Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Howling Dog Hates Waking Up To Alarm This dog named Oscar may have had a Monday morning like your Monday morning. I'm not sure I've ever seen a dog howl out of what seems like genuine sadness over having to
Arts & Entertainment Oakland-Based Artists Seek Donors For 'Gay Men Draw Vaginas' Book A pair of Oakland-based artists/humorists have been setting up vagina-drawing booths over the past two years, sometimes making appearances at Gay Beach in Dolores Park and in the Castro, asking gay men
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Apple's 1986 Clothing Line, and Siskel & Ebert Reviewing 1986 Apple Ads The Apple corporation was just coming into its own in 1986, and visionary co-founder Steve Jobs had already begun putting out the sort of cinematic commercials that movie critics like Roger Ebert and
Arts & Entertainment Comedy Flashback: <i>Mr. Show</i> Predicts the Corporate Sanitizing of San Francisco Waaay back in the mid-90s, the pioneering, twisted sketch comedy show Mr. Show aired on HBO for three years, and produced some classic moments from the minds of David Cross and Bob Odenkirk
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Weird Al's 'Happy' Parody, 'Tacky' It always brings a smile to my face when I'm reminded that "Weird Al" Yankovic hasn't given up doing his signature parodies of popular songs, thirty years on. And (hooray!) he's got a
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Sound Effect Overload This cute short kind of reminds me of early slapstick comedy, like the Three Stooges and the Marx Brothers, except using modern sounds like air sirens and computer bloops. It's all about absurdity,
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'First Moon Party' "Do you know how hard it is to find a uterus pinata?" Please enjoy this amazing long-form commercial from Hello Flo, a new menstruation-related subscription service for ladies and teens (tagline: "Like Santa
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Chloe Sevigny's 'Easter' All around funny man Drew Droege (and director Jim Hansen) are back with a brand new installment in their Chloe Sevigny drag series. “I have whagonloads of childhood mammaries of E-asters past," says
Arts & Entertainment If Christopher Guest Made A Musical About Facebook, It Would Contain This Song Sweet mother of all that is holy, we are in trouble. At the recent 2014 Social Media Marketing World convention in San Diego, this guy wrote this song. It's about social media. Audience
Arts & Entertainment Local Photographer Lampoons SF Rental Market Photographer Scott Hampton is parodying the ridiculous housing market situation we're in with a humorous photo essay he calls SF: For Rent. He even put one of them on Craigslist, and it's still
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Idiot's Guide to Talking to Smart People About Music The funny folks at Above Average (the web-based side project of Lorne Michaels and Broadway Video), have been doing these Idiot's Guide to Smart People videos. This one's all about music, and how
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Not Looking' Episode 1 NOT LOOKING - Season 1 - Episode 1 of 5 - watch more funny videos Remember how we shared the hilarious trailer for the L.A.-based web spoof "Not Looking" last month?
Arts & Entertainment Video: A Very Liberace Valentine's The geniuses over at Deeper Understanding have just dug up and re-edited Liberace's Valentine's Special from 1979. It's just as bizarre and slightly depressing as you might imagine, but look! Sandy Duncan and
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Not Looking' Not Looking - watch more funny videos Oh yes. Please take in this marvelous parody of Looking, recast in L.A. with the help of funny man Drew Droege, and actors Jason Looney,
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Try Not Having Kids' This one should strike a chord with all you childless San Franciscans. From the same funny guy who brought us Racist Yard Sale. [Jason Messina/@SureThingChief]
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Charles, Your Hangover' The folks over at Above Average, the YouTube channel started in part by SNL's Lorne Michaels, have been doing this series called "Charles, Your Hangover," in which actor Tory Stanton plays the personification
Arts & Entertainment Video: We Wish 'Love Actually 2' Was An Actual Thing Take a second to watch this faux trailer for Love Actually 2, which mashes up the beloved holiday rom-com, and its cast, with various other roles they've done, plus some Harry Potter, Breaking
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Hilarious Ad For Face-Painting Eli Wanket is a young, aspiring filmmaker. His mother has started a small business painting faces. For events and things. Probably mostly for kids. She asked if her son could make a commercial
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Stuff On Scout's Head Poor dog. I mean, the photos are wonderful and cute and everything. But poor Scout suffers the near daily humiliation, for the sake of his owner's Tumblr, of having random things balanced on
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: One Direction Fans Fight Over Harry Styles' Sexuality, As Reenacted By Two British Actors Dramatizations of internet commenter/Twitterer inanity: A brilliant new medium for comedy, if ever there was one. Please observe these two older gentlemen of the theatre, as cast by the comedy group Dead
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The Password Security Question Riddle What do you do vis a vis password security questions when you've had an obnoxiously unconventional life and, like, you've never seen an actual movie. The kids at Upright Citizens Brigade take that
Arts & Entertainment 20 Costumes To Avoid At All Costs This Halloween You know what Halloween should be about? Imagination. And if not imagination, sheer, unadulterated gore. Sure, it's become an excuse for every woman between the ages of 18 and 40 to tart themselves
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Who F&@%ed This Pumpkin?' It's a problem you may encounter at your next pumpkin carving unveiling. But probably not. Unless your friends are really pervy. Don't look at us. [Cracked]
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Toddler Who Bargains Like The Tea Party CollegeHumor's Favorite Funny Videos Well, the Republicans maybe did not get to torpedo our credit rating and burn down Congress today, but they may yet still. Please enjoy this clever little bit of
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: If Tarantino Made A Gay Revenge Fantasy It's true. Quentin Tarantino has now made a female revenge fantasy film (Kill Bill), a Jewish revenge fantasy (Inglorious Basterds), and an African-American slave revenge fantasy (Django Unchained). Cracked has just made a
