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  • Breaking Bad Finally Gets Its Honest Trailer

    The “Honest Trailers” from Screen Junkies are always fun, and with the final episodes of Breaking Bad soon to debut, what better time for the two series to meet?

    I’m pretty sure there’s an F word in the pilot though, if you don’t watch it on TV.

  • Peyton & Eli Manning Rap, Mock Alexander Graham Bell’s Death In New DirecTV Ad

    DirecTV has a new “Football on Your Phone” ad out today, and it features the Manning brothers rapping about just that. As one who would fully expect for this to be incredibly unfunny, I have to admit I was pleasantly surprised.

    Also, Eli doesn’t care what Alexander Graham Bell thinks, because he’s dead.

    I would imagine we’ll be seeing a condensed version of this on television, which will inevitably be way overplayed. Something tells me the Graham Bell part won’t be in the edited version.

  • Crazy Eyes From ‘Orange Is The New Black’ Gets Weird Tribute From ‘Breaking Bad’ Rapper

    A guy going by the name MC Coolwhip has apparently printed out a whole bunch of copies of a picture of Crazy Eyes from Netflix’s Orange is the New Black, and hung them all over his sister’s room.

    We know this because he tweeted as much:

    Then Piper Kerman, who wrote the book on which Orange is the New Black is based shared it with actress Uzo Aduba, who plays Crazy Eyes.

    Aduba responded:

    If you’re not intrigued by MC Coolwhip yet, you might be interested in knowing that he has three songs up on his site, and they’re all based on characters from Breaking Bad (Skyler, Jesse and Heisenberg). These are part of an EP called Breaking Doom, which is described as “Breaking bad lyrics over MF DOOM beats”.

    Here you go:

    Aduba and Kerman appeared with some of Orange is the New Black’s other cast member on MSNBC this weekend to talk about the show, stereotypes and real-life prisons. You can see some clips from that here.

  • Spotify Launches New Comedy App with Curated Playlists

    Spotify Launches New Comedy App with Curated Playlists

    Spotify may not be best known for its comedy content, but the service actually has a pretty good selection. It appears that they want you to know that – and they also want to make it easier to surface. With that in mind, Spotify has just unveiled its first-ever comedy app, Official Comedy. Launched in partnership with Bedrocket media’s Official Comedy channel, the new app compiles all of the comedy content available on Spotify and wraps it up in a nice little package for users looking to laugh instead of sing along.

    Here’s what Spotify’s Candice Katz had to say:

    This first of its kind app aggregates our extensive comedy database and offers listeners a curated assortment of entertaining programming. Now it’s never been easier to get giggling to top comedy performances such as Jerry Seinfeld’s “I’m Telling You For The Last Time” and Aziz Ansari’s “Dangerously Delicious,” along with material from Louis CK, Mike Birbiglia, Kevin Hart, Jeffrey Ross and many others.

    The app lets you browse currently trending funnymen and funnywomen, as well as browse by comedian and “one-liners.” There are also individually generated playlists organized by topic – for instance you can start a 185-track playlist about “the world of medicine, according to some unhealthy people” or a playlist about war in comedy “that would make Patton proud.”

    You can grab the app today.

  • Ice Ice Baby Gets ‘Sung By The Movies’ Treatment

    It’s Monday, and you need to experience Vanilla Ice’s classic Ice Ice Baby as pieced together from bits of nearly three hundred well-known movies. DonDraperSaysWhat has you covered. What more needs to be said?

    [via Laughing Squid]

  • A World Without Smartphones Apparently Means The Return Of Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots

    I absolutely adore my smartphone. It seems that many of you do too. In fact, I find it hard to imagine a world without smartphones despite having lived most of my life without one. That’s how powerful of an impression the technology leaves on you. So, what would happen then if smartphones were never invented?

    Qualcomm, the company that makes most of the CPUs powering your smartphones, released a video Thursday that reveals an alternate reality where smartphones never existed. It’s a somewhat bleak future, but hey, at least it means we get Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots back.

    Does anybody want to live in this mobile-less world for at least a day? I mean, it looks like it would be kind of fun for at least a little bit. I’m especially a fan of Tweets just being tiny blue birds falling from the heavens.

    In the end, however, we can be thankful that smartphones have made our lives a lot less interesting, and therefore safer as a result.

    [h/t: DroidLife]

  • Mumford & Sons Are Offensive To Rock & Roll, According To Alice Cooper

    Fuse has apparently gotten Alice Cooper (of bitter old man on golf course fame) all worked up about what should be considered rock and roll these days. If you’re The Foo Fighters or Green Day, you’re cool in Alice’s book, but don’t let him catch you slapping the “Rock & Roll” label on Mumford & Sons or The Lumineers.

    Watch him babble on for a two and a half minutes about what rock and roll is supposed to be and what it isn’t:

    Don’t let the video title fool you though. He thinks the Lumineers and Mumford are great at what they do. It’s just not Alice’s rock and roll.

    You know, like this:

    Don’t question his authority on rock and roll. He is, after all, a “rock and roll vagabond.”

    Image credit: Gage Skidmore (Flickr)

  • Hitler Is Talking About The Google Panda Update Again

    There’s a new Hitler Panda update video out. This isn’t the first time we’ve seen Hitler address the subject of Google’s controversial algorithm update, but it’s been a while. In fact, Hitler seems to have completely reversed his position from this one where he was clearly not a fan of the update.

    This time, Hitler is running Google, and is a huge proponent of the update. The video from FreewareGenius was uploaded on July 4th.

    Samer from FreewareGenius.com tells WebProNews, “Panda killed my site but at least I got to make a Hitler video about it entitled ‘Hitler as Google CEO’”.

    Yeah, I guess there’s always a silver lining.

  • If Xbox One Were A Woman, Would The Kinect Still Be Necessary?

    The folks at IF*ckingHateThat understood there are a lot of questions surrounding the Xbox One, and so, they took it upon themselves to try and find some answers. What they came up with presents the issues surrounding Microsoft’s next gaming console, if the Xbox One were an attractive woman (very). Would she want to watch TV instead of play? Would the Kinect still be necessary to enjoy her company?

    These, of course, are the important issues, and we deserve some answers. Thankfully, IFHT gives us a good idea:


    Yeah, that looks about right. I’m not sure about the rest of you, but the Wii, as presented in the video, would certainly be a suitable replacement for the Xbox One’s friend zone ways. Hey, at least she got rid of those stalker habits by ditching the DRM, right? Don’t forget about her newfound willingness to share with other gamers, either.

    With these things in mind, does that make the Xbox One/her worth the extra $100?

    [H/t to Dueling Analogs]

  • ‘Google Blockbuster’ Algorithm Revealed (On Conan)

    Google recently put out a whitepaper claiming that Google searches can predict box office totals with 94% accuracy. The paper describes how Google arrives at its results by observing searches for a movie’s trailer, then combining it with the movie’s seasonality and franchise status, as well as a movie’s paid search click volume in the week before the movie opens.

    It’s all pretty interesting, and now in parody land, Google has announced Google Blockbuster, a new algorithm for predicting movie success (via Conan):

    In the video, “Google engineer” Jeff Bergsma explains, “Simply upload your movie trailer to Google Blockbuster, hit return, and in a few seconds, our algorithm queries a series of data points related to the film.”

    These include:

    How many dimensions is it (3D? 4D?)?

    What is the acreage of any oncoming asteroid?

    Is Tim Allen in the film?

    How many blocks has the director bust in the past?

    Are any stars trekked, warred or danced with?

    Have you at least considered Tim Allen?

    How many years past the optimal age is the protagonist getting for this shit?

    What is the lowest common Wayans brother?

    If Tim Allen isn’t in the film, why not? Has he read the script? How many messages did you leave with his manager?

    What is the weddings to funerals ratio?

    How dirty is the film’s dancing on a scale of sterile to grotesque?

    How channed are the films Jackies and/or Tatums? Maybe a nice leather chair from the pottery barn.

    Is there synchronic reliability between the film’s fastness, its furiosity and its dieselessence?

    Have you tried luring Tim Allen with non-monetary perks?

    Google, he explains, then takes the answers to all of those questions, discards them, and just records the view count of your trailer on YouTube.

    “And that gives us a pretty good indication. 94%.”

  • ‘It Gets Worse’ Project Looks at Stand Up Comedy, the ‘Best and Worst Job’

    Comedians Dave Waite and Grant Lyon have created the “It Gets Worse” project, a parody of the popular “It Gets Better” LGBT project. Their series focuses on the jubilation felt by stand up comedians after their first performance and the subsequent spiral into the “reality of crying alone in a Red Roof Inn after a terrible road gig.”

    “The It Gets Worse Project’s mission is to communicate why being a stand up comedian is simultaneously the best and worst job in the country. Comedians submit themselves to constant abuse from audiences and their own inner demons, and yet they keep coming back, continually inspired to write new jokes and try new stages. They are either noble artists or complete idiots,” says its creators.

    Here are a few more episodes:

    [via Laughing Squid]

  • This Guy Put Out An Andrew Mason Album Before Andrew Mason

    As you may have heard, former Groupon CEO Andrew Mason is putting out a seven-track album of “motivational business music” called Hardly Workin’. It’s set to drop on July 2nd, and the album cover and track listing were just released.

    We now have word that somebody has already beat him to the punch in the new sub-genre of Andrew Mason motivational music. Chicago native and AV Club freelancer Sam Zelitch has released an album titleld Hardly Working, inspired by Mason’s musical endeavor.

    Why? I’m still not sure, but here’s what Zelitch had to say in an email to WebProNews:

    “As soon as the former CEO of Groupon announced his plan to to release an album, I started working on an album of my own, anticipating what it would sound like. For inspiration, I turned to the letter he wrote after being rejected from Groupon, as well as the work of Nick Cave, Bruce Springsteen, the Insane Clown Posse, and the Battletoads soundtrack. It tells the story of Mason’s ejection from Groupon and the life I imagine he’s led since then.”

    “As an artist and performer based in Chicago, where the name ‘Mason’ is a force to be reckoned with, I’m proud to say that I reckoned with it. I dropped his album before he did, and it took me less time and fewer resources. Ha ha ha!”

    You can check out Zelitch’s album via BandCamp:

    Zelitch recently received some coverage from Spin, for the fifty-nine songs he wrote about Patton Oswalt.

  • YouTube Explains Copyright In The Best Way Possible

    Copyright law is confusing. Even lawyers have trouble grasping copyright law, so it stands to reason that regular ol’ content producers on YouTube would have trouble as well. Don’t worry – YouTube and its puppet pals are here to help.

    Yes, you heard that right – puppets. The YouTube Help channel recently uploaded a “YouTube Copyright Basics” video starring a colorful cast of puppets that help explain the core concepts of copyright law and how to avoid infringing said copyright on YouTube.

    The above video explains how to file a copyright complaint, how to file a dispute, the difference between manual takedowns and content ID takedowns, and fair use. It’s also really funny.

    If you want to know more about the importance of copyright on YouTube, check out YouTube’s copyright center.

    [h/t: boing boing]

  • John McAfee Releases Hilarious ‘Guide To Uninstalling McAfee Antivirus’

    So this just happened.

    John McAfee has released a new video “guide to uninstalling McAfee Antivirus,” playing up the the crazy image he’s often portrayed as having by the media. His title in the video is: Founder, McAfee Antivirus Software, Eccentric Millionaire.

    “Although I’ve had nothing to do with this company for over 15 years, I still get volumes of mail asking, ‘How do I uninstall this software?’” says McAfee. “I have no idea.”

    “As I’ve said, I’ve had nothing to do with McAfee Software for over 15 years,” he says. “I’ve had more pressing things to do. But recent events have made me change my mind. I’ve had, over the years, many responses from users who are complaining about the difficulty of removing the software. I’d like to read you a few things.”

    He then reads some rather vulgar letters (NSFW language) complaining about McAfee Software, and gets his friend Bartholomew to walk users through the steps for uninstalling the software. Meanwhile, McAfee gets a lap dance, and snorts some bath salts with his guns on the table. Eventually he shoots a computer.

    By the time the video is over, you probably still won’t have any clue how to uninstall the software, but you’ll probably have had a few laughs. McAfee Software appreciates it, I’m sure.

  • Netflix Uploads Videos Of Ron Howard Narrating Tweets Arrested Development-Style

    Ron Howard has been narrating tweets in Arrested Development style, and the Arrested Development Twitter account has been sharing Vines of them for a while. Today, Netflix uploaded a bunch of them to YouTube:

  • Don’t Have Time For The Xbox One Press Conference? Watch This Instead

    As is now customary, the folks at VideoGamer release an abridged version of any and all video game related press conferences. The Xbox One went first yesterday so it’s the first on the chopping block.

    I don’t think I’ll ever get tired of these. They’re undoubtedly hard at work at tearing Sony a new one for its E3 press conference, but that might be kind of hard since Sony really didn’t mess anything up. I’m sure they’ll find something…

    Oh, how about that time when Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag crashed during Sony’s presser? That’s unfortunate and totally detracts from the PS4 not blocking used games, right?

  • Prehistoric Community Runs Into Population Problems With “Samesies”

    This video is definitely NSFW, so heed the warning if you aren’t in a safe place. If you are, then enjoy the stinging humor of this video that pokes fun at a problem plaguing us today. What will happen to the world if everyone was ‘Samesies’? The video shows a prehistoric community who runs into a problem, as they love samesies, but more people can’t be created. Hilarity ensues.

    You’re welcome for the laughs, and enjoy.

  • What Happens When Tom Cruise Swaps Faces With Jack Nicholson?

    Fans of terrible 90s movies may remember Face/Off. In the film, John Travolta and Tom Cruise switch faces. Through the power of video editing magic, one YouTube parody filmmaker has brought the magic of Face/Off to other movies and celebrities.

    In this famous scene from A Few Good Men, Jack Nicholson and Tom Cruise have their faces swapped. The result is actually pretty creepy:

    YouTube user FaceMashups has a number of these videos. They are all equally hilarious and terrifying.

    Here’s Zach Galifianakis and Kristen Stewart:

    Here’s Penn Jillette and Neil deGrasse Tyson:

    [h/t: BabsonMcChonkers via Reddit]

  • This Video Shows How Silly You Look Taking Pictures With Google Glass

    Google Glass could be the future of computing or it could be something we’re all sitting around laughing back on years from now. Actually, a lot of people are already laughing about it, and some are making videos ridiculing the device and those who wear it.

    This one doesn’t seem to be done in a mean-spirited way, but it does show you how silly you could look while taking pictures with Glass – one of things it’s supposed to be great for.

    [via Gizmodo]

  • Tony Siragusa Talking About Depends Makes Local Weather Guy Lose It

    Funny videos of news anchors and weathermen losing their cool on television are nothing new on the Internet. Some might even say that they’re what makes the Internet worth using. No? Either way, they’re usually pretty funny.

    Reddit has unearthed a new one where the weather segment begins after a Depends commercial featuring former NFL defensive tackle Tony Siragusa talking about “guarding your manhood”. Needless to say, the weather guy found the commercial amusing:

    [via reddit]

  • This Compilation Of Commander Riker Sitting Down Is An Instant Classic [Star Trek]

    You’ll never view TNG the same again.

    [via reddit]