Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'The Onion' Takes On 5-Hour Energy Are you getting that 2:30 feeling? Well, you may or may not be aware that 5-Hour Energy has been linked to at least 13 deaths, and may also cause convulsions and spontaneous
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Stop Looking At Your F***ing Phone Every Five Seconds' Kimmel's done it again. And, of course, the hashtag #StopLookingAtYourFuckingPhone is trending.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: #JimmyFallonIsGenius Please. Everyone. Quit it with the hashtags. As Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake demonstrate in this clip, you all sound like morons, especially if you're using them in conversation. The irony of it
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'I Hate San Francisco' I Hate California: San Francisco - watch more funny videos Comedian Suzi Barrett, who previously made this video about the various things to ironically hate about L.A., has now made this video
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: This Kid's Insane Bar Mitzvah Sam Horowitz, who just became a man last fall in Dallas, can thank his generous parents for allowing him to make the crazy insane entrance he had so dreamed of making to his
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'The Tanners' And Other Fake Reality Shows Channel Thirteen, the PBS station in New York City, recently put out this brilliant campaign for donations with three ads for absurd fake reality TV shows: "Clam Kings," "Long Island Landscapers," and "The
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Mumford & Sons 'Hopeless Wanderer,' Starring Jason Bateman and Ed Helms Earnest British folkster-rockers Mumford & Sons decided to do a little self-mockery in their latest video for the song "Hopeless Wanderer." Rather than perform in the video themselves, they enlisted funny men Jason
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Wolverine' By Woody Allen Behold the spoof of today from Official Comedy. It's a pretty funny parody, we have to say, using the tropes of Woody Allen's late 70s work (conversations on the street, in the park,
Arts & Entertainment Breakup Leads To Craigslist Mattress Gold In San Francisco If you don't know how many budding, under-appreciated writers there are out there in the world, simply turn to Craigslist on any given day, and you might stumble on a few gems like
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink This Week's Internet Star: Crazy Rhubarb Lady (Note: It looks like there's a battle to pull the video down, and copies of it that have spread everywhere. We'll do our best to keep up.) Sure to make millions of appearances
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Lonely Island's 'YOLO' feat. Jimmy Fallon In Lonely Island's song "YOLO," which they performed with the help of Jimmy Fallon on Fallon's show last night, the you-only-live-once mantra is given a, well, older person's spin. "Don't get too crazy/
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Mommies In Hollywood Funny guy John Roberts, who became Internet-famous a few years back because of this video in which he played a Christmas tree-obsessed version of his own mother, has been teaming up with (S.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The Kickstarter Song Everyone should be able to relate to this little ditty, sung by puppets, about the frustration of friends asking you repeatedly to donate to their Kickstarter projects. This comes to us from one
Arts & Entertainment There Are 'Get Lucky' Condoms Now Durex Condoms has launched a timely promotion of their product in cooperation with Daft Punk: 'Get Lucky' branded rubbers. The condoms come in packaging that features the mega-popular summer jam cover art were
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Maximus Thor Please enjoy this little boy, known as Maximus Thor on YouTube, who looks like Macaulay Culkin and lip synchs to spoken tracks we can't identify. (ID welcome in the comments.) Below, he plays
Arts & Entertainment Behold: Prancercise The Book, And The Remixes Joanna Rohrbach of Prancercise LLC is winning the internet this week, obviously, though we were a bit concerned that as she achieved web-wide viral fame in the last 48 hours, she was not
Arts & Entertainment Video: Prancercise, Failed '80s Fitness Craze, Rediscovered [Updated] How it took this long for the internet to discover Joanna Rohrback and her inventive (and wildly hilarious) exercise method dubbed Prancercise, we will never know. But thank god we now have her,
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Mini Goat On A Maxi Horse Maybe you've heard that This American Life story that begins with a goat on top of a cow by the side of the road. Well, here's a miniature goat on top of a
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Teddy Has An Operation This video might start out looking cute, but it's not. You've been warned. It is, however, darkly hilarious and amazing. But don't watch it if you're easily upset by the site of actual
Arts & Entertainment Video: Senior Citizens Discuss Gay Sex This isn't what you think. It actually was filmed at the Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Center, and these are, in fact, all gay and lesbian seniors. And they're all awful cute. Kudos
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Deeper Understanding Some of you are likely familiar with Everything Is Terrible, those brilliant curators of the VHS universe who sometimes offer bits of sheer brilliance to this column. (P.S. It's Puppet Week over
Arts & Entertainment Indian 'Vogue' Discovers Hipsters In San Francisco Oh, foreign magazines. They really never cease to elicit a chuckle except for French Vogue, of course, which is very, very serious. Behold this new piece in Vogue India in which a blogger
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'I'm Not Gay' Whether this video represents a watershed moment for comedic takes on gay stereotypes, or is just a funny little diversion created by an LA-based singer-songwriter is up to you to decide. But actor
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Local Empire Spoofs Foodies The new-food obsessed are easy and frequent targets, but allow us to introduce you to NY-based filmed-sketch-comedy group Local Empire. The material comes from a trio of young writer-performers Addison Anderson, Colin Drummond,
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'My Drunk Aunts' There's a new web series from Drew Droege (of Chloe Sevigny fame) and John Roberts (most known for his brilliant Christmas Tree short, but also Jackie & Debra) called My Drunk Aunts, and
