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'Saturday Night Live' Spoofs Lincoln Financial Ads [VIDEO]

Bob Sassone — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 12:24:31 +0000

If you could meet your future self, what would he or she look like? What would you two talk about? What would you do together?

‘Saturday Night Live‘ tried to answer these questions on last night’s show with a few spoofs of Lincoln Financial’s “Hello Future” ad campaign. Check out Bill Hader and his deteriorating future meeting cute on a plane below.

'The Muppets' Spoof 'The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo' in New Trailer [VIDEO]

Shauna Wright — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 17:18:21 +0000

A while back, the trailer for the hotly anticipated English version of ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’ was released — and people loved it. Set to Trent Reznor’s cover of Led Zepplin’s ‘Immigrant Song,’ most were impressed by its slick editing and frenetic pace.

Now the people behind the upcoming movie, ‘The Muppets,’ have done a trailer of their own that pays homage to the buzzy clip. It shows scenes in the same stylish, lightning-fast way, and although they couldn’t use the music from the original, they gave props to the writer of the tune they could use.

This Week in Viral Videos: A Spoof Trailer, Barfing Cup and More

Steve Frost — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 20:49:53 +0000

This week the Internet was talking about a plethora of viral videos about the ex-Jedi Harrison Ford, a crazy lady who gets a creepily overjoyed with her rainbow sponge hobbies and a trailer for a new movie that you might not love, but you’ll LIKE. There was also a resurgence in a recent classic — the cover [...]

Microsoft Spoofs Google's Invasiveness With 'Gmail Man' Ad [VIDEO]

Jeremy Taylor — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 18:11:59 +0000

As Gmail users know, the Google webmail service tracks every word you type and read, and then uses the information they gather in targeted advertisements — making for sometimes useful and sometimes eerie invasions of privacy.

The folks at Microsoft had some fun with their rival’s snooping in this video spoof about a “Gmail Man” — a flesh-and-blood mailman who opens and reads your letters before he delivers them.