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Southern Comfort Ad Is a Little Different When Re-enacted on a Freezing Irish Beach Huby Harton braves the elements

It's relatively easy to feel comfortable walking mostly naked on a beach if you're in the tropics. It's less easy when you're in Ireland. Huby Harton, an Irish singer who's…

February 20, 2013, 1:55 PM EST

Lizzy Caplan Is Awesomely Pretentious in Great Spoof of Fashion Ads Clichés keep on coming in Viva Vena clip

Thank you Viva Vena, clothing label of which we've never before heard, for this brilliantly disjointed parody as ad. Actress Lizzy Caplan (of Mean Girls fame) does a wonderful rendition…

February 7, 2013, 1:52 PM EST

Target Rolls Out Four More Amusingly Fashionable Grocery Ads Mono campaign extended on Golden Globes

If you enjoyed the first four Target grocery ads that pretended to be fashion spots, here are four more—selling diapers, lightbulbs, oatmeal and fruit snacks. They broke Sunday night during…

January 14, 2013, 3:08 PM EST

More Honest Titles for This Year's Best-Picture Oscar Nominees College Humor's annual prank

College Humor has unveiled its annual "Honest Titles" gallery of parody movie posters, suggesting more accurate names for this year's Oscar-nominated films. You don't need to be familiar with the…

January 14, 2013, 10:17 AM EST

Canine Plastic Surgery Advertised on Billboard in Los Angeles Could your dog use a puppy lift?

Is your dog a total "dog"? So asks this billboard spotted in Los Angeles, purportedly offering canine plastic surgery from one Dr. Steven Armond. It turns out it's a promotion…

January 9, 2013, 3:23 PM EST

Trade Your Homosexuality for a Chick-fil-A Chicken Sandwich! Two guys manage to redeem prank coupon

Here's a decent deal if you're gay, but you still somehow love Chick-fil-A: Renounce your homosexuality, and get a free chicken sandwich! The prank promotion, playing off Chick-fil-A CEO Dan…

January 8, 2013, 12:03 PM EST

Street Newspaper Lets You Book Nights Where Homeless Sleep $10 for a 'room' and all the amenities

Ten locations around Gothenburg, Sweden, where the city's homeless might sleep are presented as "hotel rooms" in this campaign by ad agency Forsman & Bodenfors. Folks can "book" the sites,…

January 8, 2013, 9:01 AM EST

Pixar Parodies College Recruitment Ads for Monsters University Rose Bowl spot points to fun, elaborate website

This is delightful: a campaign by Pixar for its upcoming film Monsters University that spoofs those wonderfully cheesy college-recruitment ads that air during NCAA sporting events. The spot below, which…

January 3, 2013, 11:31 AM EST

The Walking Dumb: A 'Dumb Ways to Die' Parody With Zombies 'Be safe around humans'

Zombies have been done to death. But that didn't deter Teddie Films and the crew from Utah's Rocky Point Haunted House from creating an undead-themed parody of McCann Australia's much-praised…

December 19, 2012, 10:36 AM EST

Woman Sings the Stanley Steemer Jingle in Bunch of Different Styles Mia Gentile sure loves that song

New York artist Mia Gentile put together this three-minute video of herself singing the Stanley Steemer jingle in a variety of styles (and outfits). She also made it clear that…

December 13, 2012, 1:04 PM EST

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