Juice Media's Honest Government Adverts are some of the best, most biting political satire being produced today -- they're so good at afflicting the comfortable that Australia basically banned their style of humour -- and now, on the eve of (yet another) critical Australian election, they've produced a "season finale" that recaps the parade of horrors that a succession of bumbling, oligarchic, racist, climate-denying, torturing, confiscatory, planet-destroying Australian governments have bequeathed to the nation and the world. I laughed, I cried, I laughed again. Now I'm crying.
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The Stranger Things 3 trailer with a delightful original score by Michael Hearst of "Songs for Ice Cream Trucks" fame.
"Survive, pack up your synths! Hearst, crank up the calliope!"
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Back in 2016, the Dr Seuss estate won a preliminary court action against "Oh, The Places You'll Boldly Go!" a crowdfunded parody of Dr Seuss's "Oh the Places You'll Go!" and Star Trek, written by veteran Star Trek creator David "Tribble" Gerrold and illustrated by the comics giant Ty Templeton.
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Sesame Street is turning 50 years in November. As part of the yearlong celebration, they've posted this fun compilation of well-known musicians parodying their own songs over the years. (I'm actually ok with not being able toget REM's "Happy Furry Monsters" out of my head because it's adorable.)
A YouTube commenter listed all the musical artists with their Sesame Street-ed song:
* 1973 - Stevie Wonder | Superstition (0:00)
* 1978 - Paul Simon | Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard (5:09)
* 1979 - Ray Charles | I Got a Song (1:40)
* 1984 - James Taylor | That Grouchy Face (3:41)
* 1988 - Smokey Robinson | U Really Got a Hold on Me (4:02)
* 1988 - Billy Joel | Just the Way You Are (0:38)
* 1988 - Marlee Matlin | Just the Way You Are (0:38)
* 1996 - Melissa Etheridge | Like the Way U Does (4:15)
* 1996 - Spin Doctors | Two Princes (1:15)
* 1998 - Tony Bennett | Slimey to the Moon (2:48)
* 1999 - REM | Furry Happy Monsters (1:24)
* 2000 - Hootie & the Blowfish | Hold My Hand (2:01)
* 2000 - The Goo Goo Dolls | Pride (1:05)
* 2002 - Dixie Chicks - No Letter Better Than B (2:20)
* 2003 - Sheryl Crow | I Soaks Up the Sun (1:48)
* 2004 - Norah Jones | Don't Know Y (0:18)
* 2005 - Andrea Bocelli | Time to Say Goodnight (2:27)
* 2007 - James Blunt | My Triangle (5:00)
* 2008 - Feist | 1234 (3:00)
* 2009 - Jason Mraz | Outdoors (4:47)
* 2011 - Elvis Costello | (A Monster Went and) Ate My Red Two (3:27)
* 2012 - Train | Five By (3:11)
* 2015 - One Direction | What Makes "U" Useful (4:31)
* 2015 - Macklemore | Grouch Thrift Shop (3:53)
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Watch the video below. As a wise man once said, "God bless America!"
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While I'm sure the new Apple Handsome Anthony will get all the headlines, I'm most excited for the fancy tetra-fusion Hole. And I don't care that it isn't portable yet.
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I only wish that this was the real new Halloween film.
It’s been 40 years since Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) survived a vicious attack from the crazy and zany Pee-wee Herman on Halloween night. But when Pee-wee escapes, will her family be safe from what is certainly to be his biggest Halloween adventure ever?
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"Something about the pen and paper / I can look at all my ideas / And I can see them"
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Song parodist and comedian Randy Rainbow really knows how to make lemonade from our lemon of a government.
His latest song, titled "Kavanaugh," is set to the tune of Camelot from the eponymous musical and it slams on the Supreme Court nomination of Judge (cough*serial rapist*cough) Brett Kavanaugh.
Because when they go low, we go Lerner and Loewe.
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The Institute of Gremlins 2 Studies publishes "world-class commentary and analysis of the film Gremlins 2: The New Batch" on its Twitter account @G2Institute and, allegedly, a scholarly publication titled The Quarterly Journal of Gremlins 2 Studies. Joe Dante, director of Gremlins and Gremlins 2, seems to dig it. At The Quietus, Robert Barry interrogates the anonymous director of the institute:
What prompted you to start this account?
What prompted me to found the prestigious Institute of Gremlins 2 Studies? That’s obvious. If you look around at the world today, you will probably feel like someone trapped in an over-the-top parody of past events. Only one film fully captures this feeling. Just look at how other accounts have attempted to imitate us using other films. Inevitably they all fail. Nobody holds a candle to the great work our Institute is doing. The reason for their failure is simple – only Gremlins 2 can be exhaustively returned to, combed over, analyzed in this way. What “genius” people may see in the Institute is only a reflection of the genius of Gremlins
Why Gremlins 2?
There are many reasons why Gremlins 2 remains relevant, even twenty-eght years after the film’s release. One important reason is the way the film adapts the cartoonish ethos of Looney Tunes, which allows it to treat reality with a certain playfulness and plasticity. In recent years this has become popular again – surreal humor and elaborate descriptions of cartoon violence are mainstays of internet humor, perhaps reflecting a media and political environment that has become unmoored from reality.
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I would watch this show. From Funny Or Die:
Up-and-coming CIA analyst and paper salesman Jim Ryan (John Krasinski) is thrust into a dangerous field assignment for the first time, launching him into the middle of a dangerous gambit with a new breed of terrorist, Dwight Schrute (Rainn Wilson). A mashup of Amazon's "Jack Ryan" and "The Office".
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Randy Rainbow is on point again. In his latest song, he asks Omarosa (who has a new book, Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House), "Could you be the hero we've been waiting for?" Read the rest
On the
@movie_goofs Twitter account, a fellow named Sean posts brilliantly funny "movie goofs" that aren't actually goofs. And for additional fun, see the responses from folks who don't seem to get that Sean is just kidding.
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Apparently Facebook is running TV ads apologizing for being a creepy stalker optimized for organizing Nazi hate-mobs and genocidal pogroms (also apparently: now that all the young people are leaving Facebook, TV is how you reach the company's core user-base).
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On the first anniversary of its triumph over Zillow's censorious attempt at copyfraud, McMansion Hell is back and better than ever.
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