Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders are the funniest, most comically brilliant duo I have ever known. They met in 1978 while attending the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. Their French & Saunders comedy show spoofs movies, tv, and pop culture in a hilarious way. Add to that the BBC’s amazing production quality and their spoofs are just so dead on. They’ve spoofed Madonna, Fellini, The Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? as well as Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. I love that their subject matter ranges from the very high brow to the common everyday. And what pulls it all together is the amazing chemistry between them.

A lot of folks are more familiar with their later work, Absolutely Fabulous, which I also adore. They still put on French & Saunders Christmas specials, which we can’t really get in the states, but youtube has a lot of their work and you can also order it on netflix. I highly recommend checking their stuff out.

I have been a huge fan of James Lileks’s site for a long time. Culling vintage images taken from varied print sources, James has a lot of fun laughing at their crudeness and naiveté. This stuff is freaking hilarious.

And if you like James’s site, you’ll love the weight watchers recipe cards site.

I’ve written about Wendy’s crazy weight watcher’s cards site here before, and now there is a cult following cropping up. People are actually making these bizarre and often frightening recipes and posting the images at the flickr MAKE THE MACKEREL! area. I love how they’re finding weird vintage objects to put in the background as well. I wonder how many people are actually eating their creations.

One of my favorite commercials of all time was an IFC satirical spot about a 5-year old director named Christie, played by Hallie Kate Eisenberg. Lili Taylor appears in the commercial about a very difficult to work with and independently-minded film director.

Says Christie, “I call my film Horses are Pretty, because well, Horses are Pretty”.

Christie’s first film was Oogie Boogie Booger. And apparently if she doesn’t like your acting, she bites you.

I did a search but I can’t find this video anywhere. I have to see these commercials again they are brilliant. Maybe I’ll ask the Museum of TV and Radio where I used to work, or IFC. If you see it out there anywhere please let me know.

A classic. For those of you who haven’t been Touched by His Noodly Appendage yet, you need to go to http://www.venganza.org/ right now. It’s freaking hilarious. We really need more grassroots movements like this to expose the hypocrisy of the ultra-conservative religious right.

Oh, how I adore this site. This woman named Wendy found all these old weight watchers recipe cards from the seventies in her parent’s basement and scanned them in, and then put captions to them. It is laugh-out-loud funny.

The Giant Pink Bunny. I really want to climb on him and relax on his belly. via chrisdiclerico.com

In our vending machine at work, there are these weird cupcakes that look so artificial it’s staggering. They are so brightly colored and so processed and so filled with preservatives. So why are they called Mrs. Freshley’s?