Comedy

In Space, No One Can Hear You Complain

Space comedies run the gamut for all kinds of wackiness—Phil of the Future, am I right?—but Monochrom developed their sitcom, ISS, actually using International Space Station data they uncovered to give it that extra touch of realism. [BoingBoing]

Space & Spaceflight Kwame Opam Apr 23

This Week’s Top Web Comedy Video: Royal Wedding Hangover

What happens when Prince William’s cheeky mates throw a wobbly at his wicked stag party? I’ll let you know as I figure out whatever it is I just said. Or you could just watch the most refined Hangover parody since… well, since they started making Hangover parodies. Full video below, never mind the bollocks: Click…

Tech News Splitsider Apr 22

Why the Unemployed Need MacBooks

What is it that the unemployed need more than anything to get back on their feet? The Onion’s panel of experts (mostly) agrees: Apple products. The worst part? Somewhere, someone without a job probably is plunking down a cool grand on a MacBook Pro refurb because learning graphic design is the only way out of…

Tech News Brian Barrett Apr 19

This Week’s Top Web Comedy Video: How to Get a Guy to Notice You While You’re Having Sex with Him

How do you tell a guy is into you when he’s, uh, into you? No less authority than The Onion shows us in this decidedly NSFW faux-morning show segment. Full video, with lots of sexy sex sex words, lies directly ahead: The rest of the best top comedy videos from the week can be found…

Tech News Splitsider Apr 15

This Week’s Top Web Comedy Video: TWIN MEN HAVE A COVERSATION

How do you improve on the month’s best diapered baby twins jibber jabber video? Make that same video… with overweight men. Specifically, Commish Michael Chiklis and funnyman Patton Oswalt, who gibberish with the best of ’em. The rest of the best top comedy videos from the week can be found over at Splitsider, including a…

Tech News Splitsider Apr 8

Your Highness’ evil wizard explains the dangers of magical erectile dysfunction

It’s not always easy being an evil wizard — just ask Justin Theroux, who plays the villain of Your Highness. His character needs to have sex with Zooey Deschanel to create a giant dragon, only to run into performance anxiety. We talked to Theroux about the pressures a wicked magic user has to deal with…

Movies Meredith Woerner Apr 7

James Gunn’s web sitcom “Humanzee” will make you laugh and barf

It’s no surprise that when the creator of Super and Slither does a web sitcom it’s so disgusting and freaky that it will make your soul feel dirty while you snicker. If you have a strong constitution you’ll definitely want to end the day with the pilot episode of Humanzee, the touching tale of how…

io9 Annalee Newitz Apr 5

This Week’s Top Web Comedy Video: The Fall of Dyna-Woman

I’m not sure which is more disturbing: how easily Rainn Wilson slips into the role of a washed-up Wonder Woman parody, or just how much skin he’s showing off in said parody. Oh, who am I kidding. It’s the skin. The rest of the best top comedy videos from the week can be found over…

Tech News Splitsider Apr 1

In space, no one can hear you complain about your job

Nerd art group monochrom has just started up its sitcom about life aboard the ISS. Get ready for serious goofery. Here’s the series premiere! Here’s the description: In space no one can hear you complain about your job. monochrom’s ISS is a ten-part improv-reality-sitcom about living and working on the International Space Station. The four…

Television Annalee Newitz Mar 29

This Week’s Top Web Comedy Video: Sorority Pillow Fight

When badass Michelle Rodriguez joins in a pillow fight, well, that pillow fight gets dangerous. You’ll think it’s sexy, and then you’ll just need a hug. The rest of the best top comedy videos from the week can be found over at Splitsider, including a cat whisperer, a secretive houseguest, and maybe—just maybe—a dead body.…

Tech News Splitsider Mar 25

You May Just Have iPaditis

The most serious threat to our already overtaxed medical system? iPaditis, a fearsome condition that, let’s face it, you’re about two weeks of Sword and Sworcery away from contracting a third degree case of. Click to view [BBC]

Tech News Brian Barrett Mar 25

Which comedy series should Syfy greenlight?

According to rumors the Syfy channel is hell-bent on making a single camera comedy series. We’ve got a list of the three possible pilots Syfy could order up — vote for the one you’d like to see! According to Deadline Syfy has narrowed down the list of potential comedy series. Here they are: In the…

io9 Meredith Woerner Mar 22

This Weeks Top Web Comedy Video: Star Wars From Simon Pegg and Nick Frost

Click to viewThe stars of instaclassics Sean of the Dead and Hot Fuzz do their best to reenact a familiar scene from Star Wars. These are the droids you seek, if you seek droids that bicker in that adorably British way that they’ve mastered. The rest of the best top comedy videos from the week…

Tech News Splitsider Mar 18

Americans are an alien species, in Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s Paul

On the surface, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s Paul looks like a drugs-and-sex-addled reimagining of E.T.. But Paul, opening today, is actually also about how America is an alien planet. Spoilers ahead… In Paul, Pegg and Frost (who co-wrote the script) play two British nerds who visit San Diego Comic Con and then travel across…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Mar 18

The History of Twitter As Ken Burns Would Tell It

Click to viewAs Twitter celebrates its five year anniversary, what better way to mark the occasion than a Ken Burns-style satiric documentary featuring Soulja Boy? None. There is no better way, the end. [Funny or Die]

Tech News Brian Barrett Mar 16

Comedian Gets Fired As the Voice of the Aflac Duck Because of Insensitive Tweets About Japan

Gilbert Gottfried, a pretty foulmouthed comedian and tasteless twitterer, was the voice of the Aflac Duck. You know, the duck that obnoxiously screeches AFFFLAAAACCKKK to sell insurance. Not anymore though, Aflac has fired Gottfried for posting dumb and insensitive tweets regarding Japan. He reportedly tweeted: “Japan called me. They said ‘maybe those jokes are a…

Tech News Casey Chan Mar 15

Amy Pond meets her match: First footage from Doctor Who’s next charity sketch

Amy Pond finally meets the one person in the universe who can stand up to her — and it looks like they’re getting along quite well, in the first brief clip from the skit airing during Friday’s Comic Relief special. If this skit is anything like the “Time Crash” one featuring Peter Davison, and the…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Mar 13

This Week’s Top Web Comedy Video: Spring Break ’88

Hey, remember 1988?! Of course not, you weren’t even born yet. But for those of us who lived through the MTV Spring Break broadcasts of decades past, Andy Samberg and the Lonely Island crew couldn’t have found a more perfect pitch. The rest of the best top comedy videos from the week can be found…

Tech News Splitsider Mar 11

This Week’s Top Web Comedy Video: Force Field Fail

Click to viewIt’s not easy being a stormtrooper, especially when your equipment malfunctions. Then again, if a force field goes down, but was invisible in the first place, does it really make a difference? The rest of the best top comedy videos from the week can be found over at Splitsider, including the Tron Lebowski…

Tech News Splitsider Mar 4

Slapstick Aboard a Spaceship: An alien abduction in the style of Benny Hill

In El Super Policia 880, a down-on-his-luck cop meets some aliens, who turn him into a super-cop. Soon he’s stopping criminals, preventing professors from being zapped with their own super-weapons, and teaching all the other cops to dance. It all culminates in this fantastic scene, where the aliens bring the cop and his son aboard…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Mar 3

In Space, No One Can Hear You Complain

This Week’s Top Web Comedy Video: Royal Wedding Hangover

Why the Unemployed Need MacBooks

This Week’s Top Web Comedy Video: How to Get a Guy to Notice You While You’re Having Sex with Him

This Week’s Top Web Comedy Video: TWIN MEN HAVE A COVERSATION

Your Highness’ evil wizard explains the dangers of magical erectile dysfunction

James Gunn’s web sitcom “Humanzee” will make you laugh and barf

This Week’s Top Web Comedy Video: The Fall of Dyna-Woman

In space, no one can hear you complain about your job

This Week’s Top Web Comedy Video: Sorority Pillow Fight

You May Just Have iPaditis

Which comedy series should Syfy greenlight?

This Weeks Top Web Comedy Video: Star Wars From Simon Pegg and Nick Frost

Americans are an alien species, in Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s Paul

The History of Twitter As Ken Burns Would Tell It

Comedian Gets Fired As the Voice of the Aflac Duck Because of Insensitive Tweets About Japan

Amy Pond meets her match: First footage from Doctor Who’s next charity sketch

This Week’s Top Web Comedy Video: Spring Break ’88

This Week’s Top Web Comedy Video: Force Field Fail

Slapstick Aboard a Spaceship: An alien abduction in the style of Benny Hill

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