In these videos by 80-year-old geriatric1927 we once again get to listen to stories about his childhood. And the specific subject matter is fathers, and in his case, grandfathers.

But Peter -- geriatric1927 -- presents some philosophy on families, his ideas on independence within families, and he gives a loving tribute to his father with some lovely, detailed descriptions of his good times during childhood spent with his dad, a hard-working adventurous man who was willing to try most anything.

As always in his blog postings, Peter paints a really nice picture of his own personal history and about his father and who the man was -- and he sprinkles in some general history. Again, we're not only entertained with Peter's stories but we learn a little world history too.

If one is to relate seemingly banal information on one's family background and historical stories in a fairly plain, narrative form, you risk boring your audience. But Peter always makes history come alive. He always has something very interesting to impart to his (now huge) worldwide audience and always with detailed facts and anecdotes in a voice that makes you want to tune him in and tune out all your other ambient noise.

(Speaking of ambient noise, geriatric1927's videos have picked up an annoying high pitched background noise. Ouch! It is the video. Do not adjust your set.)

Labels: aitkins, blogging, England, family, fathers, geriatric1927, history, Telling it all, zimmers, Zipster08

An amazing clip from a 2002 documentary IMAX movie entitled "Straight Up", posted by simonjz05, which follows a high-wire utility worker as he is transported by helicopter which delicately places him on high wires so he can do repairs and inspections. The live power cables carry more than half a million volts.

Don't try this at home. By wearing a suit made of fire retardant material and stainless steel threading, this creates a 'Faraday Cage', then connecting a metal wire to the helicopter in flight -- which brings the helicopter up to the same voltage potential as the line -- the electric current arcs over and around them in their "cage" and the workers are protected from certain electrocution.

"A half a million volts pass around my body but I can work without interference from electricity," he says in the video. "There's such a hunger for electricity these days, nobody wants to take lines out of service to maintain them."

The scenery is beautiful (no indication of where this was shot), the heights staggering and the narrator's last words add some ironic humor as describes how he overcame his biggest fears in life: electricity, heights and women.

Labels: aitkins, cage, electricity, Faraday, helicopter, high power, high voltage, power lines, simonjz05

View the video here, and all videos by LisaNova

I'm not a trained therapist, but I'm good enough and I'm smart enough, and Gosh Darn it, my readers like me, so I'm gonna write a really really good review this time.

With apologies to Stuart Smalley, we always appreciate Lisa Nova's take on life and on the behavior of some of our odd friends and family members out there. We enjoy how she pokes fun at them with her serious way and with her tongue firmly in cheek. ("I do not need to vomit to feel good about myself today."

LisaNova has got a knack for making her points clear in her acting and very dry humor without ever having to push it in our face. Just enough so that we recognize her portrayals of the people we've all known -- and perhaps wish we didn't. If all it took was wishing it true then Donald Trump wouldn't need a massive comb-over and my Ferrari wouldn't look like Volkswagen.

Maybe these people aren't in any 12-step programs, but perhaps they should be. LisaNova captures the odd peeps who are creeping along that line between being way too sincere for their own good and being a tad insane. She takes it to the edge and most of the time steps over, then finds herself and comes back. Whew.. "We lost ya there for a minute Lisa. Now wipe that cake off your face and get back to work."

Yes, we've known people like this. Actually, I think we've seen them in the mirror.

If you're like me you see yourself in Lisa's characters. "I'm gonna stick to my diet and lose weight and and ... as long as there's no cakes or cookies in the house ... or in the coffee shop where I buy my coffee ... or anywhere within eyesight on my daily routine." Come on now, who among us hasn't eaten an entire cake in one sitting -- or standing over the sink -- because "this is the last of the sweets, really, no seriously, and tomorrow the diet starts in earnest. Seriously."?

Are there any 12-step programs to help one stop giving oneself affirmations? I know there must be, and if there are, I can join it and be successful and stop my constant affirmations. Yes I can, I know I can. I can and I will. OK, enough about me. On with the show.

Labels: affirmations, aitkins, comedy, exercise, karma, LisaNova, mad TV, madTV, sketch comedy, the paradox of choice, The Secret

Video the video here, and all videos by MNFIRAQ

Standing in a gray room with walls pocked with bullet holes, a quartet of U.S. Army soldiers trade fire with an unseen enemy perched off-screen.

"You've just got to aim a little bit higher, kid," one soldier coaches another firing what appears to be a grenade launcher at a building several blocks away.

"Whew, that smells good," the first soldier says.

The movie, "Battle on Haifa Street, Baghdad, Iraq," conjures comparisons to war films from "Apocalypse Now" to "Full Metal Jacket," but this grainy, jumpy short is not fiction. It is combat footage posted for the world to see by the military on YouTube.

It's one of dozens that the Army has put on the Internet since March in an effort to tell its side of the story about an increasingly controversial war in Iraq. Judging by the numbers -- the Haifa Street video has been viewed more than a half million times -- the Army has been successful in luring eyes to its story.

Clifton, N.J. firefighter Chris Struening spent more than a year in Iraq serving as a military policeman when his National Guard unit was called to active duty in 2004. He said Tuesday that he liked that the YouTube videos portrayed more positive stories -- like injured civilians being helped by American doctors -- about the war effort. The mainstream media, he believes, doesn't spend enough time on such stories.

He said he thought the combat footage was accurate and showed enough to whet the appetite of a public weaned on Hollywood action movies without crossing a line prohibiting graphic violence. To be credible, the military has to show some of the fighting that its troops face in Iraq, he said.

"It's not like the military can say 'Everything's fine and dandy over there.' The American public, they're not stupid," Struening said. "They know what goes on. What better way to do it than have the military release choice footage? Something that maybe doesn't show as much, but shows just enough to satisfy the public's curiosity."

Anti-war activist Madelyn Hoffman, director of the Montclair-based New Jersey Peace Action, said she found the combat videos offensive and disturbing. But she said that the graphic violence confirmed her beliefs about the horrors of war.

"In some ways, seeing the actual footage of what's going on is better than what we get on national media. At least you see it without censorship," Hoffman said. "At least people are seeing the reality of it. It is my feeling that if more people saw the reality of it, more people would understand how violent and brutal it is and how much at risk our soldiers are. Footage like this, you can't watch it for very long. I can't watch it for very long."

She said she worried that such videos might attract young people to U.S. armed forces facing wartime recruiting shortfalls.

"It's like a glorified video game. Here you are, you can root for your team," she said. "When they succeed, you can cheer and maybe a year or two from now, you can enlist and become part of that team."

Army Lt. Col. Christopher Garver, whose combined press information center in Baghdad launched the YouTube channel, said in a telephone interview Tuesday that recruiting was never part of the considerations behind it.

From the military's perspective, the benefit of posting videos to the Web directly is that it can bypass a skeptical and increasingly war-weary mass media to publicize the positive stories it considers overlooked. In one video, soldiers give gifts to Iraqi Boy Scouts.

"(On YouTube) you're not showing the carnage of the devastation of the car bombs of the day," Garver said.

"I don't need to, that's on every TV channel. That story is getting out. I don't feel a need to tell that story. Some of the other stuff is not getting out on its own."

Story by Tom Meagher, The Herald News. Originally published in North Jersey.com

Labels: aitkins, army, guns, IED, Iraq, Iraqi War, MNFIRAQ, shootout, soldiers

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Love parodies? Secretly love politically-incorrect humor? You'll enjoy this humorous satire of 1960's-era educational films. Using the actual film but with quite a different narration. Obviously the blatantly homophobic message is politically-incorrect today, so blatant that anyone should get a laugh from this one.

The actual film scenes with updated (and hilarious) voice-overs give it appeal to anyone, especially when it's done in such tongue-in-cheek humor. "Here we see how the gay cells enter the bloodstream ... flamboyantly. And spruce up those white blood cells. 'Sorry fellas it's after Labor Day.' But heterosexual science marches on."

The voice-over and the dialogue mimics the stilted 60's language and it's sewn in perfectly with each scene. Funny stuff!

Labels: aitkins, behnfannin, comedy, educational, homosexuals, pink

All videos and reviews for geriatric1927

Wouldn't it be great to have the ability to hear (only) your grandparents' really interesting and most meaningful stories? Start it or pause it with a click of your mouse? And you could revisit, or not, any time you wanted? Yes? You'll wanna watch this then.

If you remember Alistair Cooke and his BBC Radio America program, "Letter From America", than this is your own "Grandpa's Letter From England" ... well, not your actual grandpa, but I'm thinking you'll want this one as your adopted grandfather.

Peter, a 79-year-old widower, living alone in the English countryside, had just hoped to provide thoughtful answers and wisdom to the YouTube community but it soon turned into regular and meaningful fireside chats, weaving his interesting stories with details of English history and his personal thoughts and memories.

This is part oral history and part grandfatherly story time. It's easy to see why his audience is growing by the hundreds every day. His soothing British accented voice and detailed chats leave you wanting more after each short segment. Tell us more grandfather! More! This grandfather, unlike the grandpa you knew, only talks in concise 6-minute blocks.

In his initial video he speaks to the younger generation, saying that he'll be here "to bitch and grumble about life in general from the perspective of an old person who's been there and done that."

But he quickly narrows his subject area to his own background with his series "Telling It Like It Is". Following the axiom that the best speeches or stories are always the ones we know best, from personal experience, Peter gives his recollections of his life from childhood on.

He starts out with his early education with historical insights. Each video story time begins ("Hello YouTubers") right where the last one left us. And in the style of Alistair Cooke, he signs off with, "Goodbye and thank you for listening."

We'll be listening. And watching for more.

Labels: aitkins, England, geriatric1927, news and blogs, WWII

From YouTube user: onerav05

Short Title Sequence For The Movie

It ain't pretty, but that's the point.

Edited from hundreds of hours of footage filmed over the course of several years, Waking Up Dead is a dark, compelling documentary that contrasts the allure of rock and roll glamour with the perspective of reality. The 90-minute film features drummer Phil Varone and an uninhibited lifestyle that is sometimes amusing, but more often painful to watch through the hurt eyes of his family and friends.

Varone first achieved rock and roll celebrity during the early '90s with Saigon Kick who had a Top Ten hit single, Love Is On The Way, In 2000, he joined Skid Row during a nine month arena tour opening for KISS, ultimately leaving that band four years later to reconcile the conflicts of his life and health.

Although the film addresses different facets of his sex and rock-and-roll misadventures, the drug aspect of that lifestyle presents by far the most uncomfortable scenes of the film. Phil himself is remarkably candid about that addiction.

How do you help someone whose life is spiraling out of control? Make a movie, and make him come face to face with his own demons.

A scene from a talk show; very revealing about Varone's life and times.

(This is not from the movie)

For four years, Emmy Award-winning journalist and filmmaker, Fabio Jafet, documented the seedy underworld of the music business through the eyes of friend, Phil Varone. Jafet reveals what really goes on behind the scenes in a way never captured before on camera. WAKING UP DEAD uncovers the addictions, betrayals and pitfalls on the relentless road to rock stardom.

Everyone has wished for a shot at fame, fortune and a chance to have it all. But beware of what you wish for ... because nothing comes easy and there's always a price to pay.

Labels: aitkins, documentary, drugs, drunk, Fabio Jafet, kissing, Love Is On The Way, movies, Phil Varone, Prunella Scales, rock star, sex, Skid Row, wakingupdeadmovie.com

All videos and reviews for LisaNova

Like one of your funny friends who always has something witty to say about current events or has biting comments about stupid or mean people, LisaNova's sarcastic take on the world is always funny and interesting and perhaps from out of left field. But she'd be boring if she was predictable, right?

LisaNova is never predictable.

We're one of LisaNova's almost 15,000 YouTube subscribers and always anticipating what she'll produce next.

The extremely photogenic and likable LisaNova has a small team of LA-area actor friends who assist her in pulling off her very funny sketches and poking fun with richly played irony.

Like the video in which she takes on Rush Limbaugh's Attacks on Michael J. Fox. And the one urging us to be more patient in Don't Be a Douche Bag. Unfortunately the funniest part of that sketch doesn't come until minute 5:05. Good stuff just the same because we get to watch Lisa be Lisa. We like you Lisa and everything you stand for, now please, put the gun down.

If only her videos were shorter or edited more concisely. We usually get the humor very early on but the jokes seem to go on a few bits too long. We get it and we're ready to move on. But funny nonetheless. And perhaps that's all just nitpicking anyway when there's plenty of professionally-produced and pro comic videos on YouTube there are laughably unfunny and huge time-wasters.

LisaNova's intelligent, dry blend of mimicry mocks everything from current events and celebrities to other YouTube video bloggers begging to be mocked (LittleLoca) and always strikes the right tone with her vast following. Her fans tune in to view her videos by the millions and offer up both their own humorous video responses and reams of written comments, both of the fan mail variety ("you truly are the queen of YouTube! Please keep up the fantastic work." "marry me Lisa." "fucking great!") and the clueless ("your hair looks stupid." "...and the purpose of this video is???")

Unfortunately some of her fans don't seem to get her dry, ironic humor and apparently think her camera just happened to be there to catch her in a very cute but awkward moment. Like the time she wanted to give a homeless man a dollar in Roses For Lisa Nova but instead she ends up asking other strangers for money. Very funny stuff. But that's OK because they can watch it again and again and eventually get her nuisanced humor mixed with the cutesy Anna Faris ('Scary Movie') voice. We got it Lisa. And we enjoyed it.

We get you Lisa. And we're glad we found you on YouTube. Your videos are better than most of the crap on my tube in the living room any day or night.

Labels: actors, aitkins, comedy, diva, Kevin Spacey, LA, LisaNova

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The Invisible Engine guys may just be the most inconsistent of the talented video-comedy teams out there. Some of their videos leave us scratching our heads, others seem to have been made for a small audience of insiders in on their joke.

This one is a cute parody of a TV commercial for a breakfast cereal. But luckily the joke can be understood universally. Too bad it flops badly at the end with a completely meaningless ending.

Since the humor in both the original TV commercial and in this video is that negative things don't seem to happen to this guy because he never hears them, shouldn't the shooter have shot (at) our happily chewing friend before joining him? The he joins him with some of that great crunchy cereal when his rifle of no use on him, or something of the like? ... Just a thought.

Enjoy the video and it's dark humor. But beware of the violent, bloody scenes).

Labels: aitkins, breakfast, cereal, commercials, crunchy, guns, office, parody, TV, violence

All videos and reviews for ButterTV

If you liked "Swingers" or "Sling Blade" you're gonna love this. mmmmm huhh. Chris Cox nails Billy Bob Thornton's bowl-cut, overall-wearing, lovable demented 'Karl' to a tee. Unfortunately none of the other actors in this spoof look anything like any of the characters in the original "Swingers". But all the dialogue is very funny.

Too bad only some of his ButterTV's other videos are this funny, particularly his George Bush impressions. They sound like him OK, but Little Bush is silly enough on his own, so when you quote him verbatim it's just kinda lame, like yeah, OK, so what's the punch line dude?. He should add some exaggerations or satire and lambasting irony to his Bush impressions. Chris should take notes from his own "Swing Blade" video.

Labels: aitkins, Billy Bob Thornton, ButterTV, comedy, movies, sling blade, swingers

See more from this YouTube.com user: granolasoos

'Laughter is always best when laughed last' the saying goes. It's used in a twist in this darkly humorous auto insurance TV commercial. You'll like it (whether you're a man or a woman). I'm glad this was posted online otherwise we'd never see this in the U.S. Unfortunately the FCC is much too conservative to go to allow this type of edgy ad. That's why I loved this video.

Hyundai - French TV

I believe European TV commercials are consistently funnier, edgier, and are more inventive that American-made spots, basically because they can. The FCC fears the slightest chance of offending anyone in the prudish U.S. TV viewing audience, so they have to play it as conservatively as possible. In turn, U.S. ad agencies play it safe and hardly ever push that line. Boring.

(And yes, I grew up and live in the ultra-conservative U.S.)

Anyway, enough philosophizing. Enjoy this one from France in which we watch what happens when a husband and wife meet each other while driving, in separate cars, during a chance meeting at a red light.

Labels: ads, aitkins, Anastasios, car, comedy, commercials, TV

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So this is it. We started with several video designers and now there is only this one left... Raisin?

If you're even slightly familiar with the BRAVO TV reality show, "Project Runway" you'll love this parody done with actual video from the show spliced in a comic from the Olde English comedy team. Fantistic editing and straight, tongue-in-cheek acting. The selection of the just the right audio and video clips make this one of my favorites. I wonder if Heidi Klum has seen this.

Olde English sketch comedy videos are all very funny and always have with a little twist.

Read our longer, more comprehensive review on Olde English comedy.

Labels: aconover, aitkins, comedy, Heidi Klum, Olde English, parody, Project Runway, TV

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For anyone who has worked in human resources, this one will bring back bitter memories of sitting through interviews with people who were never going to be hired by your firm.

As usual DClugi (Dave Coyne) is the man of a thousand voices and faces. The sound editing is perfect as the different voices are over-dubbed flawlessly, which makes the different characters even more distinct and real and it gives the video that professional authenticity.

Regarding sound, unfortunately the sound on this one fails to properly sync with the video. And the longer the video plays the more distracting it becomes. By one-third through the video it's pretty annoying. Not sure if this from the uploading process or a product of the sound editing (which I initially complimented). Too bad because Coyne's videos are otherwise very inventive and entertaining.

Labels: aitkins, comedy, DCLugi, hiring, HR, impersonations, interviews, voices

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Wow. Weird Al really put some time into this one. The voice sounds very close to Don McLean's. And the words and music ... seriously impressive. Read the first verse:

A long, long time ago
In a galaxy far away
Naboo was under an attack
And I thought me and Qui-Gon Jinn
Could talk the federation into
Maybe cutting them a little slack
But their response, it didn't thrill us
They locked the doors and tried to kill us ...

We escaped from that gas
Then met Jar Jar and Boss Nass
We took a bongo from the scene
And we went to Theed to see the Queen
We all wound up on Tatooine
That's where we found this boy...

Enjoy.

Labels: aitkins, music video, parody, Star Wars, Weird Al, Weird Al Yankovic

All videos and reviews for Betty Butterfield

This is odd, weird ... and very funny stuff.

Poor Betty has issues. You know her. There's one in every neighborhood. One in every apartment building.

She's that very large, very odd woman who lives downstairs from you, the one with all the cats and who's always home, always peeking out her window at whatever is going on on the sidewalk outside the building, any time of the night or day ... The one who always wants to gab about the latest tragedy or mess. There's always something with Betty, so don't get her started because she's got opinions.

Sit back and watch Betty go off, this time on the tragic incident regarding her neighbor who died on the toilet, or as she calls it, the commode. I haven't heard that word since my second grade teacher used the term back in the early '70's.

We're researching more info on who ChrisCanary is and how he started producing the very funny "Betty Butterfield" videos, and who is the drag queen that is Betty. We plan to write a much more thorough review on ChrisCanary later, when we have interviewed him or get more substantial intel, because these videos are so very quirky.

Until we do a longer review on them, enjoy this initial Betty video and look for more coming soon to this site.

Labels: aitkins, bathroom, Betty Butterfield, chriscanary, comedy, commodes, toilet

From YouTube.com user: jamesdeanconk

James Dean Conklin, a New York-based animator and documentary filmmaker who heads GreenheadMedia, must be cursed with always having lots of peculiar ideas running through his head. Ideas that he must turn into offbeat animated characters with eccentric and very funny storylines.

It was our lucky day when we ran across his quirky comic treasures, all with their varied characters and humorous plot lines, but also ironic and somewhat twisted in their humor.

You'll laugh out loud with a knowing wink back to these odd little characters and their dialogue. Then you just gotta wave a friend or co-worker over to replay these so you can share the joke.

In case you thought animation was just for kids, Conklin's "Adul Tito" (above), a precocious sprout who's fond of wearing a dark suits, tells us that animations are cool. But kids? Well, Adul Tito hates kids. He blurts this out matter-of-factly to the horror of his little neighbor. But he says it in Spanish so it sounds so much nicer.

Conklin and Greg Fiering created the Adul Tito videos as a portfolio piece to help him land a producing gig at the Locomotion network. And it paid off, he got the job.

Then there's the crime-fighting superhero WONDERMAN, and his alter-ego Henry Moore, a la Superman and Clark Kent. The sound and the animation in this steamy little shocker are somewhat cold and jumpy. I'm speculating that they were produced like that to mimic cartoons from the 50's or 60's. And the very serious sounding narrator and non-nonsense voices are a perfect contrast to the overtly sexual dialogue.

Wonderman is a crime-fighter, but like any guy he also wants to get laid. Well, get his alter-ego laid that is. Yes, he thinks about sex so much it's a wonder man that he gets any crime fighting done.

Wonderman, we're told, was an animation created for the Robert Smigel's TV Funhouse series (on Comedy Central) as a spoof of the 1940's Fleischer Studios Superman cartoons.

Ya know that guy? That guy who always has all the answers, but it turns out that they're the wrong answers? But he's so serious, and Gosh, so sincere and amiable that you can't bring yourself to tell him that his ramblings are utter nonsense. No one ever stopped this guy so it turns that he got his own TV show, self-named the The Monkeyman Show, complete with his own set of guidelines that he calls "The Monkeyman Rules".

Yes, The Monkeyman is a self-labelled, self-help guru whose work has helped dozens over the past 30 years. He'll guide you to success and empowerment with such admonitions as "Think of a place you want to go ... then go there."

In addition to all the above videos, there's also the short series called "Migraine Boy"; and also "Trail of Tears" and "Matthew", both by Greg Fiering.

All of GreenheadMedia's shorts are watchable, over and over and ageless. These videos are between five and ten years old. We'll be watching for more current stuff. But they'll have to push themselves to top their earlier work discussed above.

Labels: Adul Tito, aitkins, arts and animation, Clark Kent, comedy central, greenheadmedia, Greg Fiering, James Dean Conklin, jamesdeanconk, Monkeyman, superheroes, superman, Wonderman

From YouTube.com user: TMCA

We usually stay away from reviewing music videos because it's traditionally the music which is the main feature and the videos can't usually stand on their own. But the music and accompanying video to "Do You Fear Sleep?" from the album Insomnia from the group 'The Moscow Coup Attempt' grabbed me and mesmerized me through four viewings.

Perhaps it's because I live and work in San Fransisco and I take the same route shown in the sepia-toned video several times a week. Perhaps it's because I'm entranced by the historical images of these people from 100 years ago in this film and the inevitable thoughts of time and mortality it conjures up.

The video is actual film of San Fransisco's Market Street -- the main drag through downtown -- shot from a trolley car in 1906. The images flip back and forth -- showing carefree people on the street scurrying about in their daily business with no thoughts of impending doom.

Then the picture switches to darker skies, slower movement and fewer people moving about on those same streets. You can also clearly see the same buildings in ruins just after the 1906 earthquake and fire.

I love that the camera follows the same route from west to east, towards the Ferry Building in the distance in both scenes. It seems to have the same perspective and speed, as if it's on the same trolley car in both shots, like someone had choreographed and directed the entire scene beforehand.

From a performance standpoint, both the video and the music undeniably stand, with dignity and poise on their own, earthquake images notwithstanding. And isn't that the standard for rank distinction in music or for a music video?

Granted, the video was shot 100 years ago, so the group or producer in charge of the creating the music video had no hand in its actual creation. But isn't vision for partnering images -- new or old -- with music what defines a successful music video and makes it come alive?

Now, if you don't mind, I have to replay this one more time.

Labels: 1906, aitkins, cable car, earthquake, insomnia, Moscow Coup Attempt, San Fransico, trolley

From YouTube.com user: chriscanary

Betty needs her meds! Among other things, she has "female problems" so bad that she can't even watch "I Love Lucy" in the morning anymore.

But the good news is she's found her pill paradise. Yes, she goes across the border to Mexico or Canada to purchase medication. Praise the Lord, it's "Better living through chemistry." sniff sniff ...

Is that 'A Stranger in Paradise' playing in the background?

Let's listen in ...

Labels: aitkins, Betty Butterfield, doctor, hospitals, medication

From YouTube.com user: theresidents

The Residents present a series of very short videos following the adventures of a 9-year-old kid named Timmy. In actuality, these wizards of satire take old stock footage of movies or educational films and put their own engaging take on the action with Timmy's chirpy voice-overs.

In this one Timmy happily talks about his brother Kruger and how he doesn't like to wash his hands and how this makes him somewhat of an outcast. Poor Timmy, he doesn't get it. We get it and we absolutely love these delightful little parodies.

Labels: '50s, aitkins, entertainment, satire, theresidents, timmy

From YouTube.com user: wallstrip

In show business it's all about gettin' "shwag"! This is a very professionally done review show on different publicly-traded companies and their products and services. This subject of this segment is LogiTech, Inc., and its computer peripherals.

This is very interesting -- and straight -- until Lindsay Campbell, our well-spoken and attractive, host can't take it anymore. The person in her story gets all kinds of free stuff from LogiTech for promoting their products on her blog. Well Lindsay is fed up. She's not getting her share of shwag.

This is where it gets good.

Wallstrip regularly does these informative yet entertaining news-magazine style video blogs pretty straight, but I think this is the first one in which they pulled back the curtain and went into the comedy realm in the last half of the segment. After seeing this one I looked for more of this entertaining angle on their other vlogs but was disappointed not to find any. We'll keep watching. ... but I don't get the name: Wallstrip? Is Linday going to ...? Nah. Cartoon strip? Hmm.

Labels: aitkins, comedy, computer, entertainment, hi-tech, Linday Campbell, parody, PC, wallstrip