Stumbling around the net, I ran into the “funny verticals” meme. These are typically a vertical strip of screenshots pulled from a movie or television with funny captions tacked on. If you do an image search for “funny verticals”, you’ll see a whole slew of them. Be forewarned, there are some very crude and offensive ones. For the lazy, here are a few representative ones I found to be funny. The first example is from the movie Inception: This is another one from Inception. There seems to be a lot using this specific sequence. ...
Today’s Dilbert described one of the most challenging problems small consulting companies face. I’m sure Jon, Micah, and I remember experiencing this many times when trying to build and expand Veloc-IT (though Micah probably still gets the pleasure of dealing with this as he’s still chugging along). Click the image to see the full size strip at Dilbert.com. Technorati Tags: dilbert,funny,humor,consulting
How good are you at thinking on your feet?
Last night I watched the premier for a new show called Thank God You’re Here. It’s a sketch improv comedy show starring various comedy television and movie stars, who have to bluff their way through a scene. They are given costumes, a set, but no script.
The title of the show derives from the fact that the first line of each skit is "Thank god you’re here!"
I love improv comedy and I thought Neuman from Seinfeld was great as well as the dad from Malcom in the Middle. You can watch the premier online.
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UPDATE: Via Dare I learned that the video was leaked to YouTube prior to its world premier and has been taken down. You can find the song on Weird Al’s MySpace page. I’ve updated my link. This video from Weird Al Yankovich cracks me up with such lyrical gems like this: The only questionI ever thought was hard.Is do I like Kirk?Or do I like Picard? Mad props to Al whose flow could give Eminem a run for his money. Click on the image to watch the video on YouTube. Beware, the tune is catchy and you might catch yourself...