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Is this the greatest ever send-up of 24-hour news? Warning: contains strong language and hilarity. From The Onion.


Breaking News: Some Bullshit Happening Somewhere

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  • thomas vesely says:

    05:21pm | 15/03/10

    the onion rocks. Read more »

  • Justin K says:

    09:41am | 15/03/10

    Very funny, I love the onions take however on their story of the internet crashing and also their brilliant piss-take on the must have technological product Read more »

 

You’ve seen the pixelated Bingle in the Shower picture everywhere. Now see the latest uncensored Bingle in the Shower pic doing the rounds on email and Twitter.

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  • Tim says:

    09:15am | 11/03/10

    Dude, super exy. I’m going to counter bid you by offering to sell myself for a miserly 10k, I gots some web dev billz to pay, don’t you know. Read more »

  • Tim says:

    09:14am | 11/03/10

    Hahaha, this is comedy genius too! ROTFLOL. “don’t you get that *you* are disrespecting women, too” - *sigh*, pure gold. Read more »

 

Usually, when it comes to watching your favourite sport or movie on television, ads are the last thing you pay attention to. 

These inconvenient and short bursts of time are more likely used for important, yet harried, tasks of making tea, dashing to the bathroom or checking phone messages.

Not so when it comes to the Superbowl,  a game played yesterday in the United States where a collection of very clever ads became the exception to this rule.

And while there’s a few “best of” lists floating around the internet today, here’s three The Punch team have voted worth watching.

Seen any others? Share them here.

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  • Zen P says:

    06:30pm | 15/02/10

    Sorry Dave, your fanboy title has been transferred to Charles, who really knows how to give an ‘Apple-job’... Read more »

  • Zen P says:

    06:25pm | 15/02/10

    Fanboy. Wow, you must be and apple side-kick i mean psychic… Read more »

 

It was never going to take long - here’s the Downfall parody of Hitler finding out about the iPad. As usual, he’s not happy and this contains some strong subtitles.

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  • Rodrigo Vera says:

    05:56am | 15/02/10

    this is the stupiest most inaccurate video i’ve ever seen. booooooorrringgGGG!!!!!  Apple RULES!!!!! Read more »

  • James says:

    11:22am | 01/02/10

    I call Godwin’s Law on you Mikko - for that inappropriate Hitler comparison, you lose! Read more »

 

America’s late night talk show crisis is almost an end with Conan O’Brien set to get the sack from the Tonight Show at the end of this week for the sooky Jay Leno who has decided he wants his old job back, and apparenlty has some born right to host the Tonight Show.


The whole saga has been covered to the point of exhaustion in the US media, with Conan walking away with a cool $45 million and also likely to go to the FOX network for a brand new show. For his part David Letterman’s joy over NBC’s troubles has bubbled over in to outright self-indulgent schadenfreude in his opening monologues, largely because he was overlooked for the job himself more than a decade ago.

The upside is that someone as funny as Conan O’Brien, fresher and funnier than both Leno and Letterman for many years, has an entire week left to get back at the people giving him the sack. So what do you do? Spend all their money of course.

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  • Phillip Molly Malone says:

    12:12pm | 28/01/10

    A) if you haven’t already, watch the movie “the late shift” about the Letterman/Leno wars over the tonight show when carsen left. b) I am sure everyone relises that this is just a skit and doesn’t cost that much c) I wonder if NBC were dumb enough to not rule… Read more »

  • Merryn says:

    06:32pm | 27/01/10

    S.L. - I am an Aussie living in America. Let me tell you about Conan O’Brien from my perspective. I’ve always preferred Jay Leno - until now. My husband always preferred Conan O’Brien. Jay Leno announced 2-3 years ago that he was intending to retire from The Tonight Show, and… Read more »

 

It really is the best invention, ever.

A company in the US has dreamt up a bit of punctuation to indicate that you are being sarcastic.

As if you ever going to need it.

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  • papachango says:

    01:24pm | 19/01/10

    There are already plenty of acceptable ways of showing sarcasm in the written form. Try emoticons like and the ‘rolling eyes’ one or even a /sarc tag if you’re geekisly inclined. Even inverted commas can do the trick, so that we don’t need this ‘incredibly useful’ invention… Read more »

  • papachango says:

    01:20pm | 19/01/10

    True the Amercians sometimes struggle with sarcasm and irony - which explains the Wayne’s World craze of ending a sarcastic sentence with ...NOT! Just to be sure that it is actually sarcastic y’know… You do realise that, while Alanis Morissette shows a similar inability to grasp irony, she is in… Read more »

 

So much for modern hotels being soulless. Below are some edited highlights from a survey of guest habits from Novotel released today.

Each to their own… lots of rubber ducks

A guy’s girlfriend liked farms. So he asked for their room to be filled with hay.

A guest in Australia’s great shiraz-producing Barossa Valley heard about the hotel’s signature red-wine spa treatment. He asked for a bath full of red wine in his room.

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  • cats says:

    09:20pm | 08/01/10

    Davy, i think it suggests that the women could not be effed to clean up after themselves after years of cleaning up after their husbands/children Read more »

  • stephen says:

    02:59pm | 08/01/10

    33 ping-pong balls in a room’s when yer can start makin’ phone calls. Read more »

 

Now that we’re through the 12 days of Christmas and it’s time to take down the tree, there’s one last chance to share this great version of an old 1950s Christmas song by Bob Dylan. It gets my vote for the Chrissie greatest hits albums from 2010 on.

Punch music writer Dennis Atkins discussed Dylan’s Christmas album here and it has some excellent context to where this fits in Dylan’s work.

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  • Air-Head says:

    12:15am | 07/01/10

    Great rendition there. Keep it up, Bob. Read more »

  • stephen says:

    01:18pm | 06/01/10

    Er, beat poets on route 66 ? Nah, another Bob Dylan record. Vic Chestnut could’ve outcomposed, out played, outperformed Bob under the table (where Bob might spend a lot of time.) Read more »

 

Normally government departments aren’t this creative. And while road safety is no laughing matter, try not to enjoy this ad from Vic Roads. It’s part of their campaign for changes to road safety rules.

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  • Steve of Cornubia says:

    08:06pm | 05/01/10

    @Stephen: I have absolutely no doubt that, could a bicycle be made to travel even faster than a car, that’s precisely how fast your average cyclist would travel, in their haste to get to that ‘special thing they have to do, that no-one else does’. Read more »

  • stephen says:

    06:00am | 05/01/10

    We don’t call’em road rules bro’. We call them ‘getting to know nature on 2 wheels at speed whilst not causing undue haste or anxiety in the opposing force e.g. other cyclist.’ Car drivers travel too fast, as if they’ve got somethin’ special to do, that no-one else does. Read more »

 

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