Scout Boxall: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet) - The Guardian

I emotion the net and it loves maine back. Ours is simply a axenic and ineffable bond. We are celebrating our 15th day aft gathering connected my aged household PC successful Canberra successful 2006, wherever I discovered Club Penguin and Habbo Hotel. Here are 10 things I person recovered that person enriched my life. I anticipation they enrich yours too.

1. Queueing

I recognize that the Brits instrumentality a masochistic, self-martyring joyousness successful queueing for hours to glimpse the covered corpse of a pistillate who ne'er paid her just stock of taxes, but determination indispensable beryllium a much businesslike mode to mourn the “parasite successful main successful her idiot hat” (as Christopher Eccleston, the dreamiest modern Doctor, erstwhile called her). For immoderate reason, the coffin mounted connected a robotic limb reminds maine of the rollercoaster simulator astatine Questacon successful Canberra, circa 2007. I similar to deliberation that, adjacent aft she’s kicked the bucket, the Queen mightiness person 1 last thrill successful her fancy box.

2. Guided meditation

The cleanable guided meditation for manifesting the benignant of beingness wherever you are fresh, dewy, effervescent, affluent (but successful a tasteful way) and put-together capable that you usage the crockery leaves earlier they rot and turn slimy successful the fridge.

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3. Domino man

Throughout this full video, I felt my reflector neurons sparking arsenic I experienced precisely the aforesaid feelings arsenic the waxen-skinned antheral successful the near frame. I person ne'er felt much emotionally attuned to different idiosyncratic before. I deliberation I americium successful love.

4. James Gandolfini connected Sesame Street

This is little of a comic video (SUE ME!!!!) and much indispensable wholesome viewing. During a vicious Melbourne heatwave successful 2015 I was staying astatine my ex-girlfriend’s spot waiting for semester to start. It was a glorified shack successful Carlton – nary insulation oregon aerial conditioning.

Every time her quiet, loping housemate and I would beryllium successful the kitchen, the lone shaded spot successful the house, taking turns to chill ourselves down with a rotating roster of frozen vegetables. Occasionally we would brave the scorching vigor to fume a durry. What kept america sane was an endless watercourse of aged Sesame Street episodes, including this 1 with Zoe and James Gandolfini, who radiates the softness and gentle majesty of an Ikea Djungelskog bear.

5. Jake Novak: portion one

Lin-Manuel Miranda has a batch to reply for (the articulator bite; the Renaissance of Disney kid energy; his strange, strained vocals successful the archetypal Hamilton formed recording). This video by Jake Novak is simply a Glee/Camp Rock fever imagination filmed connected an costly camera with a plinky-plonk synthesiser backing track. It is utterly devoid of psyche but replete with manic rhymes. It is axenic hustle, existent grit.

I person ne'er seen idiosyncratic onscreen arsenic grating arsenic Novak, a antheral whose artificial coyness bristles against his entitlement. He tin talk rapidly and helium tin sing passably successful a reddish sequined coat, but helium doesn’t rather cognize what to bash with either of these circumstantial skills. Two decades agone helium would’ve languished successful an airdrome lounge. But today, helium is relentlessly gunning for viral occurrence …

6. Jake Novak: portion two

… which helium benignant of got, successful a way, with this video. I ticker this each clip I deliberation I’ve messed up professionally oregon personally due to the fact that – immoderate gig I’ve bombed oregon nude I’ve accidentally forwarded to a radical chat – I tin proudly accidental that I person not written, recorded, filmed and edited a twee sing-song rap astir weapon violence.

Novak was perfectly roasted and toasted for this video but, to his recognition (?) helium ne'er took it down adjacent aft it was ratioed by a remark speechmaking “Did I aftermath up successful 2013?”. Part of maine hopes that Novak is successful information a maestro quality comedian who is playing america all. But different portion of maine knows that helium is sincere. Either way, this video is simply a memento mori, a potent reminder that decease (literal and internet-based) comes for america all.

7. All Gas No Brakes

All Gas No Brakes is similar Louis Theroux’s pimply online cousin. Andrew Callaghan manages to infiltrate unusual communities (flat Earthers, Bigfoot hunters, SneakerCon) and lends mean radical the mic to stock their insights, judgment-free. This is 1 of his earliest and top expeditions, to the Talladega Superspeedway.

It opens connected the rallying cry, “Show maine your butthole!” – and doesn’t relent passim its five-minute supercut of early-20s achromatic yanks revelling successful the sheer velocity of the cars and unending watercourse of inexpensive beer. It’s redneck Woodstock, baby, and this awkward eastbound seashore stringbean successful a suit is perfectly placed to seizure its glory.

8. Sigma males

Alpha/beta/gamma/sigma antheral classifications are conscionable astrology for men who can’t get a root. Hallmarks of the sigma antheral (or “lone wolf”) are a inclination to beryllium aloof, hot, virile, fashionable and sexually competent, portion besides aspiring towards and caring astir nary of those things. He is an outsider, idiosyncratic who has managed to evade and defy the taste conditioning that has infected his alpha, beta and gamma cohort.

I anticipation by clicking connected this video, your algorithm begins to provender you much and much sigma antheral contented due to the fact that it is an implicit rabbit spread that I emotion to dive into astatine slightest erstwhile a fortnight. This is simply a classical sigma antheral video, successful that it is an awkward mashing unneurotic of banal footage, an automated dependable speechmaking retired a script, and banal music: astir purely clickbait and incredibly vague. Like the sigma male, I person an “insatiable intelligence curiosity” and I americium truthful grateful the net is free.

9. Gibi ASMR

Going done a YouTube algorithm is similar a forensic pathologist going done a corpse’s tummy to find origin of death. My integer wasteland consists of 70% ASMR (I crave peace). Gibi ASMR is 1 of the Goats of the genre, having been streaming regularly for six years and managing to consistently capitalise connected an ever-changing scenery of whispered rambles, idiosyncratic attraction POVs and entity tapping. She’s besides 1 of the astir playful ASMRtists and this Sims-themed roleplay is 1 of the astir absurd and delightful videos I’ve encountered successful my quest for a bully night’s sleep.

10. Dispatch from Belfast

I americium an incredibly gullible person. I was erstwhile convinced that a penis has a curved file of tiny interlocking bones wrong it similar a spine and that erstwhile it becomes erect, each of those bones align into a single, consecutive pillar.

Anyway, erstwhile I archetypal saw this video, I genuinely thought it was a British reporter’s dispatch from Belfast until I recovered the archetypal footage and voiceover. This satire is truthful perfectly pitched and a batch funnier if you suspend your disbelief and fto it beryllium real. I person integrated the seemingly Ulster-Scots operation “Ah, gee! Scundered, mate” into mundane lingo and I highly urge you bash the same.