Tonight’s selection of from the folks at Awkward Spaceship, who provided a martini-fueled dramatic reading of the contents of a Kraft Mac and Cheese box. Seriously weird, but seriously compelling. I just hope that this isn’t how I behave after a few martinis. And if I do, please don’t tell me.

This is about 2 minutes long.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPPDOCRlu0M[/youtube]

This laugh just slays me:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_DuRGHdoVU[/youtube]

This looks like a great series (Campaignful — what a great word for the campaign bullsh*t)and this one (Episode 2 — That DNC is So Stupid) is especially funny:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIaZGMKEOTI[/youtube]

Here is Episode 1 — Planning the GOP Convention:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rK57ve98aQ[/youtube]

Bill Maher looks at the GOP convention and discovers amnesia on the part of the participants. What they tried to hide from the world was interesting. And in Bill Maher’s telling, pretty hysterical.

Jon Stewart is running his show from Tampa this week covering the RNC convention with their own theme — The Road to Jeb Bush 2016.  In this clip — he calls to task the media talking heads lamenting how bad Hurricane Issac might be for Republicans in some of the dumbest horserace commentary ever:

You read that right — stop motion animation using an Excel spreadsheet.  This is very cool, but how much work did this guy blow off to get this done?  And am I the only person on the planet who had no idea you could do animation with Excel?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fq9EV2fYF2E[/youtube]

Very funny as NASA continues to take much deserved bows for the achievement of the Curiosity rover:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFvNhsWMU0c[/youtube]

Dear President Obama and the DNC:  If you know what’s good for you, you’d air this in its entirety during the Democratic Convention.  This verse is fun and creative by  Mr. Ralph Maxwell, a 92-year old Minnesotan who delivers the smackdown to Rmoney with style and grace (I think this is about 6 and a half minutes long):

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmEZxw_APPg[/youtube]

This is the scathing and inestimable Charlie Brooker, taking on the sheer stupidity of Fox News from the perspective of a citizen of the UK. Brooker is a journalist himself, with some other great commentaries to his name. This is about 6 and a half minutes long.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_depaSOa4I[/youtube]

This is one freakin’ awesome bit with Jimmy Fallon chanelling Jim Morrison to sing the once ubiquitous “Reading Rainbow” theme. This one just might become my favorite — after the one where Fallon channels Neil Young singing Willow Smith’s Flip My Hair.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBRYsAfchkY[/youtube]

And now for something completely different: a parody video of Lady Gaga’s Bad Romance song, redone to pay homage to Alice Paul and the women who fought for the passage of the 19th Amendment. Bravo Ladies:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYQhRCs9IHM[/youtube]

Oh yes, and this is hysterical.  Unfortunatly, it spans two videos, so there is that.  It is worth it, I promise you:

Part 1, Bain:

Part 2, Blind Trust:

Lovelovelove these!  My favorite bits:

“I was just the guy with the smokescreen-ish yet still legal title of CEO and Managing Director who was paid at least $100,000 a year to do what, according to me, Mitt Romney, was nothing!  And that’s the kind of common sense business experience I hope to bring to the White House.”

And that really is the point of this campaign.  If you’re a so-called job creator in this country, even if the jobs you create are in India or China, you are legally entitled to wonderful things like offshore tax havens, and carried interest tax rates that are less than half the rate for normal income.  Or $77,000 in business deductions for dressage horse competition expenses.  Yeah, $77,000 tax break to send your horse to the fucking prom!