For those of us who love Arrested Development, the crazy US TV show, it is interesting to discover the back career’s of some of the actors.

The actor who played Tobias Funtke (The neurotic, surpressed homosexual psychologist), David Cross:

was in a comedy show called MR Show and did skits on other shows, and with the power of youtube we can still see them. See if you can watch the two skits below without breaking out in a hard physical laughter.

The Pre-Taped Call-in Show

The Audition

Watching Channel 7, they had the preview for the nightly News, summarising the stories for the evening. For one story the announcer stated “Angelina Jolie’s Twins have arrived” with this photo:

I had a good chuckle at that one.

I thought it would be a good idea to make a comedy about Global Warming, it would surely be a good way of getting at the topic.

But now I have found out that Someone Stole My Idea!

http://www.sizzlethemovie.com/

Language Log has a good example of a language translation error here.

Posting has been in pause for a little while, to get back into it I would first draw your attention to the humorous 2020 Summit mockumentary that is listed on Peter Martin?s website here and here.

This is a pretty good Jesus and Mo strip:

http://www.jesusandmo.net/2007/10/22/women/

Somewhat frivolous this video is still pretty amusing.

For an absurd sense of humour you cannot go past McSweeneys. The good thing is they maintain quite a lot of material online, including their fascinating list of list of things: Timothy McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Lists.

As a sampler I would recommend these lists:

Hit Songs of the 1970s and ’80s If the South Had Won the Civil War.

Lists Involving Christ, Christian Names, and Peace of Mind

Jokes Made by Robots, for Robots.

What the People Who Used to Live in My House Apparently Said to Each Other Before Selling It to Me.

McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Last Night’s Top Five Alphabet-Soup Spoonfuls.

McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Why Hollywood Hates the Metric System.