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≡ Category: Comedy, Philosophy | ≅ Leave a Comment
We take you back to a classic Monty Python skit. The scene is the 1972 Munich Olympics. The event is a football/soccer match, pitting German philosophers against Greek philosophers. On the one side, the Germans — Hegel, Nietzsche, Kant, Marx and, um, Franz Beckenbauer. On the other side, Archimedes, Socrates, Plato and the rest of the [...]
≡ Category: Comedy, Film | ≅ 1 Comment
Ok, it’s not really Werner Herzog. Just a little playful satire. A guess at how the German director might reinterpret/read the children’s classic Curious George. This version is dark and existential.
via Abe Books
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≡ Category: Comedy, Film | ≅ 1 Comment
Kurt Kuenne’s short film, ”Validation,” has played at 34 film festivals and won 17 awards. This 16 minute indie offers a “fable about the magic of free parking” — meaning they’re talking about “validation” in a larger sense than parking per se … We’ve added the clip to our YouTube favorites.
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≡ Category: Art, Comedy, History | ≅ 4 Comments
This imaginative bit was a student’s final project for an art course. The flipbook, made entirely out of biro pens, was created with 2100 pages of drawings and took about 3 weeks to develop. Needless to say, the student got an A.
Thanks to @kirstinbutler for flagging this one.
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≡ Category: Comedy | ≅ Leave a Comment
For those not old enough to remember (or not familiar with American comedy), Father Guido Sarducci was a character from Saturday Night Live’s heyday in the 1970s. He’s the brainchild of the comedian Don Novello, and here we have him offering a new model of university education. We haven’t aired this bit in 2+ years. So [...]
≡ Category: Comedy, Web/Tech | ≅ 2 Comments
A little case of disruptive technology in Computer Science 1301 at Georgia Tech…
via Andrew Baron
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≡ Category: Comedy | ≅ Leave a Comment
In the past couple of years, The New Yorker has rolled out a series of animated cartoons, which puts in motion its famous cartoons. They can be watched as video podcasts or as streamed videos. You should definitely head over to The New Yorker web site to view the larger collection.
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≡ Category: Comedy | ≅ 4 Comments
Man, I love plutocrat humor in the morning…
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≡ Category: Comedy, Science | ≅ 2 Comments
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≡ Category: Comedy, Music | ≅ Leave a Comment
These days, David Sedaris is the thinking person’s favorite funny man. In the past, we have featured his live readings of comic material from When You are Engulfed in Flames. (See “Related Content” below.) Today, we’re highlighting something a little different. On August 19th, Sedaris appeared as a guest DJ on KCRW, a radio station in [...]
≡ Category: Comedy, Music | ≅ 2 Comments
A little piece of classic Americana TV. We take you back to the 1950s and Sid Caesar’s comic work. It’s hard to imagine someone working Beethoven’s 5th into comic material, but Caesar did it. In the meantime, if you want something a little more serious, I give you this rare footage of Herbert von Karajan conducting [...]
≡ Category: Comedy, Current Affairs | ≅ Leave a Comment
Al Franken, the former SNL comedian, the Harvard graduate, and now US Senator, has a special talent. He can draw the map of America, state-by-state, while chatting up a crowd. Almost makes me feel the 4th of July spirit…
Thanks for Eric for this one.
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≡ Category: Comedy | ≅ Leave a Comment
This conversation, both funny and a little informative, is worth your time. This will hopefully whet your appetite, and give you good reason to watch Oliver Sack’s new program on NOVA. It’s called Musical Minds and you can watch it here starting on July 1.
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Central Intelligence: From Ants to the Web
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≡ Category: Comedy | ≅ Leave a Comment
All credit to Jason Kottke on this one. Perfect for our readers. From the 2009 Radio and TV Correspondents’ Dinner. Give it a little time. Here it goes:
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John Hodgman@Google
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≡ Category: Audio Books, Comedy | ≅ Leave a Comment
Not long ago, we featured David Sedaris reading “Of Mice and Men,” a comic bit from his newish book, When You are Engulfed in Flames. Now, we give you another funny (also live) reading from the same book. The story is called “Solution to Saturday’s Puzzle,” and you can get it as an mp3 here.
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≡ Category: Comedy, Current Affairs | ≅ Leave a Comment
In case you missed Colbert’s trip to the war zone, here’s a funny clip.
You can find the link to this video and more here.
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≡ Category: Comedy, Google | ≅ Leave a Comment
He appears in the well-known Mac v. PC commercials, on The Daily Show and occasionally on This American Life. John Hodgman is kind of everywhere these days, and now, promoting his new book, More Information Than You Require, he hits the stage at Google and gives the crowd an offbeat hour talk.
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≡ Category: Comedy, Technology, Web/Tech | ≅ Leave a Comment
A good clip that comes from Alec Couros’s 80+ Videos for Tech & Media Literacy. It features comedian Louis C.K. offering his funny thoughts on how our generation handles new technology. We’ve added it to our YouTube Favorites.
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≡ Category: Amazon Kindle, Comedy | ≅ Leave a Comment
File under comedy…
See direct link to video here.
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