Sarah Silverman has got world hunger all figured out. Just sell the Vatican and use the $500 billion to feed all the poor children. That way, you won’t have to see them on your HD flat screen television looking sad.
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VIDEO: Bill O’Reilly vs. Richard Dawkins
Hoo boy, you just know you’re in for an epic shit-fight: a smack-down between conservative commentator Bill O’Reilly and militant Atheist Richard Dawkins. Naturally, the f-word gets an airing: fascism, that is.
VIDEO: Obama vows to end “don’t ask, don’t tell”
Barack Obama delivered a passionate speech to America’s largest gay civil rights group on the weekend, pledging to end the US military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on homosexuals. Watch the full speech here.
Video of the Day: You call that a Minstrel Show? This is a Minstrel Show
Dear Daryl: this is how you do it.
The Goodies spoof the Black and White Minstrel Show:
VIDEO: The Wizard of Oz munchkins: where are they now?
It’s been 70 years since the release of classic (and let’s face it, still slightly creepy) film The Wizard of Oz. Newsweek has tracked down the film’s five surviving “munchkins” to share some on-set memories.
VIDEO: Harry Connick Jr does blackface, too
There’s no such thing as ancient history on the internet. A Crikey reader unearths Harry Connick Jr. appearing in a MAD TV sketch with “blackface” in 1996. Hmm.
Video of the Day: Oooh, swish! 1930s futuristic fashion predictions
Fashion designers in the 1930s predict what the fashion-forward lady and gent would be wearing in “AD2000”, with a few hits and a lot of misses.
Video of the Day: Why you should take a year off work
Feeling the seven year itch at work? Designer Stefan Sagmeister closes down his design studio for a whole year every seven years, in order to “pursue some little experiments”.
VIDEO: Levi Johnston gets his nuts out
Milking his 15 seconds for all they’re worth, Sarah Palin’s former-future-son-in-law is appearing in an ad campaign for a brand of nuts. And it’s actually quite funny.
VIDEO: The vlog of Anne Frank
The only known footage of famous teenage Holocaust victim Anne Frank has been posted on YouTube, depicting eerily happier times only a year before she went into hiding.
Video of the Day: Drinking like Mad Men
How do the characters on Mad Men spend so much of their work-day drinking booze and still get any work done? The ladies of Double X try it and see — all in the name of science, of course.
Video of the Day: Lily Allen, Jet Li and Kofi Annan sing ‘Beds are Burning’
A diverse group of musicians and celebrities have lent their voices to a cover of Midnight Oil’s classic ‘Beds are Burning’ in a musical petition calling for “climate justice” at Copenhagen.
VIDEO: Highlights from China’s 60th anniversary parade
Watch as President Hu Jintao passes rows and rows of Chinese troops of equal height. The pan-in across Tiananmen Square at the start is particularly spectacular:
What you’re not seeing is protest. And with good reason. Chinese authorities moved petitioners back to their home towns ahead of the celebrations:
Still, who couldn’t warm to the unbeatable thrill of […]
Video of the Day: Getting tanked at The New York Times
Former NYT journo Gay Talese recalls the alcohol-fuelled newsrooms of yore, which he claims made the characters on Mad Men look like amateurs. But did a diet of booze and smokes really make for more creative writers?
Video of the Day: That’s not a nut, this is … not a nut either
You might think a cashew nut’s a nut. But it’s not. Coconut? Nope. Brazil Nut? Heck, it’s only a seed. RatherGood educates in a song, so you’ll never call an almond a nut again.
VIDEO: The great pacific garbage patch
Deep in the North Pacific Ocean, there is a garbage patch twice the size of Texas, with 36-to-1 ratio of plastic to plankton. Mother Jones sets sail with the scientists studying the mess.
Video of the Day: Hotdog diplomacy
Oscar Meyer wieners come 10 to a pack. Wonder Bread hot dog buns come eight to a pack. Can the two companies ever agree on a common number for each package?
Video of the Day: Republican shakes his booty Dancing with the Stars
Conservative Republican Tom “Hammer” DeLay used to be known as the “meanest man in Congress”, says Maureen Dowd. Now he’s a contestant on Dancing with the Stars. And, um, pretty flamboyant.
weird weather Video of the Day: That’s not a dust storm; this is a dust storm
Sydneysiders woke up to red skies this morning due to a dust storm sweeping NSW. But that’s are nothing compared with this footage from Broken Hill yesterday: watch as the picture fades to black.
