The Best Videos of the Week
Have you heard that video is a big thing over at Gawker Media? It's true, we watch and post a lot of videos each week. Here are some of the best videos of week, culled from an array of Gawker Media sites.
Madonna Would Like You to See Her Nipple (NSFW)
If you're one of the few people who has never seen Madonna's nipple, now's your chance. View »
Female Legislator Who Dared Say ‘Vagina' During Abortion Debate Banned From Speaking on House Floor
After offending Majority Floor Leader Jim Stamas by using the offensively medically accurate word "vagina" in an impassioned floor speech opposing Michigan's draconian new abortion law, State Representative Lisa Brown was banned indefinitely from speaking on the floor of the House of Representatives. View »
This is What It Looks Like to Lose Your Level 60 Diablo III Character Forever
Diablo III's hardcore mode is not for the weak-willed or the unfocused. It's not for the casual or the stoned. It's a winner-take-all, loser-take-it-on-the-chin setup where a single death kills your character forever, no matter how far you'd made it in the game. View »
Indians Closer Chris Perez Celebrated Earning His 20th Save By Projectile Vomiting All Over The Mound
Indians closer Chris Perez has been lights-out this season, and handcuffed St. Louis today in locking up a 4-1 Cleveland win. He did this, it seems, while suffering some degree of gastrointestinal distress-though given that he's done this before, maybe it's some kind of gross calling card. View »
Watch These Crazy Saudis Drift A Bus Full Of People In Traffic
Let's take a top heavy vehicle like a bus, and then go slide it around a busy highway. Let's make sure there are lots of people inside with no seatbelts. Let's leave the windows open. This is Hagwalah. View »
This transcendent time-lapse of New Zealand is a journey to Middle-earth
For his short film Aotearoa - a.k.a. the Māori name for New Zealand - photographer Nathan Kaso captured the Tolkienesque views of South Island. He explains of this video, "Locations include Queenstown, Arrowtown, Wanaka, Kinloch, Glenorchy, Fox Glacier, Mount Cook National Park, Twizel, Lindis Pass and Haast Pass." We're assuming the Nazgûl extended the momentary courtesy to stay out of the shot. View »
David Stern Asked Jim Rome "Have You Stopped Beating Your Wife Yet?" As Today's Interview Turned Ugly
The Jim Rome Show turned awkward today as NBA commissioner David Stern lashed out at the show's host for asking whether the league's draft lottery was fixed, asking at one point, "Have you stopped beating your wife yet?" View »
Triumph the Insult Comic Dog Unleashed on Infamously Rude Chicago Hot Dog Stand
The Wieners Circle in Chicago's Lincoln Park is well-known for good eats and bad attitudes. The infamous hot dog stand is world-famous for serving up its signature char-grilled cuisine with a heaping side of verbal abuse. View »
Fox's Gretchen Carlson Walks Off Set as Brodude Coworkers Crack Hilarious Sexist Jokes
You know what isn't hilarious? Boring-ass jokes that have been beaten to death, revived, and then beaten to death again, ad infinitum, over the course of decades. And it's extra not-hilarious when the joke teller thinks he's the funniest, most interesting, most spectacular orgasm of awesomeness to walk the face of the earth. So, it stands to reason that when Fox & Friends' Steve Doocy began cracking jokes about how ladies be ladying around, cohost Gretchen Carlson could stand to be around it. She walked off set, leaving Doocy to crack one more unfunny joke as a solo act. View »
Now This Is How You Start Out A Video Game
Kirk was like "yo Jason write me something for Kotaku Melodic" and I was like "yo okay." So immediately I went to YouTube and found the opening video to Suikoden II, aka the greatest intro to the greatest video game of all time. View »
The Best Ending To A National Kickball Tournament Match You'll Ever See
You're watching extra innings of a quarterfinals match at a national kickball tournament in Harrisburg, Pa., this past weekend. (Our sender-inner promises "it isn't as douchey as it sounds," and we'll agree. Kickball might be the sport of choice for children and hipsters, but it's still really, really fun.) View »
The Extremely Questionable Act Of Ramping Your Car
It's one thing to do make your car do jumps in your backyard or in a field. Making the thing leap when there are a bunch of cars around is another matter entirely. View »
Baby Tasting Root Beer Blows ‘Babies Tasting Lemons' Right Out of the Water
You're right, baby Noah. Root beer is super exciting. View »
You Must Watch This Hilarious Video Game Web Series
Over the past few weeks, the funny folks over at Dorkly have been running a great web series called Best Friends! Videogame Club. I won't waste your time with an in-depth description: all you need to know is that there are a bunch of best friends and they like to play video games together. View »
Russian Man Rescues Woman Pushed Onto Subway Tracks
CCTV footage from a St. Petersburg subway station shows passenger Yevgeny Borodin shoving a female employee onto the tracks. He is immediately punched in the face. The woman was rescued and he now faces jail time. Faith in humanity has been restored. View »
A Man Flying A Jetpack Showed Up To The Giants Game Last Night
Oh, Matt Cain threw a perfect game? Sorry, didn't notice. Was too busy having my head explode after seeing a secret agent fly around the Bay on his personal water-powered jetpack. This was the first inning. You knew it was going to be a special game.View »
Stephen Colbert's New Favorite Athlete Is Mitt Romney's Dressage Horse
With the news that a dressage horse co-owned by Ann Romney might be heading to the Olympics, Stephen Colbert has a new favorite sport. He's so committed to what is obviously America's new pastime that he's even whipped up an exciting new anthem which is sure to entice every Joe Sixpack out there. View »