Tankmen is funny, no doubt, but I wonder what it means when we’re deeply embroiled in two of the longest running armed conflicts of US history that we find it so easy to make comedy about war.

You’ll find more than a few of Demetri Martin’s (his site) videos on the web (one, two, quotes). Though I think he’s particularly good at powerpoint comedy and this flipchart thing, you’d think he doesn’t like to do interviews.

Richard Cheese’s lounge-core renditions of pop favorites (and some not-so-favorites) have been cracking me up every time they chime into the mix on random, but I didn’t know what the guy looked like until I spied Beatnikside’s photo of the man in among his Vegas people set.

“Cheese,” of course, is a pseudonym for LA comedian Mark Jonathan Davis, who’s been performing with a band of cheese-named musicians since 2000. His five albums are available on iTunes and at Amazon.

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Ryan sent along a link to Flight of the Concords‘ Business Time last week and I’m still laughing over it. With some exploring at a fansite, What the Folk!, I dug up a trove of other amusements, including She’s So Hot Boom.

For more info, I turned (as usual) to the Wikipedia article. And if I had HBO, I could have caught a repeat of them on One Night Stand this past Wednesday. But alas, no.

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While following the story about bad teachers, found the Mathcaddy blog. The only relation Mathcaddy has to the other story is that Steve, the unfortunate student runs his blog on a subdomain there. The post that got me interested at Mathcaddy was I Walked on Water… I Think I Can Walk to the Door:

In one of his forty-eight dozen interviews about The Passion of the Christ, Mel Gibson said there have been more than a hundred films made about the life of Jesus. I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that these didn’t crack the top ten.

Voicing over the original dialogue, Klauss Vlaudenhoover (not his real name… okay, it is) took some pretty poor Jesus films and turned them into comedy gold! At least bronze.

For those of you about to be mildly offended, take note that a church used these in a series on the life of Jesus to portray classic stereotypes about him. And for those of you who are dissuaded because they were used in church, take note that my sides hurt.

In case you missed the link above, the videos are here (direct links to vids one, two, three, and four). And, yes, they are funny.

Update: these sites have been seriously changed/updated. The story at Mathcaddy is moved, and Vintage21, where the films are hosted, has been… Well, it’s just not what it was. All that remains are some directory indexes. The video can be found, here are some new direct links:

• One
• Two
• Three
• Four

Enjoy!

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