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Bill Burr Shows How to Make a Perfect Pie Crust From Scratch All While Still Being Bill Burr

December 11, 2015

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For those of you, and we know that many of you are out there, that want your cooking and baking shows more profanity laced and done by someone who isn’t maintaining a smile the whole time, look no further than this video of the one and only Bill Burr showing us all how to make a wonderful pie crust.

With travel videos and now baking videos, Burr could very well have his own lifestyle network or show if he wanted.

Just Don’t Give ‘Car Hugs’ as Demonstrated by Russell Mills

December 10, 2015

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When driving someone somewhere, the interaction where people part ways can often be tough given that you have to make the extra effort from your seated position in the car.

In short, don’t try to hug someone in a car. It’s always weird. Just give some less meaningful gesture because, well, we’re all alone in the universe anyway, right?

Also, Russell Mills shows you the physical aspects of why you should avoid ‘car hugs’

David Rees Shows Trevor Noah How to Pet a Dog

November 20, 2015

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David Rees gave Trevor Noah, The Daily Show, and, really, all of us a taste of how great Going Deep with David Rees is by demonstrating to Trevor how exactly to pet a dog.

As well as being entertained by Rees’ paper mache dog, we’re guessing that you’ll learn something as well.

Enjoy a Better Halloween with Tips From Conan’s Bill Tull, Stephen Colbert, and Dan Harmon

October 31, 2015

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Though the Christmas ads popping up before web videos might say otherwise, it is indeed Halloween.

Thus, you’re probably getting your costumes, decorations, etc. ready for tonight. Before you get too into preparations, perhaps you should take some tips from some of comedy’s best and brightest.

Conan O’Brien’s prop master Bill Tull has some budget costume tips.

Stephen Colbert has a quick how to guide on how to carve jack-o-lanterns.

Also, Dan Harmon has advice to specifically dress like Dan Harmon if that’s something you’d be into.

While you might not have the scariest Halloween, you’ll have plenty of fun doing all of the above, screwing up pumpkins and costumes for cheap.

Megan Amram Attempts to Make Naked Eggs and Learn About Black Holes

September 1, 2015

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The latest episode of Experimenting with Megan Amram on Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls shows us all a thing or two about the actual science behind and all around black holes thanks to Dr. Chiara Mingarelli coupled with Megan Amram’s tie-ins to keep science “sexy”.

Megan also tries to make naked eggs with acrylic nails on.

So, please give it a watch, enjoy, and learn here.

There’s a New Henry’s Kitchen and We All Can Learn How To Make Turkey Scotch Eggs, Sort Of

August 19, 2015

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One of our all time favorite web series is Henry Phillips’ Henry’s Kitchen where Henry really tries to cook things and well, comes out with something.

After a long time waiting, there’s a brand new episode where Henry really tries to both learn and show us how to make Scotch Eggs with some sort of success.

“The Bob’s Burgers Burger Book” Cookbook Set for Mar. 2016 Release

August 16, 2015

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In case you thought we were kidding about a real life cookbook for all the burgers featured on Bob’s Burgers, there’s undeniable proof that we’re not.

The collaboration between Cole Bowden who ran a blog, The Bob’s Burgers Experiment, about fixing up the real life counterparts those burgers and series creator Loren Bouchard has amounted to this real book, The Bob’s Burgers Burger Book: Real Recipes for Joke Burgers, that’s coming out Mar. 22nd.

You can and should pre-order your copy here.

Learn Actual Vegan and Other Special Diet Recipes While Getting Darkly Satiric on “Cooking for Vegans and Other Horrible People”

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It would be pretty great if stuff like this was on The Food Network, TLC, or The Cooking Channel.

Cooking For Vegans and Other Horrible People takes cooking for people that have special restrictions with their diets and puts a sharp, satiric edge on it at every angle. Host Rachel Staman also teaches actual recipes, which look kind of appetizing.

Per the description of the web series, “Join Rachel Staman as she cooks for Vegans and Other Horri – nice, horribly nice wonderful people who have no reason to come after us for any reason.”

In the three episodes thus far, Staman cooks for vegans, pregnant women, and ISIS, which, before you get heated about the idea of those three groups being lumped together, you should just watch it first.

If you’re missing the absurd side of cooking as it’s been awhile since a new Henry’s Kitchen has popped up, Cooking For Vegans and Other Horrible People should fix that right up.

PBS Digital Orders “You’re Doing It Wrong” Science Series Hosted by The Sklar Brothers

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We’ll gladly learn what we are doing wrong our everyday lives and how we can make it better, especially if the lessons are coming The Sklar Brothers.

The wonderful Sklar Brothers will be doing 20 episodes of “You’re Doing It Wrong” on PBS Digital that investigates everyday activities and how most of us are just doing it, per the title, all wrong and taking it all for granted.

Perhaps, it’ll be PBS Digital’s version of National Geographic’s Going Deep With David Rees, but done Sklarbro style.

Fast Company Gives You a Heads Up On How You Come Off When Flirting at Work

February 3, 2015

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Business know-it-all Fast Company has a good idea of what flirting at work looks like in theory and what it looks like in actual practice.

So, as part of a web series based off misconceived notions of how you well you think you’re doing at the office, they’ve put together a handy guide for what you really sound and look like when attempting to lay down the charm, thick.

It’s like that expectations vs. reality scene in 500 Days of Summer except none of us are Joseph Gordon-Levitt or Zooey Deschanel.

Matt Ingebretson Knows The Right Way to Bury a Body in the Woods

December 15, 2014

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Forget every true crime docu-series or show, podcast, etc. you’ve watched or listened to.

Matt Ingebretson along with Pat Bishop know how you should bury a body in the woods. Just watch it here and takes note very carefully.

When Your Roommate Leaves For a Few Days, Dead Kevin Can’t Just Shake Hands Goodbye

November 26, 2014

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When roommates go out of town for a few days, it’s hard to simply say goodbye, or shake hands, or even hug. You live with them and there’s some sort of weird bond, usually, unless you happen to hate each other to each other’s core.

So, Dead Kevin shows how they say goodbye to a roommate leaving for only a few days and maybe you can follow their model, that is if you’re agile enough.

Rachel Bloom Introduces The Latest Dance Craze, The OCDance

October 3, 2014

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Rachel Bloom, who has a pilot in the works at Showtime, has a dance that will not only become the dance to learn, but one that reaches out to those afflicted by crippling Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.

It’s called the OCDance. Watch it here and now and over and over and over until everything is set right.

Conan’s Prop Master Bill Tull Gives His Summer Fun Budget Tips

August 13, 2014

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Bill Tull, the prop master on Conan, has always been handy with budget saving tips no matter what time of year it is. Whether it be Cinco De Mayo, St. Patrick’s Day, the 4th of July, the holiday season, Tull knows how to get you a relative equivalent of what you need to celebrate adequately (emphasis on “relative”).

Now, Tull shares his tips for this Summer.

Matt Ingebretson Teaches You To Do The “Classic” Bait & Switch Card Trick

August 11, 2014

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If you’re looking for a fun party trick or something to impress your friends, look no further than comedian (and not magician) Matt Ingebretson’s bait and switch card trick.

In this video, you’ll learn how to master a very easy card trick that doesn’t even require sleight of hand. You will however have to completely commit to the trick no matter what happens.

Inside Amy Schumer Presents My Dream Breakup

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While you’re waiting for new episodes and sketches from Inside Amy Schumer that are due out next year, you can enjoy what a fantasy breakup with your boyfriend or girlfriend could be like if it was made into a TV show.

If you especially hate the person you’re with, you’d probably want My Dream Breakup.

“Going Deep with David Rees” Is Now on Hulu

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The undeniably fun exploration of how to do the tasks that we take for granted everyday in Going Deep with David Rees on The National Geographic Channel now has full length episodes on Hulu.

If you take the rest of the day to watch the 5 episodes currently up, don’t worry about not being productive as you’ll be learning plenty that you probably didn’t know before about holes, flipping a coin, and more.

Nathan For You Comes Up With a Way to Invite People to a Party That You Don’t Like But Feel Obligated To Invite Anyway

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The latest exploits of the ever enterprising Nathan Fielder involves an online invitation service, an annoying person that one would know too well, and Nathan’s go to Bill Gates impersonator.

If that’s not enticing enough, the plan to develop a service where you could send certain invites to people that, perhaps, you work with, but don’t like and it would go directly to their spam folder.

That’s pretty clever, but the “test party” that Nathan throws to see if the service works is even better because that Bill Gates impersonator is there.

Making Money Off YouTube Isn’t Exactly The Gold Rush You Might Think It Is

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Fast Company looked into the financial viability of being a YouTube star by interviewing actual YouTube stars to see how they make their living.

Hopefully, you won’t be surprised that it isn’t an overnight sensation and that getting a million hits on a video is far from getting a million dollars.

If anything, you should be prepared to do it for free for awhile and engage in a lot of partnering with sponsors/product placement/that thing John Oliver just talked about on Last Week Tonight, “native advertising”.

Lake Bell Helps Kid President Call a Girl

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Soul Pancake’s Kid President, now a show on The Hub Network, has a problem that a majority of the country is currently having: talking on the phone.

So, writer/director/actress Lake Bell has offered her help for the Kid POTUS while he calls a girl. It gets almost as tense as any movie where an adult president is in danger, but without the threat of the nation coming under attack. This is also more fun to watch.

How To Get Ready! (For Your Daily Grind at Your Unpaid Internship)

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UCB’s Lash shows you how to start your day off right, provided that your day is going to the emotional drain and constant sense of feeling ovewhelmed that an unpaid internship can be.

Langan Kingsley and these tips should make you be able to survive another day going to a 9-5 job that you’re doing completely for free.

You Are Missing Out If You’re Not Watching Going Deep with David Rees

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After watching a few clips, you’ll wish that there was a how-to show as funny and inventive as Going Deep with David Rees when you were growing up.

Then, and only then, you’d know how to properly dig a hole, having minerals in your water, tying your shoe, and more.

Going Deep with David Rees Premieres Tonight on The National Geographic Channel

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You thought you knew how to dig a hole or tie your shoe. Well, you don’t know how to do it to the degree that David Rees is going to show on his new show on National Geographic, Going Deep with David Rees.

He wrote a whole book and made a career out of sharpening pencils, so surely he will shows us what we don’t know about other things that we take for granted.

Going Deep premieres tonight on the National Geographic Channel at 10PM.

David Rees Is Going to Arm Wrestle in His Nat Geo Series ‘Going Deep’

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In just over two weeks, David Rees’ “how-to” series Going Deep is going to premiere on the National Geographic Channel.

On July 14th when the series premieres, Rees will be “going deep” into such things like arm wrestling just like in this promo.