If you're elderly and your kitchen catches on fire within 12 blocks of Paul F. Tompkins, don't bother calling 911. Send him an IM, and he'll take care of it.

Want your 15 minutes of fame? Then start a video blog, like this budding magician! Just remember to edit out bad scenes. For example, if your parents walk-in with a "little" announcement. Anyway, this video has been...

This Presidents' Day, hold onto your stovepipe hats for a truly shocking revelation: President Lincoln survived his assassination, and he's alive and well today! So claims C.W. Bingham, senior field researcher of the Lincoln...

No doubt by now you've seen the epoch-making clip of the local newsman getting a mouthful of bird poop. And you thought it ended right there. Turns out, the clip was just an outtake from a commercial for Frumondah soda, a new...

Your favorite white-coat-clad comedy eggheads are back with a new installment of "Comedy by the Numbers." This episode features a visit by comedy pantomimist Red Sandwich, who explores the seedy demimonde of the laughless....

Here's one from the crypt, reanimated for Halloween: "Mr. Show's" classic mini-doc on "monster parties." You know, those spooky shindigs described in corny novelty songs, where Dracula, Frankenstein, and the Wolfman get...

Those militantly unfunny aficionados of comedy, Professors Rudoren and Hoffman, are back with a new installment of Bob Odenkirk's "Comedy by the Numbers." This week's topic: pain and pain reactions. And who better to...

The dream team of Bob Odenkirk and McSweeney's present a new installment of the appropriately fidgety and off-kilter mini-series, "Comedy by the Numbers." In this episode, our pedantic hosts describe and demonstrate the...

Earnest, shambling would-be screenwriter Bob Odenkirk struggles mightily to get his movie made. But somehow he has to get through to rawhide-skinned, thick-headed... Bob Odenkirk, who channels a spaced-out Robert Evans-esque...

McSweeney's + Bob Odenkirk = Guaranteed quirky laughs. The team behind the lit-mag, and sketch-comedy king Odenkirk, are collaborating on a new SuperDeluxe series called Comedy by the Numbers. The first episode, about funny...

Derek offers a compelling hypothesis: if a girl at a party spends long enough in the bathroom, chances are she’s never coming back. Why? Dud, because she has “escaped.” Simon puts the theory to the test in this funny clip...

There's mystery in the "Derek and Simon" air: a weird old man sitting in the back of Derek's car, and a strange woman who lures Simon to a karaoke bar. The usual awkwardness ensues. But who are these people anyway? Bonus: a...

A buddy of Derek and Simon’s has a great new girlfriend who loves him, and cares about his health so much that she’s put him on a “regimen.” But nobody’s perfect--and neither is every regimen. This is tough love indeed.

In the latest episode from Bob Odenkirk’s series on SuperDelexe, Simon and his new girlfriend take their scene readings a little too seriously. So is she a brilliant actor, or maybe a little bit… crazy? The clip features...

If you dig humor as dry as a proper martini, check out this Bob Odenkirk appearance on Tom Green’s Internet show (who knew?) Not sure if Green “gets” Odenkirk, but at long last, someone has the stones to say that John Lennon...