balls.

Long before he ruined the reputation of ESPN, Ron Burgundy was both idolized and justifiably feared by CNN anchors. Wolf Blitzer, Anderson Cooper and Chris Cuomo spoke with Funny or Die about the legendary anchorman.

This classic training video for entrepreneurs contains invaluable gems, such as the hard truth that nothing can help you if you’re not born to for the job. Hmmm. Anyway, just remember: AUATSCI. A hilarious ad for Grasshopper.

BatDad finds out if the rules of the road apply to him, tries to seduce JEN! with a Pez and even takes off his mask in the latest compilation of Blake Wilson’s alter ego. BatKid has a bright future. A dark future?

What do you get when a North Korean force meets a Russian object? Shirtless gods. In his latest adventure, playboy detective Kim Jong Un collides with asteroid puncher Vladimir Putin. Miraculously, the world didn’t end.

Jedi knight Merve Bushwhacker and some bloody thirsty rebels go after a Sith lord who’s hoarding all of the land’s beer. Star Wars Downunder is a silly tale filled with more Aussie jokes than we can recognize. Plain English captions available.

FinalCutKing pokes fun at Amazon’s proposed drone-based shipping system with Amazon Rockets – which would offer delivery in just three to five minutes. Just like Amazon Prime Air, it’s got some kinks which need to be worked out.

Sesame Street mocks The Hunger Games: Catching Fire as Cookieness Evereat and her friends are forced to play yet another series of challenging games against their will. We always thought Peeta sounded like a piece of bread too.

(NSFW: Language) The French are sometimes stereotyped as being fashion snobs. The very animated comedian Oliver Giraud reveals how you can fit in Parisian shops should you encounter his intimidating countrymen.

(NSFW: Language) Collegehumor continues to poke fun– er, glorify the very best leader of North Korea. Will Kim Jong Un’s Pokémon expertise help save his nation? Not that it needs saving. North Korea’s doing just fine.

Peter Smith-Buchanan mocks the business practice of Best Made Co., which rides on the trendy hand-crafted bandwagon to sell otherwise conventional items at marked-up prices. He even has a matching website.

(NSFW: Language) Wait for it… or don’t. In case his profile pic didn’t set off your parody radar, the titles of the tracks by this Soundcloud troll will. He pokes fun at the customary climax-then-drop structure of electronic dance music.

Saturday Night Live’s Jay Pharoah and Nasim Pedrad viciously mock the celebrity couple that everyone loves to hate, Kanye West and Kim Kardashian. Haaah! Props to Lady Gaga for poking fun at herself.

(NSFW: Language) So you’re telling me, that you can solve Africa’s problems by oversimplifying them? From the folks behind the hilarious Africa for Norway comes another indictment of lazy and offensive fundraising campaign ads.