Parodies of Tom Cruise's babbling Scientology video are coming so fast we're approaching the Tom Cruise Video Singularity. Everyone's seen the brief Craig Ferguson parody and the Stephen Colbert joke, but comedian Eugene Mirman did a good long parody, as have several other pros and amateurs. There's one particularly creepy mashup comparing the language of Tom's rant to Hillary Clinton's nearly-tearful video from New Hampshire. Here's EVERY PARODY VIDEO [with new ones added!].
GUARANTEED FUNNY
Clinton and Cruise on the Campaign Trail: A mashup of Tom Cruise and Hillary Clinton's eerily similar viral videos. OMG Hillary is OT Level 8!
Craig Ferguson on CBS's Late Late Show: A series of unfortunate laughs.
Stephen Colbert vs. Xenu vs. Cruise: "This guy was like...psheeew!"
Eugene Mirman: Scientologist: "I'm tasting meatloaf. You know why? Because I want to."
Jerry O'Connell on Funny or Die: "They don't taunt me. Not in front of my face. But behind me, yes."
HONORABLE MENTIONS
Tom Cruise Scientology-Constipation Video: Cruise discusses how he stays regular.
Leaked Tape Parody: Terribly dry humor, with one good joke about gills.
Tom Cruise Scientology Video: "The line down the middle of the road? We came up with that."
Headzup: Only included for completeness; it's like Jib-Jab without the jokes.
MORE
Tom Cruise Is Gay: By Gawker's Richard Blakeley.
Serious Cat: Tom Cruise as a classic LOLcat.
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Comments
I'm not sure this is what Ray Kurzweil envisioned.
Maybe it's because I'm Canadian, but I think the 'terribly dry' one is the LOLest.
Until the last 20 seconds, when he just ruins his whole fucking gag.
Anon approves. ^_^ Keep up the good work.
Mine is better than all of those, stop hatin' Douglas!
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I'm looking forward to the boxed set
@Landor Sea: When Kurzweil wrote Machines in '99, computers were already considerably smarter than Cruise, and so Tom was disqualified from the vision. Then again, when Ray's contemporary Bobby Moog envisioned synths as being smarter than 1st year piano students, he did remark on Merv Griffin that "Tom Cruise is slightly dumber than a flutaphone".
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the best Tom Cat leaked Scientology video parody ever. The internet has come full circle with this.
@blakeley and @mandelion: Done and done.
@Flashman:
Tyler Perry doesn't make an appearance in the terribly dry video. Are you sure you're Canadian?
@Nick Douglas: Much Respek
@Nick Douglas: You fucking rock for covering this man. I loved your article last week on old meme and new meme.
4chan is a force that should be taken seriously. they are smart, they are organized, and they are more than just a group of net nerds who are bored (as other sites have implied). They have purpose beyond creating the best memes out there, as all the good ones come from 4chan or hit unbelievable popularity after 4chan embraces it. They aren't doing this because they are hackers on steriods or running around with exploding vans that only dog curtains can protect you from (fox news - you will forever have my love for being that fucking retarded); they're doing it because a corporation/cult masquerading as a religion if only for tax purposes believes they truly control everything to the point news organizations feared showing the leaked Cruise video to begin with. They've been clear they are for people believing what they want but having the free will to do so without fear of retribution.
Legitimate news organizations should not fear a movie star or his connections. A religious group/cult should not have that type of control over our "mainstream and unbiased" media. I believe this applies to any religion or belief system but to see networks tremble before a movie star over any critiques on his life was sad. Are they afraid he might not do interviews again or call Matt Lauer glib while destroying one of their couches? Total fucking pussies and I expect more of any organization claiming to be a "respectable" news source.
Instead of trying to act as if 4chan is a group hellbent on destroying the world, as the videos show otherwise because they are peacefully organized in every case at their demonstrations, or just a bunch of net bullies, I think they deserve credit for standing up without fear to the Church of Scientology. Without blogs yourself doing the same, bravo to you and Defamer, CoS would just keep getting away with the same shit and same bullying tactics.
It's time shit changed. Viva la revolution!
@mandelion: Woah, save a little for next time why don't you!
haha - sorry about that. I'm a wordy bitch at times and watching the main 3 networks shake like wimps at the fear of the almighty Cruise was beyond irritating.
I blame lolcats and Vicodin for that above!
that cat is gonna give me nightmares
@mandelion: That was pretty retarded. Are you seriously defending 4chan as a force for good? If by "good", you mean "furry porn", then sure...
4chan likely isn't "anonymous". "anonymous" likely isn't even "anonymous". tHey're all just Nick Denton.
Hey, you forgot Mickey Kaus on BloggingHeads!
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@Pope John Peeps II: Hey, no net forum is complete without someone on there who has some pedo connections or digs scat porn. It happens everywhere from religious forums to the dude who posted photos of himself raping his baby on LJ. No forum is perfect because people are far from perfect.
I'm saying that most of the time they find the newest web sensations before the rest of the world catches on, have turned in pedophiles to authorities (the dude in Canada they busted was a total win), and they are actually standing up to the lawyer machine that is the CoS.
@mandelion: You need to meet more people. IRL.
@Flashman: Unfortunately, I'm Canadian as well and the constipation one kills me.
Isn't there a video of Tom crying that we can add to the lineup?
The Colbert one was hilarious, especially because it just seemed to come out of nowhere and was dead on.
They took down every single video! I hate YouTube.
@skooch: They're all working for me.
According to Tom-Cat (Scientolgist extraordinary Psheeeew! Xenu at the accident, or as they say say'n u at the org say dent) Tom Cat probably feels he has conquered outer space, me-thinks he still has a long way to go before conquoring his own inner space!
You should add more videos of his rantings and organize them by chapter: Chapter 1 Matt Lauer episode; Chapter 2 Couch Jump...and so on.
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