Digital Comedics

Okay, sorry to disappoint, but I'm not going to put forth a new aesthetics for our new media. I just want to share a few funny videos with you that have to do with this particular topic.

This first one was brought to my attention by Teri Stolarz, one of my Interactive Rams (students in my Interactive Media class at Fordham University) This is an act called Captured By Robots, and it reminds me a bit of some of the animatronic attractions at Disney theme parks, and also of Mystery Science Theater 3000, the popular cable comedy/science fiction program from the 90s.



Now then, how about some good old fashioned stand-up comedy? Well, not all that old fashioned, because it's about the internet:



And now, back to the musical comedy, with this song about MySpace that one of my MySpace friends, Tracy G. Chapman, aka ~queenie~ brought to my attention. If you're not familiar with MySpace, you may not get all of the references, but it's still pretty amusing:



And there you have it, a bit of fun fun fun, for everyone.