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Twenty-two years after beginning his famous parodies of popular music, "Weird Al" Yankovic has hit number one on the charts. A look at why this entertainer has, at age 54, entered the limelight.
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‘They Came Together’ is a clever parody of the romantic comedy featuring Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler as a couple who experience all the typical ups and downs generally prescribed by the genre.
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A business card brandished by pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine as proof that a deadly attack on their checkpoint was the work of ultra-nationalists quickly became an object of derision on the Internet.
In the Media
by Germain Moyon (AFP)
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The Church of Flying Spaghetti Monster is now accepted as an official religion in Poland after a 2013 ruling was overturned on Tuesday.
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A popular gun YouTuber decided recently to feed peanut butter to his Glock model 33, poking fun at the growing popularity of gun torture test videos involving food.
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If you haven't found Justin Bieber's music video for "All That Matters" all that interesting, fear not — for Bart Baker brings you a version you can't watch without a reaction (either love or hate!).
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This is just what you need as a backing to your holiday celebrations. Apologies for the corny cliche, but "Fireplace For Your Home" will warm the cockles of your heart. You can even enjoy the "making of" right here on Digital Journal.
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Saturday Night Live has always been cutting edge funny. From the popular NBC show's hosts to its regular cast members, the show is on target; it makes people laugh.
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Every year at Christmas, Spaniards are treated to the popular "El Gordo" (the fat one) lottery, where everyone hopes to win millions in the big prize. This year's ad for the lottery was a bit "kitsch," so someone just had to do a parody.
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Jimmy Fallon is told he has only six months left with Late Night... so he does the only thing he can think of. He starts selling bad jokes on the street, [bitch.] What follows is a pretty funny parody of "Breaking Bad."
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While Canadian Astronaut, Chris Hadfield, was on the International Space Station, he kept us all both amused and educated with his many interesting videos. Now he is back on Earth, he has a copycat on Twitter.
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“Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead” is a play in danger of becoming overly familiar, another “modern classic” ruined by time and too many revivals. It takes an energetic cast and vision to make Tom Stoppard's great tragicomedy seem new again.
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If you thought all the parodies that could be done to Psy's "Gangman Style" had been done, think again and watch the latest video to go viral.
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The video, "Spartan High School Style," that parodies Psy's "Gangnam Style," has been universally acclaimed the worst video ever in the history of the Internet after having received l million views and over 20,000 dislikes on YouTube.
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The presidential debates have always provided a myriad of material for late night talk show hosts and comedians, fodder for opposing campaigns, and now social media memes, more than providing an insight into the plans a candidate has for the country.
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This parody video explores the concept of 'legitimate rape', as quoted by U.S. Republican Congressman Todd Akin, as a method of birth control. It tells ladies how they can prevent pregnancy using the concept.
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Both candidates for US President are the subjects of duelling music videos released this past week as supporters for both camps step up the political rhetoric, while trying to capture the attention of voters.
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Two college graduates have created a parody of a Gotye's song, "Somebody ThaT I Used To Know". Both had been Obama supporters, but seem to have left the dwindling crowd.
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The conservative group RightChange, released a video Tuesday set to the theme of the Dos Equis ad and uses satire to criticize Obama. In place of the beer ad's "The Most Interesting Man in the World," we have Obama, "The Most Arrogant Man in the World."
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Anyone who has seen the movie Borat, might remember his parody version of the Kazakhstan national anthem. Well the Kazakhstan shooting team was rather taken by surprise when it played for them in Kuwait.
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"Maybe you're born with it, Nah! I'm pretty sure is Fotoshop." That's just one of the lines from the video parody that's gone viral practically overnight on how magazines deceive readers into striving to achieve an image that does not exist in reality.
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Rick Perry's controversial new Strong campaign ad is steadily closing in on YouTube's record for most disliked videos uploaded to the video website. The ad continues to spark criticism and has inspired a number of parody ads mocking the governor.
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After a misunderstanding with management and a minor controversy over parody rights, pop singer Lady Gaga has given satirist "Weird Al" Yankovic permission to parody her worldwide hit "Born This Way."
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Despite the protests over the failure of networks to run the Lane Bryant lingerie ads last month, LB does not want customers to think they are behind the new Victoria's Secret parody "skeleton commercial" being shown on TV and around the Internet.
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A new game mocking Internet culture is staking its own piece of the gaming pie. Forumwarz satirizes the flamewars, comment trolls and gibberish phraseology you’re bound to see in every corner of the Web.
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This hysterical parody of "Inside the Actor's Studio" appeared on YouTube. The creators interview an actor who bears and uncanny resemblance to the famous chimp himself.
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Activist groups are suing Viacom over what they regard as an improper request to have a parody of "The Colbert Report" removed from YouTube.
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There's no funnier online-only comedy show than God Inc. Picture The Office meets heavenly politics, combined with solid acting that rivals the best of NBC's comedians.
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Funny parody commercial to what Microsoft might be releasing soon.
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Facebook Parenting: For Troubled Teens parody.
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Parody pharmaceutical ad recommending legitimate rape as the ultimate method of birth control.
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Fake tweet sent by parody of Piers Morgan.
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Toronto Mayor Rob Ford parodied on 'Saturday Night Live' by Bobby Moynihan
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Parody advert for legitimate rape
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Sean Ireland paroding "Hadfield at Home"
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Gangman Style parody entiled Farmer Style
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Italian parody of Van Damme's epic split video.
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