h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

You can get the full SNL skit from their website and in higher quality too.

http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/

An informed electorate in the making.

http://us.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2008/10/19/ia.campaign.toddlers.kcci

A very talented B3tan, Happy Toast, showcasing a new program he's working on with a clip of some woman with a gun.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=1rGBxpYbBdQ

http://www.happytoast.co.uk

New McDonalds adverts

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=dVcRecCk8sw&feature=related

The Holy Grail of impressions is Christopher Walken. This guy does a great job, and even has an anecdote to work with.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=TcrYQtb3OzM

http://www.invadenewzealand.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCXqKEs68Xk

Sarah Palin demonstrates a complete ignorance of genetics research.


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I think it's also worthy quote P.Z Myer's apoplexy that accompanied this video on Pharyngula:

"This is too much. Sarah Palin gave a policy speech today in which she claimed that she wanted more support for children with disabilities, more tools to test for disorders, and while also decrying the expense of scientific research.

I am appalled.

This idiot woman, this blind, shortsighted ignoramus, this pretentious clod, mocks basic research and the international research community. You damn well better believe that there is research going on in animal models — what does she expect, that scientists should mutagenize human mothers and chop up baby brains for this work? — and countries like France and Germany and England and Canada and China and India and others are all respected participants in these efforts.

Yes, scientists work on fruit flies. Some of the most powerful tools in genetics and molecular biology are available in fruit flies, and these are animals that are particularly amenable to experimentation. Molecular genetics has revealed that humans share key molecules, the basic developmental toolkit, with all other animals, thanks to our shared evolutionary heritage (something else the wackaloon from Wasilla denies), and that we can use these other organisms to probe the fundamental mechanisms that underlie core processes in the formation of the nervous system — precisely the phenomena Palin claims are so important.

This is where the Republican party has ended up: supporting an ignorant buffoon who believes in the End Times and speaking in tongues while deriding some of the best and most successful strategies for scientific research. In this next election, we've got to choose between the 21st century rationalism and Dark Age inanity. It ought to be an easy choice."

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/10/sarah_palin_ignorant_and_antis.php

Obama McCain dance-off.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=wzyT9-9lUyE

I'm quite sure that this was posted here a while back, but I watch it at least once a fortnight.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Ow0a06gsiF4

PP

*giggles hysterically and falls off her chair*

Tim Minchin.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFO6ZhUW38w

Lyrics:

If anyone can show me one example in the history of the world of a single
Psychic who has been able to prove under reasonable experimental conditions that they are able to read minds

And if anyone can show me one example in the history of the world of a single
Astrologer who has been able to prove under reasonable experimental conditions that they can predict future human events by interpreting celestial signs

And if anyone can show me one example in the history of the world of a single
Homeopathic Practitioner who has been able to prove under reasonable experimental conditions that solutions made up of infinitely tiny particles of good stuff dissolved repeatedly into relatively huge quantities of water have a consistently higher medicinal value than a similarly administered placebo

And if anyone can show me one example in the history of the world of a single
spiritual person who has been able to show either empirically or logically the existence of a higher power with any consciousness or interest in the human race or ability to punish or reward humans for their moral choices or that there is any reason - other than fear - to believe in any version of an afterlife

I’ll give you my piano, one of my legs, and my wife

Ok. I'll give it some thought, but before I spend too much time on this, can I see a picture of your wife.

PP

Upright or grand? (The piano, you fool, not the wife)

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=TewHFKE7mpw

Hot off the presses.

PP

Charlie Brooker on QVC

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=vPKRs3LF88M

This is about the rough Irish sport of huring, which I foind quite interesting

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=AM-kB1e96CA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCsksISaVws

A heart made of gears. Wait untill he starts turning them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70dKZjP4NOo

Those gears are astounding.

Im not a big fan of motor*sport* but this was gripping stuff and the Ferrari Pit crew about 2mins 2secs in are a priceless sight.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=VbXFtrl71h4&feature=related