Week of 3/7 YouTube Videos to Watch - Let's have a Giggle!

Hey dudes and dudettes, 

I compiled some funny stuff for you this week so be prepared to laugh (you better)! Some of the below videos are from pretty established YouTubers but some have a much smaller audience which shows the digital platform is truly filled with amazing content in every corner.

Hope you have a good time with these!

COMEDY: F-Comedy is a small channel with comedy sketches and other funny bits. They have less than 30,000 subs but they recently attracted a lot of people with their new video: Make Your Face Great Again – Trumping. I mean, who doesn't like a good beauty how-to am I right?

COMEDY: Smosh really doesn’t need introduction. Their recent video is obviously popular and pokes fun at the HGTV show and trend “tiny house”. I love HGTV with a passion but I am sure if they'd watch it, they'd fine it funny too. 

ENTERTAINMENT: Anybody interested in table top or video games know Geek & Sundry. However, some people might know the channel/website because of the remarkable Felicia Day (Supernatural, Buffy The Vampire Slayer. We really should be best friends). They create a great mix of content and recently picked up “Riftworld Chronicles”. The below video is a sneak peak of the whole episode that can be found on their website. This is high production value, great acting, hilarious and very special if you like video games or just fantasy lore.

ENTERTAINMENT: Good Mythical Morning’s presenters are huge YouTube stars and present a really cool show every week day. Their latest is about Fallout Shelters and it’s great! They probably should have released that in November with Fallout 4...

COMEDY: Nuclear Family is again one of those smaller comedy channels with potential. Their latest sketch is called “Your Favorite Movie Characters Gender Swapped” and is fitting with the ongoing Hollywood sexism conversations. Also, it's very good. 

EXTRA VIDEO (Not Funny) - COOKING: Tastemade has created a very cool cooking docu type series called HERITAGE. The 10min show focus on chefs’ personal stories and inspirations. It’s really beautifully made and this episode follows a cool chef who boxes on the side! I mean, he's not a vegetarian but I guess he's still a catch. 

Dear Fat People - and why I loathe America

First off, let me tell you that I am the most pro American person you will ever meet. I love this country and all that it represents. I love the land, the people and the culture. However, after living here for 1 year, I have noticed a couple of things that make me miss my British fellows a lot.

Americans are way too prude and politically correct. Seriously, take a chill pill. I never thought it would be possible to be offended by so many things. Why so serious? The Joker should seriously pay you a visit you guys. This is blatantly obvious when celebrities say something they think and have to apologize ten times. This is also too obvious in the workplace. I hate it. Coming from London and a very inclusive work environment, I hate the fact that I can't joke around with my coworkers and that I can't ask someone I have known for about 6 months if they are gay. To me, these things are just normal and I want to be able to have an open, honest and deep relationship with people I meet, no mater their sexual orientation, religion or what not. I do not care. I just want to be able to talk about it because if you don't, this is exactly when the problems develop and you end up living in this limbo of "should I, shouldn't I" that is way worse. Talking about my gay coworkers' boyfriend shouldn't be offensive, not to my coworker and not to other people who might be around. Having someone on the phone at work saying that "lesbian and gay kids are the problem in our society", yes, that is offensive (the guy who said that was obese by the way, and lazy and mean). Having an inquisitive conversation about someone you like as a person: not offensive.

Then there is comedy. Banter as I call it. That's also not allowed. I personally do not care. I will joke around and pick on you as much as I can. I will poke fun at your age, your religion, your height, your work. I make jokes and I am sarcastic. Are all these based on stereotypes, first impressions and generalization, of course. Something's funny not because it's abstract and a work of fiction, it's funny because there is an element of truth behind it. I am French. Our stereotype: we're lazy, eat a tone of baguettes and are libertines. All true. All not offensive. There obviously are people who are hard working (not many), some that only have 1 sexual partner in their life (unlikely but ok) and some that do not eat baguette (this is impossible). You can make as much fun of me as you want, I will never take offense, you know why? Because I know who I am and I am not threatened by anything one might say.

Now, I am sure everybody has been debating this "Dear Fat People" video from Nicole Arbour. I have to say, this is one of the funniest thing I have ever seen. Everything she says in this video is true and people who are obese, as she clearly says, not just chubby but obese, and eating more than their body weight at every meal need to be made fun of. This is ridiculous. And before everybody comes jumping at me as they did her, don't start about fucking depression and shit. Some people are not depressed, some are just lazy asses who want to eat whatever they want, are greedy, lazy and stupid, that's just a fact. They just don't give a fuck (pretty sure they're the same people who don't recycle and obviously are not vegan). Now, why is everybody so offended by this video? I do not understand. She's right on every single point and I think that's what people cannot stomach. They know it's true but political correctness and bullshit prevent them from being smart. You should be able to make fun of anything and everyone, especially when they deserve it. People who have fun and joke about things are actually the ones that are the less prejudiced and the more open minded of them all. If I joke about gay people it's because I am that comfortable with it (my mom is a lesbian). We should all embrace that, it would make for a much more open, fun and bearable world! Below, the socially relevant, bullshit breaking, incredibly smart and hilarious Nicole Arbour:

The Last Man on Earth or the apocalypse on shrooms

We have just about everything on TV nowadays. Vampires, Super Heroes, Cops galore. But these past few years, we have seen an increase in survival and post apocalyptic stories: The Walking Dead, The 100, Revolution, Under The Dome, Falling Skies and I am probably missing 10 others. It was time to create a funny version of this. Not a spoof but a comedic take on what it would mean to survive some sort of apocalypse on Earth. Enters Will Forte, who cheerfully dumps this hilarious piece of television on 20th's desk and Dana and Gary wept with joy. The show is already a critical hit and I don't think I have seen or heard one bad review of The Last Man on Earth. And I can't do it either.
This show is not only funny, it is clever and it is endearing. Three things that make you come back every week to see more.


The first half of the first episode was extremely tough on me as I felt so awkward and sad and anxious looking at an empty Earth and putting myself in Phil's shoes. I liked the character's monologues and random tantrums, and I liked seeing him go about his routine but at one point, I felt depressed and I wanted it to stop, for his sake and mine! Watching him pour cheese in wine or destroy fish tanks with bowling bowls really made feel ill at ease for some reason. Well, in my book, it just means they made the show the right way. I was glad to see the introduction of, Spoiler Alert, a female character who happens to be Kristen Schaal. Dare I say that she is perfect in that role and so annoying in the right ways that it made the show ten times better. Obviously, Will Forte's character has beautifully written monologues and his performance stands on its own but the quality of the writing and the acting can only ever be complete and judged with two ore more people in a scene. It very much felt like real life if you ask me. How good can it be if you do not have people to interact with? The show put the same principle in place and, at the right moment, when Phil and the viewer have had enough, introduced the lovely Carol. From there, I was laughing at just about every line and every looks and every gesture. These two characters are extremely well written and work perfectly together. The highlight for me was definitely Phil giving Carol a tour of his house. From these first episodes, I will add the following in my vocabulary: Masturbatory Magazines and Margarita Pool.

Magic Mike XXL trailer - You're Welcome

I mean, come on! These boys are nice. I watched the first movie only once so I am not sure I consider myself a fan of either the genre or the film itself but I remember it being good entertainment and offering good visuals, if I dare say.
As it is the Hollywood habit, we get a sequel to these dancing, naked, oily dudes and apart from doubting the relevance of the story in this, I am not complaining. The trailer shows very little of what the movie is actually going to be about and I am sad that Matthew isn't going to be part of this new Magic Mike. However, what it showed concerned me slightly. Let's put the money shots of the bare chested hunks aside, I felt like I was watching a trailer for Footloose meets You Got Served. I don't know. I get that they are going to a convention and will take part in some sort of a competition but it seems all too "break dancing battle" to me. There is one particular shot that made me chuckle and that's what I like most in MM, and that's Joe Manganiello popping a soda can open from his crotch. The "You're Welcome" at the very end of the trailer is also a nice touch, that's how I know this movie won't take itself too seriously and will keep on playing on the sex more than the dance. That's what we want out of this. The poster Channing shared does just that, and it's funny and very clever. Let's hope it won't fall into the pits of the "competition" model which is unpleasant and unoriginal at best. I am hoping the same thing for Pitch Perfect 2....

Man Seeking Woman - It Was Weird

Oh that awkward moment when you break up. That's harsh. It does seem to be much harsher on this guy however, as I do not recall having dead pigeons falling on my face ever.

I wanted to talk about this show because I feel like we are lacking good comedies on TV right now. Your "Modern Family" and "Big Bang Theory" have gone on for a while with the same jokes and not much of a story to steer them clear of cliches. I fell in love with "You're the worst" which I thought was brilliantly written and funny. I love myself a good grumpy Englishman. So I was excited to see that FXX was walking in its sister network's footsteps with Man Seeking Woman.

I didn't know what to expect before watching that show and I felt awkward coming in the credits with its weird ass music and hipster vibe. I really thought this show would take itself too seriously. And in comes the troll. I was like: whaaaaaaaa? I was asking myself a million questions and I thought the trick would last for a couple of seconds but it didn't. They stuck with it and I fell on the floor
laughing when Josh (Jay Baruchel) was left to talk to a troll at the restaurant table, answered only by grunts and awesomely acted crazy looks. Jay did the most amazing job with his monologue and I was in. I was even more in when came the nightclub scene where Josh awkwardly tries to pick up a pretty girl as she continues her conversation saying "there's this weird guy, he just asked me what's my deal".

I was a bit slow to understand what that troll was supposed to represent but I got it when I saw Adolph. This was when I understood what this show was all about. Josh meets his ex-girlfriend new boyfriend and yes it happens to be Adolph Hitler.

And he drops one liners like "don't make it awkward for the jew" and that's just gold. Josh ultimately says what every person thinks of their ex new partners: "I'm better than Hitler". We are all better than the next person who gets to be with our ex. That's just how we feel. By the end of this show, I realized that what it did extremely well is showing with moving images what a feeling is. This little comedy made me laugh out loud of course but it did make me smile a lot at the end. When he's being applauded for being able to get a girl's number and he feels like a million dollar, you feel like a million dollar right with him. I found that the writing was excellent but most of all the mise en scene and the depiction of a feeling on a screen was pretty original. I am not sure how sustainable the concept is and how long I could go along with the over the top and literal humor but it was a good first episode, it was funny and that's what a comedy is supposed to be.