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It's been a while since we had a truly glorious Steven Meisel satire for a Vogue Italia cover editorial. In the past, the famous photographer has set his sights on celebrity rehab centers and extreme plastic surgery, but lately he's delivered more covers inspired by old movies and the 90s. Which is fine, but sometimes fashion likes a giggle. For January 2012, Meisel and Vogue Italia deliver for your consideration an editorial that looks like stills from a home shopping TV show. More »
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This parody ad for "Fotoshop" cosmetics comes to us from filmmaker Jesse Rosten. Rosten says, "I was watching TV one sleepless night and stumbled upon an infomercial for some beauty product. The commercial showed before and after portraits, that to my eye, looked like the same photo just photoshopped. I laughed to myself. Then I made this video." The commercial isn't real, he points out, "and neither are society's standards of beauty." You should probably watch the video — there's like a Photoshop of Horrors greatest-hits in the middle — before the Adobe company's lawyers send the inevitable cease-and-desist. More »
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I think that scarf needs a "0" on the end of the price, but other than that, they've got this about right. UPDATE: They took my advice! The Internet is magic, you guys. More »
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Teen bride Courtney Stodden shocked America when she sauntered into the news after marrying former Lost actor Doug Hutchison, and it's been impossible for us to tear our eyes away from her since. Hutchison, at 51, is 35 years her senior, but their age difference is the least of what's compelling about this pair. There are the interview histrionics: Courtney spends every interview alternately licking her lips and staring at Doug's mouth, laughing at inappropriate moments, and generally acting totally tweaked out while Doug, in Sincerity Mode, insists that their love is real. There's Courtney's "80's-porn-star-trying-to-make-a-comeback-in-the-90's" sartorial choices, the reality show rumors. But the most compelling and important product of this holy union is, by far, Courtney's completely bonkers Twitter account, which reads like a sexual mad lib written by a troubled fifth grader combined with a spambot combined with a Craigslist ad for erotic massage as composed by someone working from an outdated ESL dictionary. She mostly writes about being naked and licking things or touching herself, and it always seems implied that she's on the brink of orgasm, unless she's tweeting a scripture verse that demands the reader let the Lord direct all your paths. It's simultaneously hilarious and heartbreaking and confusing. One must laugh so one does not cry. More »
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Little Poundcake smells like cookies, has hair that grows, owns a cell phone, and hidden inside of her arms, a needle filled with HPV vaccine that will inject your little girl three times at random over the next six months. More »
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Do you love Google? Do you dig the way Gmail suggests you CC some folks you might have forgotten in a chain of messages? How it recommends products you need to buy based on the words you've typed in an email? How it fills in your search query before you've even figured out what you're actually searching for? More »
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Oh, goodness. The Panhellenic executive council at the University of Alabama have put together this fun little video in hopes of convincing incoming freshmen to "Go Greek." Obviously, this video is the Rebecca Black of Panhellenic recruitment videos — but what happens when halfway through the video, the girls shout "remix!" and it actually changes to "Friday" itself? We don't want to be too cruel here, so let's just say that the ladies involved probably don't have any previous rapping experience and probably should not try to do so, ever again. Welcome to internet infamy, 'Bama. More »
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As any connoisseur will tell you, not all cat videos are created the equal. Enter Kittywood, a Hollywood studio with directors, actors, special effects, and a full production team entirely dedicated to churning out the internet's favorite cat videos. This is kind of great, and kind of insidious. Doesn't it ruin videos just a little bit to know that they're staged? More »
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Between Ron and Hermione, Harry and Ginny, and an entire movie's worth of awkward teenage feelings at the Yule Ball, we've all seen the raging hormones that fly throughout Hogwarts in the Harry Potter movie series. This trailer imagines what it would be like if J.K. Rowling forgot about fantasy and wrote a coming-of-age romantic comedy instead. More »
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With the final installment of the Harry Potter series premiering this week, people are flocking to the internet to express their emotional distress. This parody of Beyoncé's "Halo" seemed to fittingly describe the pain we imagine feeling upon viewing Deathly Hallows, with lines like "this is gonna hurt more than when Snape killed Dumbledore" and "Accio that box of tissues — I'm gonna need a lot here to get me through." Us too, Harry Potter fans. Us too. More »
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There are really two sides to every story, and children should have the right to decide on the math story just like the evolution one the Miss USA contestants grappled with. Funny how cultural relativism suddenly gets appealing to conservatives when it comes to science. More »
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Have you ever wished your significant other was covered in penises? I know I sure have. Thanks to the good people at Peniplus, there's finally a cure for monopenis. More »
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YouTube user madinthemoon, who created the beauty ads spoof we featured in January, has returned with "The Song I Wish Taylor Swift Would Write," a "Fifteen" parody she says was inspired by the Autostraddle article written about Swift last month. More »
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Ever wondered why the Snuggie took off and the Slanket didn't? The parent company claims it's because Snuggies are cheaper, but we suspect it actually had more to do with the commercial and the resulting parodies (NSFW). [TheStreet, BuzzFeed] More »
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The Christian Bale Tirade has produced an endless amount of spoofs, and today we bring you two of our favorites, from our Jezebel super crush Joel McHale at The Soup and hilarious comedian Sara Benincasa. More »
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With only 209 days left until the inauguration of the next President of the United States, it's not quite time yet to say goodbye to our less-than-beloved 43rd POTUS. But with the new book Goodnight Bush, you can wish W. and his cronies goodnight and remember why it is you're looking forward to January 20, 2009 just that much. [Goodnight Bush via Feminist Law Professors] More »
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