I Needed A Smile Or Three Today, And I Thought I'd Share

[filkertom]

First, the Orbitz Hovercraft (h/t huskiebear):

And a little Carmen Sandiego, with vocal percussionist Jeff Thatcher:

(here's another version)

A little Whose Line? Rocky Horror:

And what would life be without Gene Gene the Dancing Machine?

Anything else out there that might brighten a day?

Comments

[enegim.livejournal.com]

This brightened mine yesterday: the Aeneid on Facebook (http://home.comcast.net/~fuuchan/aeneidonfacebookfinal.png)

More joy per pixel than should be entirely legal

[wiliqueen.livejournal.com]

Re: More joy per pixel than should be entirely legal

[vixyish.livejournal.com]

...I think I love this girl.

Re: More joy per pixel than should be entirely legal

[pandoradeloeste.livejournal.com]

Bugger. The sound is just off enough on the video that it's distracting for me. (I did ballet well into high school.)

Re: More joy per pixel than should be entirely legal

[wiliqueen.livejournal.com]

I've never been entirely sure whether the sound is off or if she's just that tiny tick behind, since it's so darn fast. But she's having so much fun I don't care. :-D

Re: More joy per pixel than should be entirely legal

[peachtales.livejournal.com]

This is excellent :D

[briansiano.livejournal.com]

Three great routines by Patton Oswalt:

[drzarron.livejournal.com]

Not GENE GENE the Dancing Machine...

YES.. GENE GENE the Dancing Machine...!

[sarekofvulcan.livejournal.com]

He's not a dancing machine anymore, though. :-(

http://archives.starbulletin.com/2002/10/20/sports/story8.html

[ebenbrooks.livejournal.com]

Oh, a few things...first, some of mine:







Then a couple of Allison's:





And a few by other people:

[unclelumpy.livejournal.com]

Bah Gawd, Allison Lonsdale.

I used to know her back in my...

Back in...

Back when I was one of... THEM!

I wonder what she'd think if she could see me now?

[ebenbrooks.livejournal.com]

Easy enough to find out, she's on here as caprine. Drop her a note! :D

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Haven't watched all these yet, but I'm over here humming, "Oh, god, we're all going to di-i-ie...." :)

[ebenbrooks.livejournal.com]

Hee! Thanks. I'm glad you like it.

Of all of them, though, I think my personal favorite is Allison's "Bloody". She is just wicked good with lyrics.

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

Just to give you a smile.

[sibylle]

Have some car darts :-)

(Imbedding is disabled by the BBC, but the link should work fine...

And, you know, that's the first "Whose line is it anyway" I've ever seen ... I need to find more, this is awesome!

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

It started out in Britain, was freakin' amazing, and is rather different in the U.S. version but still amazing. And there's LOTS of it out there, so take your time and enjoy!

[sibylle]

Thank you. I am sure I will. (I thought it was a radio show, somewhy. Eeep!)

[kshandra]

Specifically, you want to find the episode with Richard Simmons. It's all on YouTube (there may even be a link with the entire episode, IIRC), and you will laugh yourself SICK. Not recommended for asthmatics.

[misterseth.livejournal.com]

Here are a couple...


Here is a GOODIE



Who sez Daleks aren't funny?



You heard of Historical reinactments? thy SECRET WAR reinactments!

NSFW - Lords of the Rhymes

[leareth26.livejournal.com]

[salkryn.livejournal.com]

Ladies and gentlemen, Mister TOM JONES!

[unclelumpy.livejournal.com]

Re: Ladies and gentlemen, Mister TOM JONES!

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

...


...


... He had me until the Eartha Kitt riff. ;)

[palenoue.livejournal.com]

Here's a snippet of something I got recently:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ2dXm2nxao&feature=PlayList&p=F028D9052C1179C6&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=30

You can download the whole thing, she's releasing it under Creative Commons, so leave a tip and order the DVD when it comes out.

http://www.sitasingstheblues.com/

[palenoue.livejournal.com]

Oops, wait, I'm trying to embed it:



Let's see if that works.

[zellion.livejournal.com]

<3 Wayne Brady.

Ahaha, tears in my eyes...

[peachtales.livejournal.com]

Thank you EVERYONE for this page of joy. Tears happened :D

[redneckgaijin.livejournal.com]

Woe and lament, for I am on dialup which has mysteriously slowed down of late.

Although even the reminder that there was such a man as Gene Gene the Dancing Machine prevents the frown from remaining on my face for long...

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

I swear to Cthulhu, I would watch that show just hoping he would be on today please oh please... such fun.

[sarekofvulcan.livejournal.com]

I think this song is a close cousin to "Walking Along the Beach". :-) And, of course, John Simm is clearly more joy per pixel than is legal in most jurisdictions...

(Spoiler alert for Doctor Who Season 3, various episodes)



(And yes, the video does match up with the song for a while starting at 1:29, go check the original scene if you're interested...)

[peachtales.livejournal.com]

*giggles* Yay!

Variations on a Theme...

[kshandra]

...and my first exposure to the song in question:

[merlyntemple.livejournal.com]

So... it's taken me awhile to do this, but I found you because I was at the JoCo show in Ann Arbor, and I had spoken to Hope after the show. She told me to look you up in regards to the recording you did there. I'm very curious as to what Paul told your recorder. Also, did you release that recording anywhere or was that just for you and friends?

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

If you check the JoCo wiki for the Ann Arbor show, there's a link to a good audio recording of the show (plus a link to a recording of Paul and Storm, for a bonus).

[merlyntemple.livejournal.com]

Yes, I did download that recording. I was mostly just curious because Paul whispered something specifically to Tom's recording early on and told us we'd all have to find his recording to see what he said.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

Actually, I hadn't put it up anywhere, because the recording quality was very bad -- I had the gain too high on the microphones, and it was all overloaded. I've just extracted that bit (http://www.tomsmithonline.com/freestuff/oddio/PnS_somethingspecial.mp3), though, and I have to admit it was slightly disappointing: "Tom Smith from The FuMP... I'm farting."

[merlyntemple.livejournal.com]

Despite the disappointment, thanks for posting. Now that can stop driving me crazy. :) It sounds like the quality is okay as long as they're not singing. I bet you can hear me clear as day when I go up with the cake after "Still Alive".

[lemmozine.livejournal.com]

I don't know how to encode this because it's not on youtube, but hope you will trust me that it's worth clicking on and a few minutes of your time. It's about the funniest thing I've seen, ever.

http://www.elwp.com/Joe%20Cocker.html

[enjis.livejournal.com]

Wayne Brady rocks my world every time he does an impromtu song....

[amethyst-dancer.livejournal.com]

This is one of my favorite "Whose Line" bits for you, Tom -- this is good, but the really special part starts about two minutes in. Maybe you've seen it before, but it's worth seeing again, and again...



And I just ran across this one recently, when one of my LexFA friends posted a link to it on Facebook. It's amazing and awesome and hilarious and sheep. And now we know what bored Welshmen REALLY do with sheep. Truth is SO much stranger than fiction!



And check out my YouTube page -- I've been working on video processing one of Marty's songs for a couple of months and it's pretty much done. (I've been trying out a lot of new things on it.) I'll keep one of the trial versions (they're posted private) available for you to see. I expect to have a public one within a day or two.