Videos You Should See Part Three
It’s that time again.
First up we have one of my favorite segments from the recently concluded This American Life TV show, in which beloved cartoonist Chris Ware illustrates an interesting story about a group of school children whose world is turned upside down after one of them makes a fake camera.
The ad council cut together a series of spots meant to highlight the dangers of…blogging, and this is the result. I like to think that a rotund high school football coach, Dan Clowes-looking movie usher, and a tattooed busboy would really read the missives of a seemingly shy high schooler, but I just don’t buy the ad council’s ad. Via my favorite Dane Cook and Zach Braff hater.
This parody of To Catch a Predator (one of my favorite shows) is from one of my favorite shows (Human Giant). They get everything right: the odd confidence and suggestive banter of the predator (played brilliantly by “Wet Hot American Summer’s” H. Jon Benjamin), the young K.D. Lang-looking, backwards hat-wearing, gender-neutral jail bait, and the smug, accusatory tone of the host (complete with transcripts of the explicit talk). Plus, any video with the line “hardabs05″ is in my good book.
As long as he keeps making ‘em, I’ll keep posting ‘em. Paul Rudd. ‘Nuff said.
I LOVE that anti-blogging ad. Hilarious.
H. Jon Benjamen is great at everything he does. Plus Ron (Rob?) Heubel is in it.
And I love Mike Showalter. Hopefully I’ll be seeing him do a talk or somesuch in a few weeks. MilfHunter! Ha!
I love when Rudd plays Gandhi and says in an awful Indian accent, “I am skinny.” That guy, like Show, is a total genius. Speaking of Showalter, I think you’ll like this.
I love that Showalter and his showalter. It was great to see how out of character he seemed when he got heated. And Paul Rudd is somethin’ else. I think I’m actually excited for that movie Knocked Up which he seems hilarious in.
Can’t believe I’ve missed every episode of Human Giant besides the first… I hope they rerun it constantly over the summer.
If you don’t want to wait for a rerun, head on over to myspleen and after you register they’ll take care of all your human giant needs, in addition to a ton of other hard to find comedy shows. One of the best underground torrent sites in my opinion.
Ah yes, I do have a MySpleen account but my college started blocking all P2P programs from the server, so I can’t use BitTorrent
I should be able to pick the episodes up when I come home.
I already stole the anti-blogging ad. Amazing!!!!
And I stole it from the hater. This thing is viral! I wonder if the ad council intentionally made it hilarious so that this very thing would happen.
Side note: did you perchance listen to the cold bath at all? I’m trying to get at least one person into it so I’ll have someone to discuss it with.