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4:00Hitler reacts to functional programming
275K views • 7 years ago
Rymdkraftverk
A Downfall-style parody in which Hitler rages about functional programming concepts such as monads and Haskell. It runs about four minutes.
2:18Google Opt Out Feature Lets Users Protect Privacy By Moving To Remote Village
2M views • 17 years ago
The Onion
A satirical Onion news segment announcing a Google feature that lets users opt out of Google's data collection by moving to a remote village without Google products or sunlight.
3:02Welcome to the Private Police | A Bit of Fry and Laurie | BBC
2.9M views • 17 years ago
BBC Studios
A short Fry and Laurie sketch in which a man returns from vacation to find his local police station has been privatized, with paid tiers of service. It satirizes privatization of public services.
13:17Stand-up comedy routine about Spreadsheets
3.2M views • 10 years ago
Stand-up Maths
Matt Parker's stand-up routine about spreadsheets, taken from the Festival of the Spoken Nerd DVD Full Frontal Nerdity. It features Excel used in unexpected ways, including turning an image into a spreadsheet.
3:44Apple Engineer Talks About New 2016 Macbook Pro
2.7M views • 10 years ago
Jason Skidmore
A short comedic video in which a man poses as an Apple engineer talking about the 2016 MacBook Pro. It is a critique of the USB-C-only design.
5:13Pachelbel Rant from 2006 [Official High Quality Re-Post]
346K views • 7 years ago
RobPRocks
Comedian Rob Paravonian's 'Pachelbel Rant', a comedy bit showing that the chord progression of Pachelbel's Canon underlies countless pop songs. This is a high-quality 2019 re-post of the 2006 original.
Topic match · Stand-up & sketch comedy
5:15Pachelbel Rant
16.9M views • 19 years ago
RobPRocks
Comedian and cellist Rob Paravonian rants about having to play Pachelbel's Canon in D, and shows how many pop songs reuse its chord progression. It was recorded live at Penn State.
Topic match · Stand-up & sketch comedy
5:21Principles of economics, translated
1.4M views • 19 years ago
Yoram Bauman
Economist-comedian Yoram Bauman delivers a humorous translation of Mankiw's ten principles of economics for the uninitiated. It was presented at the AAAS humor session in 2007.
4:22Interview with an Agile Coach - Sprint1
523K views • 4 years ago
Kai Lentit
Kai Lentit's comedy sketch parodying an interview with an agile coach, lampooning scrum, sprints and kanban jargon. It is a few minutes of programmer humor.
3:15Facebook CIA Project: The Onion News Network
761K views • 15 years ago
c0pyr1gh7
A short satirical Onion News Network segment presenting Facebook as a CIA project. It plays on surveillance and data-collection fears.
1:38Office Space - Printer Scene (UNCENSORED)
6.3M views • 11 years ago
RP
The uncensored printer-smashing scene from the 1999 film Office Space.
0:33Hawaii Five-0 product placement: "Bing it!"
706K views • 15 years ago
entropicamente
A one-minute clip of Windows Phone 7 and Bing product placement from an episode of Hawaii Five-0, in which a character says 'Bing it!' and another checks a Windows phone.
2:06Office Space - Printer Scene (Clean Version)
1.1M views • 13 years ago
LaserFloyd
A two-minute clip of the printer-smashing scene from the film Office Space, set to its rap soundtrack. The uploader assembled it as a cleaner version.
0:50Hawaii 5-0 Subway Product Placement
2M views • 14 years ago
Ewhwlen
A one-minute clip of an episode of Hawaii Five-0 featuring a blatant Subway product placement.
5:57Nest Protect is a terrible buggy product
1M views • 11 years ago
Brad Fitzpatrick
Brad Fitzpatrick records himself struggling to silence a set of first-generation Nest Protect smoke alarms that keep beeping and triggering one another.
1:49Who reads the papers? - Yes, Prime Minister - BBC comedy
3.7M views • 19 years ago
BBC Studios
A short clip from the BBC sitcom Yes, Prime Minister in which Jim Hacker explains which kind of person reads which British newspaper. It is a satirical take on press readership and bias.
6:45Exact Instructions Challenge PB&J Classroom Friendly | Josh Darnit
1.6M views • 9 years ago
Josh Darnit
A family comedy video in which kids write instructions for making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, and a parent follows them with exact literalness, producing chaos. This is the classroom-friendly version.
Topic match · Stand-up & sketch comedy
10:20Dev Deletes Entire Production Database, Chaos Ensues
3.6M views • 3 years ago
Kevin Fang
Kevin Fang comically retells GitLab's 2017 incident in which an engineer deleted the production database, based on the company's postmortems. It walks through the confusion and failed backups.
2:29BBC: Spaghetti-Harvest in Ticino | Switzerland Tourism
4M views • 13 years ago
Switzerland
The 1957 BBC Panorama April Fools' hoax report showing a Swiss family harvesting spaghetti from trees, republished by Switzerland Tourism. It is a short deadpan newsreel clip with a plummy narrator that famously fooled viewers who knew little about pasta.
Topic match · Media, journalism & propaganda
2:25The Presidents discuss their top 5 animes
1M views • 3 years ago
Bill
A short repost of a TikTok in which AI-generated voices of US presidents discuss their top five animes. It is a comedic meme video.
1:41George R. R. Martin Still Uses A DOS Word Processor | CONAN on TBS
1.7M views • 12 years ago
Team Coco
A short Conan segment in which George R. R. Martin explains that he writes his Game of Thrones books on WordStar 4.0 on a DOS machine.
11:01Infomercial: For-Profit Online University | Adult Swim
2.4M views • 12 years ago
Adult Swim
An Adult Swim parody infomercial for a for-profit online university that promises to let you print your own degree. It is absurdist comedy in the style of Tim and Eric.
1:38The Sopranos - Patsy and Burt failed extortion attempt at "Starbucks"
4M views • 12 years ago
amigomac
A scene from The Sopranos in which two old-school mobsters try to extort a Starbucks and learn that electronic payments leave an indisputable record of sales.
2:03the rapidly dwindling sanity of valve programmers as expressed through code comments
5.5M views • 6 years ago
shounic
A short video that reads out comments from the leaked Team Fortress 2 source code to show the frustration of Valve's programmers over time.
0:45Steve Ballmer Laughs At The iPhone
853K views • 15 years ago
Sander Duivestein
A one-minute clip of Steve Ballmer laughing at the original iPhone and dismissing its price and appeal.
Topic match · Tech company stories & documentaries
4:09The Princess Bride (5/12) Movie CLIP - The Battle of Wits (1987) HD
6.4M views • 11 years ago
Movieclips
The poison goblet scene from The Princess Bride, in which Westley tricks Vizzini in a battle of wits. It is a famous example of nested reasoning.
8:50Bird and Fortune - Subprime Crisis
1.9M views • 18 years ago
kerviel88888
John Bird and John Fortune satirize the investment banking mindset in a mock interview about the subprime mortgage crisis. The sketch lampoons structured credit products and the banks' reassurances shortly before the crash.
5:59Interview with FFMPEG enthusiast
572K views • 4 years ago
Kai Lentit
Kai Lentit's comedy sketch parodying an interview with an FFmpeg enthusiast. It pokes fun at the open source command-line tool experience and video conversion woes.
Topic match · Software (other)
1:55Gross COPPA Violation
86K views • 6 years ago
Videos
A short video claiming that the chat app PiperChat violated COPPA, the US children's online privacy law, because it had no parental consent form. It says this led to a very large fine. It appears to be a clip from the TV show Silicon Valley.
Topic match · Privacy, surveillance & cybercrime
0:06Do I look like I know what a JPEG is?
8.5M views • 13 years ago
BobRobster
A King of the Hill clip in which Hank-style character rants about saving images as PNG instead of JPEG after exporting from Windows Paint.
Topic match · Information theory & signal processing
6:56President Reagan, Mastermind - SNL
3.3M views • 13 years ago
Saturday Night Live
A 1986 SNL sketch in which Phil Hartman's Reagan seems clueless in public but is a scheming mastermind in private.
4:00Gall--Peters Projection
2.5M views • 16 years ago
UsefulClips
A short clip from The West Wing in which characters argue for the Gall-Peters map projection over Mercator. It dramatizes how standard maps distort the relative size of countries.
2:06Yes Prime Minister, Discussing Trident
435K views • 14 years ago
JBVids000
A two-minute Yes Prime Minister scene in which Sir Humphrey persuades Jim Hacker to buy Trident, using tortured logic about nuclear deterrence.
5:52Yes, Prime Minister - Nuclear deterrent
788K views • 18 years ago
odmarolsen
A sketch from the British sitcom Yes, Prime Minister in which Jim Hacker and the chief scientific advisor discuss the logic of the nuclear deterrent.
4:20Billionaire Bill Gates Guesses Grocery Store Prices
41.3M views • 8 years ago
TheEllenShow
On The Ellen Show, Bill Gates plays a game guessing the prices of grocery items.
3:01Better off Ted - Jabberwocky Project
176K views • 12 years ago
Nicolas P.
A clip from the sitcom Better Off Ted in which a team gives a presentation about the Jabberwocky Project without having anything to present.
1:42It's Not About The Nail
30.2M views • 13 years ago
Jason Headley
A two-minute comedy sketch in which a woman describes her problems while a visible nail sticks out of her head, and her partner keeps trying to fix it instead of listening. It dramatizes the gap between wanting empathy and being offered solutions.
Topic match · Stand-up & sketch comedy
17:41I made a talking banana
622K views • 8 years ago
Useless Duck Company
A maker builds a talking banana that reads YouTube and Twitch comments aloud on stream, then fights viewers who abuse it with profanity. He ends up building a pronunciation-based filter to catch bad words.
Topic match · Embedded systems & DIY electronics
1:59The Hustle
1.6M views • 7 years ago
KRAZAM
A KRAZAM satirical sketch about hustle culture and productivity obsession in tech.
Topic match · Startups & entrepreneurship
6:204 Chords | Music Videos | The Axis Of Awesome
50.8M views • 15 years ago
The Axis of Awesome
A comedy-music medley from the Australian band The Axis of Awesome showing that dozens of famous pop songs use the same four-chord progression. The performers cycle through a long list of hits over the same chords.
Topic match · Music theory, synthesis & production