Sascha Baron Cohen put on a funny disguise and went to a small town in the United States to tell the residents of a plan to invest 100s of millions of $ into the local economy. The townsfolk were excited by the prospect until they found out the plan involved the construction of an enormous mosque. When the townsfolk complained about terrorists, Cohen told them that the worshippers would be well protected from terrorist attacks against them.
Tag: funny
Raging Rudolph
In its December 16, 1995 episode, MADtv aired “Raging Rudolph”, which also parodied Martin Scorsese’s films. In it, Sam The Snowman narrates in a Joe Pesci-like voice how Rudolph and Hermey got violent Mafia-style revenge on their tormentors. This was followed by 2 sequels: “The Reinfather”, spoofing The Godfather trilogy and “A Pack of Gifts Now”, spoofing Apocalypse Now.
Home Alone Again
Santa Fight
Instead of having grownups write a Christmas movie for kids, Stephen Colbert gathered a group of children to write their own Christmas movie concept. That part of the segment was funny enough but then he got some of his celebrity pals to star in the faux film’s trailer — Bryan Cranston, Laura Linney, Nick Kroll, Rachel Dratch, and John Oliver — and that put it over the top.
Terrible Victorian Detectives
Defensive, condescending, full of made-up knowledge, and absolutely lethal to patients — these are the hallmarks of the occult detective, such as Algernon Blackwood’s Dr. John Silence, probably the biggest jerk in weird fiction. Like Batman, Silence vanished for 5 years of international training, only to return well-versed in being obnoxious and making things up. His first adventure was “A Psychical Invasion” (1908) in which a humorist overdoses on marijuana and loses his sense of humor. Silence uses a magical collie to fight what he claims is an evil ghost lady, relays a bunch of pseudoscience as patronizingly as possible (“As I told you before, the forces of a powerful personality may still persist after death in the line of their original momentum…If you knew anything of magic, you would know that thought is dynamic…etc.”), then he has the humorist’s house torn down.
Not rocket surgery
Examples “We’ll burn that bridge when we get to it”… “Even a blind squirrel is right twice a day”… “If a bear shits in the woods, does it make a sound?”… “An apple a day leaves the whole world blind”
Wow
Owen Wilson likes saying “wow” in movies, people like pointing out that Owen Wilson likes saying “wow” in movies, and this is a collection of those moments.
Kindergarten pole dancers
The principal of Xinshahui kindergarten in Shenzhen, China was fired after bringing pole dancers to perform for the students during back-to-school celebrations. “The district education bureau believes performing pole dancing for kindergarten children is not appropriate“
Tom Clancy Jim Halpert
a pitch-perfect mashup by Funny Or Die of Amazon’s new series Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan (starring John Krasinski) and The Office (also starring John Krasinski).
Making Pho
a group of Vietnamese critique questionable recipes for phở from American recipe sites that, for instance, try to substitute daikon radish for the noodles.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 