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Each month, many funny videos are posted to every corner of the internet — from Twitter and Instagram to Vimeo and sometimes other weird places we’ll have trouble embedding. Because you’re busy living your life, you might miss some of these funny videos and feel left out when others bring them up in conversation. Well, worry not! We’re here to make sure you’re not listening in on conversations but leading them … as long as those conversations are about funny internet videos. Here, our favorite comedy shorts of the month.
Andrew Knox is a child selling a blow-up bouncy castle in this live character sketch. “This is one of the only homes on the market right now that has a weight limit,” he says. “But let’s be real: This is Los Angeles; every home has a weight limit.” Don’t lowball him, though, or he might accuse you of being a bad mom and an unserious buyer.
Barbie took America by storm this month, surpassing the already sky-high expectations for how thoroughly she would do so. All kinds of Barbies are represented onscreen in the film except for one. Thankfully, Jamie Linn Watson has picked up the slack and delivered us Barbie Who’s a Six, who comes from a suburb outside Boston and is “the first Barbie that can legally get a sunburn.”
When Ellen Haun realized she needed to book another job to qualify for SAG health insurance for the next year, she did what any enterprising actress would do: make a short film herself that depicted her realizing she needed to make a short film herself if she wants to be able to see a doctor. Created with her husband, Dru Johnston (whose short film The Runner we loved last year), “Ellen Needs Insurance” is sly and self-referential throughout but still finds a way to end on a sweet and earnest note.
James Austin Johnson’s Trump and Biden impressions are well-established fixtures in the culture at this point, but his Louis C.K. is equally indistinguishable from the genuine article. As always, the tiebreaking element is how accurately Johnson captures a subject’s capacity for non sequiturs. His monologue on the SAG strike could easily have a home in one of C.K.’s specials — specifically the later ones, when you’re often left wondering, Where is he going with this?
Not many character performers can claim to have a pitch-perfect impression of Old Hollywood character actor Lionel Barrymore in their Rolodex, but Andrew Farmer would still take the top spot even if they did. In this video, he establishes chumminess between Barrymore’s character from It’s a Wonderful Life and the AMPTP (which would almost certainly want to close the old Bailey Building & Loan).
This is maybe the best-acted comedy video of all time. Well, who knows? Maybe. But reflexive and wholly unresearched hyperbole aside, the ride these two take us on is well worth a watch. Somewhere Judd Apatow is applauding.
Inessa Frantowski, who has deep roots in Canada’s venerable comedy scene, has also long been an underrated fixture in the L.A. comedy world. That’s starting to change, and this video is proof of her unique brand of in-your-face, absurdist funny.
In 2021, journeyman comedian Johnson burst on the scene with what was — and probably still is — the most accurate Trump impersonation out there. Unsurprisingly, Lorne Michaels scooped him up at SNL, and now it’s a rare treat to see him impersonating 45 outside the realm of Studio 8H. The writers strike and summer vacay has meant SNL is on hiatus and, thus, Johnson’s got free time to be on tour, where he’s able to pace parking lots and ramble unsupervised … much like Trump himself!
From Family Guy writer Evan Waite comes a very important, highbrow contribution about those helping the WGA members in their strike for fair pay. No, it’s actually about baristas letting writers poop while picketing, but we promise you’ll love it.
There’s no better Denzel impersonator in town, or probably the galaxy, than comedian C. King. Many have tried; few have come close. And while King’s Instagram is stocked with “Denzel” speaking on various topics — and even reading the Law & Order: SVU series intro in one edition — this prayer setup is one of our absolute favorites.
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Luke Kelly-Clyne is a co-head of HartBeat Independent and a watcher of many web videos. Send him yours at @LKellyClyne.
Graham Techler has contributed writing to The New Yorker and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. Send him your videos at @gr8h8m_t3chl3r.
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