7 Old & New YouTube Clips That Are Sure To Give You Some Laughs

By Lance Pauker,
Why work when you can just watch YouTube videos, and then x them out when someone important walks by? Here’s some clips that’ll help you pass the time.

1. True Detective: Oscars Parody

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LA-based comedian Jon Rudnitsky has been making some huge YouTube waves over the past year or so. His two prior hits, House Of Cards Junkie and The Jewish Hunger Games: Kvetching Fire, have recently been followed up by the one you see above, a very well done True Detective parody that uses the show’s style to talk about McConaughey’s career. Rudnitsky’s McConaughey impresh is real solid.

Note: this doesn’t really give away any True Detective spoilers (I’m a few episodes behind, didn’t spoil anything), but is most def much funnier if you’ve watched the show.

2. New Material Seinfeld

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Comedian Pete Holmes has been doing his thing over at TBS — his late-night show is churning away, making it’s mark with a solid guest lineup, funny sketches, and great ideas such as this one — New Material Seinfeld, a puppet that tries out jokes in the style of the great observational comedian.

Be warned: once you watch, there’s a good chance you’ll turn into that annoying person who can’t stop quoting.

3. Bill Burr: Paula Deen & the Media Cycle

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Bill Burr explains the “public outrage” media cycle in regards to last year’s Paula Deen firestorm. With the recent mega-investment Deen landed (between $75-100 million), Burr couldn’t be more correct.

4. Religious Dad

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Before the Workaholics guys were the Workaholics guys, they were grinding it out on the ‘tube. Here’s Adam Devine playing the part of a very funny “Religious Dad.”

5. Broad City: I Heart New York

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As is well publicized, Comedy Central’s recent hit Broad City used to be web series. Here’s a particularly notable episode from 2011, featuring the likes of popular humans such as Kristen Schaal and Amy Poehler.

6. New Friend – Jimmy Tatro

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Jimmy Tatro is an endless mine of funny, collegey-ish stuff. He’s now a household beer can-laden, unclean apartment-hold name, but here’s his first. Very solid.

7. Key And Peele – “Pussy On The Chain Wax”

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From last season’s Key and Peele, this is an incredibly funny, rather brilliant sketch about saying that aren’t actually sayings, and the process of “trying to start a thing.” Thought Catalog Logo Mark

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