Humor
Engrish.com
Although some would smite me for laughing, the bad translations from Chinese to English and back again are enormously entertaining. Mistaken street and business signs, park notices, and the oft-wrong toy box or marketing can be confusing, nonsensical, or even provide some good innuendo. Any English speaker who has been in China (and sometimes other East Asian nations) will smile lovingly at the weekly postings on this web site; if you ask them, they may even pull out some pictures they took of “Chinglish” found during their stay. Daily postings make this a worthy site to bookmark.
Drunk History
I have to thank one of my professors, Dr. David Parker, for introducing me to Drunk History, a series of videos produced by Derek Waters, in which an intoxicated person is asked to recount an historic event or story. Blending live, costumed actors History-Channel-style with the drunk narrator, the stories unfold in their own convoluted and hysterical way. Famous actors like Jack Black and Danny McBride play the parts of well-known historical figures; the dialogue includes the nuances, curses, and hiccups of the drunk narrator, in all their glory. These are a testament to the accuracy of these types of situations– if you give someone a bottle of wine and then ask them about history, you may yield scarily similar results. Find the videos on Youtube.com.