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Anthony Mackie & Joseph Gordon-Levitt Compete With “2 Legit 2 Quit” & “Rhythm Nation” on ‘Lip Sync Battle’
Anthony Mackie and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, stars of The Night Before compete with MC Hammer‘s “2 Legit 2 Quit” and Janet Jackson‘s “Rhythm Nation” on the Spike…
‘Sea Wars: The IKE Awakens’, United States Navy’s Thrilling Spoof of the ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Trailers
The crew of the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, an aircraft carrier in the United States Navy, have created a great spoof of the Star Wars:…
1964 Archival Footage of British Soldiers Under the Effects of LSD Losing the Ability to Properly Function
1964 archival footage of British soldiers being given LSD-25 while training the field. Over time they lost their ability to properly function, with one ending…
Adele Wears Prosthetic Makeup to Audition as an Adele Impersonator With Other ‘Adeles’
Adele wears prosthetic makeup to audition as an Adele impersonator named “Jenny” with other “Adeles” for her recent BBC special. The other performers quickly realize…
100 Years of Iconic American Tattoos Being Inked Decade by Decade in a Three-Minute Time-Lapse
In the 14th episode of their “100 Years of Beauty” series, Cut Video featured a brave model named Casey receiving eleven tattoos by artist Clae…
What It Would Be Like If Retail Stores Were Actually Honest About Black Friday
Cracked imagines a wonderful world where retail stores were actually honest about “Black Friday”. Black Friday: The day invented by people who sell things to…
The Complex Coordination of Circumstances That Brought Old World Plagues Across to the New World
In his latest video, the ever-informing CGP Grey explains the history of plagues – Cholera, Smallpox, Typhus, Measles, Influenza and the Black Death – and…
Scooter From the Muppets Performs the Eminem Song ‘My Name Is’ in a Mashup by Mylo the Cat
Scooter from the Muppets performs the Eminem song “My Name Is” in the latest Muppet Mashup by Adam Schleichkorn (a.k.a. “Mylo the Cat“). For comparison, here…
The Slow Mo Guys Build a Fire Tornado and Capture it in Spectacular 2,500fps Slow Motion
Dan Gruchy and Gavin Free of The Slow Mo Guys build a fire tornado and capture it in spectacular 2,500fps slow motion. As we learned from Make: host Caleb Kraft recently, the process of…
John Oliver Asks Why the United States is Still Making Pennies When They Cost 1.7 Cents to Create
On Last Week Tonight, John Oliver asks why the United States still makes pennies when they actually cost more to create (1.7 cents per penny)…