24/7 Comedy Posts by Jordan Clifford

  JON BENJAMIN HAS A VAN http://www.comedycentral.com/ videos/index.jhtml?videoId= 388144&title=you-can-t-shoot- here Jon Benjamin has a voice you probably know, and now he has a van. Or maybe he always had a van, and now he has a show. Jon Benjamin, or H. Jon Benjamin as he's sometimes known when he's writing early 20th century poetry, has been the voice of some of the best characters in recent cartoon shows like Dr. Katz, Home Movies, and Archer. While his new show does prominently feature his voice, the important difference to note is it also features his face and body, and is not, so far, animated.  Jon Benjamin Has A Van, a title which sounds like it could be the beginning to a scheme or heist or kidnapping plan, premiered the other night on Comedy Central. It had, as far as I know, massive ratings and overwhelming critical and public praise. I haven't looked into any of that, so I'll just go ahead and assume it's true. Because you know what they say when y

  BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY IN A CAR http://youtu.be/irLsjBDPe5c Remember when Wayne Campbell and Garth Algar made "Bohemian Rhapsody" a popular meme, along with spewing into tiny cups and making frequent reference to the likelihood that flying primates might escape from your rectum? Well apparently so do the Finnish. While there are no buttmonkeys in this video, there are four grundgy musicians crammed into an old car, rocking it far beyond its capacity.  The Porkka Playboys are a street band from Finland who went from the urban streets to the rural fields and outside their native language to bring this truly great rendition of Queen's magnum opus, adding accordions, trombones, non-drum drums, melodica and a soprano sax solo. I think Freddie Mercury would be proud. And even if he wouldn't, Wayne and Garth sure would. 

  BOOK OF MORMON on the TONY AWARDS http://youtu.be/tggtPHDmrR8 In order for me to see Book of Mormon, I had to stand on line in the rain for 4 hours to get standing room seats behind the orchestra. Though, when I say "I had to," I of course mean "my brother had to." Either way, I felt his pain when we agreed "this show had better be worth it!" And it was, for me anyway.  BoMo (as I've decided to call it) just won, I think, every single Tony Award this year - including Best Musical, Best Original Score, Best Revival, Regional Theater Award and Lifetime Achievement. This song is a good example of the humor of the show, and displays, most importantly, that the songs are good. Dang good. Heck, I'll even say darn good!  The basic premise of BoMo  is that some ambitious uber-Mormon missionaries get sent to war-torn Africa instead of where they wanted to be: Florida. Things don't go so easily as they planned (because the warlords in Florida are no wh

  GO THE F**K TO SLEEP as read by SAMUEL L. JACKSON http://youtu.be/5yqVnCAiWHw Will the power of Samuel L. Jackson swearing ever diminish? No, because the power of swearing will never diminish, and Sam Jackson's powers are forever. Swearing is awesome, and so is he. Just as the effect of adding jelly to peanut butter or brownies to everything is never less than amazing, Sam Jackson swearing will forever bring joy to those who experience it.  His voice is the precise aural manifestation of what every single person thinks they sound like in their head when they're swearing. His voice sounds like a crooning panther, or a 62 year old black man from Washington D.C. When he swears it is never in excess; like the wizard that he is, he does everything exactly as much as is absolutely necessary, which is always a whole lot.  So, as we should have expected, Sam Jackson is now narrating a children's goodnight book. Oh, but it's not just any children's book! It's a book wi

  SKOOL BOY SWAG http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=oxYsFynEmns&feature=player_ embedded This new version - dare I say improvement - of Soulja Boy's "Pretty Boy Swag" is more intelligible and has a more positive message... which is.. that... um, kidz rule? It doesn't matter, they're small. The Sh'Boss Boys are a group of lil boys who do funny things in front of cameras and dress alike. You know, a rap crew. Their lyrics, however, sound suspiciously like they were written by their teacher. But not just a teacher trying to inspire other kids, a teacher who has a class full of kids who don't even know the simplest of things about school. Lyrics like, "I know how to read so I do my work with ease" and "I do my home work, then I turn it in," are like starting from scratch and hoping for the best.  "Ok children, did anyone do their homework today? You did? Then why didn't you turn it in? Remember, step 1 is DO your homework, and ste

  9 YEAR OLD BOY VOGUES HIS HEART OUT http://vimeo.com/24750006 Ah, the summer of '91. The summer of fast moves, see through clothes and extremely fast boats. It was the summer of the Pee Wee Herman being caught masturbating, the summer of Jeffery Dahmer, the summer of rollerblades, and for one lucky 9-year-old boy, the summer of Vogue.  This video of a 9-year-old boy dancing is a good excuse to listen to this Madonna song, or listening to this Madonna song is a good excuse to watch a 9-year-old boy dancing. Either way, it has become a viral hit and has brightened people's days all across the world, bringing them back to when they used to be an adolescent gay boy. We've all been there, he just owned it. It's very much like the mega-popular Youtube genre, "young kids lip-synching and dances awkwardly to pop songs, embarrassing themselves for the amusement of millions and millions of people," which is one of my favorite genres, except there are two important dif