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Aurelia St Clair: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet) | Comedy


I grew up in a strict, religious household without an internet connection or TV. My BFF in year 6 was shocked when I admitted I didn’t know what YouTube was and took it upon herself to introduce me to her favourite home video fail compilations. I’ve been consuming and sharing funny content online ever since, spending any minute I could sneaking time online by surfing the internet at libraries, internet cafes, friend’s home computers and finally on my own phone when I turned 16. So here are some of my favourite funny things I’ve ever seen on the internet.

1. Dear person that pisses me off

I discovered KrissyChula’s letter to a person who pissed her off via a NxWorries’ song titled Fkku, which samples it. Her cadence and delivery make a read about gathering scientists to product-develop every little thing to find a new and inventive way to whoop someone’s arse sound like poetry to me.

2. Key and Peele’s Mexican standoff

Key and Peele sketches are the reason I enrolled in an improv class when I first dipped my toe into standup comedy. It goes without saying that I binge-watched every season I could find online as soon as possible. In this sketch, two agents finally catch their suspect in a three-person standoff. The tables turn at every line, and stakes get impossibly high (you call this “heightening” in improv lingo I think?) My favourite line is, “I knew you knew I knew all along all along all along.”

3. Elsa says, spend your money!

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Elsa Majimbo’s trademark cackle, sunglasses, casual chip-snacking and chaotic shaky zoom-in filming technique gives me life every time.

4. The Rainbow Sponge lady

When I worked in an upscale suiting store, it wasn’t unusual for no one to come in for hours so my coworker and I would sometimes spend hours on YouTube. This is where I was introduced to the Rainbow Sponge lady. Watching her brings me almost as much joy as sponges bring her.

5. Buttery flaky crust

How good are bloopers? This couple’s dynamic is both relatable and familiar – the wife getting increasingly salty as the husband says “buttery flavoured crust” instead of “buttery flaky crust”, only to mess up the line when the director gives it to her.

Whenever my wife and I audition for a job with a self-tape, we say “baked in a buttery, flaky crust” as a warm-up when we inevitably mess up the lines ourselves.

6. WOW, you have a beard

Michael Henry is one of my favourite queer YouTubers. His channel is both educational and hilarious. I want to be friends with him and every person in his videos.

7. Bomanizer: should women have Instagram?

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Increasingly affordable recording equipment means that we live in a world where every man and his dog have a podcast and an opinion about what women can and can’t do. Bomanizer is a master of parodying social media phenomena, reality TV and words that are in the zeitgeist, like “nuance”. Using rotten bananas for microphones, the shoe on Eden’s lap and deodorant in Bowman’s waistband make no sense – just like most men’s podcasts about what women should and shouldn’t do.

8. Tyler the Creator on the greatest cooking show of all time

Although they’re barely cooking, this has got to be my favourite cooking show of all time. When Mawrk AKA Tyler says, “Oh my god can you let me do what I need to do,” I felt that. Bonnie plays the role of the enthusiastic cooking show host so well that it’s easy to feel bad for her – until you remember that the two are friends and the tension between them is fake.

9. Ghanaian movie posters

AFRICAN GAZE was an exhibition showcasing the weird and wonderful art form that is the Ghanaian movie poster. These are some of the best…

A THREAD

1/20 – Mrs Doubtfire pic.twitter.com/AyBwK4wnfP

— All The Right Movies (@ATRightMovies) May 17, 2023

Twitter has been a hellscape lately but the algorithm delivered when I came across this thread of Ghanaian movie posters the other day. Why is the Godfather poster so focused on the cat? How did they nail Tom Cruise’s face in Mission Impossible? Why do I want to purchase this as art for my apartment?

10. The Birkin Boyfriends

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When I first came across the @angelllboys TikTok channel I wasn’t sure whether it was all a parody or for real. To be honest, I still don’t know. The voiceovers are peppered with phrases like “glacially gliding” and “joyfully pirouetting” that sound like they’re trying to meet the word count on an assignment. The $1,300 pigeon bag is so camp and weird that I can’t help but watch them.

  • Aurelia St Clair is performing at Footscray Laughs in Footscray, Victoria on 16 June. You can listen to their podcast Non-Dairy Presenting on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and everywhere else you can find podcasts



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