Sorry it’s a bit late today, I got engrossed in clips. I watch too many Youtube clips, and sometimes it’s hard to find a theme to hang them all on. This morning’s (or should I say afternoon’s, now) are about as niche as comedy gets. They’re either animations or puppets doing reworkings of old favourites.
To break us in gently, here’s a remix of one of Nick Parks’s Creature Comforts claymation shorts, with new, political, dialogue:
That fly works scarily well.
Spoofing Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody is something that’s been done numerous times, with and without puppets, but the Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre’s is the best, bar none. It had me totally helpless with laughter; I suspect you’ll either love it to bits or go “WTF was that?”
See also their version of Reservoir Dogs, if you think you can stand it.
Any post about comedy and puppets wouldn’t be complete without a clip from Spitting Image, would it? Here’s Mrs T and the Don’t Care Bears:
Aah for the old days, when the bastards were still easily recognisable…
And one more from Spitting Image, this time for the cloggies amongst us – a Heineken ad in a puppet stylee:
There’s a surprisingly large number homemade animation on YouTube. Proof that the devil does indeed make work for idle hands, here’s I Love Lucy, done with stop-motion sex toys.
Do I really need to say that this is NSFW?
Now for the bonus clips: first an oasis of comparative calm and sensibleness but still funny, an animated consumer information film on how to get rid of pesky aliens:
The last clip of all isn’t a spoof of anything at all. I just like it because I like earworming people.It’s Joel Veitch and he’s looking for his leopard:
Lalalalalala, looking for my leopard… Seems cats like this clip too.
