Comedian Peter Serafinowicz is also a talented music video director, and here's his latest creation for the Daft Punk song "Get Lucky." He previously direct videos for Hot Chip's "I Feel Better" and "Night & Day" and Alex Metric & Steve Angello's "Open Your Eyes" (all embedded below). In addition to being directed by Peter Serafinowicz, the new Daft Punk video also stars Peter Serafinowicz, Peter Serafinowicz, and Peter Serafinowicz.
Vine is a toy from Twitter that challenges users to make the most profound work ever committed to video in exactly six seconds. Or at the very least, challenges comedians to bring a little more laughter into this world. Every Tuesday we showcase five of the funniest short shorts of the past week.
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British comedian Peter Serafinowicz just announced that his new book A Billion Jokes is available for pre-order on Amazon now (it comes out next month). You might know Serafinowicz from his amazing cult series Look Around You or from his appearances in Shaun of the Dead, Running Wilde, and Star Wars Episode 1 (where he played Darth Maul!), but his wildly-popular Twitter feed is the inspiration for the new book. On Twitter, Serafinowicz is renowned for his snappy answers to questions from his fans, and these Q&A’s are collected here. Don’t worry, there aren’t really a billion jokes in the book. That’d be a lot. Just several hundred.
Here's the new video for "Open Your Eyes" by Alex Metric & Steve Angello feat. Ian Brown. It's notable for our purposes because it was directed by and stars Mr. Peter Serafinowicz, and is therefore awesome. I mean, it features Serafinowicz fighting a gigantic robot. What more do you need to hear?
And if you've never seen it before, you really should check out Serafinowicz's video for Hot Chip's "I Feel Better," which is even more insane than this one.
Yesterday, we heard from some professional comedy scribes who are prolific joke writers on Twitter. Today’s segment will feature thoughts and insights from Twitter-savvy performers (all of whom also write) you might know from their stand-up, film or television work.
Other than the escalating presence of tweets plugging shows and gigs, there isn’t much difference between the feeds of writers and those who are primarily performers. Both are trying to make you laugh. And some performers, including those who contributed to this story, will plug their work in offbeat and clever ways. Solicitation as entertainment. Double bonus.
Talking to us today about Twitter are Rob Delaney, Doug [...]
Fruit-smashin' comedian Gallagher is up to his racist antics again. Gallagher made his second podcast guest appearance that got heated after he said a lot of terrible racist stuff, following a spectacular episode of WTF with Marc Maron in 2011 in which Gallagher walked off mid-interview after Maron called him out on being awful. On the latest episode of Probably Science, which was taped in front of a live audience with guest Peter Serafinowicz and hosts Matt Kirshen and Andy Wood, Gallagher went off the rails.
You can listen to the episode, which host Matt Kirshen now calls his "personal Vietnam," here (the racism starts in [...]
"It's just a silly, stupid, clever, clever, clever, stupid, ridiculous, pointless book that I hope makes people laugh a few times," says Peter Serafinowicz of his new book, A Billion Jokes (Volume One). The book is only the latest addition to his impressively eclectic résumé, having appeared in classic British comedies like Spaced and Shaun of the Dead, dubbed the voice of Darth Maul in The Phantom Menace, created and starred in his own sketch show, and directed some thoroughly odd and amazing music videos for Hot Chip. His new book continues the tradition of his genius Twitter feed, with one-liners like, "You can tell a lot about someone btw [...]
Here's the new music video from Hot Chip, directed by Peter Serafinowicz and featuring Terence Stamp, Reggie Watts and Lara Stone. In it, Stamp leads a group of dancing monks and Watts and Stone fight in a couple of spaceships. I think? I'll be honest, I have no clue what it all means. I think I preferred his last effort for Hot Chip, which was easier to follow and also much more unsettling in the best way possible. But this one's still fun and the song is catchy, so I suppose it doesn't really matter. But please, if you've got a deep reading of this thing, feel [...]
Peter Serafinowicz is not a household name here in the States, but he's been a major part of Britain's comedy scene for years. In addition to appearing in beloved shows such as Spaced, I'm Alan Partridge, Little Britain and The IT Crowd, he also created and starred in both Look Around You and The Peter Serafinowicz Show. But his first major introduction to American audiences was in Mitchell Hurwitiz's short-lived followup to Arrested Development, Running Wilde.
Running Wilde was burdened from the start with unreasonable expectations. Coupled with a heavy hand from network executives, the show never really got a chance to find its footing and build a solid [...]
Just like in Arrested Development, Jeffrey Tambor is going to be playing Will Arnett's dad in a Mitch Hurwitz sitcom. This time, however, it's in Running Wilde, according to a tweet by costar Peter Serafiniwicz. How many more episodes the show has left is unclear, but it's great that Arnett and Tambor get to team up again while it's still kicking.
Look Around You co-conspirators Peter Serafinowicz and Robert Popper reunited to make this new short together, which they just uploaded to YouTube yesterday. Entitled "Building a Human," it's a faux-1960s industrial film that shows aliens how people are created. I wish Serafinowicz and Popper were in charge of all alien instructional videos.
UK comedy great Peter Serafinowicz told Digital Spy about several promising movie projects he's currently working on. The first is a film "about a stand-up comedian who kills a heckler" that Serafinowicz hopes to star in. He explains, "I'm sort of writing it for myself. When you're an actor, I just hate waiting around for people to decide that they want me… everything takes 20 times longer than it does in television and 2,000 times longer than making something for the internet." Serafinowicz noted that the film is similar to Martin Scorsese's The King of Comedy, saying, "That is one of my favorite, favorite things. It owes a [...]
British comedian and Running Wilde scene-stealer Peter Serafinowicz just preempted Hugh Jackman's robot-boxing epic Real Steel with his video for Alex Metric's "Open Your Eyes." Sorry, Hugh. This $12.50 belongs to Sallie Mae now. The Shaun Of The Dead star explained, "I've always wanted to do a feature-length comedy remake of Rocky. My agent told me this was wasn't realistic so a music video based on Rocky was the next best thing," which explains both the training montage and the hint at human-robot lovemaking. Serafinowicz's music video directorial debut Hot Chip's "I Feel Better" is equally silly and unnerving, the message of which is, as Serafinowicz puts [...]
In this weekly column, I’ll introduce you to the world of British comedy in the chronology of how I, an American anglophile, discovered it in my life. This week: Look Around You.
The great crop of British comedic voices that popped up in the late 90’s and early 2000’s are now fast becoming household names here in the states: Simon Pegg, Ricky Gervais, Steve Coogan, Chris Morris, Armando Ianucci and now Peter Serafinowicz.
American audiences might recognize Peter Serafinowicz as Fa’ad Shaoulian from the now defunct FOX series, Running Wilde. Or perhaps Sctanley, from the Vince Vaughan/Jon Favreau vehicle, Couples Retreat. Or maybe even as the voice of [...]
