5 posts and columns on funny

Sharethrough CEO on Why You Should Care About Social Video Ads (Video)

in Social on February 17, 2011 at 10:34 am PT

Sharethrough is a new kind of ad platform: One focused exclusively on video and social sharing. Basically, it guarantees it can get your funny ad a lot of views.

Viral Video: Larry and Sergey Buzz You Up, While Zuckerberg Is Board

in News on June 12, 2010 at 12:55 am PT

How in the world did BoomTown miss these very funny new puppets from 1938 Media of Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin and Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook? Here are the videos.

Viral Video: Nip and Yucks?

in News on March 10, 2010 at 12:30 am PT

Here is a new Funny or Die comedy video of reality show star Heidi Montag spoofing her plastic surgery-addled obsession with silicone. It is sort of funny and sort of creepy and even a little sad. Nonetheless, Montag and her even odder husband, Spencer Pratt, are certainly game to make themselves the subject of mockery.

Viral Video: Warning–Spoiler Alert! (Actually, 50 of Them)

in News on March 2, 2010 at 12:05 am PT

Here’s a very funny online video by the always quirky Fine Brothers in which they reprise a good bit–spoiling 50 movies from 2009 in under four minutes, in anticipation of the Oscars on Sunday night. My favorite and much repeated line: “Just like in real life, who would have guessed it?”

Viral Online Videos, the Funny Edition: Doombas and Anchors Away!

in News on February 12, 2009 at 1:01 am PT

Here are two very funny online videos, making the rounds of late. The first is from “The Daily Show” earlier this week, in which Samantha Bee perfectly mocks products from iRobot–best known for the automatic vacuum called the Roomba–as killerbots. In the second, local Chicago anchors from WGN News, Robert Jordan and Jackie Bange, do a very impressive Las Vegas-style routine during the commercial break. It is hard to look away.