vintage

So I’m 20 today (yeah, I’m a bit of a baby when it comes to the blogosphere), and so I thought I’d make a post about me. That is, I’m passing along links to some of my favourite funny videos so you can experience them too. Warning: may cause spit-takes. Protect your monitor.

Robin Williams – Bush & Obama is a hilarious video from just after the American election. He did some comedy in England for Charles & Camilla, or as he calls them, “Chuck and Cam”. It is stupid how many times I’ve watched this, but it’s amazing.

Paul McCartney making mashed potatoes. I never thought I would enjoy watching an old rock star talk to his oven mitts and slice onions.

Bob & Doug MacKenzie’s 24 Anniversary — self-explanatory. Hosers represent.

Star Wars retold by someone who hasn’t seen it is probably funniest for people who have seen the movies — sextilogy? Is there a word for a series of six? — but either way, someone trying to inform us about the finer points of a series they’ve never seen is already comedy gold.

How to write a fugue, on a theme by Britney Spears. This is especially great for musicians, but I think that anyone can appreciate the hilarity of a remarkably adept treatment of “Oops, I Did It Again” in fugal style (and the excellent editing).

Bach a cappella features one guy singing all four parts of a Bach piece — soprano too — and comically straining his voice to both extremes. His theatrically exaggerated facial expressions make this one of the funniest performances of ol’ Johann Sebastian on the internet. (He has more Bach, as well as Mahler, Puccini, and Gounod on his channel page … I recommend them all.)

Sloan loses a guitarist on tour … Jay gets lost in the woods and the rest of the band go to find him. A ridiculous video featuring such quotes as “It’s getting dark, it must be like, five-thirty or something!” or “It’s a leg. A human leg” (identified by Chris Murphy after a smell test).

And of course, Hugh Jackman on Japanese television (just after the Oscars). This is the biggest trip ever — I don’t even know what’s going on most of the time, but the exchange about balls is HILARIOUS. More clips here, if you’re still interested after that.

Real posts on their way!

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