In celebration of, let’s face it, an exhaustingly eventful 2010, we at Atom are giving up our usual letters to Santa in favor of helping some of our favorite people of 2010 with their holiday wish lists. For twelve days leading up to Christmas, we’ll have a brand new gift guide to help you shop for your favorite celebrity or pop culture phenomenon.

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Shopping for that gal in your life with an affinity for cosmetic surgery, a glut of sycophantic hangers on, and delusions of grandeur? You must be in the market for the perfect gift for one of the vapid stars of the Real Housewives franchise.

I’m not going to address your debatable choice in associates; I’m here to help. Let’s face it, these dames are (read: really want to appear) richer than Guam, so scoring them just the right gift might be a little challenging, unless you happen to be a psychiatrist with an itchy prescription finger.

While what they really need is a healthy dose of validation, and maybe a hug, those are a bit too intangible (and cheap–yeesh!) for their hearts as black as their AmEx cards.

Try these, instead:

In celebration of, let’s face it, an exhaustingly eventful 2010, we at Atom are giving up our usual letters to Santa in favor of helping some of our favorite people of 2010 with their holiday wish lists. For twelve days leading up to Christmas, we’ll have a brand new gift guide to help you shop for your favorite celebrity or pop culture phenomenon.

The biggest problem with Christmas shopping for Oprah is that not only does she make a list of stuff that she’s digging this year, but she buys it for herself and everyone she knows, and then devotes a TV show to it. That basically makes her impossible to shop for. If you’re somehow lucky enough to have made it on to Oprah’s Christmas list (lucky you) and don’t know what to get her in return, take a look at this handy list. Gayle, I’ve got you covered.

Imagine standing on the side of some brutal December-time street, your round little kid cheeks chapped from the stinging wind, balling your little kid fingers in little fists of delight inside your little furry mittens, in awe at the sheer joy of seeing Santa at the annual Christmas parade. Maybe he got my letter! Maybe he’ll let me pet the reindeer! Here he comes! Oooh!

Oh, but–Mama, why’s he yelling? Why’s he saying that bad, bad word? Why’s he hitting that big kid?? The policeman, Mama, he’s…taking Santa away! Is…is Santa going to…jail?

And BOOM, just like that, your wish list goes up in flames, your childhood wonder evaporates, the innocence in your eyes extinguishes forever, and Santa joins the ranks of mere mortals, just another “bad man” that you see on TV.

Jon Lajoie sat down with Punchline magazine to talk Comedy Central, The League, and breaking out as a video creator. Tune in for insight, and more Lajoie man-nipple than usual.

Jon Lajoie - Punchline Magazine interview from Punchline Magazine on Vimeo.

In celebration of, let’s face it, an exhaustingly eventful 2010, we at Atom are giving up our usual letters to Santa in favor of helping some of our favorite people of 2010 with their holiday wish lists. For twelve days leading up to Christmas, we’ll have a brand new gift guide to help you shop for your favorite celebrity or pop culture phenomenon.

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For the second half of our gift guide, we look across “The Pond” (the “Atlantic Ocean”), to our former imperial oppressors friends England. Because, that’s right peasants, there’s about to be one commoner fewer in the world next year, as Kate Middleton marries Prince William in an impressive throwback to times of empire. So what to help her get ready for her role as a figurehead of state, here’s a helpful and very, very necessary gift guide for Kate Middleton.

The Atom gang wants to extend a big old congrats to Bryan Cranston for his Golden Globes nomination. We’re not only excited about the recognition of his immense talent, but because it gives us extra bragging rights for our upcoming series “The Handlers,” in which Bryan stars as bumbling Senator Jack Power.

For more details on the series and some insight from the B-man himself, check out this article from Monsters And Critics, and be sure to keep you eyes peeled for the new 8-episode series, premiering January 4th.

In celebration of, let’s face it, an exhaustingly eventful 2010, we at Atom are giving up our usual letters to Santa in favor of helping some of our favorite people of 2010 with their holiday wish lists. For twelve days leading up to Christmas, we’ll have a brand new gift guide to help you shop for your favorite celebrity or pop culture phenomenon.

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Dude, I understand. Sometimes you just like to get drunk. Sometimes, though, you are a drunk. Now, now, I’m not here to point fingers or to pass judgment. That’s the gift-giver’s role! Show the luscious lushes in your life that you’ve got their number with:

In celebration of, let’s face it, an exhaustingly eventful 2010, we at Atom are giving up our usual letters to Santa in favor of helping some of our favorite people of 2010 with their holiday wish lists. For twelve days leading up to Christmas, we’ll have a brand new gift guide to help you shop for your favorite celebrity or pop culture phenomenon.

Remember when being a computer geek meant hanging out in your garage with your other bespectacled chums, sautering processors to homemade motherboards? Well, Steve Jobs has done his very best to divorce his image from those days. Though, you may not be able to get Steve a DIY computer kit anymore, there still a few things left on his wish list.

It’s getting cold here in the Atom offices, luckily I have the warmth of your videos to sustain me. This week we saw the return of Chicken Fried Comedy to the top 3. It’s been a while, but it’s good to seem them back in the game. Hit the jump to see the top 10 winners. Remember, the first 3 win cash, prizes, and just maybe some time on Comedy Central.

1. Sarah Jessica Parkour by Aaron Glaser with 7262 plays.
2. Santa’s Christmas by thenetwerk.com with 6279 plays.
3. P.T. Cruiser by Chicken Fried Comedy with 5026 plays.
4. COFFEE TIME by cloverpicture with 4741 plays.
5. Buffalo Bill’s Famous Chicken by emfdysi with 4069 plays.
6. Man vs Survival by MattBrookens with 3419 plays.
7. Workout Tape by Magic Hugs with 3202 plays.
8. Orbitol: The Herpes Drug by David Ward with 2987 plays.
9. The Drugged-Out Cook by Aaron Glaser with 2938 plays.
10. keyfinder by bad ass mustache with 2797 plays.

In celebration of, let’s face it, an exhaustingly eventful 2010, we at Atom are giving up our usual letters to Santa in favor of helping some of our favorite people of 2010 with their holiday wish lists. For twelve days leading up to Christmas, we’ll have a brand new gift guide to help you shop for your favorite celebrity or pop culture phenomenon.




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A late entry for 2010′s gift guide is, to put it quite simply, the fastest growing population in America: People searched by the TSA. Remember a couple months ago, when this wasn’t even a real category of human people? Well now it is, and they are (possibly) mad as hell and they aren’t going to take it anymore [ed. actually, they mostly end up basically taking it]. So, for everyone shopping for that special someone who’s hopping mad about their TSA patdown, and possibly about to engage in some civil disobedience of questionable validity and effectiveness, it’s the must have gifts for 2010.