Comedy

We Discover the Dark Side of the New iPod Shuffle

The new iPod Shuffle might seem innocent enough, but after having to listen to your music selection hour after hour, even it reaches its breaking point. We teamed up with our friends over at UCBComedy.com to create this, our first original comedic video. It was written by myself and Mark Wilson, directed by Will Hines,…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Nick’s Zune Warehouse Sells Zunes by the Pound

If you’re in the market for a Zune, you might as well go to the store that’s completely dedicated to everyone’s favorite portable media player. Click to view [CollegeHumor]

Gadgets Adam Frucci

Inappropriate DirecTV Commericals Won’t Help Win Any Customers

CollegeHumor looked at those DirecTV ads where they reenact a famous scene from a movie and asked “what if we used horribly inappropriate movies?” Hilarity ensues. Click to view[CollegeHumor]

Tech News Adam Frucci

SNL Teaches You How To Spot An Alien

Not only was this weekend’s Saturday Night Live sketch “Game Time With Dave and Greg” surprisingly funny, but it gives some pretty spot-on tips on how to pick out the aliens in our midst. Bill Hader should just be in all of the SNL sketches from now on, Laser Cats on down.

io9 Meredith Woerner

Comic Smashes Audience Member’s Cellphone to Prevent Joke Theft

A British comedian spotted a dude in the audience texting on his phone, so he took it and smashed it. His reason: the guy was stealing jokes to sell to TV people. But of course! Lee Hurst, the comedian, clearly is a bit unhinged and doesn’t quite understand the idea of marketing yourself via YouTube.…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Best New Fetish Website Ever

Everybody loves dinosaurs, and everybody loves robots, but how do these two creatures feel about each other? The bizarrely aphoristic microblog Dinosaurs Fucking Robots has the answer. Some of the images on the site are original, and some are recontextualizations of images taken from elsewhere (like the fantastic image from Dino-Riders, above). When you start…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Superhero Sitcom Won’t Lose Its Powers When It Crosses The Atlantic

No Heroics, the British sitcom that proved superheroes can be just as raunchy and insecure as the rest of us, is coming to the U.S.. But ABC’s version won’t be a Life On Mars-style remake. Original creator Drew Pearce says he’ll be involved in the new version, and it’ll stay true to the U.K. version.…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders

Could Better Off Ted Save The Science Fiction Comedy Genre?

Move over floppy-haired faux nerds: ABC’s new series, Better Off Ted, is bringing the real comedic heat, pairing the reliably funny Portia de Rossi with robot mice. Definitely a step in the right direction. The comedy follows the comings and goings of the employees of Veridian Technologies and all the fantastic experiments they run on…

Television Meredith Woerner

The Alien People’s Court Is Now In Session

All rise — or levitate — for Space Judge. A sitcom about an attorney who becomes a judge in an alien version of Judge Judy is seeking a network, and we talked to the creators. In Space Judge, an attorney gets abducted from Earth, and forced to preside over a People’s Court-type courtroom for the…

Television Charlie Jane Anders

The Downside to Time Travel: Your Past Self Might Be a Dick

This new Funny or Die video, featuring Paul Scheer, takes a good hard look at the unforseen crappy things that can happen when you try to travel through time. Spoiler: hilarity ensues. https://gizmodo.com/russian-scientists-claim-secrets-of-time-travel-to-be-u-354940 Click to view[Funny or Die]

Tech News Adam Frucci

Monty Python Puts Free Videos Online, Sells 23,000% More DVDs

Monty Python started a YouTube channel with tons of their sketches streaming for free. The included links to their DVDs at Amazon. The result was a whopping 23,000% increase in sales. For 3 years you YouTubers have been ripping us off, taking tens of thousands of our videos and putting them on YouTube. Now the…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Web Celeb Ze Frank Shines in Apocalypse Comedy “The Remnants”

John August is the scribe behind edgy-sweet flicks like Corpse Bride and Charlie’s Angels. Now he’s released a web pilot for a post-apocalyptic comedy called The Remnants. Hollywood, please make this now! Starring old school scifi actor Ernie Hudson, and new school Web celeb Ze Frank, the 10-minute pilot introduces us to a group of…

Television Annalee Newitz

What Does It Mean to Love a Machine?

I saw Jonathan Mann perform this live, in a diaper made of tin foil, at a conference last year in San Francisco called Arse Elektronika. Here he’s looking a lot less diaperish, but the song has gotten even more cracked-out and pleasingly freakish. Anybody who can sing about nanobots and sexual positions named after Star…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Beware Twinkle, The Destroyer Of Cities!

No city can withstand the rampage of Twinkle, the giant kitten, in this scene from the “Kitten Kong” episode of British comedy classic The Goodies. Science+cuteness… is there anything they can’t destroy?

Television Charlie Jane Anders

Children’s Author Writes New Scifi Comedy Series

Duncan Weller, author of The Boy From The Sun and Space Snake, is bringing his scifi mind to the sitcom. A few spacey pictures have been posted from the untitled project. According to his site, the project is something his brother is pitching to studios. The actors will be green-screened into the backgrounds you see…

Television Meredith Woerner

Windertech Tape Rewinder Lets You Rewind Your VHS Tapes Over the Internet

While VHS might be dead, according to former Colbert Report/Daily Show writer Eric Drysdale, tape rewinders are alive and well, brimming with new features designed for the internet age. [Funny or Die]

Gadgets Adam Frucci

Parody: Obama Caters to the YouTube Crowd

We’ve all heard about Obama’s YouTube addresses, but even a popular President Elect has to compete for clicks using cleavage, kittens and funny dance moves. (video after jump – beware, big braziered breasts be ahead) https://gizmodo.com/obamas-first-weekly-youtube-address-5088594 I wouldn’t mind seeing Obama up the ante a bit by introducing Biden as his own Ed McMahon. [via…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Joss Whedon and Ron Moore Want to Kill Seth Green

Seth Green is currently guest starring on Heroes, but in this clip from tomorrow night’s Robot Chicken season premiere, Tim Kring wasn’t the first science fiction television producer he approached for work. Green and his Robot Chicken co-creator Matthew Senreich find themselves unemployed and ask Joss Whedon and Battlestar Galactica creator Ron Moore for a…

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Harsh Reality Behind the Gizmodo/Reader Symbiosis Revealed by Dilbert

It’s not often that a simple three-pane comic strip says something meaningful and true about your life, but I think it’s safe to say that today’s Dilbert strip essentially sums up what this here website and its readers are all about. We post about gadgets, sometimes cool, sometimes not, and you read about them either…

Books & Comics Adam Frucci

You Aren’t the Only One Who Never Watches the Serious Movies You Netflix

Click to viewIt’s a common practice: you put a bunch of movies in your Netflix queue that are classics. You know, long, serious, depressing movies that you feel like you should have seen by now but haven’t. Then they arrive and sit untouched for weeks while you watch Wayne’s World 2 for the fifth time.…

Tech News Adam Frucci

We Discover the Dark Side of the New iPod Shuffle

Nick’s Zune Warehouse Sells Zunes by the Pound

Inappropriate DirecTV Commericals Won’t Help Win Any Customers

SNL Teaches You How To Spot An Alien

Comic Smashes Audience Member’s Cellphone to Prevent Joke Theft

Best New Fetish Website Ever

Superhero Sitcom Won’t Lose Its Powers When It Crosses The Atlantic

Could Better Off Ted Save The Science Fiction Comedy Genre?

The Alien People’s Court Is Now In Session

The Downside to Time Travel: Your Past Self Might Be a Dick

Monty Python Puts Free Videos Online, Sells 23,000% More DVDs

Web Celeb Ze Frank Shines in Apocalypse Comedy “The Remnants”

What Does It Mean to Love a Machine?

Beware Twinkle, The Destroyer Of Cities!

Children’s Author Writes New Scifi Comedy Series

Windertech Tape Rewinder Lets You Rewind Your VHS Tapes Over the Internet

Parody: Obama Caters to the YouTube Crowd

Joss Whedon and Ron Moore Want to Kill Seth Green

Harsh Reality Behind the Gizmodo/Reader Symbiosis Revealed by Dilbert

You Aren’t the Only One Who Never Watches the Serious Movies You Netflix

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