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Loner freak out classic Taxi Driver gets the trailer remix action so popular nowadays. It talks right to our hearts... or at least it mans up to do so while glaring at itself in the mirror. Can you wait until someone gives us the inevitable Mel Gibson's Triumph Of The Will? We can't.
Taxi Driver [iFilm]
Pretty sure we've linked to the fine and mighty Apropos of Something comics re-mixes before, but we felt the Superman Returns one needed a little attention. The text is a spoiler if you haven't seen the movie... although "spoiler" feels like kind of a strong word for that movie.
Thanks to Pam
Unlubed captions shoved up hapless print ads from the 50s.
They were asking for it, they were wearing short copy.
The life phase of the delicate flower the honeybees of media filler sup from where the war stop being interesting: The Party Girl
Phase Five: Frightening Delusion:
"What results is a tragicomic display wherein you look like a painted up sideshow freak at the circus, oblivious to the fact that people's fascination with you is less about admiration and more about a sick voyeuristic curiosity. You're probably on Vh1 now."
Heh.
The Lifespan of The Party Girl [Best Week Ever]
Best Week Ever checks in with the leftovers from West Beverly High and tracks down what everyone is up to. Judging from the photo, Brandon Walsh has taken to paid turd-sniffing.
The Beverly Hills 90210 Ten Year Class Reunion [Best Week Ever]
The always fine CulturePulp comic strip goes backstage at the Cirque du Soleil, where Pulp scribe Mike Russell encounters far fewer latex-encased scrotums than we ourselves had to contend with when we saw the show. Maybe they're phasing out the scrotums. God, we wish they'd phase out the scrotums. We saw the Cirque three years ago and we still tense up when we hear French. Cirque du Soleil was our scrotum `Nam. But we digress.
El Aborto is not, i-mockery assures us, a Mexican wrestler, but a monografias on the joys of abortion. A continuation of their Crazy Mexican Monografias study.
“Britney provides inspiration for those struggling with the ‘right choice’,” said artist Daniel Edwards, recipient of a 2005 Bartlebooth award from London’s The Art Newspaper. “She was number one with Google last year, with good reason --- people are inspired by the beauty of a pregnant woman,” said Edwards.
Daniel Edwards Monument to Pro-Life: The Birth of Sean Preston
The New Normal works hard for the giggles with much gusto in this blitzkrieg of short: Laugh, Motherfucker, Laugh.
Mike Russell's CulturePulp strip recounts Maus creator Art Spiegelman's recent speaking date in Eugene Oregon, wherein we learn that the erotic, self-absorbed cartoonist from New York needs a thinner tin foil hat than some idle chatter may have suggested. Audio of the event has also been made into a podcast.
Call Center: a short film about the unhelpful people who aren't there when you really need them.
Renee French's homesite crawls with nuggets of grotesque comic art strangeness which feel like the bits from David Lynch movies that you remember after watching them the first time.
The LEK : an indie sitcom pilot about a startup online dating service "with the moxie and mayhem needed to start the next sexual revolution."
Fantastic old photos of the monsters which were once what people meant when they used the word "computer" with some damn fine quips by James Lileks
Compu-Promo [lileks.com]
Over at Cracked Matt Tobey and Josh Abraham poke at the sleeping bear which is The Religion Of Peace® with the sharp stick of beloved comics characters. Fatwa scheduled for noon.
More Cartoons That Might Offend in the Middle East [cracked.com]
Dare to want it all at Big Bob's Used Car Lot.
Via New Normal
#5: One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. "Oh, no," I said. "Disneyland burned down." He cried and cried, but I think that deep down, he thought it was a pretty good joke. I started to drive over to the real Disneyland, but it was getting pretty late.
#10: I bet when the Neanderthal kids would make a snowman, someone would always end up saying, "Don't forget the thick, heavy brows." Then they would all get embarrassed because they remembered they had the big hunky brows too, and they'd get mad and eat the snowman.
#43: I'd like to see a nude opera, because when they hit those high notes, I bet you can really see it in those genitals.
Jack Handy Quotes [alexras.info]
(Image ganked from dovegirl)
Regain your Slack from The pinks already! Join the descendants of the Yeti and witness Douglass Smith's one- minute SubGenius ad from 1991, which you may remember in truncated form as an interstitial on MTV. Music by none other than Rev. Mark Mothersbaugh of DEVO and staring SubGenius co-sub-founder Rev. Ivan Stang. He is truly closer to the Yeti.
SubGenius Commercial [Milk & Cookies]
In this short, The Post Show tries every hard to understand where its been, why there are cheez-its in its underwear, and with some trepidation what that hoof print on the bedboard might mean.
A Memento Hookup [The Post Show]
"Rob Fosse (brother of Bob Fosse) realizes his lifelong dream of assembling a bottomless male dance company. They may not be dancers... but they do dance!"
A good cut and paste comics goof on TV-infected English pop culture.
Seamless
Via the ever-creative mr and mrs wheatley
Newly revamped Cracked magazine offers up a nice stab at the most depressing city block in your town: the local Wal-Mart.
Thrall-Mart [Cracked.com]
Seconds Of Love's Kelp gets the Joel Veitch weirdness.
Sure, it's kind of funny, even more so because it tweaks a self-important windbag, but minus several thousand to Sevan Najarian and Justin Roiland for the saggy Cobsy bits.
DJ Weird Nasty feat. The Cosby Clones-- Listen Up Theo [Watchingpaintdry/Waxy]
Via antville
The Shaggy Dog gets the review it deserves. Episode 2 of The Hollywoody Show.
A little humor for art nerds -- to over explain this one is to kill it, so with no delay or foreplay the official history of net.art presents The History of Art For Airports.
Benjamin Hershleder and Rik Swartzwelder's pretty great express elevator to Hell/ Happy meal spoof. The amusing level of blasphemy just about makes up for the page design.
Is this a parody? Your first instinct after watching the clip will be to go "Of course, dumbass, this is a parody." But take a moment and really think about any movie critic you've ever seen do his/her thing for a moment. Picture it in your mind. That's right. We ask again: is this a parody?
The HollyWoody Show
With thanks to EvLo211
Philosophers and then physicists and sometimes those who are a little of both have been trying for centuries to offer up a simple explanation for the universe in one elegant statement, a grand unification theory of everything. Surprisingly, episode 5 of Flash toon it's JerryTime! offers exactly fuck all in this department, but when they do figure it out, this will by defination have to be part of the equation. Also it continues to creep us out amusingly.
What do the Olsen Twins, Angela Lansbury, Charles Bronson have to do with Shaq? Pretty much what you'd think.
Thanks to Tiny
A currently poular clip of Will Ferrell, doing his thing on SNL
Uploaded by drock59
Aziz Ansari and Andy Blitz as indie clerks at Other Music. The only real jail time we've ever done was for attacking a guy just like this; we broke a Winger CD in half and slashed at him with it. The clerk was basically okay but he had the arm amputated just to be safe.
Via Stereogum
Helen Keller
The life of Helen Keller is discussed in some detail. Possibly the 9th or 10th Helen Keller video you'll see today tagged accurately with both "Helen Keller" and "Predator" tags.
Thanks to Edward.
Sometimes we think that inside of all people are smaller people who make the big decisions and harbor our deepest thoughts and when they feel sorrow we feel that nagging thing where something is wrong but we don't know what like maybe we left the waffle iron where the tied up hitchhiker could reach it and start a fire. Then we get asked to leave the bar. Anyway, enjoy this short, and good luck with sleeping later.
The Loneliest Probe [zzalgern0n]
Bitterpill's sly goof/comment on blogger Jason Kottke's recent adventures in entrepreneurship.
Poor Ask-A -Ninja is getting the high hat from recently spooked-by-NBC-nastygram video conduit YouTube, being hassled to remove videos which contain their own self-created content because it might, we guess, infringe on their own rights... iIf this were a Douglas Adams novel Ask-A-Ninja would now have to disappear in a puff of legal logic or something. Such zero-tolerance bureaucratic thinking is usually one of the last burps before the death barf of something interesting and the inevitable decline into something like what Napster has become. We're sorry to see the drain open up before YouTube like this, so we offer up this next clip for the Tube itself.
Here's an amusing web series following the exploits of Pittsburgh radio station WANT FM. Sorta feels like a mashup of WKRP and The Office, but not nearly as sucky as that unfortunate description which we just pulled out of our asses actually makes us picture. Ongoing since the summer of 2003, it's currently in the last half of its third season. If it's new to you, there are pretty well stocked archives you can go back through to catch up.
This is a journey:
"I've taken fake Xmas pix at the local Sears for the past 10 years with
a fake family and have posted the cards along with a twisted
story to go along with each year."
Always wondered who did these Sears photos. Now we know-- liars.
The Christmas Cards [Solid Gold Fantastic]
Also from the site, a handy prequel to the recent Van Halen post.
Puppet Rapist - #1: recently hot channel 102 short in which a convicted puppet rapist returns to life on the outside.
Puppet Rapist - #1 [channel102]
First, sketch comedy love of many from the 90s, The State, on their MTV show with the unauthorized biography of Abraham Lincoln:
Up'd by ossas81.
Next, think you resent working on President's Day? Here's old favorite Flash toon The Reanimated Bones of Abe Lincoln:
Thank you, Modern Science. also, Horace01, and Opus Moreschi.
Finally, Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. Probably.
Up'd by tiercel76.
Here's a nugget of solid joy that will make the afternoon for more than a few of you-- Si Quieres Puedes: Alex Montoya + Raul Navarro's "short film that explores the limits of human will." Is that the preferred euphemism these days?
Thanks to Susannah.
Si Quieres Puedes (aka If There's a Will there's a Way) upload by polpope
Beat Kids Ty goes to the horse track. Adorable hilarity ensues. A clip from the show which most needs to come back to the fetid stagnant airwaves of MTV2, Wonder Showzen.
Highly amusing short featuring man's man-- fuck that, Ted Nugent's man endurance predator Willy, who hunts his game in the wild mano-y-whatever style, forgoing guns for pinching his prey on the neck like Spock. From the creator(s) of that Bobby Dukes paintball improv flick from last year. Wouldn't shock us if this turned out to be a viral for underarm stuff, but that could just be ad-induced paranoia.
By the way, how long is the media going to give a shit about this stupid Cheney hunting thing? Of all the wonderful achievements our little draft-avoiding Patton has done for us in recent years, shooting a republican lawyer hardly seems like the one to get upset over.
Karl Pilkington, the drug trip of a producer for the Ricky Gervais Xfm radio show seems to be making the rounds just now, mostly because of the Guardian Podcast. Here are three short bits from YouTube feauting the magic that is Karl:
Meet Karl Pilkington:
Ricky Gervais & Karl Pilkington - Nature Of Infinity:
The Ricky Gervais Show - Behind the Scenes:
Roommates -- can't live with `em, can't indulge in homosexual fantasies about them easily. A new one from The Post Show.
Wet Dream [The Post Show]
Howard Dean's run at the presidency killed a lot of things very dead. Our faith in the average American voter and his ability to see past the opposition's calculated hype-up of a frickin' yell for instance, but this is not a political short we're linking to here. This is a particularly well directed short film all about love, and how hap was restored to the hapless at a Dean rally in 2004.
Hello Dean [Huffington Post]
Great Mystery Science Theater 3000 pre-show short hors d'oeuvre. From their coverage of Ed Wood's The Sinister Urge.
Thanks to Flaggboy42
An ostrich, one which is down. It wraps its beak around the speak. It squawks to the flock. The bird with the word.
This filled us with a level of glee which is probably illegal in Utah.
Awwwstrich [Huffingtonpost.com]
Thanks to Jake
Wee bit worn out on the whole "mashup" thing, but this is one of the better ones: Eric Idle in The Life Of Brian sings his "Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life" to sourpuss Jesus.
Thanks to Flaggboy42
Are You The Favorite Person of Anybody?, Miranda July's contribution to previously mentioned McSweeney's DVD shorts compilation "magazine" Wolphin.
Are You The Favorite Person of Anybody? [Salon's Dog]
BTW, if you get the chance, see Miranda July's really excellent You And me And Everyone We Know, from which we get the image above. Occasionally you'll run into a review depicting it as pseudo-artsy self-indulgent wankery, but if it were like that, someone named "dong resin" probably wouldn't be reocmening it to you, now would he. For example, it's got infinite pooping in it. Try to picture that in your mind.
Infinite.
Pooping.
"True Love is but a +2 Broadsword away. "
For weeks we've been waving off tips for this short film like complete morons because we mistakenly thought we'd seen it already. We're not sure what we thought it was, but Fear of Girls is Ryan Wood's goof documentary on the Role-Playing game culture. Did quite well at various small film festivals, we hear.
Fear of Girls [YNG Turk Films ]
Thanks to Mr. Nate
The good: South Park. All of it. All nine seasons.
The bad: it's in Windows-centric, fail-happy .AVI format
The good: it's free!
The bad: it looks it.
Gift horses, eh? Still, thank you Mr Twig.
South Park -- Mr Twig's message board
Thanks to gerf
DetroitWonk Ray offers some extensive background for this clip of Bobcat Goldthwait's recent appearance n the Jimmy Kimmel show, which makes the clip just that much better:
This week, before the Super Bowl, Jimmy Kimmel's show was broadcast Live from Detroit. This was because during an NBA Finals game last year, Kimmel made a wisecrack that it didnt matter who won the Finals because Detroiters would still tip over cars and burn them. He almost got his show cancelled because of that. This was him "make good". Well, the first night of his "make good" they had a raffle for open tickets for the taping. They gave out 400 tickets. But only 17 people could get in because of all the "friends" and "friends of friends" trying to enter. Needless to say, it wasnt a good idea to piss off 375+ Detroiters. We complained to the news media...and Kimmel offered us the ability to do a "show watching party" with him. This video is of that "show watching party" where he introduces the Director of the show, Bobcat "Police Academy" Goldthwait. Kimmel asks Goldthwait to "do the voice", and Goldthwait responds by calling "Jimmy Kimmel's a douche". He then gets beer for the audience...and asks the audience if they "got any weed". He's then informed that Detroit Police are in the room. Bobcat apologizes and says that "they're only kidding about the weed thing...we're sorry...we know where we are...got any meth?"Here then, is the clip:
A self-contained short meant to air on the episode of SNL with Scarlett Johansson as hostess and cut for time, Fred Armisen stars as a man stuck on his own (com)plane of existence and misses out on a pretty spectacular evening.
If nobody else can help you, and if you can find him, maybe you can hire... Pat Robertson.
God's favorite moonbat gits `er done, Golan Globus style.
Pat Robertson: Sacrosanct Assassin [national lampoon]
Travis and Jonathan putting the big O in "Oscar." This bit was taped "at least 50 yards" from the entrance of the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. This fact makes it thrilling for us somehow.
Elyse Sewell Interviews Marty From The Shins
"Day157: Elyse Sewell Interviews Marty From The Shins. Elyse Sewell was a finalist on America's Next Top Model and is currently an ultra-hot model in Hong Kong. Marty from the Shins is Marty from the Shins." Via Scott Bateman's so far successful attempt to get out one animated film a day for a year. In fact, he's near the half way point, a feat which he's marking with a Bateman365 live show at New York's Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre.
Elyse Sewell Interviews Marty From The Shins
Remember that Roddy Piper movie They Live? When they'd put on the sunglasses and see the alien government's agenda revealed? Here's the State of the Union address edited into a little frank honesty. You know, if El Presidente actually hit the stage like this it wouldn't bother us so much-- we'd at least feel included.
Bush State of the Union Address
Via Disloyal.org
The above link works fine for us, but we had an email from someone with problems. If that's you too, watch it here .
Brokeback Mountain meets Back to the Future.
We thought the title might be confusing.
Thanks to Well Laced Shoes and Timo, both of whom suggested this at the same time.
The Post Show offers a peek at the do'ns behind the nylon curtain at the blue collar comedy festival. This fails completely by actually being funny and so reveals itself as a fraud almost immediately.
Get It Done [The Post Show]
A 4 minute "mini-sitcom" centered around goofing off at work. If this amuses you and use it to shirk your own job and goof off, the snake head then bites the tail, and the Ouroboros of fucking off becomes complete, thus facilitating the utter takeover of the west by China.
The latest episode goes all Star Trek. Enjoy.
QuietAgent.com whines to the intarweb: "We created a fun Super Bowl commercial featuring none other than George W. Bush, and you guessed it, it got rejected by ABC. We admit, we thought it was a little edgy, George W. searching for a new job, but come on, do we really need the media protecting us from things we are not allowed to see?"
We're not apologists for ABC by any means, but taste rather than political squeamishness may have had a wee bit to do with the ban-hammer in this instance. Or maybe not; after all ABC also refused to air scans of our colon polyps during the Super Bowl as well, those fascist, molly-coddling motherfuckers.
The Super Bowl Commercial you're not allowed to see [QuietAgent.com]
Via Fazed
"Ninja and Zombie is a short film and internet serial about the daily lives of a ninja and his roommate, a zombie."
If you're still reading this it means the preceding sentence wasn't enough to motivate you to click the link. We'll repeat it for you stragglers who needed a moment for that to sink in:
"Ninja and Zombie is a short film and internet serial about the daily lives of a ninja and his roommate, a zombie ."
New chapters to be posted weekly.
Ninja and Zombie [Daragh Sankey]
Sifl N Ollie is still funny, dammit. Watch the first episode and various other tidbits here.
By then dead for five years Lenny Bruce gets (re)-animated thanks to the efforts of San Francisco filmmaker John Magnuson in this 1971 goof on The Lone Ranger. All of the vocal characterizations in this are from a live performance in which Lenny wonders about the realities of being a do-godder in ye olde west.
http://www.youtube.com/w/Thank-You-Mask-Man?v=NE6JWEogq_k&search=Lenny%20Bruce
"Some carrots are harvested."
"Some carrots are humiliated publicly."
Joel and the bots endure a pre-feature educational short about... truck farming. From the I Accuse My Parents episode, which is one of the few Joel Hodgeson ones on DVD, and one of the better episodes of the whole series.
"I hope my patriotism will show you that the best Christians are always from a gated community. "
Richard Martin offers answers to questions asked of the Republican side of the ... well "republic" feels like kind of a strong word for it these days, but you know, here. Bits of his live performance in Seattle from last September made into two-minute video podcasts.
Unrelated: Andrus Lauringson'a short Flash makes little sense without some very specific mushrooms, but is impossible to not like. Click the bonus.
The Peanuts Gang once again doing a little down and out ghettospeak, this time for Valentines day. We like to think this is what Rush Limbaugh sees curled up in tight little ball when that 3rd morning Oxy kicks in with both heels. Allegedly.
Don't play this at work. We're sorry about this, we have a quota. Shit, just go on to the next one.
Suck My Big Black Ass, Charle Brown
See also It’s Martin Luther King Day Charlie Brown!
Hercules just needs to rest his back for a little, then he'll be fine.
A Bill Murray appearance on SNL from 1987, a sort of reprise from when the original cast did the dubbed Hercules Movie thing in 1977.
Is it that noticeable, Laetes?
Current SNL cast member Bill Hader stars in Nicholas Jasenovec's 2004 short Sounds Good to Me: Remastering the Sting, as Sound Designer Barnaby G. Price, the man charged with recreating the audio for the 30th anniversary of The Sting . A goof on DVD extras.
Thanks to Nicholas
Seth Peterson's Tom Clancy-esque comedy short in which rouge special ops type groups face off over the launch of a black market Soviet missile. Things go badly.
High Speed connection
Low Speed connection
[Underground Film]
Usually what happens is some producer or assistant or someone threatens to send us an advance copy of a TV show, movie, or piece of shit puppet show which they'd like to get a mention here on Screenhead, and we get all pokey-nipped at the prospect of free stuff, and then months go by and it never arrives, and we silently harbor burning hateful resentment towards, off the top of our heads, say, those worthless South Park cocksuckers. This is why we never review things.
Comedian Jim Gaffigan and/or his people broke the trend and actually sent us the thing they said they were going to send, a copy of Jim's new DVD due out shortly called Beyond the Pale, which is a stand-up performance from October 2005 in Chicago, and about an hour's worth of short clips and oddities as bonus footage. Thankfully this disc is completely hilarious and well worth the 11 bucks it's retailing for, as we'd hate to sully our first dalliance with payola by having to shit all over our free booty. The stand-up performance will be on Comedy Central this Sunday the 29th, the disc will be released Feb 7. The bonus stuff includes Jim's first shot at stand-up and some odd stuff not seen on his website (including footage of Jim doing a little publicity at a local news station, which features Gilbert Gottfried in a Viking get-up.. something we are forced to assume is shrewdly included on the disc as cheesecake masturbation material.) This animation is also on Beyond the Pale, but in a size which allows you the luxury of not squinting until you squirt blood.
Jim's Screen Test (Animation by New Yorker Cartoonist Paul Noth)
The media bit of Jim's Gaffigan's site
Pretty great short created in three days for the 2006 Focus Film Festival. We've been letting refreshments call the shots for years, we can relate to this.
Gal next door Cranberry DeLite clicks a speculum and gives us a candid peek inside her life. "Cranberry DeLite scares the high screaming fuck out of Dong Resin" was probably too specific a title. A trailer of sorts for ELMAfilms' iPimp.
Jimmy Kimmel 's jazzhands goof on Lost. Features what we would guess is a not unreasonable dose of Gay.
