Improv Everywhere: The shared experience of absurdity. Bizarre, hilarious, and unexpected public scenes that bring people together. Charlie Todd causes bizarre, hilarious, and unexpected public scenes: Seventy synchronized dancers in storefront windows, “ghostbusters” running through the New York Public Library, and the annual no-pants subway ride. At TEDxBloomington he shows how his group, Improv Everywhere, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘humor’
Pronoiac Pranks Are Good Medicine
Posted in Videos, tagged humor, improv, pranks on December 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I Told You There’s a Conspiracy to Help You
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged humor, trust on August 3, 2011 | 1 Comment »
On any given day, the average person’s life is entrusted to more than 2,000 different people who are complete strangers. The report, which shows how any one of these anonymous individuals making a single mistake can easily cause another person’s death, concluded that it is only through sheer luck that anyone ever makes it through [...]
Fight Back Against the Sober-Minded Oppressors
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged comedians, humor on April 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Funniest women on the planet? In honor of International Women’s Day and the upcoming Women In Comedy Festival in Boston, we wanted to put together a list of some of our favorite female comedians. The only problem is we ran out of time to add the couple hundred more we wanted to include. So, we [...]
Innovative Healing Strategies
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged homophobia, humor on March 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Finally, a Cure for Homophobia? During a widely publicized press conference at the Boston University School of Medicine Friday, researchers announced a breakthrough new technique that cures homophobia by immersing patients in a large glass tank overflowing with gays. “Rather than avoid one’s fear of homosexual men, we believe it’s crucial to face it head [...]
Healing Through Maniacal, Lustful Laughing
Posted in Books, tagged humor, sex on September 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Association For The Betterment Of Sex Shouldn’t we all be laughing more while we have sex? (May not be safe for work)) Sex has notoriously been a difficult, dare we say “touchy,” subject to discuss, so for generations there have been guidebooks about human sexuality such as the classic “Our Bodies Our Selves.” Now, from [...]
Laugh, for God’s Sake!
Posted in Videos, tagged hip hop, humor, yogi on June 9, 2010 | 1 Comment »
“I Need a Yogi” – straight up karma hip hop, maybe NSFW in the eyes of some people.
Even the Bad Guys May Do Some Good Works
Posted in Articles & Essays, tagged frito-lay, health, humor on September 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Frito-Lay angrily introduces line of healthy snacks
Need Help Realizing How Absurd Paranoia Is?
Posted in Videos, tagged humor, paranoia on September 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This Onion news story is only a slight exaggeration
Freaky Praise
Posted in Art, tagged compliments, humor, surrealism on August 12, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The Surrealist Compliment Generator
Just in Case You’re About to Get Too Happy
Posted in Videos, tagged humor on July 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Despondex, a Treatment for the Chronically Cheery. A step forward in the battle against exuberance.
