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		<description><![CDATA[<p><div id="attachment_283157" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://observer.com/2012/12/the-best-comedy-videos-of-2012/shitnewyorkerssay/" rel="attachment wp-att-283157"><img class="size-medium wp-image-283157" alt="This is some funny sh*t (YouTube)" src="http://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/shitnewyorkerssay.jpg?w=300" width="300" height="240" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">This is some funny sh*t (YouTube)</p></div></p>
<p>Comedy, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. Also the ears of the beholder, unless you are a mime comedian, in which case please leave, we have no money for oxymorons.</p>
<p>That being said, these are the definitive funniest web videos of 2012, and we are 100% correct in our analysis. Don't even bother telling us we're wrong...we'll be too busy cracking up at the funniest videos to respond.<br />
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<strong>College Humor: Gay Men Will Marry Your Girlfriends</strong></p>
<p>Fair warning: Keep being bigoted, and see what happens. "We will go to the gym with her and then after we'll get Pinkberry as a reward. That sounds like a <em>great</em> time to us."</p>
<p><iframe src="http://www.collegehumor.com/e/6846855" height="338" width="600" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0"></iframe></p>
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<p><a href="http://www.collegehumor.com/videos/most-viewed/this-year">CollegeHumor's Favorite Funny Videos</a></p>
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<p><strong>The Onion Talks: "Compost-Fueled Cars: Wouldn't That Be Great?"</strong></p>
<p>This would be funnier if it wasn't exactly like half the ridiculous shit they really pull over at TED Talks.</p>
<p><span class='embed-youtube' style='text-align:center; display: block;'><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text/html' width='560' height='315' src='http://www.youtube.com/embed/DkGMY63FF3Q?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent' frameborder='0'></iframe></span><br />
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<p><strong>TED Talks: A TED speaker's worst nightmare</strong></p>
<p>See what we mean? (Though we're pretty sure we've seen this guy before in other comedy web videos...)</p>
<p><iframe src="http://embed.ted.com/talks/a_ted_speaker_s_worst_nightmare.html" height="315" width="560" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe><br />
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<p><strong><em>SNL</em>'s Unaired Weekend Update with Guy Fieri </strong></p>
<p>There is no reason in the world this shouldn't have made it to the live version.</p>
<p><div class='embed-hulu' style='text-align:center;'><iframe width='512' height='288' src='http://www.hulu.com/embed.html?eid=5matvy0kusnkboriu5jblw' frameborder='0' scrolling='no' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe></div><br />
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<p><strong>Sh*t New Yorkers Say</strong><br />
Eliot and Ilana Glazer gave us the best of those "Sh*t ____ Say" videos, by far. "I don't really leave Brooklyn on the weekends." "All I had to eat today was a bagel." "Urban Outfitters? Urban Outfitters."</p>
<p><span class='embed-youtube' style='text-align:center; display: block;'><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text/html' width='560' height='315' src='http://www.youtube.com/embed/yRvJylbSg7o?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent' frameborder='0'></iframe></span><br />
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<p><strong>Real Actors Read Yelp™: Therese Plummer</strong></p>
<p>These <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaSC7qVRL0w&amp;list=PL13EC1069BA2610A9">are all great</a>, make sure to check out the entire series.</p>
<p><span class='embed-youtube' style='text-align:center; display: block;'><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text/html' width='560' height='315' src='http://www.youtube.com/embed/aaSC7qVRL0w?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent' frameborder='0'></iframe></span><br />
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<p><strong>Funny or Die: Bane After Batman</strong><br />
This year's funniest super villain parody came from Chris Kattan, of all people.<br />
<iframe src="http://www.funnyordie.com/embed/714f131866" height="400" width="640" frameborder="0"></iframe></p>
<div style="text-align:left;font-size:x-small;margin-top:0;width:640px;"><a title="from Chris Kattan, PatB, manasewitsch, BoTown Sound, Funny Or Die, and millsfx" href="http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/714f131866/bane-after-batman">Bane After Batman with Chris Kattan</a> from <a href="http://www.funnyordie.com/chris_kattan">Chris Kattan</a> <iframe style="border: none; overflow: hidden; width: 90px; height: 21px; vertical-align: middle;" src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?app_id=138711277798&amp;href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.funnyordie.com%2Fvideos%2F714f131866%2Fbane-after-batman&amp;send=false&amp;layout=button_count&amp;width=150&amp;show_faces=false&amp;action=like&amp;height=21" height="240" width="320" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe></div>
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<p><strong>The Death and Return of Superman by Max Landis</strong></p>
<p>John Landis's son made an hour-long geek video about Superman, starring Elijah Wood, Mandy Moore, Morgan Krantz, and porn stars.</p>
<p><span class='embed-youtube' style='text-align:center; display: block;'><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text/html' width='560' height='315' src='http://www.youtube.com/embed/0PlwDbSYicM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent' frameborder='0'></iframe></span><br />
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<p><strong>Breaking Bad Thanksgiving! </strong></p>
<p>Out of all the TV show parodies, this one had the most spot-on impressions, so it wins.</p>
<p><span class='embed-youtube' style='text-align:center; display: block;'><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text/html' width='560' height='315' src='http://www.youtube.com/embed/1GnM8vwS-O0?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent' frameborder='0'></iframe></span><br />
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<strong>Lena Dunham For Obama on Voting First Time</strong></p>
<p>Shut up haters.</p>
<p><span class='embed-youtube' style='text-align:center; display: block;'><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text/html' width='560' height='315' src='http://www.youtube.com/embed/d3jzyKF6M7g?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent' frameborder='0'></iframe></span><br />
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<p><strong>The Awful Spider-Man Movie James Cameron Almost Made by Obsessive Pop Culture Disorder</strong></p>
<p>Cracked.com's Dan O'Brien takes us on a hellish journey of what could have been.</p>
<div>&lt;embed id=&quot;player&quot; width=&quot;500&quot; height=&quot;375&quot; type=&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash&quot; src=&quot;http://cdn-i.dmdentertainment.com/DMVideoPlayer/player.swf&quot; allowScriptAccess=&quot;always&quot; allowFullScreen=&quot;true&quot; flashVars=&quot;demand_enableJS=1&amp;demand_rvdisplaymode=2&amp;demand_page_url=http%3A//www.cracked.com/video_18435_the-awful-spider-man-movie</div>
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><div id="attachment_283157" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://observer.com/2012/12/the-best-comedy-videos-of-2012/shitnewyorkerssay/" rel="attachment wp-att-283157"><img class="size-medium wp-image-283157" alt="This is some funny sh*t (YouTube)" src="http://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/shitnewyorkerssay.jpg?w=300" width="300" height="240" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">This is some funny sh*t (YouTube)</p></div></p>
<p>Comedy, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. Also the ears of the beholder, unless you are a mime comedian, in which case please leave, we have no money for oxymorons.</p>
<p>That being said, these are the definitive funniest web videos of 2012, and we are 100% correct in our analysis. Don't even bother telling us we're wrong...we'll be too busy cracking up at the funniest videos to respond.<br />
<!--more--><br />
<br><br />
<strong>College Humor: Gay Men Will Marry Your Girlfriends</strong></p>
<p>Fair warning: Keep being bigoted, and see what happens. "We will go to the gym with her and then after we'll get Pinkberry as a reward. That sounds like a <em>great</em> time to us."</p>
<p><iframe src="http://www.collegehumor.com/e/6846855" height="338" width="600" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0"></iframe></p>
<div style="padding:5px 0;text-align:center;width:600px;">
<p><a href="http://www.collegehumor.com/videos/most-viewed/this-year">CollegeHumor's Favorite Funny Videos</a></p>
</div>
<p><!--nextpage--></p>
<p><strong>The Onion Talks: "Compost-Fueled Cars: Wouldn't That Be Great?"</strong></p>
<p>This would be funnier if it wasn't exactly like half the ridiculous shit they really pull over at TED Talks.</p>
<p><span class='embed-youtube' style='text-align:center; display: block;'><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text/html' width='560' height='315' src='http://www.youtube.com/embed/DkGMY63FF3Q?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent' frameborder='0'></iframe></span><br />
<!--nextpage--></p>
<p><strong>TED Talks: A TED speaker's worst nightmare</strong></p>
<p>See what we mean? (Though we're pretty sure we've seen this guy before in other comedy web videos...)</p>
<p><iframe src="http://embed.ted.com/talks/a_ted_speaker_s_worst_nightmare.html" height="315" width="560" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe><br />
<!--nextpage--></p>
<p><strong><em>SNL</em>'s Unaired Weekend Update with Guy Fieri </strong></p>
<p>There is no reason in the world this shouldn't have made it to the live version.</p>
<p><div class='embed-hulu' style='text-align:center;'><iframe width='512' height='288' src='http://www.hulu.com/embed.html?eid=5matvy0kusnkboriu5jblw' frameborder='0' scrolling='no' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe></div><br />
<!--nextpage--></p>
<p><strong>Sh*t New Yorkers Say</strong><br />
Eliot and Ilana Glazer gave us the best of those "Sh*t ____ Say" videos, by far. "I don't really leave Brooklyn on the weekends." "All I had to eat today was a bagel." "Urban Outfitters? Urban Outfitters."</p>
<p><span class='embed-youtube' style='text-align:center; display: block;'><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text/html' width='560' height='315' src='http://www.youtube.com/embed/yRvJylbSg7o?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent' frameborder='0'></iframe></span><br />
<!--nextpage--></p>
<p><strong>Real Actors Read Yelp™: Therese Plummer</strong></p>
<p>These <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaSC7qVRL0w&amp;list=PL13EC1069BA2610A9">are all great</a>, make sure to check out the entire series.</p>
<p><span class='embed-youtube' style='text-align:center; display: block;'><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text/html' width='560' height='315' src='http://www.youtube.com/embed/aaSC7qVRL0w?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent' frameborder='0'></iframe></span><br />
<!--nextpage--></p>
<p><strong>Funny or Die: Bane After Batman</strong><br />
This year's funniest super villain parody came from Chris Kattan, of all people.<br />
<iframe src="http://www.funnyordie.com/embed/714f131866" height="400" width="640" frameborder="0"></iframe></p>
<div style="text-align:left;font-size:x-small;margin-top:0;width:640px;"><a title="from Chris Kattan, PatB, manasewitsch, BoTown Sound, Funny Or Die, and millsfx" href="http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/714f131866/bane-after-batman">Bane After Batman with Chris Kattan</a> from <a href="http://www.funnyordie.com/chris_kattan">Chris Kattan</a> <iframe style="border: none; overflow: hidden; width: 90px; height: 21px; vertical-align: middle;" src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?app_id=138711277798&amp;href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.funnyordie.com%2Fvideos%2F714f131866%2Fbane-after-batman&amp;send=false&amp;layout=button_count&amp;width=150&amp;show_faces=false&amp;action=like&amp;height=21" height="240" width="320" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe></div>
<p><!--nextpage--></p>
<p><strong>The Death and Return of Superman by Max Landis</strong></p>
<p>John Landis's son made an hour-long geek video about Superman, starring Elijah Wood, Mandy Moore, Morgan Krantz, and porn stars.</p>
<p><span class='embed-youtube' style='text-align:center; display: block;'><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text/html' width='560' height='315' src='http://www.youtube.com/embed/0PlwDbSYicM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent' frameborder='0'></iframe></span><br />
<!--nextpage--></p>
<p><strong>Breaking Bad Thanksgiving! </strong></p>
<p>Out of all the TV show parodies, this one had the most spot-on impressions, so it wins.</p>
<p><span class='embed-youtube' style='text-align:center; display: block;'><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text/html' width='560' height='315' src='http://www.youtube.com/embed/1GnM8vwS-O0?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent' frameborder='0'></iframe></span><br />
<!--nextpage--><br />
<strong>Lena Dunham For Obama on Voting First Time</strong></p>
<p>Shut up haters.</p>
<p><span class='embed-youtube' style='text-align:center; display: block;'><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text/html' width='560' height='315' src='http://www.youtube.com/embed/d3jzyKF6M7g?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent' frameborder='0'></iframe></span><br />
<!--nextpage--></p>
<p><strong>The Awful Spider-Man Movie James Cameron Almost Made by Obsessive Pop Culture Disorder</strong></p>
<p>Cracked.com's Dan O'Brien takes us on a hellish journey of what could have been.</p>
<div>&lt;embed id=&quot;player&quot; width=&quot;500&quot; height=&quot;375&quot; type=&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash&quot; src=&quot;http://cdn-i.dmdentertainment.com/DMVideoPlayer/player.swf&quot; allowScriptAccess=&quot;always&quot; allowFullScreen=&quot;true&quot; flashVars=&quot;demand_enableJS=1&amp;demand_rvdisplaymode=2&amp;demand_page_url=http%3A//www.cracked.com/video_18435_the-awful-spider-man-movie</div>
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