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.
Mitchell and Webb: "Are we the baddies?"
A Mitchell and Webb sketch in which two German soldiers realize their uniforms carry skulls and wonder whether they are the baddies.
Dr. Oz and Nutritional Supplements: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
John Oliver's Last Week Tonight segment takes on Dr.
Yes Prime Minister, Discussing Trident
A two-minute Yes Prime Minister scene in which Sir Humphrey persuades Jim Hacker to buy Trident, using tortured logic about nuclear deterrence.
Amazon Echo - SNL
A Saturday Night Live sketch for the Amazon Echo Silver, a smart speaker for the elderly, in which older users misunderstand Alexa.
Find the Longest Path
Find the Longest Path is a comedic song by Daniel J.
0118 999 881 999 119 7253 | The IT Crowd
A one-minute clip from The IT Crowd in which the characters hear a jingle for a memorable emergency phone number.
KUNG FURY Official Movie [HD]
Kung Fury is a 30-minute crowd-funded 80s action comedy about a kung fu cop who travels back in time to kill Hitler, packed with retro tropes.
Journalism: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
A Last Week Tonight segment on the decline of the newspaper industry and what it means for journalism, including local reporting.
Facebook CIA Project: The Onion News Network
A short satirical Onion News Network segment presenting Facebook as a CIA project.
Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite - #FreeFortnite
A one-minute Fortnite parody of Apple's 1984 ad, released when Epic Games challenged the App Store and Apple removed Fortnite from iOS.
Tom Lehrer - We Will All Go Together When We Go
Tom Lehrer's gallows-humor song about nuclear annihilation, in which everyone goes together when the bomb drops.
Lie Witness News - SXSW Edition
A Jimmy Kimmel segment in which interviewers at SXSW ask festival-goers about made-up bands, and many people confidently claim to know and like them.
Redesign Your Logo (2010 live backing video)
Neil Cicierega's parody song 'Redesign Your Logo', played over a live backing video with corporate PowerPoint visuals.
Complete History Of The Soviet Union, Arranged To The Melody Of Tetris
A song by Pig With The Face Of A Boy that narrates the history of the Soviet Union from a worker's view, set to the Tetris melody.
Tom Lehrer - Who's Next - with intro
Tom Lehrer performs his satirical song Who's Next, about the spread of nuclear weapons, with a spoken introduction.
Homeowners Associations: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
A John Oliver Last Week Tonight segment on homeowners associations, covering the surprising power they hold over residents and how arbitrary their rules can be.
Voting: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
A John Oliver Last Week Tonight segment on voting access in the US, covering how some states are making voting less equal.
Adam Ruins Everything - The Sinister Reason Weed is Illegal
An Adam Ruins Everything segment arguing that political motives, including Nixon's, lay behind making marijuana illegal.
Dev Deletes Entire Production Database, Chaos Ensues
Kevin Fang comically retells GitLab's 2017 incident in which an engineer deleted the production database, based on the company's postmortems.
Matematikrevyen 2011: Banach-Tarski
A Danish university math revue music video that parodies Barbra Streisand to explain the Banach-Tarski paradox, with oranges multiplying on stage.
The Website is Down #1: Sales Guy vs. Web Dude
A comedy video in which a salesperson demands that a web developer fix a down website, with the two talking past each other.
Code Monkey
A fan-made music video for Jonathan Coulton's song 'Code Monkey', about the life of a programmer, using World of Warcraft footage.
Capture the Flag | He Will Not Divide Us
Internet Historian's comedic retelling of how internet users located and captured the flag from Shia LaBeouf's He Will Not Divide Us installation, framed with Metal Gear Solid parodies.
The Power Of Selling Out: Your Customers As Political Capital - Onion Talks - Ep. 9
A satirical Onion Talks episode in which a startup founder explains making money by selling his users' data to oppressive governments.