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Arts, Comedy, Music & Film

Satire & parody

Satire & parody sits within Arts, Comedy, Music & Film. Watch for the relationship between a finished performance, its craft, and the cultural context around it. This selection contains 362 catalog videos from 262 distinct channels. The examples below offer specific entry points into the subject, with their own vocabulary and scope, rather than a prescribed sequence of lessons.

Recurring catalog topics include satire, parody, sketch comedy, humor, meme and the onion. These tags describe overlapping directions within the collection; an individual video may connect several of them. Recorded formats include comedy, commentary, demo, explainer, music, news, other and talk. Use those differences to choose between approaches to the subject and to compare how different contributors frame related questions.

“NaN Gates and Flip FLOPS”, listed under suckerpinch, is cataloged as demo. Tom Murphy (suckerpinch) presents a deliberately trollish computer architecture built on IEEE-754 floating point, using NaN and infinity to define logic gates. He builds working hardware around the idea.

“Nanobot (Havana Parody) | A Capella Science ft. Dorothy Andrusiak”, listed under acapellascience, is cataloged as music. A Capella Science parody of Camila Cabello's Havana, retold as a song about molecular machines and nanotechnology. It features animations of rotaxanes, catenanes and molecular switches, and comes with footnotes.

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