A little flashback to see if he’ll repeat himself when he hosts again this year (with Alec Baldwin). Embedding disabled (nice use of social media, Academy!) so you’ll have to click through to YouTube to see it.

The statue joke at the beginning is referencing this, by the way.

Some of my favorite jokes here:

Please hold your applause until it’s for me.

Let’s see, how are we doing on time? Oh, we’ve got five hours.

The movies are too violent. I took a nine-year-old kid to see Gladiator and he cried through the entire thing. Maybe it was because he didn’t know who I was.

If you’re looking for an Oscars liveblog, may we recommend the one at Making the Movie.

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These might be from the same show… I don’t read Cyrillic.

Bonus flashback version:

Man, looks like there was some sweet tv hidden behind the Iron Curtain.

One enterprising young woman snowed in at the Pittsburgh airport recently decided to make the place her playground. Nothing particularly hilarious here, but thumbs up to the impulse. [via bb]

She’s not the only one who has made an airport goof-off video. Here’s some kids doing a salsa dance on a moving walkway…

Here’s some people playing football…

Sorry world readers, American football. Here’s a Nike commercial version of what a professional soccer team does when they have a long flight delay:
None of these are particularly good, but I think this really has potential as a genre of web video. People of the world who are stuck at airports, I throw a gauntlet at your feet! Let’s see some amazing airport goof-off videos.

The internet never ceases to amaze me:

You remember the Maxine Swaby song, right?

Well, never one to leave a bizarre found video alone, the internet instead has opted to create a mathematically-diabolical facing-mirror-world of “Pardon Me” tributes. It’s the sort of thing that makes you believe in evolution, if something so strange could emerge without a guiding hand…

Here was the original response…

ZOMG!

More from cyriak’s YouTube channel.

And the best rap battle between dead economists goes to…

For the bizarre story behind the making of this video, and the opinion of pop sensation Ke$ha of “Tik Tok” fame with regards to, check out NPR’s Planet Money podcast.

9AM Meeting is a “barely animated” series that has, at this time, four episodes. Here’s the first:

Amazing song constructed entirely from sounds in Terminator 2.

The same YouTube user, the unfortunately named Fagottron (unless he’s a gay guy named Ron who’s taking the slur back), also has a similar video for Disney/PIXAR’s Up.

“It looks like it will be one of those groundbreaking seasons that will make the rest of us want to go into hiding.”

The only self-defense video you’ll ever need to watch…

See also a fawning response video to the above.

Here’s a lost audition tape:

A young fan tries, or doesn’t try, to do an homage:

A cartoon version of the MTV shit how:

And more cartoonage of “The Situation” on CNN’s The Situation Room:

MTV responds to criticism: