PickVidsBest Satire & parody Videos
The 362 Satire & parody videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 2 introductory, 6 intermediate, 354 for a general viewer, and 0 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a comedy piece. What they share is that the jokes rely on a shared background in this scene. Channels you will keep seeing include LastWeekTonight, The Onion, Saturday Night Live.
That Mitchell & Webb Look - Bronze Orientation
A That Mitchell and Webb Look sketch in which Stone Age workers are given an orientation about the arrival of bronze.
Silicon Valley S01E05 scrum scene
A short scene from Silicon Valley season 1 episode 5 satirizing scrum and agile meetings.
Medieval helpdesk with English subtitles
A classic Norwegian TV comedy sketch from NRK's show Oystein og jeg, subtitled in English, in which a monk calls a helpdesk to learn how to use a book instead of a scroll.
Weather: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
A Last Week Tonight segment on the tension between public and private weather forecasting, including NOAA data and AccuWeather's lobbying against free public weather data.
Expert Wasted Entire Life Studying Anteaters
A roughly three-minute Onion News Network satire in which a host consoles a severely depressed zoologist who spent his whole life studying anteaters.
American Psycho: Business Card Scene
The business card scene from the film American Psycho, in which executives compare increasingly refined business cards with escalating envy.
How to use the stairs
A short Los Alamos National Laboratory safety video on how to use stairs, including handrail advice in a music-video style.
Data uses most secure code ever Star Trek TNG (Blu Ray HD)
A short Star Trek TNG clip from 'Brothers' in which Data uses a lockout code with an unusually long, secret-sounding sequence.
Turbo Encabulator
A short comedy video of the Turbo Encabulator, a piece of technobabble nonsense describing an imaginary machine in deadpan engineering language.
Yes Minister explains the EEC (EU)
A short clip from the British sitcom Yes Minister in which Sir Humphrey cynically explains to Jim Hacker why European nations joined the common market.
Both Sides - SMBC Theater
An SMBC Theater sketch in which JP Nickel presents 'both sides' on every issue, satirizing false balance in news coverage.
Spiders On Drugs
A short spoof of a nature documentary shows spiders building webs after being given various drugs.
IDIOCRACY Opening Scene (2006) Mike Judge
The opening scene of the 2006 film Idiocracy, which explains in a short montage how average intelligence declines as less intelligent people have more children.
That Mitchell and Webb Look - Kill All The Poor
A short sketch from That Mitchell and Webb Look in which the characters cheerfully propose a drastically callous solution to poverty.
"What is my purpose?" Rick and Morty quote S01E09 Butter Robot
A short Rick and Morty clip in which a butter robot asks 'What is my purpose?' and is told 'You pass butter.'
Australia's Defence Policy Explained | Utopia
A short sketch from the Australian satirical series Utopia in which Jim and Rhonda seek Tony's help ahead of a major defence white paper, lampooning submarine and defence procurement policy.
Better off Ted - Jabberwocky Project
A clip from the sitcom Better Off Ted in which a team gives a presentation about the Jabberwocky Project without having anything to present.
Billionaire Holocaust
A one-minute clip from HBO's Silicon Valley in which Gavin Belson describes the supposed persecution of billionaires in modern America by comparing it to the Holocaust.
Monty Python - How To Do It
A one-minute Monty Python sketch, 'How to Do It', which tells viewers how to rid the world of all known diseases in a deliberately glib way.
South Park Underpants Gnomes Profit Plan
The South Park clip in which underpants gnomes explain their three-phase business plan: collect underpants, then a question mark, then profit.
Silicon Valley - "It's Apple Maps bad"
A short clip from HBO's Silicon Valley in which a focus group savages a product by calling it as bad as Apple Maps.
Ducks Go Quack, Chickens Say Cluck - Onion Talks - Ep. 3
An Onion Talks satire in which a faux animal behaviorist gives a pompous TED-style talk about ducks quacking and chickens clucking.
Silicon Valley - Gavin firing Nucleus
A short clip from HBO's Silicon Valley in which Gavin Belson fires the Nucleus team.
NCIS 2 IDIOTS 1 KEYBOARD
A one-minute NCIS scene in which two characters type on the same keyboard to fight off a hacker.