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The Legacy Music Hour #134: Castle Areas

The music from castle areas in video games is the topic of Episode 134.  Sometimes the music sounds majestic and royal, and sometimes it doesn’t.  Brent and Rob also talk about muscles.  Full track listing below.   Game – Composer – Song – Company – Console – Year (North American release unless otherwise indicated) Super Mario Bros. 3 – Koji Kondo – Saving the King – Nintendo – NES -… more

The 5 Most Intentionally Funny Videos This Week 10/17

I will never be like this kid that cries that she’s so excited to go to Disneyland when she was a kid. I was born a curmudgeon of an old… more

The 5 Most Intentionally Funny Videos This Week 10/10

Both Dane Cook and the Coen Brothers are currently developing network TV shows. While you try to figure if that balances out the power shift in the realm of television,… more

Remembering Richard Jeni

Almost on a daily basis, it’s becoming undeniable that comedy is going through another boom. Recognition of comedy as a legitimate art form from the powers that be in the… more
 

The 5 Most Intentionally Funny Videos This Week 10/4

Let’s try to forget that Dane Cook got a development deal with NBC and enjoy another edition of the 5 Most Intentionally Funny Videos This Week. Music Time with Jennie… more

The 5 Most Intentionally Funny Videos This Week 9/26

While waiting for the Internet to retaliate to New York Magazine’s perfectly sardonic interview with perhaps the most infamous YouTube star to date, Rebecca Black, let’s go for another round… more

What’s the Deal with Superlatives?

As of this very moment: -Will Ferrell is to be awarded the Mark Twain Prize for Humor -Modern Family took home the most Emmy statuettes over the past weekend -Chris… more
 

The 5 Most Intentionally Funny Videos This Week

While this video of Jonny Sarhanis having a breakdown (?) on Celebrity Rehab is still going around, we’re having another round of videos that were actually intended to be funny –… more

The 5 Most Intentionally Funny Videos This Week

While there are plenty of clips online of people/animals running into things or public marriage rejections, there are comedy videos that are actually intended to be funny and/or… more

Joke Inception: Meta Comedy: Is This Still a Bit?: What’s Happening?

The following is an essay exploring comedy that seeks complexity through layers in being referential, self-referential, and even reflexive to the point that it’s calling into the question the very… more