Urlesque Looks Back on Three Years of Memes: A Compilation
Almost three years ago to the day, we introduced you to our new site that hopefully became your daily stop for all things meme- and Internet-related. Nearly a year ago, I contributed my first post -- my mom rapping classic hip-hop songs if you're keeping track -- and today marks the last post (for me, at least.) For my last vid, I wanted to combine earnest sentimentality with ridiculous ...
Times Square Video Screen Hack is Marketing Campaign For Movie
Remember that post a few days ago about the guy who hacked the giant video screens in Times Square with an iPhone? Your bullsh** detector was probably going off at least a little, right? You were right. Why do we fall for this every time? Turns out it was all a marketing stunt for the upcoming movie "Limitless" perpetrated, in part, by Michael Krivicka, aka "The Bald Guy," aka the guy ...
The Best Charlie Sheen Remix Video You'll See This Week
It was when, not if, the rantings and ravings of our friend Charlie Sheen would be turned into a video remix. Eclectic Method, the UK trio responsible for the Quentin Tarantino Mixtape and remixing Stephen Colbert on 'The Colbert Report,' whipped up their latest vid culled from the myriad batsh*t sayings of our new favorite quote machine, all over a slick funk bassline. Winning. ...
Watch Child Comics Bomb Miserably
I'm in awe of anyone willing to get up on a stage and try to make people laugh. It's easy to hide behind a monitor -- that's 90% of my job here -- but to face your audience head-on takes grapes. I'll give these fledgling stand-ups credit for being bold enough -- or forced -- to take the stage, but some quick editing turns each of these comedians into total bombs. Yeah. I deleted all the ...
The Worst Observation in Internet History
Can you believe in the early days of the World Wide Web, people were civil and respectful to each other? Really. It's true. We had to independently verify this clip (found while researching this "What Is Internet" compilation) to confirm its authenticity -- so blown away were we at the sea change between then and now. Enough rambling. I (less than) proudly present: The Worst Observation ...
Patrick Moberg's 'Animal Pharm' Re-imagines Rappers as Puns, Animals
Patrick Moberg is a Brooklyn-based artist with a fondness for hip-hop, animals and awesomely bad puns (at least two of which we like to spotlight on the site regularly.) We liked it at "Squirrel Talk." We loved it at "Outkats." And by the time we got to "Timbalamb," we were officially obsessed. ...
'What Is Internet, Anyway?' - An Urlesque Compilation of Early Internet Clips
Watching Bryant Gumbel incredulously ask what the internet was in a 1994 'Today Show' clip got me thinking how clueless most of us were in the early 1990s when the World Wide Web began to explode. Not surprisingly, a look back at news reports, commercials and instructional videos at the time yields a bounty of unintentional humor. Consider this video I put together a time capsule of the Wild ...
Play 'Choose Your Own One Night Stand,' Facebook's First Photo-Based Game
It was only a matter of time before someone took select Facebook photos and turned them into a game. Whirled Interactive decided to flip the classic "Choose Your Own Adventure" series into "Choose Your Own One Night Stand," a photo-based game that lets you practice your awkward pick-up moves in the best social setting possible: alone, at home and on your computer. ...
The Shaving Helmet, Unsurprisingly, is a Marketing Hoax
A week ago, YouTube user mattinbrooklyn posted a video purportedly featuring a helmet that could automatically shave your head. The idea was a bit suspect, but since it was on the Internet, it must be real, right? Turns out the video was a marketing stunt for HeadBlade.com, a shaving accessory Web site that just won this round of the viral battle between corporations and real people. ...
Derek Tzeo, the Guy Wheat Thins Surprised With a Pallet of Crackers - Urlesque Interview
17-year-old Portland, Oregon native Derek Tzeo didn't expect to be bombarded with cases of Wheat Thins when he tweeted "Hey @CrunchIsCalling [the Twitter handle for Wheat Thins], I think the Wheat Thins commercial are uber fake. How do they find people off their tweets?" Well, Wheat Thins did, and filmed him, stunned face and all, receiving a massive supply of the snack. In an exclusive ...























