Posts Tagged ‘Parody’

Rick Perry’s latest campaign ad, ‘Strong,’ is spreading like wild fire and not for the right reasons. It is being touted as one of the most disliked YouTube videos of all time and has sparked backlash not only via political blogs but also in the form of spoofs on YouTube and Tumblr.

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Editor in chief of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, stars in a parody of the well-known MasterCard commercials, which has gone viral over the last few days, in order to single out MasterCard, Visa, Bank of America, Paypal and Western Union for blocking donations to WikiLeaks.

Greenpeace is using Volkswagen’s viral hit ‘The Force’ against them in a new campaign outing VW for opposing cuts to CO2 emissions.

“It doesn’t matter if you love men or X-M-E-N…Just put your claws up, ‘cause baby you were born this way!” So begins the latest parody of Lady Gaga’s ‘Born This Way’, the X-Men version.

Volkswagen’s ‘The Force’ Super Bowl commercial, starring Little Darth Vader, was one of the most successful ad campaign of all time, garnering over 36 million YouTube views in three months. Now Marvel is capitalizing on VW’s success with a new parody campaign for their upcoming movie Thor, starring Little Thor.

Yesterday morning Weird Al Yankovic’s latest parody, of Lady Gaga’s ‘Born This Way’, hit YouTube with an interesting text intro: “The following song was supposed to be the first single from my upcoming album. Unfortunately, it did not receive Lady Gaga’s approval.”

Frat dudes everywhere, rejoice in the latest Social Network spoof–The Brocial Network!

Companies, brands and individuals have continued to spoof Old Spice’s ‘Man Your Man Could Smell Like’ into the ground. When is it going to end already?!

NY-based sketch comedians DeadPandaComedy have created a viral YouTube masterpiece – a parody of Travie McCoy’s viral hit ‘Billionaire’, with lyrics about viral videos stars and memes, shot in the viral one-shot, lip dub style.

It’s pretty impressive that Will Smith’s daughter Willow recorded the hit single ‘Whip My Hair’ at 10 years of age. But 7-year old rapper MattyB’s parody of her song is pretty impressive as well.