MetaFilter posts tagged with comedy

Ambiguous movie (and TV) endings resolved.

meadowlark lime — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:43:42 -0800

Ambiguous movie endings resolved. Some jokesters have put together imagined endings to some ambiguous film (and TV) endings. Much funnier and better executed than I expected.

RIP Carl Ballantine

ObscureReferenceMan — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:53:37 -0800

Carl Ballantine passed away at age 92. He was probably most famous for his role in McHales Navy. And with appearances in TV and movies too numerous to mention - a favorite of mine was a cute movie called "Just You and Me, Kid" (George Burns, and a young Brooke Shields) as Reinhoff the Remarkable. But I loved him as the bumbling magician, "Ballantine The Great" (I hope that YT link works - I'm at work and can't tell).

A female milk man? That's rich.

Afroblanco — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:31:31 -0800

If there's one thing that MeFites are absolutely universal in loving, it's the TV show Mad Men. Right? Right? Well, here's something that even the haters will enjoy : Milk Men - A Mad Men Parody

Dawn French interviews Russell Brand

mhjb — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:48:43 -0800

Russell Brand talks to Dawn French about comedy, revealing a peculiar and compelling intelligence apparently gleaned from TV and substance abuse. Part 1, 2, 3, 4 [YT]

Battle for Milkquarious

East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:46:45 -0800

Battle for Milkquarious - The greatest Rock Opera ever made. About milk. [Flash, dairy advertising] From the California Milk Processor Board. There is also a director's commentary.

I'm addicted to intravenous injections of corned beef. Ponkapoag, Massachusetts, hello!

Horace Rumpole — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:24:08 -0800

A chance meeting between Kevin Pollak and Jason Calacanis at a poker game gave birth to Kevin Pollak's Chat Show, a weekly, web-based interview program. Episode 29, with guest Weird Al Yankovic, will be streaming live at 8PM ET/5PM PT. While you're waiting, check out previous episodes with guests like Eddie Izzard, Hank Azaria, and John Hamm. Or try your hand at the Larry King Game.

How to make a Jellystinian

moorooka — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 09:41:00 -0800

Jewish-Australian John Safran is (in)famous for his outrageous style of comedic television documentary, including the AFI award winning "Music Jamboree" and "John Safran vs God" (previously). His latest effort, "Race Relations" has already been described as the "lowest point in the history of Australian television". Including a "sniff test" comparison of Eurasian and Jewish panties and a scene involving a plastic cup and a copy of Obama's "Audacity of Hope" inside a Palestinian sperm-bank, episode one (of eight) aired last Wednesday to a buzz of controversy, and there's plenty worse to come.

Bill Cosby's Rap Album

Jenny is Crafty — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 07:07:43 -0800

Bill Cosby Presents the Cosnarati: State of Emergency The project includes songs about frustration, incarceration and .... respect for women. I believe you can hear the whole thing online today. Rappers such as Jace the Great, Brother Hahz and Supa Nova Slim will be featured.

The Andy Rooney Game

LSK — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 09:49:53 -0800

Youtube user totallyjk has been posting a series of videos titled the "Andy Rooney game", in which everything but the first and last lines of an Andy Rooney segment from 60 Minutes is removed, often with amusing or touching results. A few other YouTubers have videos of the game, too.

The Gervais Principle

East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:47:36 -0800

The Gervais Principle, Or The Office According to “The Office”. Warning: link may evoke baleful despair!

You're all drones! Especially the drones!

Shepherd — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 08:28:13 -0800

Jedis hate our way of life. (SLYT) (and yes, Clerks did kinda get there first.)

Skip to the end

fearfulsymmetry — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 10:43:15 -0800

Spaced is 10. Fried gold!

Doom smash!

fearfulsymmetry — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 02:01:37 -0800

Dr. Victor von Doom, ruler of Latveria, master of magic and science, demonstrates his new Doom-O-Matic (SLYT)

10 Drogen

hypersloth — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 01:45:37 -0800

Ten drugs you should never take when driving a car Meinte ich, lustig noch wieder, und dann nochmal.
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Flight of the Conchords: John Lennon meets Gary Shandling sort of thing

filthy light thief — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:29:00 -0800

September 9, 2005 - Flight of the Conchords performed six songs and chatted with the audience as part of HBO's One Night Stand, not quite two years before the TV series would air. The show is online for your viewing pleasure (29 minute MySpace video, also available as a youtube playlist of 6 videos). Songs Performed: 1. Jenny (not in the show, but played live, with a bit of Freebird) 2. Think About It, Think, Think About It (in episode 3 3. Business Time (in episode 5) 4. Albi The Racist Dragon (in episode 7) 5. Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros (in episode 3) 6. She's So Hot, Boom (in episode 2)

King of the one (maybe two) liners

Potomac Avenue — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:31:24 -0800

Joshua Green Allen, who has been posting great internet for more than 15 years, if not longer, merges seamlessly with a new technology. If any twitter account is worth being renowned far and wide for hilarity: His Is. Also starring in: Diary of a Copywriter One stop shopping. Previously: 1, 2, 3

Webbed, For Her Pleasure

Christ, what an asshole — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:16:37 -0800

There is no God. More Mitchell and Webb: Homeopathic A&E Annoying Vegetarian Education Reform Mac vs. PC Football, Football, Football Bad Vicar Abraham and Isaac Apprentice UK Spoof Candidates Getting Over Lucy Banana Dance Angry Art Avocdo Bathroom Dying Kid Identity Killer Identity Killer 2 Alien Invasion Cryogenics Who is the Captain? Levitation Holmes and Watson Corner Shop Sir Digby Chicken Caesar Toothbrush Company Party Organizer Realtor Torture Psychologist Friends of Moneypenny Wavy Arms Swimming Pool Sale Myth Child Speedo Cheesoid Boy With an Arse for a Face Hole in the Ring The Fun Historian Chiropractor Wordwang A History of Numberwang Scarecrow German SS Officers Henchmen Good Samaritan Social Misunderstanding Gap Year Backpedaling Idiots Gap Year Backpedaling Idiots 2 Gap Year Backpedaling Idiots 3 Israel/Bible Pitch Science Fiction Cricket Dave Gorman Football Young Love The Insulting Librarian First Television Chip and Pin Heroin Addict Christmas Arguing Couple Big Talk Detectives Global Warming Skeptic Hospital Drama Counterfeit Sell That House to Them Daydream Believers Daydream Believers 2 Daydream Believers 3 Rat Poison Library Psycho Sarcastic Paramedic Bad Poker Player IT Recruiting Sarcastic Egg Farmer Biscuit Levitation The Green Clarinet Angel Summoner and BMX Bandit Garden Center Natives Naming a Dry Cleaner Massive Yacht Table of Reds Dreamy Pastures Insurance Jump Off a Cliff Sometimes Fires Go Out Primetime Welsh TV Yorkshire Airlines Bad Waiter Casino Carnivale My Shag as a Whore Captain Todger Screw Back in Anger Little Guy Emotionally Repressed Action Figures The Greatest Invention Yet Dog Bell Lights Out Ring Cycle Alcoholics Hotel Vectron Community Policeman Community Policeman 2 Guru Meditation Kitchen Nightmares Die Hard Doctor and Ice Cream Tester Remain Indoors Remain Indoors 2 Remain Indoors 3 Prankster Doctors Alcoholic Isotonic Drink Polite Taxi Driver Helivets Helivets 2 Biohazard Biohazard 2 Biohazard 3 Bronze Age Orientation Everything is Now Fine Lecherous Director Hospital Innuendo Pet Hospital Tina Edwards Hercules Poirot Professor Death Queen Victoria Text a Blog Best Man Speech Brain Surgeon Caveman Detectives Now We Know Write This Cheese

Rehearse this line, future slaves: "Merry Darkseid. I got you a Darkseid."

kittens for breakfast — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 18:42:00 -0800

Previously, we saw Darkseid rant to the empty air. Now the nightmarish lord of evil -- reduced to selling old Kiss cassette tapes to support his drinking habit, and living in a dumpster behind the Baby Gap -- rants to Twitter as HOBODARKSEID. Along the way, he shares his views on the ending of "Moonlighting," sings Dio's "Holy Diver," and confesses a love for "Mad Men." He also intends to destroy us all. Shudder/enjoy.

La Comédie Musicale

tellurian — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:03:33 -0800

French musical comedies 1918-1940 [French]. Non-French can still appreciate the programmes, photographs, music and videos.

A Sense of History

The Great Big Mulp — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 16:46:59 -0800

A Sense of History (part 2, part 3), written and performed by Jim Broadbent (MLYT).

I laughed

You Should See the Other Guy — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 21:00:23 -0800

The Curse of Cheddar Bay and Boy Toyz. Utter nonsense which I thought pretty funny. Double link Youtube, both created by the same people.

SNL Auditions

Ufez Jones — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:25:27 -0800

Saturday Night Live Auditions (all YT links): Phil Hartman, John Belushi, Dana Carvey (2), Will Ferrell, and Jim Breuer (2), (3).

Written by you, for you, for free, for money, for us.

not_on_display — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:06:42 -0800

Bigipedia--it's like listening to Wikipedia on the radio--is also available on the web (for those of you whose radios do not support multiple-voice broadcasts).

Remembering Dennis Wolfberg

JHarris — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 02:11:02 -0800

Dennis Wolfberg was one of the most distinctive voices (literally) from the stand-up comedy boom of the early 90s. A former schoolteacher, he became a fixture on the fledgling network Comedy Central roughly fifteen years BCM (Before Carlos Mencia). His vocal style and inflections had a way of selling the most outlandish comparisons. He was a guest on both Letterman and Carson, and had guest-starred as Gooshie on Quantum Leap on multiple occasions until he tragically died from cancer in 1994. Some of his most memorable routines were his experience with Fiber One cereal and encounter with a sigmoidoscope,, his wife's pregnancy and his twins' Bris. His HBO special is available in its entirety on YouTube: part 1 - part 2 - part 3 (most of part 3 linked above).

Q: Wenn ist das Nunstuck git und Slotermeyer? A: Sid Caesar

not_on_display — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:45:15 -0800

Sid Caesar demonstrates the art of doubletalk.