The Onion News Network Official Website: HERE YouTube Channel: HERE Wikipedia Page: HERE
The Onion news network is a popular and well respected News source famous for delivering some of the more interesting, thought provoking and stimulating news stories around... And they're all fake.
Humbling the internet with its far fetched pieces and articles the Onion has tricked many unsuspecting people into believing ridiculous new stories since 1988. Originally a joke newspaper project the Onion is now the biggest satirical news network online and has been in business since 2007. The internet community has welcomed the Onion into its homes with open arms and it will only get bigger and better as the years roll on.
Steve McGranahan YouTube Channel: HERE Official Website: HERE
If Steve McGranahan was a character on King of the Hill he'd be the Star of the damn show, This Power-lifting Giant of a Man has a Heart of pure Gold. Mixed with Humour and good fun Steve makes videos that can be enjoyed by the whole family.
Whether it's him creating a new unique form of Kung Fu as he shows us his Mastery of the Beer Can Nun Chucks or his gardening engineering brilliance as he trims his Garden hedges with a Lawnmower on a Stick, It's hard not think anything negative about this man. He's an absolute Legend to put it bluntly and since he's made Partner with YouTube releases a video each and every week where he shows off his Redneck ingenuity mixed with his Adonis like Feats of Strength.
BBC Comedy - Backspace Website: HERE YouTube Channel: HERE
Due to the rising nature and use of modern hand held and computer technology and internet media BackSpace is light hearted spoof on nerd/geek culture shows. Hosted by British Comedians Stuart Ashens and Karen Hayley as they joke about modern technology and it's sub-culture in society.
This straight forward and no nonsense approach to internet culture is very different to usual exuberant and vibrant personalities that host these types of shows. Even though there are only 6 episodes they manage to cram in a great number of jokes at the expensive of pop culture trends, my favourite being the Social network gag about Mums who go online to brag about their babies.
We Need Girlfriends Website: HERE YouTube Channel: HERE
I absolutely love this series, maybe because it's a reflection of my life situation and would appeal to a shy loser like myself who is completely incapable of sustaining a meaningful conversation with a member of the opposite sex before alienating them with an extremely inappropriate joke or story. (Forever Alone), yeah I relate most to Henry in this series
Anyway We Need Girlfriends is a web-series from 4 years ago about 3 guys fresh out of college, Tom (Ethan Cohen), Henry (Seth Kirschner) and Rod (Evan Bass). That move into an apartment together who simultaneously get dumped by their long time girlfriends on the same day. Confronted with the daunting realising that they are all single for the first time in a long time they realise how socially naked they feel and embark on a mission to get into another long term relationship immediately.
Ugh, I've honestly been dreading this, I'm supposed to stay impartial to all entries but I'm starting to run dry on content and I'd rather get this out of the way first before I start completely panicking and reposting old entries.
Meekakitty aka Star Trek is a popular ex-model turned professional vlogger on YouTube, her energetic and chaotic videos have amassed her a large following online as she vlogs about her interesting life. Originally her vlogs consisted about her talking about her modelling career but now she creates comedic sketches and vlogs.
Mondo Media - Baman & Piderman Alex Butera Website: HERE Mondo Media: HERE YouTube Channel: HERE
No this isn't a Typo this is adventures of Baman and Piderman. Mondo Media has produced one of the most hilariously stupid webseries I will probably ever see and I'm not ashamed to admit I love it to pieces.
I hate to describe what makes this so enjoyable, maybe its the sheer magnitude of the stupidity but the idea that Baman gets around by rolling everywhere and Piderman kinda just slinks around on the ground pulling himself along with his web sling is just down right hilarious to me. Their childish innocent voices probably factor in their somewhere too.
Childish Gambino - Donald Glover Actor, Writer, Comedian and Rapper Website: HERE Comedy Central Profile: HERE Childish Gambino Blog: HERE MySpace Music Profile: HERE
You might remember Donald Glover from his internet sketch group Derrick Comedy (Previous Entry HERE) or from the NBC comedy Community where he plays Troy Barnes. However Donald is an exceptionally talented man as he is a Acotr, Writer, Stand-up Comedian and a Rapper, it's almost unfair how talented this one man is.
Smosh Website: HERE YouTube Channel: HERE/ 2nd YouTube Channel(Vlog): HERE
Smosh is the highly successful comedy project of Ian Hecox and Anthony Padilla, these two are the two biggest sketch comedians on YouTube with a extensive fan base of over 2.2 million subscribers with many of their uploaded videos to garner millions of views in a matter of days.
The Smosh duo have had great success since 2005 when they first joined YouTube, their first big hit came when they uploaded a self made Poke'mon theme parody where they would lip sync and act out crude videos to songs. Of course this was when they were just making videos to amuse themselves and their friends but for some odd reason that video in particular gained a lot of attention and Smosh was born.
You Suck at Photoshop My Damn Channel: HERE YouTube Channel: HERE
Adobe Photoshop is easily the most famous and widely used graphical editing software on the market. In fact Photoshop is so central to the broad internet community that it has even has the term 'photoshoped or shopped" coined after the software when referring to images that have been manipulated using Photoshop or any other graphic editing software.
Of course with such a large user market there is a lot of amateur photoshoppers that need some guidance in improving their photoshop skills. That's where this wonderful yet sadly discontinued web-series "You Suck at Photoshop" can help. Hosted by Donnie Hoyle who demonstrates a series of tools and techniques to help people, however the tutorials always contain various references and allusions to Donnie's troubling personal life. In fact the first episode shows the audience how to use Distort, Warp and Layer Effects on a picture, Donnie's example piece is him pasting his marriage certificate on the windshield of his Wife's suspected Adulterer's Van.
Old Spice with Isaiah Mustafa Website: HERE YouTbe Channel: HERE
The latest Old Spice commercials have to be the most successful advertising campaign of the last 10 years, 'The Man Your Man could Smell like' is already legendary on the internet and has been parodied by many people already. The Original commercial has 29.5 million views on YouTube alone. The advertisements follow a simple idea that Isaiah Mustafa plays this ultra cool, smooth and debonair manly man that is irresistibly charming and stating that any Man could be like him if they used Old Spice Body Gel, ending with the tag line "Anything is possible with Old Spice"
They even managed to film 100+ response to questions people sent in to Isaiah to answer while playing his character. Answering questions from people on Reddit, Facebook, Twitter and even Celebrities.
Dick Figures Mondo media Website: HERE YouTube Channel: HERE
Mondo media are famous for their internationally acclaimed animated series Happy Tree friends and have been working on a new series called Dick Figures. it's a simple concept about two stick figure friends called Red and Blue who are best friends and generally go on adventures together.
Jon Lajoie - Comedian, Musician, Actor Website: HERE YouTube Channel; HERE
Quick, name your favourite Canadian Rapper.
Honestly I know only one and that was that guy that called himself Snow that sang "Informer", That's your homework. Look up Informer by Snow... If you watched MTV in the 90s back when they actually played Music Videos then chances are you probably had this catchy tune stuck in your head at some stage. (Don't deny it, it was a catchy song)
Alright I'll do it for you:
Now Jon Lajoie isn't just a rapper, he honestly deserves the title of musician. He has made his living from the songs he releases on YouTube, his most popular releases are just his rap songs. But it's just the normal rap you'd be use to in the Music Industry that tells tale of wayward youth and their "struggle". Jon specialises in a kind of loser middle class white awkward nerd style of music with a strange misogynist twist of satire.
I think Jon realises the internet is a place full of idiots and know-it-alls where the line between genius and moronic can be blurry at times. His music is so awkwardly offensive and ridiculous that it's delivered in such a way that the irony and satire isn't lost. Due to the fact that a he is dressed in Jean shorts, a Hawaiian shirt and 5 dollar sunglasses and gloats about his sexual prowess and gangsterly defiance of laws.
Jon doesn't just make offensively awkward rap songs though, His other songs showcase his song writing talents and outspoken passion about music as he criticises the state of Popular Mainstream music ironically in "Pop Song" and "Radio Friendly Song"
His 2 albums are available for purchase at iTunes HERE,
Whilst being a internet celebrity, rapper, singer and comedian he branched out to television and has a regular role in FX's show "The League" where he plays Taco McArthur who is Unemployed Stoner Musician.
Jon is a talented man and his career is still rising, even though he has millions of followers online and many new fans thanks to the League his career can only go on to bigger and better things.
Barats & Bereta Website: HERE YouTube Channel: HERE
Luke Barats and Joe Beretta have been making millions of people on the internet laugh since 2003. Originally started as a fun hobby between the two when they attended Gonzaga University as theatre majors they started out doing a two man comedy routine and made various sketch videos to show friends. The two gained internet viral notoriety through their "Cubical Wars" Video.
They've been making videos ever since and are now one of the most watched and subscribed comedy acts on YouTube. They've made various pilot episodes and pitches to NBC over the past few years in hopes of transferring their talents to Television with little success. However coming out later in 2011 they're independently releasing a feature film that the two have been working on for the past few years called "Scott and Zander's Crazy Night"
I personally hope that this feature film brings them success as it did with Donald Glover of the Derrick Comedy comedy sketch group who landed a major role on NBC's Community show after their release of 'Mystery Team'.
Try and Lie to me... Tell me you don't want to see this movie now after seeing that they roped Tony Danza into sing Elton John's "Hold me Closer Tony Danza"
After the success of the Streamy award winning series 'Agents of Cracked', the Latest CRACKED.com original web series 'After Hours' follows the strange but stimulating pop culture discussions of 4 friends set in a Late Night Diner. Snappy dialogue and tightly edited together the discussions often diverge into heated debates about strange conflicting ideals like lessons learnt from 80s movies about school bullies or some disturbing underlying elements of the Harry Potter universe. It's like a Modern take on that diner scene in Taratino's Resvoir Dogs, except nerdier.
Starring CRACKED favorites in Soren Bowie, Katie Willert, Daniel O’Brien, and Michael Swaim, each member of the panel brings a level of some what expert like knowledge and perspective about varying subjects of Pop Culture that helps diversify and enrich the conversation. The chemistry between the cast members is fantastic as their conflicting opinions and arguments make for compelling viewing.
So to all those that enjoy having semi-philosophical discussions using 80s and 90s forms of media as place holders than you'll greatly enjoy watching After Hours.
Derrick Comedy Website: HERE YouTube Channel: HERE
Derrick Comedy is a popular sketch group from New York University. Made up of the 3 Main Actors of DC Pierson, Donald Glover and Dominic Dierkes, Director Dan Eckman and Producer Meggie McFadden.
Their ridiculous and often juvenile type of humour is often bold, shocking, outlandish and sometimes confronting but never boring. They create comedy that would most likely be targeted towards a more College aged audience, their most popular video online would hold testament to this considering "Bro Rape" which is a documentary about the trend of Homosexual Rape within college dormitories nation wide.
The Sketch is very brash and makes no attempts to be anything other than a running gag that in all Colleges that amongst those College guys that go around drinking beer and playing video games, there are select few that prey on young men during those few moments of vulnerability when men just hang out.
Besides making internet videos, Derrick Comedy also released a full length feature film called the Mystery Team. The whole plot isn't too far removed from their usual set of characters. A Bunch of 18 year olds' that haven't quite grown up yet and go around town trying to Solve "mysteries" like they did when they were 10 years old.
If you still watch Television and like shows like 30 Rock and the Office then you should definitely also check out Donald Glover on NBC's Community where he plays Troy Barnes, A High School Jock in a Community college stuck in a Spainish Study Group with a bunch of loveable misfits. Returning this January 20th on NBC. The Show itself is brilliant and Donald was given the part after show creator Dan Harmon came out of a screening of the Mystery Team.
