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Entries from LAist tagged with 'funny'

March 10, 2008

We always hear about Improv Everywhere pulling crazy stunts off in New York City, like five-minutes of frozen time at Grand Central or no-pants on the subway. Well, after a small improvised pillow fight at the Glendale mall (video below), the new LA Chapter of the collaborative pulled off their first major mission: a spontaneous musical at Baldwin Hills Mall, starting off with the Hot Dog On A Stick girl. Eventually a cast of......

Continue Reading "Improv Everywhere Finds Itself in LA: Food Court Musical"

February 14, 2008

Think Valentine's Day is for suckers? Afraid of sending the wrong message by giving Valentine's cards (or by failing to)? You can still run out on your lunch break but chances are you won't find any cards as perfect(ly inappropriate) as this collection from Hallmark's Shoebox division. Because transparency (and quite often romance) in the workplace begins with a YouTube channel and a self-mocking blog.......

Continue Reading "Funny, But NO: Rejected Valentine's Day Cards"

February 1, 2008

Silverman came clean last night, honoring boyfriend Jimmy Kimmel's 5th anniversary on late night with a music video. The real surprise: Damon is actually funny in this video and he gets a little payback at Kimmel, whose show often closes with a gag along the lines of: "Apologies to Matt Damon, we've run out of time...."......

Continue Reading "Sarah Silverman's Apology to Kimmel: 'I'm Fuckin' Matt Damon'"

January 12, 2008

With both David Letterman and Conan O'Brien sporting beards, pop-culture talking heads have been all a buzz of late about the return of the beard. The return of the beard. Which brings us to this blog post from Best Week Ever called, The 10 Most Inspiring Beards Of All Time. We're as big of a fan of most of the list, snarky commentary and all, as the next person but we especially wanted to call......

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January 11, 2008

Is it about that time? Time to start winding down for the weekend? And finally, a weekend of sunshine and not rain! We couldn't resist sharing with you a little video to get it going right. An unlikely combination to be sure, after all when was the last time you thought of Tom & Jerry and the Sugarhill Gang in the same sentence? Well it's a tale of friendship, of sticking up for your......

Continue Reading "Sugarhill Gang feat. Tom & Jerry - The Lover in You"

November 28, 2007

A 50' woman was seen terrorizing Venice Beach today. We are sure this has something to do with global warming. More photos from the scene after the jump.......

Continue Reading "Photo Essay: 50 Foot Woman Attacks Venice"

November 27, 2007

The Onion has published a companion Google map to promote their new laugher of a world atlas, Our Dumb World. Click on the markers in the map below for gems like Brazil ("Boasting some of the sexiest people ever to be stabbed repeatedly at night..."), France ("Heated conversation that will ultimately end in sex..."), and Mexico ("Now Hiring 2.4 Million Busboys"). View Larger Map In other Google Maps news, a new "terrain" layer has been......

Continue Reading "Explore the Dumb World of the Onion"

November 2, 2007

Out of sheer luck, and man was this lucky, I popped home in the middle of the day today to make lunch and grab my wallet which I had mistakenly left at home in my mad rush out of the house this morning. I turned on Ellen, which I've seen maybe once before ever, and she showed a clip from this Japanese talk show which loosely translates to "Human Tetris." Basically there are shapes......

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October 17, 2007

Do you like to laugh? We sure do. SuperDeluxe.com is one of the best places on the internet to get your funny fix -- (Brad Neely, anybody? Bob Odenkirk? FarkTV?) Now David Neher of Honor Student fame is stroking striking out on his own, with very sexy results. We can't wait until Coach Weiner shows up.......

Continue Reading "David Neher's Homemade Show!!!"

July 25, 2007

This is hilarious... and weird. Back in 1998, my family took my grandmother out for her 89th birthday to a restaurant that fused French and Asian. The quaint little restaurant in Chicago's suburban North Shore village of Wilmette was appropriately named Chinsoiserie. The seven of us were seated and we immediately ordered fifty dollars worth of delicious appetizers. When it came time to order our meals, half of what we desired sent the waitress......

Continue Reading "Best Restaurant Rant EVER: The Owners Speak Out"

July 2, 2007

Sometimes people think these bloopers reels aren't real. But it's not that far of a stretch of the imagination to think that they might be and this one just seemed perfect to start off the week. Enjoy!......

Continue Reading "Weather Man Bloopers"

June 27, 2007

LAist loves Honor Student. They are a trio of L.A. funnymen-filmmakers: David's the one with the great hair who makes incredibly realistic masturbation faces. He stars in this installment of "Chasing Donovan", their on-going series of short comedic episodes (they've also done videos for The Mae Shi). Matt and Oz work behind the scenes, and their hair is also not too bad. They are also possibly the only Oklahoman-Dominican directing duo working in the......

Continue Reading "Honor Student Presents: BANANAS!"

June 22, 2007

May 1, 2007

For today's 4:20 Video, we bring you Los Angeles-based funnymen and filmmakers Honor Student, who decided to peek into the psyche of one of America's greatest leaders. The mind of a dead president turns out to be a morbid yet musical place. Watch out for Abe Lincoln's cameo on the keyboard guitar. No wonder Walt Whitman thought he was so sexy! (Rated Mature for some sabre-related violence.)......

Continue Reading "Ulysses S. Grant Doesn't Like to Be Recognized"

August 18, 2006

Our pal goldenfiddle is asking the question: which blogger took this picture? It's part riddle, part social commentary. About drugs.......

Continue Reading "Photo of the Day -- Who Took This Picture?"

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