Robin Williams (1951-) is an American comedian and comedy actor who often does impersonations of famous people and characters. During an interview on the talk show Ellen, Robin Williams spontaneously created a French version of Siri, the personal assistant that comes with the Apple iPhone 4s.
James Christensen was born in 1942 and raised in Culver City, California. He was classically trained in art techniques at UCLA and Brigham Young University. After graduating from art school, Christensen went on to teach art for two decades. Over the years he has produced many fine art paintings in oil paint, a medium that […]
Scrat is one of the characters from the Ice Age series of films from Blue Sky Studios and 20th Century Fox. The Scrat character is a scrawny squirrel with bulging eyes and a long nose. His adventures were first created as a sub-plot to the Ice Age films, providing an amusing sideline for the story. Scrat’s comedies […]
Mikaël Aguirre was born in France in 1981. Video games have had such an effect on Aguirre’s life that they have even influenced his art. Mikaël creates his video game paintings in digital imaging software like Adobe Photoshop and Corel Painter. These programs allow the artist to work at his own pace – there are no […]
“The Boy with Tape on his Face” is a character created and performed by New Zealand comic Sam Wills. Wills refers to this character simply as The Boy and is, like his character, quite silent about where his comedy ideas come from. The Boy with Tape on his Face employs what is known as prop […]
On March 30th 1995, Brian Lewis Saunders decided to draw a self-portrait every day. He now has thousands of portraits, all collected in hard cover notebooks. Some of these portraits were created while under the influence of a variety of drugs. The artist sought out different drugs with the intention of drawing a portrait of […]
Gabriel Iglesias is an American comedian whose stand-up comedy performances center on his personal experiences. His act includes a variety of accents, soto voices and funny sound effects made only with his mouth and a microphone. Iglesias doesn’t need props on stage to help him tell a story; between his miming actions and verbal descriptions […]
Mike Puncekar has an unusual hobby – he takes cheerful, cute characters from video games like Super Mario and from children’s TV series like Pokemon and transforms them to create humorously horrific parodies of the original characters. Puncekar isn’t just a hobbyist artist. He also takes commissions and has created art works for books, comics […]
This is not your average road trip – Nicki Bluhm and The Gramblers sing a cover of Bobby McFerrin’s classic “Don’t Worry Be Happy” while driving around in their car. No instruments or background music were used in the making of this video. The band creates a cover of this happy song with only their […]
A Bon Jovi fan at a Celtics game gets up and dances, exciting the crowd with his epic moves. The more involved he becomes with his dance, the more involved he becomes with the other sports fans around him, hugging random people, shaking hands in bro fashion with total strangers and encouraging others to sing […]