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The Late Late Show sketch “The Bold and the Lyrical” is a soap opera written using only Kanye West lyrics. The scene stars Bryan Cranston, Giovanni Ribisi, Reggie Watts, and host James Corden as they compete for the love of Jessica Biel. James, Bryan Cranston and Giovanni Ribisi battle over Jessica Biel’s heart in a […]

Video creator 007craft shows off the 10’x10’x6′ storage locker he says he has been comfortably living in for two months. The video highlights all the custom comforts and modifications he made to maximize the small space which includes a working sink, electricity, cooking area, and of course a 4K television and gaming system. 007craft made […]

In April 2016, JFKIAT, the management company for Terminal Four at John F. Kennedy International Airport, partnered with the Long Island-based Guide Dog Foundation to offer the area’s first post-security indoor pet relief area. The 70-square foot area is complete with astroturf, hose and an adorable little fire hydrant to make any dog feel at […]

O wad some Power the giftie gie us. To see oursels as ithers see us – “To a Louse” Robert Burns (1786) In the animated “The Mind Body Problem“, the highly insightful School of Life explains that the idea self exists in two parts; whom a person feels themself to be and the external package […]

pic.twitter.com/TNorErkZXf — Ryan Reynolds (@VancityReynolds) January 13, 2017 Ryan Reynolds has released an awards season “For Your Consideration” video for his R-rated superhero film Deadpool. The Washington Post recently ran an article about the possibility of Deadpool being nominated for a Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar, and Reynolds has promised to respond should that happen. Could […]

A photo posted by Timmy Joe (youtuber!¡) (@watchtimmyjoe) on Jan 5, 2017 at 11:55pm PST Tech vlogger Timmy Joe, who lives up in Northern Ontario, went outside on a very, very cold night and captured the amazing sight of colorful light pillars that had shot high into the frozen Canadian sky. Light pillars are an […]

Jenkem Magazine sat down for an fantastic interview with Dan Mancina, a fearless blind skateboarder from Livonia, Michigan who uses his cane to perform all sorts of awesome tricks. Jenkem also compiled video footage of Dan chopping wood, playing frisbee golf, throwing darts, and shooting an assault rifle with stellar precision. How did you lose […]

Looper shared a video where they explore the dark side of everyone’s favorite fictional superhero from Guardians of the Galaxy. According to Looper, Star-Lord is quite the intergalactic jerk. Star-Lord has quickly risen to being one of Marvel’s most popular heroes, thanks to his role in Guardians of the Galaxy. But just a few years […]

Comedian Joe Bereta teaches everything that we need to know about how to read someone’s mind “like your are reading a friggin’ book” in a telepathic episode of the AWE me web series, Epic How To. Related Laughing Squid PostsTab, An App For Splitting Restaurant Bills With FriendsDelete My Browser History Medical BraceletA Detailed Breakdown […]

Kuma Films has captured footage of Curtis Crowe (a.k.a. “knifestuff“) performing all sorts of incredible tricks with his butterfly knife (balisong). A video posted by Kuma Films (@kumafilms) on Jan 11, 2017 at 3:08pm PST A video posted by Kurt (@knifestuff) on Jan 4, 2017 at 1:25am PST A video posted by Kurt (@knifestuff) on […]

A video by Tomasz Sakrajda shows a rotating blade powered by a tractor that quickly cuts long branches into firewood. Two people test the machine in the video, with the first person having much better luck at getting nice even cuts while the second person’s cuts are significantly more varied in size. Related Laughing Squid […]

Jessica Leigh Clark-Bojin of Pies Are Awesome demonstrates how to make an edible TRON pie that glows when under a black light in her latest tutorial video. A photo posted by Pies Are Awesome (@thepieous) on Jan 8, 2017 at 8:00pm PST A photo posted by Pies Are Awesome (@thepieous) on Jan 9, 2017 at […]

The Fowndry is featuring an officially licensed heat-resistant silicone Darth Vader Oven Glove that is designed to look just like one of the feared Sith Lord‘s iconic gloves from Star Wars. Perfect for force-choking your foes and checking on your Welsh rarebit, the Darth Vader Oven Glove is made from heat-resistant silicone. Far more imposing […]

While appearing on the Tonight Show, actor Kevin Bacon and host Jimmy Fallon delivered a hilarious version of the iconic Kinks song “Lola” while recreating the original video dressed as the Davies brothers. Their adaptation, however strayed from the original as they reached for every single word that rhymed with the song’s title. I met […]

Photographer Pablo Zulaska filmed soap bubbles quickly freezing into beautiful icy globes in -20°C weather. Zulaska made a similar video last year and said it has become a tradition with his children. It became a tradition since last year, so as there was almost -20 degrees (Celsius), I made some freezing bubbles for my kids. […]

A photo posted by Susana Blasco _ COLLAGES (@descalza) on Jan 21, 2013 at 8:18am PST Antiheroes is an Instagram project, created by artist Susana Blasco, where she adds everyday objects to vintage photos to create humorous and strange portraits. Prints of Susana’s photo creations are available to purchase from her Etsy shop. A photo […]

Filmmaker and director Ben Cox of Gnarled Apple Productions has released Creatures of the Deep, a film about amazing UK artist Alan Williams and the fantastical creature sculptures that he builds from his extremely creative mind. Alan’s work is available to view on Instagram, Facebook, and his website. A photo posted by Alan Williams (@alanwilliamsmetalartist) […]

“Gadget Earth” by The Verge is a parody of the BBC nature documentary Planet Earth that focuses on the variety of gadgets on display at CES 2017. The Verge’s creative director James Bareham provides David Attenborough style narration for the video as drones and other gadgets stand in for the animal species seen in the […]

Squeeze Box: The Complete Works of “Weird Al” Yankovic is a box set that spans Yankovic‘s full career and includes every album he’s ever released as well as new unreleased tracks, a 100-page book of photos and memorabilia, and a replica of Yankovic’s signature accordion to hold all 15 albums on vinyl or CD. Pledge […]

Say It With Beef is a tasty online service that makes bouquets (broquets) of scrumptious beef jerky flowers and sends them out to that special someone, who may be hungry, to receive as a romantic and unique gift. Dozens of delicious Roses and Daisies are available to prepare and ship out in awesome pint glasses […]

Helmet cam footage captures snowboarder Tom Oye in Whistler, British Columbia being saved from an avalanche by an inflatable backpack he deployed once the ground began to fall from beneath him. The Black Diamond Halo 28 JetForce Avalanche Airbag Pack kept the snowboarder above the mass of sliding snow, and he escaped unharmed as another […]

In the upcoming original Netflix film, iBoy, a teenage boy named Tom (Bill Milner) suffers a beating at the hand of a vicious gang who also assaulted his friend Lucy (Maisie Williams). Upon recovering from his injuries, Tom sets out on a path of revenge for himself and Lucy using the odd super powers he […]

Dax Shepard and Michael Peña star in the comedy CHIPs, an R-rated adaptation of the classic television series about members of the California Highway Patrol. Shepard also wrote and directed the film, which will be released on May 24, 2017. Dax Shepard (“Hit and Run,” TV’s “Parenthood”) and Michael Peña (“The Martian”) star in the […]

Back from his adventures in Costa Rica, Coyote Peterson of Brave Wilderness was invited onto Conan to explain why he set out to endure most painful insect stings ever recorded. Peterson replied that he does it to educate people, something he’s explained to his audience many times before. If you didn’t know it already, Coyote […]

In January 2016, we wrote about musician and producer Grant Woolard‘s amazing Classical Mashup featuring 57 popular songs by 33 composers. Nearly a year later, Woolard followed up his original opus with Classical Music Mashup II, which features 52 pieces by 31 composers. The composers are back for a sequel. Check out Classical Music Mashup […]

Binging With Babish host Andrew Rea demonstrates how to cook the best fish tacos in the world from the Paul Rudd and Jason Segel movie I Love You, Man. As Rea explains in the video, the tacos come from the real restaurant James’ Beach in Venice, California. I Love You, Man is a timeless Rudd-Segel […]

Taco Bell has introduced the Naked Chicken Chalupa which features a crispy fried chicken taco shell filled with lettuce, tomatoes, cheddar cheese and an avocado ranch sauce. The Naked Chicken Chalupa will roll out nationwide on January 26, 2017 as the latest in the company’s attempts to create novel and interesting menu items like its […]

A photo posted by Underdogs Project (@underdogs_project) on Nov 26, 2016 at 5:45pm PST While doing a report for the Urban Pet Gazette, photographers Jason Kenzie and Tanya Ryan captured the adorable soft underbellies of various unsuspecting dogs as they sat atop a clear glass table. The duo put together this adorable series as a […]

The comedy duo Rhett McLaughlin and Link Neal of Rhett & Link sat down with host Sean Evans on a special episode of the First We Feast series, Hot Ones, to compete in a spicy trivia contest at the Brick Lane Curry House in New York City. Whenever one of the three contestants answered a […]

TRONICBOX created a 1980s style remix of the song “Somebody That I Used to Know” by Gotye and Kimbra by adding drum machine, electric guitar, and synthesizer tracks. A song about a guy in leather jacket who drives a Bronco getting dumped… in Miami. Related Laughing Squid PostsGollum Singing a Precious Rendition of the Song […]

A sweet older male cat named Lou had been a resident at the Lorca Animal Rescue in Lorca, Spain for such a long time, that the humans around him wondered why non one wanted to adopt him. At the same time, Isabel Gonzalez Asensio wanted to find a gentle therapy animal for her daughter Laurita, […]

A photo posted by Booky Margoof (@bargraf) on Oct 27, 2016 at 12:34pm PDT San Francisco artist Becky Margraf has created a huge collection of cute square felt faces for a charming, ongoing 100 day project. Her entire series of felt faces are available to view on Instagram. She occasionally sells limited batches of her […]

FLEB Puzzles demonstrates how to solve the Gold Coast Parking Meter puzzle box. The solution requires clever thinking and the use of previously removed pieces as tools. This puzzle is… a parking meter??? Related Laughing Squid PostsThe Xbox Puzzle, An Incredibly Elaborate X-Men Inspired Logic Puzzle Game in a Wooden BoxClever Cockatoo Very Methodically Solves […]

Videographer Eddie Codel, founder of the Flying Robot International Festival and good friend of Laughing Squid, sent his DJI Mavic Pro into the sky and captured a beautiful overhead view of the Richmond, Virginia waterfront, along the James River. He then set the footage to the Brett Van Donsel song “The Future Begins Today“, an […]

In the 29th episode of their “100 Years of Beauty” series, WatchCut Video took a different approach and focused on what a single decade looked like around the world. For their first episode in this style, they focused on how hair and makeup were styled in correlation with the researched trends of the 1980s. Which […]

Car journalist and Oversteer editor Doug DeMuro test drove and profiled the Plymouth Prowler to explain why he thinks it’s one of the weirdest cars to come out of the 1990s. The strange-looking vehicle combines unusual design elements and parts from many other Chrysler vehicles for a truly unique car. I had a chance to […]

Oblique FX has released a video where they give us a breakdown of their amazing visual effects work in the 2016 science fiction film Arrival. via GeekTyrant Related Laughing Squid PostsA Breakdown of Industrial Light & Magic’s Amazing Visual Effects Work on TomorrowlandAn Amazing Visual Effects Breakdown of Mad Max: Fury RoadA Breakdown of the […]

Film School Shorts shared Timmy II, a wonderful short film, created by Los Angeles filmmaker and video editor Imran J. Khan, about a robot who learns that fitting in isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Imran’s film won first prize for the “Best Comedy Short” at the 2016 Flickers: Rhode Island International Film Festival. […]

In the third preview clip from first episode of the David Tennant-narrated BBC Series “Spy in the Wild“, a vocal animatronic hatchling called newborn baby crocodiles to the surface of the ground where their fiercely protective mother piled each of them into her mouth and gently released them into the sea. Also featured in the […]

Galway, Ireland musician Banjo Guy Ollie performed a multitrack cover of Metallica‘s heavy metal song “Wherever I May Roam” using a tenor banjo, a mandolin. and an Irish bouzouki. Fans of Ollie can help support his future work on Patreon. Here is the original music video for comparison: Related Laughing Squid PostsBanjo Guy Ollie Performs […]

Boulder, Colorado video editor and writer Nat Kramer has created “Conan Look At My Life,” a clever video featuring a cover of Neil Young‘s hit song “Old Man” with footage and lyrics about the 1982 film Conan the Barbarian. Here is the original song for comparison. submitted via Laughing Squid Tips Related Laughing Squid PostsBoy […]

Vox director of multimedia Joe Posner and video producer Christophe Haubursin have created a fantastic video where they sit down with Shigeru Miyamoto, the inventor of Super Mario Bros. and many other iconic video games, and take a look at how he goes about designing a game. Related Laughing Squid PostsMario Creator Shigeru Miyamoto Reveals […]

Great Big Story interviewed DJ Cipha Sounds, the man who popularized the air horn sound effect in hip-hop music by incorporating it into his radio show. Born on a B-side of a Bob Marley and the Wailers record, the air horn sound has been associated with reggae and Jamaican dancehall music since the 1960s. What […]

A severe heavy winter storm in Portland caused the Oregon Zoo to temporarily close their doors to the public. The weather, however, did not bother Nora the polar bear, Samudra the elephant, vocal harbor seals, playfuls sea otters and other animals one bit as they gleefully enjoyed the frigid air and the soft, fluffy piles […]

Israeli industrial designer Avichai Tadmor has created the Ravanello, a great plastic kitchen tool that creates Super Mario Bros. themed power-up mushroom shapes from radishes. It is available to purchase from Monkey Business and Animi Causa Botique. Create mushroom shapes from radishes. Add some fantasy to your finger foods. Surprise your guests! A photo posted […]

Official Russian Trailers has shared the final trailer for Zashchitniki (Guardians), the upcoming Russian superhero film directed by Sarik Andreasyan. The last trailer shows a bizarre team of Soviet superheroes assembling and fighting evil to keep the USSR protected. Guardians is set to release on February 23rd, 2017. Related Laughing Squid PostsGuardians, A Film About […]

For CineFix‘s ongoing Trailer Mix series, New York filmmaker Bobby Burns and Dustin McLean teamed up to create a fake movie trailer that reimagines Raiders of the Lost Ark as an action spy Bourne movie. We can dream, right? What if this Steven Spielberg classic was actually part of the Bourne series? Here’s a little […]