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Eliot Glazer

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Eliot is a writer and comedian, and also the nerd behind the site My Parents Were Awesome.

Bathtub on Wheels - VROOM!

A bathtub on three wheels? Yup. Some guy, somewhere, knew that a bubble bath wasn't the best answer to a long day's work. So, he got all Steampunk and added a motor to the clawfoot, hitting the road and giving it that viral video sheen that only the internet can attribute to a dude adding three wheels to the same tub in which he probably soaked his nads (yuck, sorry). ...

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Who Let The Clowns Out and Why Would You Do That To Us?

Who let the clowns out? Apparently, someone named "Silly Sally" "let the clowns out" in what appears to be an attack on children not yet scathed by the horrifying phenomenon that is adults dressed like zombie mimes with squeaky (squeaky!) noses. On playgrounds and in slowly-roving cars, the bushy-haired monsters were last seen wearing giant hats and pantomiming sleep in areas with color cancer. ...

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Iron Man 2 Before the Special Effects

Iron Man 2 is going to be awesome. If you've seen the trailer, you probably already know that between Robert Downey, Jr.'s suit of armor and Mickey Rourke's terrifying/awesome electro-tentacles, Iron Man's second movie will likely shape up to be a damn good cinematic mindsplosion. But here's a question: what's it like when the CGI effects are turned off, the green screen is back in the picture, ...

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Yoel Brach's 'Bad Romance' is So, So Good

Yoel Brach's band, comprised of a "shmattering" of Orthodox Jews, take on Lady Gaga's 'Bad Romance' to commemorate the vows exchanged between Shia and Perry Weinberger (Mazeltov, you guys). It's all horns and vocal, which already makes it awesome to hear Gaga go SkaSka in the first place. But the fact that the tunes are being emitted from the mouths of Ye Holy Men makes us wish we could take a ...

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Art In Loo - Dispatches From Behind the Stall

@rtinloo is "a continuous art project where people leave personalized toilet papers in public toilets to be picked up and read by others." A combination of PostSecret and pooping, @rtinloo requires that one simply express a momentary thought onto some TP, photograph and submit it to the site, and leave the evidence in a public toilet. Poetry, secrets, and toilet humor never stunk so good. ...

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I'm So Excited About This "Saved by the Bell" Mash-Up

Saved by the Bell instilled a generation of kids and tweens and teenagers with a slew of "life lessons," providing its devoted viewers with morals involving hard-button issues like compulsive lying, safe sex, and freezing time with a magical spell only attained by preppy boys in acid-washed denim (if that fits your description, shape your hands in a "T" formation, yell "Time out!" and see what ...

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BankBank Is Onto Something Besides Scaring Us

Sometimes, video art combines humor, rap, and warped visuals so terrifying that it makes the Teletubbies look like kiddie stuff (don't even try telling us Teletubbies are anything besides members of the Illuminati, pressed to impose Mind Control on the masses). BankBank is one of these artists, a dude shrouded in mystery whose hip-hop-infused vids made on the cheap are thoroughly stylized and ...

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Saddam "Free Love" Hussein - Today in eBay

Saddam Hussein was convicted of charges related to the killing of 148 Iraqi Shi'ites and was sentenced to death by public hanging in 2006. But before all that hullabaloo went down, Saddam was the linchpin of political humor in the nineties. Like, seriously, he was the go-to guy for late night one-liners. So, the poaching of a novelty condom featuring the dictator's signature mug is a naturally ...

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Daniel Songer - Live, Free Comedy in His Backyard!

They say that comedic instinct cannot be learned. They also say that if, in fact, you are a viable candidate for becoming a successful comedian, practicing your bits in your backyard is an ideal method for mastering your craft (no they don't). But what about Daniel Songer, who's recorded over sixty painful/stunning Robin-Williams-inspired stand-up comedy videos in his backyard? Is he funny? ...

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Ina Garten's Hamptons Haiku Journal - Yep, Exactly

Do you like The Food Network's Barefoot Contessa, Ina Garten? Do you hate The Food Network's Barefoot Contessa, Ina Garten? Either way, this one's for you (it's Ina Garten fan fic and it's probs true because she serves dinner on the beach): Ina Garten's Hamptons Haiku Journal. link:// Food Network Humor ...

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