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.
The Daily Show - Burn Noticed
A Daily Show with Jon Stewart segment from 2014 covering the People's Climate March in New York and a House science committee struggling with basic global warming facts.
Using Social Media To Cover For Lack Of Original Thought - Onion Talks - Ep. 6
A four-minute Onion Talks parody in which a social media consultant pitches never putting any effort into social marketing.
James Mickens on JavaScript
James Mickens delivers his comedic rant about JavaScript and web programming, in his usual dry, hyperbolic style.
President Trump: How & Why...
Jonathan Pie delivers a satirical rant just after the 2016 US election, blaming the political and media establishment for the rise of Trump.
Land of Lisp- The Music Video!
A playful music video promoting the book Land of Lisp, with a song about Lisp programming.
SIGBOVIK 2007: Generalized Super Mario Bros. is NP-Complete
Tom Murphy's satirical SIGBOVIK 2007 presentation, delivered under a pseudonym, proving that generalized Super Mario Bros.
Tim Minchin's Storm the Animated Movie
Animated adaptation of Tim Minchin's beat poem 'Storm', in which he argues with a hippie at a London dinner party.
Nanobot (Havana Parody) | A Capella Science ft. Dorothy Andrusiak
A Capella Science parody of Camila Cabello's Havana, retold as a song about molecular machines and nanotechnology.
Tom Lehrer - New Math (Animated)
An amateur animation of Tom Lehrer's satirical song New Math, which pokes fun at 1960s math teaching and subtraction in base 8.
WordTeX - A WYSIPCTWOTCG Typesetting Tool
Tom Wildenhain's SIGBOVIK 2018 presentation of WordTeX, a Microsoft Word template that mimics LaTeX typesetting output.
What Shopping On Amazon Feels Like
A Ryan George comedy sketch about the absurdities of shopping on Amazon, including nonsense brand names, fake reviews and scammy sellers.
The NCAA: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
John Oliver's Last Week Tonight segment on the NCAA, arguing that the organization profits enormously from college athletes while insisting they remain unpaid amateurs.
Raiden Warned About AI Censorship - MGS2 Codec Call (2023 Version)
A fan-made Metal Gear Solid 2 codec call using AI voice synthesis, in which the Colonel warns Raiden about using AI to censor the internet and enforce digital ID.
I Have Delivered Value... But At What Cost?
A short KRAZAM comedy sketch satirizing corporate tech life, where a worker reckons with having delivered value at the cost of his soul, complete with Slack chimes.
07/27/1978
An hour-long absurdist Lasagna Cat video in which John Blyth Barrymore muses philosophically on a single Garfield strip.
Charlie Brooker's Newswipe 25/03/09
A clip from Charlie Brooker's Newswipe in which a forensic psychiatrist argues that intense news coverage of school shooters encourages copycat attacks, alongside Brooker's satire of formulaic news reporting.
Tom Lehrer - Wernher von Braun
Tom Lehrer's satirical song about Wernher von Braun, the German rocket scientist who went from the Nazi missile program to the US space program.
You Suck at Photoshop - Distort, Warp, & Layer Effects
An episode of the comedic You Suck at Photoshop series in which Donnie Hoyle teaches distort, warp and layer effects while vandalizing a Vanagon in the image.
Badness 0 (Apostrophe‛s version)
Tom 7's pilot episode of a series that plays with type systems and absurd programming, presented as a parody of the GPL v3 license.
Thank You For Your Feedback - Don't Say Velcro
Velcro's follow-up to its "Don't Say Velcro" ad responds to viewer feedback, with a humorous take on trademark usage and alternative names for hook and loop fasteners.
The Hustle
A KRAZAM satirical sketch about hustle culture and productivity obsession in tech.
Pentagon Wars - Bradley Fighting Vehicle Evolution
A roughly ten-minute scene from the movie The Pentagon Wars showing how the Bradley Fighting Vehicle's requirements ballooned through committee demands into a compromised design.
Climate Change Debate: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
A short Last Week Tonight segment where John Oliver stages a statistically representative climate debate, with Bill Nye facing a crowd of dissenters.
history of the entire world, i guess
A fast, absurdist 19-minute animated run through the history of the whole world, narrated and scored by Bill Wurtz in his distinctive style.