He Made this for you

Julian Smith
Website: HERE
YouTube Channel: HERE
YouTube Vlog Channel: HERE

There isn't much to say about Julian Smith, he's an exceptionally talented young man that makes creative and funny videos on YouTube. Whether they be skits about Hot Kool Aid or a song about Racist Coffee, Julian Smith doesn't really follow a routine of video making. There is a lot to like about Julian's casual approach to film making, here are some of his more popular sketches.

Everything Sounds Better Auto-Tuned

The Gregory Brothers
Website: HERE
YouTube Channel: HERE

This famous 4 piece comprised of Evan, Michael, Andrew and Sarah Gregory are probably the most famous YouTube musicians in existence.

If you haven't heard of the Gregory Brothers or haven't seen one of their videos then you clearly don't know anything about the internet at all. Their videos are some of the most watched and lucrative on the net. Their Auto-Tune the News series was the launching pad to internet stardom where they would jazz up the News broadcasts by Auto-Tuning the media presenters and sing-a-long with them.

A pretty random thing to Auto Tune but Auto Tuning random clips is now a staple of the internet. If there is a famous viral video online chances are days later a Auto-Tune remix will spring up.

Straight out of Canada

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.


The League Official Website: HERE

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.

I leave you with his sketch about Hands!

Getting Phil'd In

Phillip De Franco
Website: HERE
Phillip DeFranco Show YouTube Channel; HERE
Phillip DeFranco Vlog YouTube Channel: HERE

There are plenty of ways to get "News" these days, modern media gives us many different news outlets, Radio, Paper, Magazine, Televised and of course the most prominent and rel event is News available via the Internet. Internet Journalism is slowly making the other mediums less and less rel event due to the convenience of it's immediate availability, multiple sources and of course the fact that is costs practically nothing and is a standard feature on most mainstream web surfing sites like MSN, Yahoo and Google.

However with the agenda of news sources some important issues get glossed over for more rel event localised news and some stories never get the coverage they rightfully deserve.


Phil on Net Neutrallity

Phillip DeFranco is a popular and some what respected YouTube vlogger who has a Bi-Daily show called cleverly enough the Phillip De Franco Show on YouTube where he talks about all the important issues of the day to his Millions of followers and subscribers. Presented in a fast paced and edited clip using the jump cuts to help speed up the information transfer he runs down of events of the past few days it is often a mixture of serious world event news, political issues, crazy and unreal stories, concerning trends in society and of course some fluff pieces about attractive women to help gain his quota of impressionable males.

Alongside his News Show is his vlog and various other side projects Phil gets himself into every now and again, like the guest starring in Internet Horror series Black Box TV and Hooking Up a web series about the College Dating scene. Whilst also contributing to LTA (LikeTotallyAwesome), a electronic media review channel where they review games, gadgets and movies.

Still in his 20s Phillip DeFranco is a YouTube success story of how a simple idea about talking about the World to the Internet can get you voted 2008 Sexiest Geek by Wired Magazine.

Get to know Phil, Get a look inside the interesting life of an Internet Celebrity.

Endearing Existentialism

Tales of Mere Existence
Website: HERE
YouTube Channel: HERE

Some say that Life is Art, well I guess that is true in a sense but it can also be rather bleak, mundane and dreary. Movies and Television sensationalise everything to make you think that everyday is a new adventure when the sad truth is that most people spend their lives in a routine and have surrendered the idea of "Living" to just surviving.

'Tales of Mere Existence' is a cartoon project by Levni Yilmaz in which Lev animates all the small, abstract and mundane thoughts that pass through some people (Mainly Lev) whilst going through Life. Going onto his 5th year of the Project Lev releases these videos over the course of the year telling and animating his unique stories and lessons.

It's a fantastic character piece of a man struggling with his own identity in a matchstick society or whatever deep metaphor is needed here to explain his individually adequately. Just watch it, it's a lot more charming and relatable then most videos on the internet.

Explaining the Internet

ROCKETBOOM - Know Your Meme
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YouTube Channel: HERE

The internet maybe a fun and fast medium to gain access to databases of information, websites of interests, shopping and of course pornography but there is also a strong sense of community amongst fellow internet users. A landscape filled with like minded introverts that crack jokes anonymously about life, society and whatever is on their mind at the time. Eventually they from inside jokes which are usually refereed to as "Memes".

These inside jokes that are usually in reference obscure to popular trends, events, people, media, shows etc. Usually spring from various internet forums and communities like, SomethingAwful, 4chan, YTMND, EbaumsWorld and various other sites.

For casual net surfers or even for people brand new to exploring the internet these jokes and references can fly completely over their heads. People laughing about things like Goatse, Meatspin, Lemon Party and the infamous Two Girls One Cup video whilst people more adopt to socialising in real life would stay completely out of the loop.

Thankfully there are kind hearted people on the internet, yes they exist in very small numbers that like to educate the newbies and casual surfers in informing them about emerging or standardised trends in internet culture. The fine folks over at Rocket Boom productions have set-up a separate site and committee completely dedicated in collecting, archiving and presenting extremely detail reports about Internet Memes in the aptly named site production, Know Your Meme.

So if you're still behind on certain internet trends, jokes and "Memes", browse through the archives of Know Your Meme. You might shed some light on some jokes you've heard at parties that you didn't understand then.

Here are some to get you started on your Adventure in discovering a new side to the internet.

The Dynamic Duo of Internet Comedy

Barats & Bereta
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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"

ScrewAttack Settling Scores

ScrewAttack - DEATHBATTLE
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YouTube Channel: HERE

ScrewAttack have produced one of the most interesting and talked about webshows as of late; 'Death Battle' hosted by Wiz & Boomstick. A series of shows where they match-up two video game characters in battles to the death. Hypothetical match-Ups that have raged on for years and years and some match-ups that have never been considered.

First they run down and assess the abilities, attributes, characteristics, weapons and stats of the participants. Then after a quick word from that week's sponsor they then virtually simulate a Fight to the Death with the said combatants. They do a tremendous amount of research and decide the winners in a logical and well thought out conclusion.

So if you've always wanted to find out who'd win in a fight to the death between Akuma vs. Shang Tsung, Rogue vs. Wonder Woman, Bobba Fett vs. Samus Aran, The Koopa Troopa vs. The Goomba or Mike Hagger vs. Zangief then today is your lucky day....

I personally can't wait to see what other match-up the boys at ScrewAttack have cooking up.











Keep up with the Death Battle Series, The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are next in line for a Battle Royale.

Cyanide & Happiness - Stick Figure Simplicity

Cyanide & Happiness
Website (Comics): HERE
Website (Shorts): HERE

Cyanide and Happiness are infamous on the internet for having some of the most depraved, offensive, disturbing and of course hilarious comic strips to ever grace the cyber world. The group over at Explosm in charge of Cyanide and Happiness must be rather large to come up with such creative and contrasting stories on a weekly basis, in fact they've been doing this for 2004 and seem to get more and more popular as the years roll on.

The simplistic art style of stick figures takes nothing away from the superb and brilliant writing content exhibited in the comic strips. I'd go out of my way and say that I yet to see a web comic online as consistently funny as Cyanide & Happiness.





Coupled with it's comic success Explosm have been able to distribute real comics which are generally just a collection of strips which have been selected to be published into a book. Buy it on Amazon

Explosm have also been able to create a series of shorts on the comics. My current favourite is the Man vs. Wild Bear Grylls parody which was voiced by one of my favourite internet voice over artist's in Egoraptor.

Wise Cracks

CRACKED - After Hours
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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.

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