This year I have enjoyed video parodies. My favorite is Weird Al Yankovic's "White and Nerdy." I discovered Weird Al's musical parodies when I was in college 20 years ago. When I first
saw his recent video "White and Nerdy," I laughed so hard I cried, my ribs hurt, I immediately had to watch it 3 more times to catch all the white and nerdy references. In case you haven't seen it, or want to again, here's the YouTube link:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=-xEzGIuY7kw
Another one I enjoyed was "Baby Got Book," created by Momentum Church, extols the virtues of oversized KJV Bibles, sung to the tune of a famous rap song, all tongue-in-cheek of course.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=tTYr3JuueF4
Yesterday someone sent A Homeschool Family parody link to one of my YahooGroups. Sung to the tune of "The Addams Family," it plays up many stereotypes of homeschoolers in a creative and professional looking video.
http://www.doublesharpevideo.com/HomeSchool2/Homeschool2.html
Being a white (somewhat nerdy) Christian homeschooler, I can relate to the stereotypes in each of these videos. All these parodies were created by the "type" of person being teased. In other words, we are laughing at ourselves, not being malicious towards others. This kind of laughter is good medicine.
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Can I just say...you and I share similar humor. I loved the Addams Family one very much. I had not seen that one.
Fun! I used to love to watch The Addams Family as a kid. Hope you had a great Christmas!
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