PickVidsBest Satire & parody Videos
The 362 Satire & parody videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 2 introductory, 6 intermediate, 354 for a general viewer, and 0 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a comedy piece. What they share is that the jokes rely on a shared background in this scene. Channels you will keep seeing include LastWeekTonight, The Onion, Saturday Night Live.
USENIX Security '18-Q: Why Do Keynote Speakers Keep Suggesting That Improving Security Is Possible?
James Mickens's humorous USENIX Security keynote argues that improving security and trusting opaque technology like machine learning is far harder than the industry admits.
The Loving Trap
A three-minute parody of Adam Curtis's documentary style, assembled from archive footage with his typical narration and leaps of logic.
NaN Gates and Flip FLOPS
Tom Murphy (suckerpinch) presents a deliberately trollish computer architecture built on IEEE-754 floating point, using NaN and infinity to define logic gates.
Erlang The Movie II: The Sequel
A humorous 10-minute parody sequel to Erlang: The Movie, in which Erlang's creators discuss the aging language and meet a surprise helper.
On The Turing Completeness of PowerPoint (SIGBOVIK)
A short SIGBOVIK 2017 presentation by Tom Wildenhain showing that PowerPoint animations are Turing complete, with a working Turing machine built in slides.
Chicken chicken chicken
Doug Zongker's deadpan conference presentation of his famously chicken-filled paper, given at the 2007 AAAS humor session.
How to sound smart in your TEDx Talk | Will Stephen | TEDxNewYork
Will Stephen's humorous six-minute TEDx talk shows presentation techniques that make you sound brilliant while saying essentially nothing.
30 Weird Chess Algorithms: Elo World
Tom Scott-style absurdist tour by Tom7 of SIGBOVIK chess projects: a tournament of 30 weird chess algorithms used to rate a color- and piece-blind chess program.
The Lottery: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
John Oliver's Last Week Tonight segment on state lotteries.
Evo-Devo (Despacito Biology Parody) | A Capella Science
A Capella Science parody of Despacito that sings through evolutionary developmental biology, explaining how a single cell becomes a body, including body-axis genes and dormant snake leg DNA.
Do Nothing- a message of motivation from Self-help Singh- (un) motivational speaker and life coach
A short satirical 'motivational' talk by the character Self-help Singh, a sham life coach who urges viewers to do nothing.
Compost-Fueled Cars: Wouldn't That Be Great? - Onion Talks - Ep. 1
An Onion Talks satire in which a young media professional pitches compost-powered cars, offering the idea itself and leaving all implementation to others.
Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters [advances in derp learning]
Tom Scott-style absurdist research by tom7 for SIGBOVIK 2021, using machine learning to discover letterforms that are 'uppercaser' than uppercase A and lowercaser than lowercase.
Fight of the Century: Keynes vs. Hayek - Economics Rap Battle Round Two
A hip-hop music video from EconStories in which Keynes and Hayek rap-battle over how to handle recessions and government spending.
Stuart Halloway - Narcissistic Design
Stuart Halloway's satirical talk describes how to protect yourself from industry change by spreading complexity through systems while following idiomatic practice.
Missing Teen's Friends Go On TV To Plead For Her Release, Gossip About Ugly Classmates
An Onion News Network sketch in which two teenage girls appear on TV to plead for their kidnapped friend's release, then start gossiping about classmates.
Charlie Brooker's How to Report the News - Newswipe - BBC
A short satirical segment from Charlie Brooker's Newswipe that lampoons the formulaic conventions of television news reporting, from stock shots to filler street interviews and news-speak.
Chinese Invisibility Cloak Hoax DESTROYED!!!
Captain Disillusion debunks a viral Chinese invisibility cloak video while parodying popular educational channels.
"Turbo Encabulator" the Original
The earliest filmed version of the Turbo Encabulator technical-jargon parody, shot in the late 1970s with narrator Bud Haggert.
Microsoft Re-Designs the iPod Packaging
A 2006 parody made by a Microsoft team that shows how the company would redesign iPod packaging, with a box piled with feature claims, logos and clutter in contrast to Apple's clean design.
Look Around You: Season 1 Pilot - Calcium
The pilot of the British comedy series Look Around You, a deadpan parody of 1970s and 80s school science programmes, in which the scientists examine calcium.
Leading Questions - Yes Prime Minister
A clip from Yes Prime Minister in which Sir Humphrey shows how leading questions can make a survey support or oppose national service.
Verbatim: What Is a Photocopier? | Op-Docs
A New York Times Op-Docs short in which actors perform a real legal deposition transcript.
Welcome to the Internet - Bo Burnham (from "Inside" -- ALBUM OUT NOW)
Bo Burnham's song from his special Inside, a satirical take on internet culture, attention and extremism.