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Saturday, December 31, 2011

Happy New Year

With the new year only hours away fro some, what better way to celebrate than with this great spoof trailer - hope you all have a great 2012 :)

Monday, December 26, 2011

Monday, December 19, 2011

Meat Of The Week #51

MEAT OF THE WEEK

Meat Of The Week #51: Indian Valley's Hot & Spicy Reindeer Sauasge. Just in time for Christmas...

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Monday, December 12, 2011

CASTING CALL!



That's right - the time has come for us to hold auditions! We need 3 actors (2 x males, 1 x female) to fill out our team. Please know that while no-one on the pilot is getting paid (sad face) but when the show is picked up by The Comedy Channel, we will all be famous... maybe...
 
Anyway, Auditions will be held on Sunday January 15th (Perth metro venue TBA) and filming will be on weekends in March.
 
So if you are interested, check out the FULL INFO.

Meat Of The Week #50

MEAT OF THE WEEK

Meat Of The Week #50: Poronkaristys sauteed reindeer meat. What better way to get into the Christmas spirit than to sauté a reindeer...

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Luke's unsponsored and untitled but hopefully funny video corner

Funny and still managing to take iTunes by storm. I dare you to not have this song stuck in your head all day!

Monday, December 5, 2011

Meat Of The Week #49

MEAT OF THE WEEK

Meat Of The Week #49: Honey Smoked Beef Sticks. Designed for new parents with a choice of "It's a boy!" or "It's a girl!". Once and for all making sure thet no one will ever hand out cigars at the birth of a child...

Thursday, December 1, 2011

Morbid Mortality Monthly - December

1982 was not a very happy Christmas for the family of Seattle man James Hoban. He electrocuted himself when he decided to water his Norfolk Island Pine Christmas tree with the fairy lights still on.

Taken from "1001 Ridiculous Ways To Die" (2008) by David Southwell & Matt Adams

Monday, November 28, 2011

Sunday, November 27, 2011

Classic Comedy Chestnut - Weird Al

With Christmas just around the corner, we have decided to count down the next 4 weeks by bringing you Christmas flavoured comedy. First up is Weird Al's classic holiday song.

Monday, November 21, 2011

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Monday, November 14, 2011

Meat Of The Week #46

MEAT OF THE WEEK

Meat Of The Week #46: Pork Brains in a can. Health warning: contains 1170% of the recommended daily intake of cholesterol...

Monday, November 7, 2011

Meat Of The Week #45

MEAT OF THE WEEK

Meat Of The Week #45: baby sausage... I'm sure it isn't made from real babies but the packaging makes me wonder...

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Morbid Mortality Monthly - November

We've never trusted sheep. Oh they might come across all woolly and stupid, but we've always had a suspicion that beneath the merry, bleating exteriors beat the hearts of cold, calculating killers.

Our suspicions were proved correct in 1999 when 67-year-old farmer Betty Stobbs delivered a bale of hay to her flock on the back of her motorcycle. Sensing weakness, 40 of the flock rushed Ms Stobbs, knocking her over a cliff into a 100 foot deep quarry. Miraculously she survived the fall... so the evil ovines finished the job by pushing the motorcycle down on top of her.

Taken from "1001 Ridiculous Ways To Die" (2008) by David Southwell & Matt Adams

Monday, October 31, 2011

Meat Of The Week #44

MEAT OF THE WEEK

Meat Of The Week #44: Marinis world famous chocolate covered bacon - super cheap at $18/LB

Monday, October 24, 2011

Meat Of The Week #43

MEAT OF THE WEEK

Meat Of The Week #43: flavour additive E621 more commonly known as monosodium glutamate or MSG. Granted it isn't a meat as such, but where would jerky be without it?

Monday, October 17, 2011

Meat Of The Week #42

MEAT OF THE WEEK

Pigeon's Coconut Juice With Meat... eww! I assume they mean coconut juice with coconut flesh but I don't really want to put my assumption to the test... just in case...

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Luke's unsponsored and untitled but hopefully funny video corner

How important is it that you watch this Midnight Show public service announcement? Let us put it this way: millions of lives may depend on it.

Monday, October 10, 2011

Meat Of The Week #41

MEAT OF THE WEEK

Meat Of The Week #41: Horse meat from Japan. The sticker advertises the meat for sale for under 500 Yen... per 100 grams! Thats over $60 for a kilo of meat!

Saturday, October 8, 2011

Thursday, October 6, 2011

Random Rant: Everythings Amazing & Nobodys Happy

Here is comedian Louie C.K.'s view on the world today. We have already started getting quotes for donkeys and saucepans...

Monday, October 3, 2011

Meat Of The Week #40

MEAT OF THE WEEK

Meat Of The Week #40: Cajun Style Alligator in a can. We saw this in New Orleans at the School Of Cooking. While we can say that alligator tastes like a mild flavoured crocodile, we didn't try the canned variety...

Saturday, October 1, 2011

Morbid Mortality Monthly - October

Austrian tailor Franz Reichelt invented an overcoat designed to function as a parachute. In 1912, to demonstrate its effectiveness, Reichelt leapt from the first deck of the Eiffel Tower, falling more than 60 metres to his death. The event was filmed so it can still be watched to this day...



Taken from "1001 Ridiculous Ways To Die" (2008) by David Southwell & Matt Adams

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Monday, September 26, 2011

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Monday, September 19, 2011

Meat Of The Week #38

MEAT OF THE WEEK


Meat Of The Week #38: Mo's Bacon Bar. Milk chocolate and smoked bacon never tasted so good...

Friday, September 16, 2011

Random Rant: 3-D films

After reading this article on Slate Magazine's website, I had to get this rant out of my system.

I have always said that the 3-D gimmick comes and goes. It has been a around since the 1830s where it first appeared as stereoscopic photography (which later beame used in the wonderful 'view master') and the first 3-D films were around at the start of the 20th century. Interest in 3-D films has always been cyclical, with boom periods in the 1920's, the 1950's (including Dial M For Murder and Kiss Me Kate), the 1980's (including Friday the 13th Part III and Jaws 3), the early 2000's (with films like Spy Kids 3) and again now, with films like Avatar and Glee: The 3D Concert Movie. Even George Lucas is re-editing Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace to be re-released in 3-D, with the plan to do the other films if Episode I does well.

 

It is amazing that despite the numerous years that 3-D has existed, the technology really hasnt changed much. The viewer has always been required to wear glasses of some sort. Sure, the technology used in the glasses has changed from red and blue lenses to polarized lenses, but the end result is still the same: you wear glasses to trick the brain into seeing a three dimensional image.

With declining consumer interest and plummeting box office sales, 3-D will disappear by 2015 unless it is developed is into a holodeck...

This rant was posted by John Silvestro.

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Production Update

It has taken a while but finally after testing and tweaking, the official website is now up and running. As the episodes are finished, they will appear on the site. Why not stop by and check it out.

Luke's unsponsored and untitled but hopefully funny video corner

Here is an hilarious video to celebrate the Star Wars saga being released on Blu-Ray today.


Monday, September 12, 2011

Meat Of The Week #37

MEAT OF THE WEEK


Meat Of The Week #37: Creamed Possum with sweet potatoes in coon fat gravy...

Monday, September 5, 2011

Meat Of The Week #36

MEAT OF THE WEEK


Meat Of The Week #36: Perky Jerky, the cafinated beef jerky.

Thursday, September 1, 2011

Morbid Mortality Monthly - September

David Mushikle from Nambia was lucky to have survived being struck by a bolt of lightning while walking along a Windhoek street. However, as the dazed man picked himself up, he was struck and killed instantly by a hit and run driver.

Taken from "1001 Ridiculous Ways To Die" (2008) by David Southwell & Matt Adams

Monday, August 29, 2011

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Luke's unsponsored and untitled but hopefully funny video corner

During a live news broadcast, the cameraman protests the wages of being a camerman. And apparently he didn't lose his job, he still works for ABC, just not as a camerman. It's an oldie but a goodie :)

Monday, August 15, 2011

Meat Of The Week #33

MEAT OF THE WEEK


Meat Of The Week #33: Roasted Crickets with Eggs. In a can.

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Monday, August 8, 2011

Meat Of The Week #32

MEAT OF THE WEEK


Meat Of The Week #32: Zombie Meat. An exquisite new Japanese snack for the horror enthusiast consisting of bite-sized chunks of tender blue flesh that, according to the package, has been aged to deadly perfection at the graveyard. The ghastly meat snack, which tastes remarkably like peppered beef jerky, can be found at select shops in Japan for 399 yen per pack.

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Luke's unsponsored and untitled but hopefully funny video corner

News headlines lately have been about new research suggesting that mobile phone usage is linked to brain cancer. IT'S OLD NEWS. Comedian Sammy J already predicted it...

Monday, August 1, 2011

Classic Comedy Chestnut - Rowan Atkinson

"Fatal Beatings" from Rowan Atkinson's live comedy show

Meat Of The Week #31

MEAT OF THE WEEK


Meat Of The Week #31: Canned Unicorn Meat. Alright, so this one isn't a real product, but it deserves an honorable mention.

Morbid Mortality Monthly - August

During an argument with his girlfriend, Brandon Julius Funches, a 21 year old from Los Angeles, drove his 2005 Dodge Magnum onto train tracks and stopped it as a high-speed Metrolink train approached his car.

According to initial reports, Brandon deliberately placed himself and his girlfriend, Michelle Wright, in the path of the train with the aim of killing them both. However, just before the 450-ton Metrolink hit the car at 128km/h, Brandon got out. As he fled, he was struck by flying debris from the smash, killing him instantly. Despite the Dodge being broken into so many pieces police initially could not identify the model of car, Michelle Wright miraculously survived the impact.

Taken from "1001 Ridiculous Ways To Die" (2008) by David Southwell & Matt Adams

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Luke's unsponsored and untitled but hopefully funny video corner

The UK Ministry of Defense has posted YouTube videos to warn its servicemen and women about the dangers of sharing too much information on social media sites.



With a slightly different soundtrack and a funny voice for the terrorist and this could be really funny :)

Monday, July 25, 2011

Meat Of The Week #30

MEAT OF THE WEEK


Meat Of The Week #30: Basashi Aisu: Raw Horseflesh Ice Cream.

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Monday, July 18, 2011

Meat Of The Week #29

MEAT OF THE WEEK
Meat Of The Week #29: Smiley Face polony/fritz/devon/luncheon meat.

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Luke's unsponsored and untitled but hopefully funny video corner

This is Debbie's eHarmony profile video...



We know it's a fake, you know it's a fake, but by God it's funny! If we could employ her, we would ask her to join our merry band of mischief makers.

Monday, July 11, 2011

Meat Of The Week #28

MEAT OF THE WEEK


Meat Of The Week #28: Picnic-Bog: pressed shoulder of pig in a can.

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Luke's unsponsored and untitled but hopefully funny video corner

Here is a clip shows that shows a benefit in shooting video with a digital SLR - it allows you to run fast!

Friday, July 1, 2011

Morbid Mortality Monthly - July

In 1999, three Cambodians from the Svay Rieng province were killed when, after a drunken night in a bar, they decided to play with a 25 year old landmine. Witnesses who fled before the inevitable explosion reported the drunken men kicking the landmine to each other and daring each other to step on it.

Taken from "1001 Ridiculous Ways To Die" (2008) by David Southwell & Matt Adams

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Luke's unsponsored and untitled but hopefully funny video corner

This video from Dan Ilic and James Pender was a Tropfest finalist and you can't help but find it funny.

Monday, June 27, 2011

Meat Of The Week #26

MEAT OF THE WEEK

Meat Of The Week #26: McNuggetini. The "drink" portion of this bizarre treat is made with a McDonald's chocolate milkshake and vanilla vodka. On the rim of the glass is BBQ sauce, garnished with a chicken McNugget...

Thursday, June 23, 2011

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Luke's unsponsored and untitled but hopefully funny video corner

Anyone who has ever traveled by plane anywhere around the world should find this funny.



This stand-up comedian was on the Australian TV show Rove - let us know if you know who he is.

Monday, June 20, 2011

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Luke's unsponsored and untitled but hopefully funny video corner

There was a trend a few years back where people were taking movies and cutting them to make a new trailer - here is the Sound of Music cut as if it was a horror.

Monday, June 13, 2011

Meat Of The Week #24

MEAT OF THE WEEK

Meat Of The Week #24: Panda Bread. Alright, so it doesn't actually contain any panda, but it's just so cute!

Monday, June 6, 2011

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Morbid Mortality Monthly - June

Malaysian man Lee Liang Soon escaped a murder charge for smothering his wife with a pillow in 1988. The judge believed his story that his wife suffocated while he was trying to stifle her screams of passion during sex. Hmmmm...

Taken from "1001 Ridiculous Ways To Die" (2008) by David Southwell & Matt Adams

Luke's unsponsored and untitled but hopefully funny video corner

BriTANicK return to Luke's Corner, this time with their new restaurant review program "On The House"

Monday, May 30, 2011

Meat Of The Week #22

MEAT OF THE WEEK

Meat Of The Week #22: Turducken.

A turducken is a dish consisting of a de-boned chicken stuffed into a de-boned duck, which itself is stuffed into a de-boned turkey.

Nom-nom :o)

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Luke's unsponsored and untitled but hopefully funny video corner

Possibly inspired by The Lonely Island's "I'm On A Boat", Julian Smith brings us the equally funny "I'm Reading A Book"

Monday, May 23, 2011

Meat Of The Week #21

MEAT OF THE WEEK

Meat Of The Week #21: dolphin.

Activists who oppose dolphin hunting say it's inhumane to kill the animals, because they show high intelligence, sensitivity, and signs of self-awareness. Shigeki Takaya, a Japanese official who oversees dolphin hunting, asks "what difference is there between a cow, a pig, and a dolphin?"

Thursday, May 19, 2011

Comedic Musicians - Tim Minchin

Tim Minchin is a clever Australian comedic musician who has generated some controversy over some of his music, most noitably "The Pope Song". We think he rocks.


Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Luke's unsponsored and untitled but hopefully funny video corner

Australian comedy group 'Axis Of Awesome' perform a sketch from the 2009 Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Footage courtesy of Network Ten Australia.

Monday, May 16, 2011

Classic Comedy Chestnut - Jim Henson

Over the years, Sesame Street has educated and entertained children and adults the world over. Today we remember Jim Henson, the creator of the Muppets, who sadly passed away on this day back in 1990. A great man was taken from this world, but his great legacy will live forever.




Meat Of The Week #20

MEAT OF THE WEEK

Meat Of The Week #20: Giraffe Jerky.

Thursday, May 12, 2011

Luke's unsponsored and untitled but hopefully funny video corner

Luke's video this week is CorridorDigital's great spoof of the Angry Birds game sweeping the iWorld at the moment.

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Classic Comedy Chestnut - Billy Connolly

Billy Connolly worked out the recipe of how to write a country & western song...

"You need death and plenty of it. You need some unfortunate types scattered about; you know, guys with horrible things wrong with them and stuff. And you need the Church - a good dose of religion. And a relative, preferably quite close"

And this is what he wrote...

Monday, May 9, 2011

Meat Of The Week #19

MEAT OF THE WEEK

Meat Of The Week #19: Stir Fried Crocodile Intestine and Liver.

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Luke's unsponsored and untitled but hopefully funny video corner

This video went kinda viral earlier in the year, but still worthy of a mention. Lets face it, it has to be the most expensive way to advertise a house.

Monday, May 2, 2011

Meat Of The Week #18

MEAT OF THE WEEK

Meat Of The Week #18: Smokey BBQ Roasted Scorpions... in a can.

Friday, April 29, 2011

Royal Wedding

Today, to honor the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, we thought we had to post this video.



Over the last couple of years, there have been several viral internet videos of 'real' weddings doing this dance but this is by far the best. Say what you want about T-Mobile's products and service, but their advertising/marketing people know how to make some great stuff.

First there was the flash-mob at the Liverpool Street train station



Next they held a giant karaoke sing-a-long in Trafalgar Square



Then they welcomed people home at Heathrow Terminal 5



Like they say, life's for sharing...

Monday, April 25, 2011

Meat Of The Week #17

MEAT OF THE WEEK

Meat Of The Week #17: oyster shooters. Basically a raw oyster in a shot glass of vodka...

Friday, April 22, 2011

Classic Comedy Chestnut - Bill Hicks

What better way to celebrate Easter than with a Classic Comedy Chestnut, and who could better sum up Easter than Bill Hicks.

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Luke's unsponsored and untitled but hopefully funny video corner

31 Jokes for NERDS! Hank tells some seriously nerdy jokes. Harry Potter, theoretical physics, Star Trek, Star Wars, Chemistry, Engineering, Philosophy, Math, Computer Science...it's all fair game.

Monday, April 18, 2011

Meat Of The Week #16

MEAT OF THE WEEK

Meat Of The Week #16: world's largest commercially available hamburger.

Mallie's Sports Bar & Grill in Southgate Michigan (just outside of Detroit) hold the Guinness World Record for the biggest hamburger (that anyone can buy, if they can afford it). Weighing in at 75kg (approx 165 pounds), this is not for the faint hearted!

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Luke's unsponsored and untitled but hopefully funny video corner

This week's video from Luke isn't necessarily funny, but it is cool to watch. VFX superstar Freddy Wong creates not only some great CGI but this video highlights an editor's worst nightmare when working with an impossible deadline.

Monday, April 11, 2011

Meat Of The Week #15

MEAT OF THE WEEK

Meat Of The Week #15: in-vitro cultured meat. A developmental biologist and tissue engineer, Vladimir Mironov, M.D., Ph.D., at Medical University of South Carolina is bioengineering "cultured" meat.

Read more about this ground breaking and disturbing research here.

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Luke's unsponsored and untitled but hopefully funny video corner

Time again for another YouTube Funzie from Luke. This week it is BriTANicK's "A Monologue for Thee"



If you enjoyed it, check out their sequel.

Monday, April 4, 2011

Meat Of The Week #14

MEAT OF THE WEEK

Meat Of The Week #14: Tac-Bac Canned Bacon. Yes, we know it's no longer March but we are addicted to bacon products so we had to get another one in. There will also be additional bacon flavoured Meat of the Weeks in the remainder of the year to come.

This bacon treat, as well as many others, can be found at ThinkGeek.

Friday, April 1, 2011

Morbid Mortality Monthly - April

On 24 March 1975 Alex Mitchell, a 50-year-old bricklayer from King's Lynn, Norfolk, literally died laughing while watching an episode of The Goodies. According to his wife, who was a witness, Mitchell was unable to stop laughing whilst watching a sketch in the episode "Kung Fu Kapers" in which Tim Brooke-Taylor, dressed as a kilted Scotsman, used a set of bagpipes to defend himself from a black pudding-wielding Bill Oddie (master of the ancient Lancastrian martial art "Ecky-Thump") in a demonstration of the Scottish martial art of "Hoots-Toot-ochaye." After twenty-five minutes of continuous laughter Mitchell finally slumped on the settee and died from heart failure. His widow later sent the Goodies a letter thanking them for making Mitchell's final moments so pleasant.

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Production Update

Not content to just fill your lives with (hopefully) humorous content, this blog is a part of the upcoming sketch comedy show "And Several Butchers' Aprons". At present we are in early stages of pre-production where our team get together and work on being funny and coming up with side-ripping eye-popping bladder-emptying uproariously comical sketches. The scripts are being typed up and if all goes according to plan, we will start filming stuff with the intent to have it edited and online by the end of the year.

The official "And Several Butchers' Aprons" website is in the final stages of being polished and will be fully functional and operational within a few weeks - stay tuned!

Luke's unsponsored and untitled but hopefully funny video corner

Starting today, one of our "talented" team members will be brining you a funny video a week that he finds online and enjoys. Luke Caruana has nothing better to do with his spare time than search the internet for "funzies" and so he will be bringing us all the best/worst that he finds.

It might be someone else attempting sketch comedy, or it could be an epic fail, but hopefully it will be something hilarious. We tried to come up with a cool and funny name for Luke's funny video corner, but we couldn't come to an agreement. If someone wants to sponsor it, that would be great and not at all a foolhardy waste of money :)

So without further ado, here is the first funny internet video from Luke. It is a sketch called "Sex Robot" by The Whitest Kids U' Know.



The Whitest Kids U' Know is an American sketch comedy troupe originally based out of New York City.

Monday, March 28, 2011

Meat Of The Week #13

March is Bacon Flavour Month!

MEAT OF THE WEEK

Meat Of The Week #13: J&Ds Bacon Lipbalm - because "everything should taste like bacon".

This bacon treat, as well as many others, can be found at ThinkGeek.

Monday, March 21, 2011

Meat Of The Week #12

March is Bacon Flavour Month!

MEAT OF THE WEEK

Meat Of The Week #12: Bacon Beans jelly beans.

This bacon treat, as well as many others, can be found at ThinkGeek.

Monday, March 14, 2011

Meat Of The Week #11

March is Bacon Flavour Month!

MEAT OF THE WEEK

Meat Of The Week #11: Baconnaise Lite.

This bacon treat, as well as many others, can be found at ThinkGeek.

Monday, March 7, 2011

Meat Of The Week #10

March is Bacon Flavour Month!

MEAT OF THE WEEK

Meat Of The Week #10: caffeinated maple-bacon flavoured lollipop.

This bacon treat, as well as many others, can be found at ThinkGeek.

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Classic Comedy Chestnut - Doug Anthony Allstars

The Doug Anthony Allstars were an Australian musical comedy group who performed together between 1984 and 1994. This is how they wanted to be remembered, having a lasting impression on Australia, while making their opinions known about Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York.

Morbid Mortality Monthly - March

Ample-breasted Berbel Zumner, a 23-year-old from Vienna, Austria, died in 1994 when she was struck by lightning. Doctors said she would have survived had it not been for the substantial metal underwiring in her bra.

Taken from "1001 Ridiculous Ways To Die" (2008) by David Southwell & Matt Adams

Monday, February 28, 2011

Meat Of The Week #9

March is Bacon Flavour Month!

MEAT OF THE WEEK

Meat Of The Week #9: J&D's Bacon Pop - bacon flavoured popcorn.

This bacon treat, as well as many others, can be found at ThinkGeek.

Monday, February 21, 2011

Meat Of The Week #8

MEAT OF THE WEEK

Meat Of The Week #8: Stahly Quality Foods' Vegetarian Haggis... I can't imagine that a vegetarian would every say "I don't eat meat anymore because I find it revolting... but I sure could go for some haggis about now!"


Vegetarian Meat of the Week is brought to you by Chicos and Beans.

Monday, February 14, 2011

Meat Of The Week #7

MEAT OF THE WEEK

Meat Of The Week #7: Campanion's Mun-Cha'i-Ya - Peking vegetarian "roast duck" in a can...


Vegetarian Meat of the Week is brought to you by Chicos and Beans.