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“... (Internet) Media, usually humorous, which is copied and circulated online with slight adaptations, such as basic pictures, video templates, etc.”
- Wiktionary, 2025

Man giving a conference talk. Bald, plaid shirt, slightly overweight, old-ish, looks like a typical American programmer.

Purpose Not Pressure (tech) [2 mins video]

Guy being interviewed who looks a bit like Ben Elton in a white room, looks like a home study/office, with a bookshelf behind him with many leather bound books.

How To Bring In a Land Value Tax [2 mins video]

Two men one is wearing aviator sunglasses, a beanie hat, leather jacket, beard, the other is less urban looking, blonde and clean cut.

Hokey Cokey In Virtual Reality [2 mins video]

Bald guy sat at a microphone in front of a wooden table in techie office with men's toys on shelves (tech mostly). He's sat in a video gaming chair. In a room that is otherwise sparse and spacious with wooden floors

Steve Jobs rather hire coder who did comedy [2 mins video]

Stand up comedy club in virtual reality in a dark lounge with wooden walls

Pulling the plug [2 mins video]

Stand up comedy club in virtual reality in a dark lounge with wooden walls

The Moment UK Lost Eurovision (2023) [2 mins video]

Sean Walsh talks to Nigel Thomas and looks concerned. Paul Chowdhry is in the background. It looks like a post match football scene with sponsor logos on the wall behind. Only they are for Lidl.

Underground Comedy [2 mins video]

A man in a darkened conference room gives a talk standing to the side of a lectern. The wallpaper is brown-ish patterned hotel style (not expensive) the man's clothes are casual - slacks, short sleeve grey shirt. The video quality is not high definition, looks old (it's from 2012)

Virtually Funny [2 mins video]

A man in a darkened conference room gives a talk standing to the side of a lectern. The wallpaper is brown-ish patterned hotel style (not expensive) the man's clothes are casual - slacks, short sleeve grey shirt. The video quality is not high definition, looks old (it's from 2012)

Debugging The Right Way (tech) [2 mins video]

Title: React.js Documentary by HoneyPot, over blue tinted images of computer geeks like Dan Abromov (white, male, young)

Redux was actually about time travel (tech) [2 mins video]

Nev from the call centre chatting to and admin staff woman in an office

Some Will, Some Won't, So What, Next! [2 mins video]

Frankie Boyle and Bernie Sanders faces. Caption reads 'When Frankie Met Bernie'

Diseases of despair [2 mins video]

Zoom video call with many faces

Deal with the Devil [2 mins video]

Kevin and Perry in an Ibiza nightclub get puked on while Classical sad music plays Barber's Adagio for Strings

Classical Sad Music [2 mins video]

White bearded hipster guy giving a talk at a lectern. He is wearing a dark denim shirt buttoned up to the top geek chic style. The title is 'The Present Future Of User Interface Development'. A 3D graph looks like a mountain range but more curved like boobs. On boob is labelled 'Old methodology, local productivity maxima', the other bigger boob is labelled 'Adopt new methodology, temporary loss of productivity'

React or Angular (tech) [2 mins video]

Dan Abramov on Zoom call with another geeky looking guy

Should I use Redux? (tech) [2 mins video]

A load of musicians piss about in weightlessness seeing what they can do, with balls, hats and flips - to make a music video. The crew aren't impressed because there is no choreography. Then the musicians come back for a second iteration to make the film, now they know what they can do and what looks good.

Actually agile development [2 mins video]

Sandi Toksvig's advice: "stick em up on YouTube, I think I would make, er, you know, egg timer films, kind of 4 minute films and try and do some comedy in that time, and er, and er, make sure you just get the word out of what you are doing.

I don't think you necessarily have to wait on the big agents and the big producers any more. You can get out and do it yourself."

Sandi Toksvig's advice: "stick em up on YouTube... make, er, you know, egg timer films" [2 mins video]

He should try being a professional politician next.

Is it just me? Or does Boris Johnson increasingly look like he's doing a lot of work experience in case he loses his job?

Grace hopper on chat show Letterman (late night TV old footage) holds a piece of wire that demonstrates the maximum distance an electron can travel in a nanosecond.

Nanoseconds (tech) [2 mins video]

This lifestyle is inhumane [2 mins video]

Animated graph showing the world is actually getting richer and healthier since presented by Hans Rosling.

The world is actually getting better [2 mins video]

Tom Hanks in Saving Private Ryan - storming the beach in during D-Day spinning out in the chaos and stress.

How I feel when filling out questionnaires [2 mins video]

An upper class woman from Chelsea has a date with a working class man from London. They both enjoy each other's 'banter'.

Banter is classless [2 mins video]

Light bulb. Title reads: How many computer geeks does it take to change a light bulb? One, but I take days connecting it to the internet to save time flicking the switch. louiechristie.com © 2020

How many computer geeks does it take to change a light bulb?

Muppets sat on a Murphy space saver hideaway bed. It folds up with them in it.

Home working space saver bed [2 mins video]

Bill Hicks in a pub, old film footage

Bill Hicks on traditional families leaves producer speechless [2 mins video]

Woman in hat and winter clothes (looks like skiing type clothes) sits at a table in the snow, she looks unhappy.

How the Finnish are world happiest [2 mins video]

World map with red dots all over it. USA is particularly covered in red dots. Title over the map in big letters reads 'THIS WEEK IN VIROLOGY #673 WAKE UP AND SMELL THE PANDEMIC'

If you feel that face masks don't protect you... [2 mins video]

Alan Partridge taking a phone call while sitting on bed in a hotel bedroom. On the chest of draws in front of him is a portrait of David Hasselhoff

Wasting Your Life [2 mins video]

Bearded man (Louie Christie) in a bubble bath smirking. Text reads: 'I learned a valuable lesson today... Don’t eat baked beans, before a bath'

Valuable Lesson

Black and white photo of young Bob Monkhouse. Bob is holding a phone and grinning inanely

Bob Monkhouse's Joke Book [2 mins video]

Derren Brown with talking in a room with a bookcase behind him.

The Only Two Things You Control [2 mins video]

A woman and a man on a stage. A title overlay says 'Anne is the most kissed face of all time'

Resusci Annie The Musical [2 mins video]

A cube hessian storage box with post-it notes in corners. One says 'WIN WIN'

Time Management

Rowan Atikinson in a shit, tie and black trousers on a stage.

Best Man [2 mins video]

'Zippy' puppet from TV show Rainbow

Live video feed to Brexit negotiations [2 mins video]

A wave in the sea with something on it.

Crazy [2 mins video]

A man presenting a news type TV show with two guests on video link. Title reads 'TECH TALK - REMOTE WORKING'

Remote Working

Charlie Chaplain and a woman in a a bonnet walking down a long straight dusty country road.

😬 [2 mins video]

Joey from Friends TV show in a classroom sat casually on a desk at the front of a blackboard. Students are watching.

Thinking Acting [2 mins video]

Back to the future DeLorean car with characters played by Michael J. Fox, Elisabeth Shue and Christopher Lloyd sat in the front. Christopher Lloyd is dressed as mad professor 'Doc' Brown and is wearing a futuristic silver sunglasses visor.

Rules [2 mins video]

A buddhist monk in brown robes with a shaved head sits cross legged in front of flowers, and greenery

Flowers [2 mins video]

Originally: “I wanted to send a friend a funny video clip on WhatsApp with a decent preview image. This website sort of spiralled from there.”
- Louie Christie