Paranormal Activity 2 Sneak Peek

Ok, ok, relax everyone. Was that too intense? Yeah, I thought so too. Well, there’s nothing like the warming power of laughter to help you conquer your fears. Check out this gentle parody from Atom Tournament winner Jordan Crowder:

PARANNOYING ACTIVITY

UPDATE: Our buddies at Crave Online also got a chance to catch up with the stars of Paranormal Activity 2 on the red carpet, as well as our very own Tommy Wiseau, star of The House That Drips Blood On Alex

Our friend Scott Chernoff, remixes pop-culture weirdness (and makes it even weirder) in his new blog series: Smash’d.

Just what the hell happened down in Miami that convinced Lebron James to want more Heat?

Have you heard the latest (and most awesome) conspiracy theory to hit President Obama? The internets and TV news are on fire over Gawker.com’s claim to have spotted Obama in the video for Tag Team’s 1993 rap novelty, I mean classic, “Whoomp! (There It Is).”

This raises several questions, most strikingly: Who was spending their day watching Tag Team videos, and why?

While that mystery may never be solved, I pulled this original cut of the video off YouTube so you can decide for yourself.  The video’s fuzzy, and it’s hard to make out the Obama-lookalike, but if you look hard, and don’t blink, he’s there – and I swear to God that IS President Obama. And by the way, this is a brand new, never-before-seen director’s cut. If you think you’ve already seen the Tag Team video with Obama, take another look, because this version features footage you probably didn’t notice the first time around:

Oh, and if you missed President Obama’s bizarre interview with Larry King last week, check it out here.

Nick also appears this week in the new Jake Fleisher video Hands-On, the infomercial for hands. You should, of course, also check this out!

The Jersey Shore is kind of a phenomenon right now, you know? So many people/comedic entities are doing parody videos! Hit the jump for our current favorites (hint, they feature the Mario Bros. and children and they’re both kind of in poor taste!)…

The Mario Brothers have always been prone to violence, just like the real cast of Jersey shore! Don’t go jumping on anyone’s heads now Jersey Shore people, because that would be inappropriate! Thanks DrCoolSex!

These children have no idea what they’re saying. That’s where the humor lies. See?

LandlineTV, as I’ve mentioned, is the best.

“I will wear you out…when was the last time you got (bleeped)?”

and

“Send me something very naughty…Go to the bathroom and take (a picture).”

We were shocked to find out this (alleged) news, but even more shocked that Tiger would send such boring sexts. The man is breaking racial barriers and is a multi-millionaire! Tiger! We knew he could do better, so Matt and I hacked into Tiger’s phone* to see if there was anything more interesting, and we were not disappointed**.

* We did not actually hack into Tiger’s phone.
** We would be disappointed, if we’d actually hacked into Tiger’s phone, which we didn’t.

Jacob Fleisher, creator and co-star, Jacob Fleisher has written for MTV, Comedy Central, TLC, A&E, Paramount, Fox and the Weinstein Company. Currently, he is co-writing a feature for Warner Brother studios. Also currently, he’s still wearing his fangs. Jacob lives in LA, but grew up in New York City, so he constantly complains about LA. He is wanted in 37 countries for crimes against hilarity.
www.jacobfleisher.com

Kristen Carney, co-star, is an actor, comedian and host who has appeared from Los Angeles to Europe on some of the most famous stages in the world. She started her stage career at 13 as a dancer for Show Stopper Productions. As a member of the touring company, she performed at Disney World, Euro Disney and Universal Studios. Now, when she isn’t working in front of a camera, Kristen is telling brutally honest jokes on stage at Carolines, The Ice House, The Laughing Post or University of Wisconsin.
http://kristencarney.blogspot.com/

Jenessa Joffee, director, has directed over 20 short films and web videos – mostly comedies. “The Legend of Shizuko Nishimura,” “Shank,” and “American Obon,” have enjoyed film festival runs. “Twilight: 5 Years Later” won the Atom.com Showdown. Jenessa trained in film directing at the American Film Institute. She currently resides in Los Angeles.

Carl Hampe, producer, During his time as an executive at Warner Independent Pictures, Carl Hamper worked on countless feature films, including “In The Valley of Elah,” and “Slumdog Millionaire.” Though Carl is way too big-time to produce a web-series like this, he is also Jake’s downstairs neighbor and Jake refused to put down carpeting until Carl agreed to get on board.

Jack Ferry, cinematographer, is a director, cinematographer, editor, writer, and producer. Most of his projects are for the internet, which means he is extremely wealthy. He hopes to one day learn HTML so he can update www.jackferry.com.

Kit Pennebaker, cinematographer, was born with a love of cinema. A New York City native, Kit has been working professionally in film since he was a teenager. In 2004 Kit graduated from New York University’s prestigious Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at The Tisch School of the Arts. Today, Kit works as a director of photography on music videos, commercials, concerts, and narrative projects.
www.kitpennebaker.com

Maia Wagle, our AMAZING make-up person, lives in LA and enjoys mutating monsters and beautifying the chosen people. She believes that make-up should be creative, character driven, and FUN! Her work ranges through many medias, beauty for pin-ups and television, cut-off limbs for shows like Threshold and Dexter, Demons for Tenacious D, apocalyptic tour costumes for Skinny Puppy, and she made our werewolves. maiawagle@mac.com

Anyway, love it or hate it, the Mad Men style is unmistakable, and it’s given rise to some great parodies. In honor of the finale of Season 3, here are some of our favorites.

Saturday Night Live

Jon Hamm‘s hosting gig on SNL culminated in this surprisingly cameo laden parody. And it managed to pack in some good laughs while throwing lots of winks at the core Mad Men fan base.

Milk Men

The gang at Sidecar Comedy made this just for us to help celebrate the end of the third season, a Mad Men filtered look at the slightly less glamourous world of milk delivery.

Mad Libs Men

CollegeHumor(dotcom!) came through with a typically witty, nostalgic twist.

Mad Men in 60 Seconds

Actually, the title of the LandlineTV version is fairly descriptive.

MA Men

AAAAAAND lastly, Funny Or Die gets a New Kid On The Block (and some comedy luminaries) to put a strong Boston twist on the proceedings.

So that’s what we got, gang. Pretty great, right? Did we miss any? We did? Well send us a link in comments!

Andrew kinda judges me for loving this video (don’t listen to his refutations, he does!), but I think it’s great that it goes full-blown-hillbilly-dumbness-idiot-action-activate-style. And as you can probably tell from my prose today, I’m in the mood for that. I know that it’s probably professionally made or whatever, but just because something is trying to be stupid that doesn’t mean it isn’t (which remember, I like).

Now, if you’re like Andrew, and prefer your parody videos to be coherent but still want hot women and stupid, pasty guys, then you’ll enjoy Intercourse With A Vampire, which does not feature “Truck Men” of any sort.

“Truck man!”

Be sure to check out Highlights from the Scream Awards, because apparently everyone but me was invited.

The genre has kind of come into its own with some amazing fake accounts (full disclosure, I am not immune to the allure of the fake Twitter), and because I’m in a sharing mood (and because the guys who make MegaBot reminded me of it by tweeting as a giant robot) here’re some of my fake Twitter favorites.

The Notorious B.I.G.

Recently:
   4:05 PM Sep 28th – avoiding ma$e’s calls
   10:26 AM Sep 15th – fuck my wealth manager. how you gonna tell me gateway stock aint makin shit?
   11:36 PM Sep 13th – yo, this lil mama like the scrappy doo of the VMAs.

The Natural History Whale

Recently:
   1:44 PM Sep 18th – Conscious thought means I’m alive, but I have no flesh and blood. Maybe Kim Cattrall and Andrew McCarthy can explain?
   11:17 AM Aug 28th – A family from Boston dropped by– I have been deemed “quite laaahhge.”

Guy Abducted By Aliens

Recently:
   1:29 PM Sep 12th – an alien just told me he thought i was charlie sheen im like “i dont look like charlie sheen at all” he’s like ‘humans all look alike to me’
   4:09 AM Aug 30th – alien movies make no fucking sense
   1:34 AM Aug 28th – bowling, totinos pizza rolls, @nbcconan, my truck, human porn. #thingsthatimissbecauseiliveinspace

The London Bridge

Recently:
   6:53 PM Sep 20th – @Chelsea_Bridge Blah blah blah di blah. Yeah, whatever. First a showy-offy bridge. Now a pompous old fool “sigh”

The Mime

Recently:
   You should really see for yourself.