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C-SPAN is the number one network among people who died watching TV and no one’s found them yet. Comedian Larry Wilmore hosted the 2016 White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington, D.C. on April 30, 2016. Wilmore poked fun at outgoing President Barack Obama over recent events and his two terms in office as a whole. […]

The sports comedy website, The Kicker, has released a hilarious new video that does a fantastic job of summing up every sports debate television show ever. We previously wrote about their comedy short where Weird Al Yankovic sums up every sports press conference ever. No matter what sports debate show you’re watching, it’ll look and […]

Marvel and Netflix have officially ordered a full first season of The Punisher spin-off series starring the tough vigilante character (Jon Bernthal) introduced in season two of Daredevil. A premiere date has not yet been set for The Punisher series. Jon Bernthal will reprise his role as Frank Castle, introduced to fans earlier this year […]

Host Michael Aranda takes a look at some of the surprising chemicals a human body makes on the latest episode of SciShow. Everything is made of chemicals, including the human body, but there are some especially weird ones… → Help Laughing Squid grow as an independent blog through a monthly pledge of support.

Kevin McGloughlin used “in camera” techniques to create the really cool “stop-motion hyperlapse hybrid” music video for “Lose Control” by Shit Robot, featuring vocals by Nancy Whang of LCD Soundsystem. submitted via Laughing Squid Tips → Help Laughing Squid grow as an independent blog through a monthly pledge of support.

Introducing The PIZZA BOX PIZZA. A pizza box made entirely out of pizza (and containing another small pie!) No waste, as it is all 100% pizza and 100% delicious. No more pizza boxes cluttering up your fridge or trash. Totally PIEodegradable. The Pizza Box Pizza , only from Vinnie's! #vinniesbrooklyn #pizzaboxpizza #williamsburg #greenpoint #pizza #vinnies […]

How To Origami shows how to fold an origami Star Wars TIE fighter. → Help Laughing Squid grow as an independent blog through a monthly pledge of support.

Instagram. Ego Washer. @biancoshock curated by @nuartfestival. No words needed A photo posted by The Crystal Ship (@thcrstlshp) on Apr 9, 2016 at 10:41am PDT “Ego Washer”, created by Biancoshock for The Crystal Ship street art festival in Ostend, Belgium. via The Creators Project → Help Laughing Squid grow as an independent blog through a […]

Prefixation by John Atkinson on Wrong Hands → Help Laughing Squid grow as an independent blog through a monthly pledge of support.

Ingrid Michaelson has released the brilliantly bizarre music video for her song “Hell No” which she created over the course of a four week period on her phone using only Snapchat lenses. → Help Laughing Squid grow as an independent blog through a monthly pledge of support.

Eclectic Method has created a rocking remix the 2010 Edgar Wright film Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. Edgar Wright’s masterpiece of comic book indie fusion joy gets a remix from Eclectic Method. The music is constructed from remixed bits of the songs in the movie and band battles that dominate the story. Michael Cera, Mary […]

SpaceX has posted a wonderful 360 degree video of the first stage of their reusable Falcon 9 rocket landing on a drone ship on April 8, 2016 after the launch of their CRS-8 Dragon Mission to deliver cargo to the International Space Station (ISS). Heads up! 360 degree camera view of landing on the droneship […]

Charles Gatewood, the legendary, award-winning underground photographer, author, artist, educator and “anthropologist of American counter-culture”, passed away on April 28, 2016 after sustaining severe injuries from a fall off his third-story balcony in San Francisco. He was 73 years old. Many of Gatewood’s friends took to social media to express their condolences and memories. Tribute […]

(larger) The Connected Characters of Seinfeld is an art print by Pop Chart Lab that catalogs the colorful cast of over 230 characters from Seinfeld. Signed and numbered prints are available to purchase from the Pop Chart Lab shop. From Kramerica Industries, in association with Art Vandelay (he’s an importer/exporter), comes a masterful guide to […]

In his latest video, the extremely talented and inventive musician Leonard Solomon, demonstrated how his incredible Oomphalapompatronium works and then proceeded to play a rousing rendition of Shortnin’ Bread. → Help Laughing Squid grow as an independent blog through a monthly pledge of support.

The Glow-in-the-Dark Finger Tentacles, created by novelty retailer Archie McPhee, are finger puppets that transforms your hand into a radiant squid at night. They are currently available to purchase from the Archie McPhee shop. We previously featured their original Finger Tentacles and Cthulhu Tentacles. A photo posted by Archie McPhee (@archiemcphee) on Apr 27, 2016 […]

Rolling Stone took a look inside the strange musical laboratory of Blue Man Group where co-founders Chris Wink and Phil Stanton show off some of the inventive and wild instruments the group has created for their shows. For 25 years, the Blue Man Group has blurred the thin blue lines between music, theater, performance, visual […]

In episode six of his exclusive series for IMDb, host Brandon Hardesty of No Small Parts takes a look at the career of actress Gwendolyn Christie and how she used her amazing height and ability to appear androgynous, features about which she was teased as a child, to garner the iconic role of Brienne of […]

In a video from their “Real Morning Report” campaign for their new breakfast replacement shake, Organic Valley compares and contrasts the idyllic morning often portrayed in commercials with the reality of what actually happens, using statistics from 1,000 women surveyed to prove their point. Like most women in commercials, I love to start each day […]

Warner Bros. has released a retro 1970s style trailer and a series of character posters for The Nice Guys, an upcoming comedy thriller film directed by Shane Black (Iron Man 3). The old school trailer follows private detective Holland March (Ryan Gosling) and hitman Jackson Healy (Russell Crowe) as they sing, fight, and solve crimes […]

“Sandwich Sam” is an upbeat song about an office sandwich man, but things take a dark turn when he gets an order wrong. The video the final episode of the Aunty Donna web series 1999. The series is a collection of absurd and bizarre songs and sketches set in an office in the year 1999. […]

In the latest episode of her grammar series, the very informative Mary Norris aka “The Comma Queen” strenuously objected to the word “impact” being employed as a verb while learning about the european graphite system while on location at CW Pencil Enterprises, the only pencil boutique in New York City. Prescriptivists dislike the use of […]

In a funny promo for his appearance on The Late Show, actor David Tennant and host Stephen Colbert performed a modified version of the classic Abbott and Costello routine “Who’s on First“, invoking Doctor Strange, Sherlock and of course, Doctor Who. Stephen Colbert: When it comes to Doctor Who, you’re were my favorite. David Tennant: […]

The Table Tennis Trainer by Thomas Mayer is an interactive display projected on a ping pong table that can track the motions of the ball and players. It is also capable of displaying targets for players to shoot for and tracking their gameplay statistics over time. The basic idea of my bachelor thesis was to track the ping […]

In episode five of his exclusive series for IMDb, host Brandon Hardesty of No Small Parts takes a look at the remarkable skyrocketing career of Irish actor Domhall Gleeson, who has bounded into the public eye with his superbly acted roles in such films as Ex Machina, The Revenant, Brooklyn, Star Wars: The Force Awakens […]

A super fast four-armed robot tapped its way to an incredible score of 21.079 in Piano Tiles 2 on an iPad. The robot makes use of four stepper drivers controlled by a Teensy 3.2 board being fed tile locations by an iPhone 6+ camera shooting at 120 frames per second. via reddit ? Advertise your product or service […]

Geobeats, a creative network and video channel dedicated to the making of informative lists, has enumerated several the most distinct behaviors that are considered to be acceptable in the United States, but not necessarily anywhere else. Calling the United States ‘America.’ The Americas are a very big place, as they are comprised of 2 large […]

On a recent episode of his Clueless Gamer series, talk show host Conan O’Brien met up with Seth Rogen and Zac Efron at their Neighbors 2 frat house to play some Mario Kart 8. Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising is scheduled to premiere in theaters on May 20th, 2016. A photo posted by CONAN (@teamcoco) on […]

Inspired by the amazing rainbow latte by Las Vegas barista Mason Salisbury, food editor Jen Carlson and video producer Jessica Leibowitz, both of Gothamist, visited the Brooklyn Roasting Company where lead barista Kelsey Forde demonstrated how to prepare a rainbow latte (steamed milk only). Forde also showed how to make several other colorful drinks, including […]

A five-pound gummy bear met a fiery end after taking a shower of 1,984°F molten copper courtesy of Tito4re. ? Advertise your product or service on Laughing Squid with a sponsored blog post.

A photo posted by Heather Baird (@sprinklebakes) on Apr 4, 2016 at 6:16pm PDT Heather Baird of Sprinkle Bakes demonstrates how to make a beautiful, space themed “Black Nebula Cake” in her most recent culinary tutorial. She pulled her inspiration for the nebula cake from a “couple of Hubble Space Telescope picture books” that she […]

In the TED Talk “The Magic Ingredient That Brings Pixar Movies to Life” director of photography Danielle Feinberg explains the importance of lighting to create mood and tell stories in Pixar movies. Danielle Feinberg, Pixar’s director of photography, creates stories with soul and wonder using math, science and code. Go behind the scenes of Finding […]

Using recent studies proving that cats use their meows solely to communicate with humans, the newly-developed Temptations Lab, a division of Temptation Cat Treats, has created the “Catterbox“, an incredible digital collar that interprets a cat’s meow and then translates the message through a smartphone app. For our first project we’ve set out to use […]

On the latest episode of Variant, host Arris Quinones explores the alternate versions of Captain America that have come to be throughout his 76 year history. Captain America: Civil War is currently scheduled to hit theaters on May 6th, 2016. ? Advertise your product or service on Laughing Squid with a sponsored blog post.

Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele talk about their new movie Keanu while eating increasingly hot wings on the First We Feast series Hot Ones. What happens when Hot Ones takes over your press junket? Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele found out as they did the rounds to promote their new comedy, Keanu, hitting theaters April […]

BloodBlitz Comedy has created a creepy trailer for Toy Story that imagines what Pixar‘s animated film would be like as a bloody R-rated thriller. ? Advertise your product or service on Laughing Squid with a sponsored blog post.

J.K. Simmons sat down with Stephen Colbert to talk about the legality of going from the Marvel universe, with his role as J. Jonah Jameson, to jumping over to the DC universe as Commissioner Gordon on a recent episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. ? Advertise your product or service on Laughing Squid […]

The D120 by The Dice Lab is a mathematically balanced 120-sided disdyakis triacontahedron die. The injection-molded die features 120 equal elongated triangular sides, the highest possible number of equal faces for a fair die. The numbers on the D120 are paired with their opposite faces to total 121, and the numbers around each of the vertices […]

Dave Hax demonstrates how to make an edible milk carton out of chocolate that you can fill to the brim with sweets and candy in his most recent video tutorial. He also recently released a tutorial on how to make a chocolate Coca-Cola bottle. ? Advertise your product or service on Laughing Squid with a […]

Auckland, New Zealand competitive eater and model Nela Zisser recently challenged herself by devouring 50 Krispy Kreme donuts in just a little over 24 minutes. Zisser made short work of the massive stack of delicious treats. Matt “Megatoad” Stonie also recently got in on the fun by eating one dozen Krispy Kreme donuts in record […]

Kubo (Art Parkinson), Monkey (Charlize Theron), and Beetle (Matthew McConaughey) must find Kubo’s father’s armor in the latest trailer for Kubo and the Two Strings. The trailer also features some more demonstrations of Kubo using his magical shamisen to create magical objects out of paper. The film will be released on August 19, 2016. image […]

China’s National Defense University unveiled the AnBot, an intelligent autonomous security robot, at the 12th Chongqing Hi-Tech Fair. The robot, which resembles a Dalek from Doctor Who, can navigate on its own with a top speed of 18 kilometers per hour but maintains a patrol speed of one kilometer per hour. The robot’s battery will last for eight hours of […]

Redditor Alphacodemonkey recently took photos of his incredible steel fire pit based on the iconic Death Star II battlestation from Star Wars. According to Alphacodemonkey, the custom fire pit was a high school welding project that got auctioned off. The winner of the auction gave it to Alphacodemonkey as a gift. More photos are available […]

Insane Cherry has taken the amazing Pixies song “Where is My Mind” and recut it to dub in the vocalizations of various popular animal memes for a really interesting rendition of the song. Among the memes used were “Oh Long Johnson“, Gabe the Dog, NONONONO Cat, Raspberry Goat, Yelling Fox and YEAH Lamb. The animals […]

NASA‘s Solar Dynamic Observatory captured a stunning 4K view of the solar flare that occurred on April 17, 2016. The flare reportedly caused some radio blackouts according to NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center. On April 17, 2016, an active region on the sun’s right side released a mid-level solar flare, which can be seen in this movie […]

After spending time in the morgue for the last procedure, the Food Surgeon came raring back into the operating theater in order to impregnate a marshmallow with the body of a single Teddy Graham and tiny pieces of chocolate, then set aflame resulting in a gooey s’mores treat. Surgeon’s notes: 0:06 – Chocolate, marshmallows and […]

Identical twins Camille and Kennerly Kitt, also known as the Harp Twins, recently performed a powerful cover of John Williams‘ iconic “The Imperial March” theme song from Star Wars. Their cover is available to purchase from Amazon and Google Play. A photo posted by Harp Twins (@camillekennerly) on Apr 28, 2016 at 11:03am PDT ? […]

College Humor has put together a really funny, but somewhat honest video that compares Facebook to a manipulative ex-boyfriend who is really desperate to get back together. I get a message from you, you have four unread messages but first you to download this app in order to get it. That sucks. …you’re lame now. […]

SpaceX has announced its intentions to land a Dragon 2 capsule on the surface of Mars by the year 2018. The Red Dragon mission, as it’s being called, will be the first steps in SpaceX’s larger plans for Mars they say they will unveil later this year. The company has had some success using its Falcon 9 […]

Great Big Story recently caught up with Philip Ashforth Coppola, The artist who is currently in his 38th year of an incredible journey to document the amazing underground art of the New York City subway system. We previously wrote about Coppola in November 2015. To put it lightly, Philip Ashforth Coppola loves New York City’s […]