Bad Lip Reading

Just when you thought the hardcore YouTubers couldn't come up with something new to do with audio/video mashups (see for example, Buffalaxing, etc) - check out Bad Lip Reading (BLR).

Recent political-themed work on Mitt Romney (below) and Michelle Bachmann are Comedy Central gold, while some older musical ones present equally wacky dubbing trickery.

Maybe a bit on the silly tip, but the production values are there.  One comment was that the sad thing about this is that it's actually really *good* lip reading.  haha.  Not sure how any of these didn't come up on the Cheese radar!

The President's Speech - Obama Comedy at Correspondents' Dinner

Obama took to the podium for a round of Presidential comedic stylings that are the norm for the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner.  A bit of multimedia came into play courtesy of 'State-Run Media Productions' -  a spoof movie trailer for a sequel to last year's The King's Speech.

It had other crazy moments too, such as none other than Donald Trump being in the audience!  Obama didn't hold back and took the opportunity to tear into him too!  Great stuff.

There were plenty of other good lines and moments.  Following Obama was headliner Seth Myers with some SNL Weekend Update punchlines.  There are more clips around YouTube if you look.  A relaxing fun end to a week that had madness about Birth Certificates as well as terrible storms in the south and on-going wars in the Middle East/Africa etc.

Jack Layton's Star Trek past: Where No NDP Leader Has Gone Before

A bit of local fare for a minute here, as this is too good to pass up.
Believe this originally goes back to some digging up by writers at Maclean's and the Toronto Star in 2009, this is a pic of none other than New Democratic Party Leader Jack Layton, in a Star Trek TNG costume of all things (and with hair, but that's another matter).  Circa 1991 Toronto, at a Star Trek convention.  Star Trek was SkyDome big!

NDP Leader Jack Layton, Star Trek Convention, Toronto,Canada 1991

His politician wife Olivia Chow even confirmed that this is not a photoshop job either.  Amazing.
Relevant, other than the funny geek Trek connection, in that Jack Layton is currently riding an election campaign wave in Canada to levels one could say no NDP Leader Has Gone Before.

This by no means indicates I or any of the contributors to YC! are voting NDP in the upcoming Canadian Federal Election.

Reagan RayGun OS 9-11 - The Daily Show Republican Supercomputer

As part of The Daily Show's slowly ramping up Election 2012 coverage - Indecision 2012 ... (600 days away? haha) -- Jon Stewart sat down with a potential Republican presidential candidate option: an IBM Watson inspired supercomputer called the RayGun OS 9-11.

What's that? It's not RayGun, it's REAGAN?  Ohhh... I, and many others, heard RAYGUN when the episode aired, and that worked just as well. haha

Either way, here it is:

"grew up the son of  a poor adding machine whose grandfather fought in Y2K"