I know it's summer but it still might be nice to have your heart warmed before the weekend. What a guy this guy is, right guys? I've never even watched Wall-E with a kid and this guy spent thousands of hours building one for a whole bunch of sick kids he's not even related to. How do you even build a robot? Are sprockets involved? Anyway, let's give this dude the Noble Prize for Engineering and Good Dude Being. [Via]
"Daphne Zuniga: What equality means to me is that women are given their moment, their chance to stand alone before everyone, with dignity, and to know that no man is going to try to upstage … Evil Robot: [comes on stage, making robot noises] Zuniga: … with dignity… Evil Robot: Evil! Evil! Zuniga: Oh, no. Evil robot from the future. Evil Robot: I am an evil robot from the future! Zuniga: I just said that. Evil Robot: It's my line. And I am an evil robot from the future. Zuniga: What do you want, evil robot? Have you come from the future to destroy humankind? Evil Robot: I come from the future to destroy … Stop saying my lines! I [...]
On this episode: A friendly robot hosts the show for us, the latest in dork coutre, David is nervous to be on a gameshow, new medications to help you be the best asshole you can be, a mother's song to her son, adulthood eludes two thirty-somethings, uninteresting medical advice, and a scoutmaster's song about being a man.
This month's show was written and performed by Adam Bozarth, Dan Chamberlain, Matt Little, Taylor Moore, and Anna Rubanova with special guests Kelly Hudson and Laura Willcox.
All original music by Dan Warren. Check out his podcast, The International House of Dancakes.
On this episode: New England's greatest mariachi band, a war-torn future that should never be, changing a flight reservation gets a little sticky, a promo spot for every show on television, a thrilling radio drama with a cast of thousands, a cocktail robot tries to trick a morning show into teaching him about love, an English lesson for Germans, and grandma and grandpa find the Fountain of Youth.
This month's show was written and performed by Adam Bozarth, Dan Chamberlain, Matt Little, Taylor Moore, and Anna Rubanova, with additional material by David Bluvband and featuring special guest appearence by Katey Healy-Wurzburg
All original music by Dan Warren. Check out his [...]
Every year, Comedy Central, like all of the other networks, announces a new slate of shows it’s developing, and it’s always an impressive collection of some of the funniest people going. Comedy fans who have been around long enough know not to get too excited though because there’s only so much room in the Comedy Central schedule (and budget), so most of the shows the network develops each year don’t end up getting made. Comedy Central just announced the shows that ARE getting made this year – new projects from funny people like Anthony Jeselnik, Amy Schumer, and Ben Hoffman. It’s great to see these comedians bringing [...]
Of the accounts that follow me on Twitter, half are spambots. About 15% are companies or organizations whose social media interns found me on a list somewhere, and another 15% are something in between: not definitely bots, but not exactly humans. Whatever they are, they're not "listening" in any meaningful sense. Among the remaining group are some people I like, some people I like a lot, some people I don't know, and a bunch of technology PR professionals who don't really have a choice.
My "Follow" list, in contrast, is cultivated with great care — it’s almost exclusively people I think are funny. But the funniest account I [...]
Screw all these other posers, science has gone and solved the issue of who should replace Michael Scott on The Office: a computer program designed to make double entendres. The program is called Double Entendre via Noun Transfer, or DEviaNT, and was created by two computer scientists at the University of Washington, Chloé Kiddon and Yuriy Brun. The program is based on an analysis of two bodies of text: 1.5 million erotic sentences, and another with 57,000 from standard literature. They then evaluated nouns, adjectives and verbs with a "sexiness" function to determine whether a sentence is a potential TWSS [That's What She Said]. Examples of nouns with [...]
If a movie about a robot kicking it with and old guy isn't enough, they also are jewel thieves!!!!!!!!!!?! What a left turn. I feel like Hollywood underestimates how interested we are in robots and overestimates how interested we are in jewels. Next time H-wood, just have the robot steal another robot but then fall in love with that other robot and have robot babies. Jewels schmewels.
Jon Hamm is gonna make so many robot noises when he joins the next season of The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret. More robot noises than this. Actually, it's weird that he even speaks any English in this clip because according to my intel, his character is a schizophrenic robot who has many robot personalities (my intel is a dream I had once). The new season starts Jan. 6.
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.
