Classic… This fruity sketch just aired on the BBC program The One Ronnie. Great work by Ronnie Corbett and Harry Enfield.
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Right in time for the holiday season. Faux Werner Herzog reads an uber dark and satirical version of Twas The Night Before Christmas. Other fun clips in this video series feature Faux Herzog reading Curious George, Madeline, and Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel. via @eacion
Greece and Ireland are down. Portugal is teetering. And Spain may soon be the biggest domino to fall. All of this makes this satirical clip a little timely – perhaps a bit too painfully timely. Featured here are two Australian satirists John Clarke and Bryan Dawe…
You never saw this coming, right? A little hip hop for NPR listeners. Adam Cole, a Stanford student, raps it out with Jenna Sullivan. Get the lyrics for “Good Radiation” below the jump…
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David Sedaris’ new collection of comic stories, Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary, was recently released with an accompanying video that features the voice of Sedaris and the artwork of Ian Falconer.
If you’re not familiar with him, Falconer has drawn over 30 covers for The New Yorker (see example here), while also creating the amazing Olivia the Pig series for children. (Be sure to watch this Olivia Goes to Venice clip for a quick primer.) If this video whets your appetite, then let me direct your attention to Sedaris reading the actual story “The Squirrel and the Chipmunk.” It originally aired on This American Life.
Or, as regular readers know, you can snag a free audio copy of Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk – Sedaris does some of the narration! – if you register for a 14-day free trial of Audible.com. Once the trial is over, you can continue your Audible subscription (as I did), or cancel it, and still keep the free book. The choice is entirely yours.
So if you want the full case against getting a PhD in the humanities, here you go. Every argument the disillusioned academic can possibly make now packed into one semi-comic video. If you’re in the humanities, the litany of complaints, whether fair or not, will hardly be unfamiliar to you.
Now on a more serious note … Towards the end, the video references SUNY Albany’s recent decision to shutter its French, Italian, classics, Russian and theater programs. That event that triggered a much-discussed series of articles by Stanley Fish in The New York Times. If you’re looking for something that operates on a slightly higher intellectual plane, you might want to spend some time with “The Crisis of the Humanities Officially Arrives: Part 1 and Part 2.” Also don’t miss some of the reader comments. They bring a lot to the discussion. Thanks Jason for sending our way…
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Earlier this month, Jonathan McIntosh released a parody cartoon called “Donald Duck Meets Glenn Beck in Right Wing Radio Duck,” which artfully remixed 50 classic Disney cartoons from the 1930s to 1960s. And now comes the inevitable remixed response: “Mickey Mouse Discovers the Government Cartoon Conspiracy Against Glenn Beck.” The video ups the ante in a quick 1:26.
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