by Aden Renkai, via Political Wire (thanks Teresa Nielsen Hayden!).

Gabriel Delahaye (of Gabe and Max fame, as seen on Boing Boing tv) has a post up on videogum citing ten great light saber mashups found floating around on the internet.

The Star Wars kid has gotten a lot of shit over the years, mainly because he’s not a professional. He simply didn’t have the training necessary to pull off that fight sequence. On the other hand, there are lots of professionals who do have the training and simply lack the means to wield it. I’m talking about people like Aragorn, Captain Jack Sparrow, and Westley. If somehow you could only put a lightsaber in these fearsome warriors hands…Ugh, blogging. What am I even talking about? Let’s just be ourselves, you guys. I found a bunch of clips on YouTube where people took fight sequences from other movies and overlaid lightsabers on top of them using magic, and they are hilarious, and you’re gonna love it.

Link. #1 is awesome, but I don’t want to spoil it for you.

The funnyhunters at Nerve have compiled a list of the 50 greatest commercial parody videos of all time. Above, the ecstasy egg. I could not agree more with their number one choice.

Previously: Fifty greatest comedy sketches of all time