VIDEO: VW Super Bowl Ad Unveiled
The suspense is over, people. After countless days spent wondering what the recent Volkswagen Super Bowl teaser ad, featuring a load of pups yapping along to the Imperial March tune, meant, we have…
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The robot that needs the toilet
Remember when your kid sister would go through various dolls that boasted different human characteristics? Now, laughing and even crying we could understand but when she started playing with the one…
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When Politicians Try To Be Funny
Politicians, as a rule, are not a funny species. Oh, they do lots of inept things that make us, the ordinary Joes and Joannas of this world, laugh at them, but it’s rare when they crack a joke…
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Ferris Bueller Ad Revealed
If you happened to catch the Matthew Broderick/Ferris Bueller teaser ad last week and hoped beyond hope that it meant a sequel to one of the definitive Eighties motion pictures, then prepare to be…
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VIDEO: Ball Boy Takes Astounding Catch
Being a tennis ball boy (or girl) might look like a right doss, but you’ve got to have gazelle-like reactions. You snooze, you lose.
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VIDEO: Chinese Soldiers Pass The Grenade
What initiation ceremonies did you have to enjoy (endure?) at your work? Something suitably wacky and inane no doubt. Well, thank your lucky stars you’re not a recruit in the People’s…
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Channel 4 Mispronouncing The Simpsons
No matter how glamorous your job, every supermodel, Premier League footballer and Channel 4 continuity announcer has to instil some fun into their daily routine to stop it from becoming, well,…
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VIDEO: Snowbirding Crow
Crows are smart. More improbably, however – given their unfortunate association with teenagers who have a fixation with all things black and purple, yes, goths – they are also freaking…
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Apocalypse Later, Surf Now
In the pantheon of cool, surfers always rank highly. Their laid back insouciance a lesson to all of us not to take life so god damn seriously.
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VIDEO: Amazing goal from a header
While we might baulk at world records breaking for the longest nose hair or the biggest mangetout mosaic, we're quite happy to see this one make its way into the Guinness hall of fame.
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Own goal of the year?
The best own goals are the one ones scored with panache. With aplomb. With audacity.
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VIDEO: Spongebob goes nuts
SpongeBob SquarePants, or a man pretending to be Spongebob Squarepants (sources suggest it's more likely the latter) was detained by police outside Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.
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Spectacular open goal miss
Spare a thought for Greuther Fuerth midfielder Edgar Prib who has shot to YouTube infamy in Germany after a spectacular miss in front of an open goal.
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The human dolphin
Built by French water sports fan Franky Zapata, a new water-powered jetpack that straps to the wearers feet is being used for human-dolphin horseplay.
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Zip-Line Bulldog
All hail Kimbo Slice (no not him) the bulldog. He lives in Finca Bellavista, a Star Wars-esque tree village in Costa Rica. And this is how he gets about...
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Man Yells "Mashed Potatoes" After Tiger Tee
Let's not waste time trying to explain this one, eh?
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Dog jumps huge distances
Dogs in the olden days were ace. They were fighter pilots, train drivers, detectives; that kind of thing. Well, such is our rose-tinted view of the past.
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VIDEO: Worst promotional video ever
As well as being seen as a respected digital agency, Sapient are also really keen on letting us know that they're really, really, really cool.
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Caught on mic blunders
As the embarrassing details emerge from Sarkozy and Obama's Netanyahu rant, important types have been reminded to always be aware of the state of their microphone. To fully underline this point,…
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Chris Addison DVD Exclusive
It may have taken 16 years since his stand-up debut, but Chris Addison is finally releasing a live DVD under the original moniker of Chris Addison Live. Time takes its toll on a stand-up routine,…
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VIDEO: Man nearly saws off face during news
Anyone who's seen Final Destination will be aware that death is pretty much always an accident away.
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VIDEO: Kiev Bridge Climb Teens Hit YouTube
"Hey everyone, here's a fun fact." Chicken Kiev was introduced in Britain in 1976, by Marks & Spencer. It was a ready-made meal. And it tasted like bad things.
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VIDEO: Republican presidential candidate in…
Remember when we all got very excited about Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg because he looked down a camera lens for a bit, during the leader's debate?
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Tim Vine Exclusive Clip
Tim Vine splits the ShortList office. There are those that love him and those that are wrong. Find this funny? "I went into an Italian restaurant and ordered dessert and they gave me tiramisu…
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VIDEO: Man tries to use his feet as brakes
Ever had that horrible nightmare where you're driving and your brakes won't work? While in your head it might end in you going to your graduation with Huey Lewis and a giant flapjack with your…
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VIDEO: Dog terrified of Julia Roberts
Julia Roberts evokes a wide variety of mixed emotions in many people. Arousal, annoyance, exasperation, confusion, the list is almost infinite.
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Doc Brown Is Back To The Present
Today is a good day – and the beauty of that statement is that whatever day you read it, it will be a good day. Genius. But today really is a good day because one of the heroes from our youth…
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VIDEO: Amazing goal from a header
While we might baulk at world records breaking for the longest nose hair or the biggest mangetout mosaic, we're quite happy to see this one make its way into the Guinness hall of fame.
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VIDEO: Southern lights captured from space
There's a certain shade of green that's associated with otherworldly evil. You probably had a t-shirt of a similar shade back in the early 90s. We might have.
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