iPhone 4 Antenna Comedy

Whether you are an iPhone drone (like myself) or one of the Apple device’s haters, one can’t deny how large its impact and influence on the phone industry and technology as a whole. What I also love is the awesome creative media its generated. My iPhone 4 is working just fine, but these guys cleverly poke fun at the recent iPhone 4 antenna “woes” of the (what seems to be) masses.

Spoof: Jay-Z ft. John Mayer – Lebron is Gone | @AffionCrockett

This is not one of his funniest spoofs, but give the guy credit – dude’s ideas are genius, and he readily deserves a show. The guy playing John Mayer is the most hilarious because those are exactly the expressions John makes when he’s ripping up a guitar riff.

“Magic” Mistakes: The Tragic Hour

When you think Magic Johnson, you think of porn (c’mon, Magic … Johnson! You can’t tell me you haven’t said that before while in bed) … orrrrrr the great basketball Hall of Famer who amassed 3 MVPs, 3 Finals MVPs, 5 championship rings, and the notoriety from his shocking revelation on November 7, 1991 that he was HIV-positive. Aside from revolutionizing our own attitude towards HIV and AIDS and becoming a staple for sex-related education, he has become an iconic figure outside of basketball in the sense that he is living a normal life and has propelled himself in all facets of life, from his successful movie theatres all throughout the West Coast to his unintentional comedy while speaking as an analyst on TNT (I usually find as many as twenty awkward moments when Magic is with Kenny and Charles. Charles usually reacts to these moments with a never-ever-duplicated facial expression that is a combination of the Peyton Manning confused face and Tim Duncan’s I-can’t-believe-you-called-that-foul face).

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Spoof: Drake Freestyle on Tim Westwood

I’m literally dying… okay, I’m gone, no resuscitation. Anyway, if you saw the actual Drake footage, you were thinking, “My God, freestyling is a lost art, it’s no longer here, and I can’t believe. Or this guy Drake has a memory that makes it seem as if he has Alzheimer’s.” Wow, just replay the video if you’re having a bad day and you want another laugh.

Humor: Chris Brown “Deuces” Spoof | @affioncrockett

Affion Crockett parodies Chris Brown‘s song “Dueces” co-starring Justin Hires, Brandon Phillips and Misty Alli. Directed by Mike Tiddes. Hilarious spoof right here! The original is nice but this video had a lot of small tid bits of insider comedy. Affion be acting a fool at moments but that’s why we love him and his spoofs! Peep it!

Video: The 100 Greatest Movie Insults Ever

From the people who brought you the 100 Greatest Quotes from the Wire (best TV series, by the way) comes another ingenious idea: the 100 Greatest Movie Insults Ever (although there is apparently 102, but I’ll get to that later). Watching this video reminds me of the days when I’d slaughter minions in Yo Momma jokes (seriously, I should’ve been on the Wilmer Valderrama show). To come up with the perfect insult is an art, a skill that you can’t master overnight. I literally would stay up each and every night not only to think about the perfect insult but to craft it in a way that they all flowed seamlessly. Anyway, so I passed this video along to our residential Jin, who then passed it to someone he knew who won $500K from “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire: Movie Edition.” Jin asked him to name as many of the movies as possible, and what do you know? He literally name dropped 90 of the 102 movies that were used in this clip. I’ve got the email to prove it. Just damn.

The Reformation of Ronny | @Basketball_Ron

The NBA needs Ron Artest. The viewers need Ron Artest. Sports fans need Ron Artest. Music fans, yes, music fans need Ron Artest (c’mon, have you heard Kobe rap? ugh!). I personally enjoy the hotheads in the NBA, from Rasheed Wallace (who happens to be the only ever high schooler to be ejected from the McDonald’s All-American game) to AI and even people like Brandon Jennings (a hothead in training who started the year by attacking the credibility of Ricky Rubio, the Spaniard who opted to be drafted into the NBA and decided not to play in America). By the way, could Brandon Jennings have been more right? Yes, he wanted the spotlight, and sure he wanted, perhaps, to create a healthy rivalry, but there’s no way in hell that Ricky has a better year than Brandon Jennings, who, as a rookie, scored a phenomenal 55 points against a team who decided to draft Stephen Curry before him! Yes, the injustice! Continue »

iPhone 4 vs HTC Evo

I’m an iPhone enthusiast. No denying it. Maybe you call that conforming, but I call it choosing the best. Despite its lag in providing features most other smartphones have had for years, the multitudes scour for it unlike any other phone, that has ever been on the market. Whether Apple’s genius marketing schemes have you in a trance or you genuinely have compared the schematics against the (weak) competition, if you’re an iPhone drone like myself (with iPhone 4 in tow), you have likely had, at least, an ounce of haterade poured on your head by non-iPhone associates. The video after the jump has to be the most creative iPhone-bashing video I’ve ever seen. I guess good can come from hate. Rated R for vulgar (but very funny) language.

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No Sex During the World Cup = Doom

[DISCLAIMER: I initially posted this on Sideline Slander, where I occasionally blog, and this particular post was submitted before the departure of England from the World Cup. All I can say is, just sayin'.] Yes, yes, while Chris Rock says, “There’s no sex in the champagne room,” no sex at the World Cup may, on the other hand, equal doom. Sports and sex go hand-in-hand (there’s a double entendre there somewhere for you pervs Shakespearean fans). I guess Britain’s World Cup coach and Italian Fabio Capello didn’t get the memo when he banned the team from any sexual activity during the month-long games. Not necessarily assuming nudity equals sex, but the fact is that ancient Olympians originally began their athletic tenure in their birthday suits. How else did we get our word gymnasium, linguistically derived from the Greek word gymos (meaning, you guessed it, naked)? And it wasn’t even during the Olympics that these bare-devils performed strictly in the nude, but also while practicing: how else can you get used to the oscillation of your most private areas unless you practiced beforehand? That is where one becomes master. For a brief and yet holistic account of the Olympics in antiquity, click here .

Presumably, the original nude Olympics halted little by little after the decree by Christian Emperor Theodosius I, in 393 AD, that forbade all things pagan, which (somehow, perhaps because of the nudity but most likely because of the affiliation with the gods?) included the Olympic games. Ultimately, the city of Olympia saw its demise during the 7th century, along with our only chances to see our favorite Olympian compete in the nude. Blasphemy! Seriously, imagine watching, in high definition of course, any individual who epitomizes the Vitruvian concept or the Pythagorean theory of mathematics or, you get the point, all in the nude. And, yes, I expect the Winter Sports Olympians not to be the exception! Alas, we can thank Theodosius for preventing all of that and the Federal Communications Commission for never allowing us to see it should this happen. Heck, if we can’t see Janet’s nipple piercing, how could we ever watch figure skaters triple-axeling (yes, I turned that into a verb) with only their skates on?

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Foosball With a Side of World Cup of Beer

The setting: you walk into your favorite bar, with the smoke as thick as LA smog (unless you’re in DC or VA, where recent laws have changed this for the better) and to the right is a horde of drunks steadily holding onto the bar to maintain or retain their balance. Over in the corner, alllllllllll the way back away from the trivialities going on in the rest of the establishment, is the coveted foosball setup, and already in place is a group of wanna-be-foosball legends, a group of individuals who find the time to play only when they are going out for drinks with friends. The true extraordinaires and connoisseurs of the game, however, understand the nuances of foosball – all its techniques and art, enough to convince a student of art that there is incomparable beauty in this table-top sport.

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