John Gushue . . . Dot Dot Dot

Inspector Chalmers goes to the land of Pulp Fiction

I can't stop chuckling about this mashup of The Simpsons and Pulp Fiction. 

 

Kylo Ren, Undercover Boss

My son and I wanted this SNL video this morning, and had quite the chuckle.

 

Undercover Boss: Starkiller Base Posted by Saturday Night Live on Sunday, January 17, 2016

Big Birdman

My son and I watched Birdman today (partly because the Oscars are tonight, mainly because we've been wanting to for a while), and having had the experience makes this Sesame Street parody that much funnier. 

 

I can show you The Force, flowing and never-ending

Star Wars Musical: or, an interpretation of what Star Wars storytelling might be like under the Disney umbrella. 

 

Star Wars, retold as a tapestry

Storytelling has changed through the ages; I got such a kick out of this, which imagines how the Star Wars saga would have been told in the age of medieval tapestries. If you look at the last panel in the photo above, you can see the end of episode III, a vertical line marking a 19-year interval and then Darth Vader boarding Princess Leia's ship. (The tapestry really picks up momentum then.) 

 

One part Ferris Bueller, one part Saw

My son was roaring over this parody trailer of Home Alone; he was plenty eager to show it to me. 

 

Law & Order ... of the Phoenix

Our son told me about this video, a parody of the Harry Potter movies AND Law & Order. Nick actually was unaware of the TV series, as it went off the air three years ago, but he still found it funny. If you know the show (the doink-doink, the bad puns that the detectives make), it's even more of a smile. 

 

Batman shows Dr. Lecter his credentials

Imagine Batman and Bane in some well-known films ... and now imagine a twist for Halloween. 

Away we go. 

 

The DC-Marvel hypothesis

Professor Flash, and other hybrids that never made it off the drawing board, can be seen here. 

 

If Pixar remade The Shining

Kyle Lambert, a Manchester-based visual artist, creates some wildly inspired things, including Toy Shining, which takes Toy Story characters and inserts them into Stanley Kubrick's imaging of the The Shining. Click here to see more. 

No honey for Princess Leia

This is a real chuckle: a line reading of one of the opening scenes of Star Wars, with Jim Cummings doing Darth Vader's lines in the voice of his best-known character, Winnie-the-Pooh. 

 

A different game of thrones

As seen here. 

Dream and Shout

Imagine if the recent Les Miserables movie had been arranged like this! 

Here's a parody of the will.i.am and Britney Spears song Scream and Shout, which also makes fun of the video. (I wouldn't have known that, if I hadn't looked up the original.) 

Jean Valjean got moves! 

Ho hey, in chicken

From Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, the latest bit of musical comedy featuring celebrity guests. This time, from Thursday night's episode, a redo of the Lumineers' Ho Hey, featuring Fallon, guest Nick Offerman, musical guest Blake Shelton and staff writer Chris Tartaro. 

If Avatar had been made in the Sixties

It was the age of 3D ... the first time around. 

This parody is just one of a hilarious set that movie buffs should check out when they have a second. Mick Jagger as James Bond, anyone? 

The fact-checked Newfoundland and Labrador tourism commercial

The spots produced by Target Marketing for the Newfoundland and Labrador tourism campaign have garnered a lot of attention and awards over the years ... and, now, a parody. 

This was posted a couple of days ago by the folks who chronicle the exploits of Donnie Dumphy. 

If The Dark Knight Rises had really tipped its hand in a trailer

I actually liked how Christopher Nolan wrapped up his Batman trilogy, but I still got a laugh out of the Honest Trailers take on The Dark Knight Rises.

 

The chemical Avengers

A little humour for the science folks and the comic book folks, and especially those who identify with both camps. (Remember: don't mess with thorium!) As seen here. 

If Wolverine and Gladiator crashed Les Miz

The funniest cartoon I've seen today. Well, so far. 

As seen on Gingerhaze. 

Gin and juicebox

Well, this just makes me laugh. 

Predator's teenage son

My own son showed this video to me earlier today, and we shared a laugh ... and he hasn't even seen the Predator movies (or another franchise that makes a cameo here). 

 

Saving Captain America

What if popular movies were recast with, say, The Avengers? They may end up like this assortment. 

The Shining, a la Seinfeld

Add the titles, the bass line and especially the laughs, and suddenly The Shining doesn't seem quite so terrifying. (Stick around for a bit o' Benny Hill at the end.) It reminds me of the recut trailer from some years back that, by using Solsbury Hill, recast the movie as an upbeat family drama. 

Definitely not to be played in earshot of the kids, by the way. 

Who shot J.R.(2-D2)?

It makes a bit of sense: mash Star Wars with its late-Seventies cousin, Dallas. 

The Disney boys get the magazine treatment

There seem to have been plenty of fresh parodies of Disney princesses lately (SNL's Real Housewives of Disney was a hoot); I got a chuckle from this collection of faux magazine covers that take a bat to the princes.