Atsuko Okatsuka Is 'Bold Enough,' and This Month's Other Must-see Comedy Shorts

Photograph-Illustration: Vulture; Photos past Atsuko Okatsuka/Twitter, Large Grande/YouTube, Jack Bensinger/Twitter, FilmFreeway and NoBudge/YouTube

Each month, many funny videos are posted to every corner of the internet — from Twitter and Instagram to Vimeo and sometimes other weird places we'll have trouble embedding. Because y'all're decorated living your life, you might miss some of these funny videos and feel left out when others bring them upwardly in chat. Well, worry not! We're here to make sure y'all're not listening in on conversations but leading them … as long every bit those conversations are near funny cyberspace videos. Here, our favorite comedy shorts of the month.

Improv is rarely preserved for posterity in a form worth recommending, which is why we were so tickled by the recent series from Big Grande, the sketch-and-improv group comprising Dan Lippert, Drew Tarver, Ryan Rosenberg, and Jon Mackey. In "Live on Set," they up the stakes on single-location improv scenes by fully decking out the set and performers in hyperspecific decorations, so unleashing them onto the stage without telling them nearly any of information technology beforehand. Suffice it to say, it's a lot more to take in than a one-give-and-take suggestion.

The explosive stateside popularity of Old Enough! — a devastatingly adorable Japanese TV show that follows toddlers on their offset errand — produced a slew of parodies this calendar month. Our favorite featured Atsuko Okatsuka running errands for Arsenio Hall and was put together by such talents as Emily Maya Mills, Sara Schaefer, Brodie Reed, Subhah Agarwal, and others for the Netflix Is a Joke festival in Los Angeles. Can Atsuko complete her diverse comedy-related tasks without getting overwhelmed and having a breakdown?

They've got festival appearances and accolades (including, ahem, a Student Academy Award), and y'all still don't know Akanksha Cruczynski and Felicia Ferrara's names? Well, neither did we until we found this brusk, but it'south loftier time nosotros started recognizing them, and we hope you will, too. "Shut Ties to Home Country" is 1 of the almost beautifully directed, painfully funny additions in the history of this column. Stars are born, and nosotros ain't talkin' Gaga. (Scout it here.)

Ring in the summer with this new Adult Swim short from filmmaker Alan Resnick, which features (in improver to an excellent turn from Patti Harrison yelling at a befuddled Jared Larson) 1 of the nearly stunning sunsets you're likely to see in a comedy short this month. In fact, we'll become ahead and say it is the best sunset you're likely to see in a comedy short this month. In fact, we're going to become ahead and call information technology for the year.

This film from author and director Kate McCarthy is i of the almost heady nosotros've come beyond in a long time — a stylishly bloodshot coming-of-historic period comedy in the Todd Solondz–Wes Anderson mold that'due south bursting with color and idiosyncrasy. When a immature daughter (Mariana Carvajal) decides to audition to be the church building cantor at her high school, information technology has to exist the moment that turns her whole invisible life effectually, correct? Shout-out to Daniel Ferrell, who plays the sleaziest teenager since Trip Fontaine.

Nosotros've had this vocal in our heads since nosotros first discovered information technology about a month ago. The indefatigable Lisa Gilroy brings more oestrus this month, and the result is subtle, bright, and maddening. If your ears are hungry for more worms, she'south got what the md ordered. Just be warned: Gilroy does non accept earworm medicine. Please don't be mad at us … or her.

And the award for Cutest Short of the Year Shot in a Windy New York Metropolis Park goes to … Never Lamentable's Jed R. Feiman and Nehemiah Markos for their fake-out sketch turned proposal, in which Jed literally proposes to his now-fiancée, Abby Barr. She was holding the camera thinking she was just recording some bullshit and then her life changed. Mazel tov to the pair. Likewise: In that location'southward no honor for Cutest Short of the Yr Shot in a Windy New York City Park. Besides also, full disclosure: Luke, co-writer of this column, executive-produced a show on which Feiman and Markos were writers.

This one's for all the TikTok haters. Certain, it may have started as a weird dance app (however pretty cool), simply it has now morphed fully into a better version of Vine, with undeniably funny bits uniquely suited for abbreviated video. Have Trevor Wallace's imitation of a Disney bang-up, for instance, buttoned by the almost pitch-perfect, tonally spot-on Blink-182 reference anyone has e'er seen or heard.

Blake Rosier and Misty Sanderson will be SNL contenders if they continue collaborating — in that location'southward not much more than to it. Check out Blake's Instagram for more examples of why. Did someone say "nuanced grapheme performances"? We did.

"Hello! I'1000 out of my fucking mind," says an indoor fisherman (Jack Bensinger) to innovate himself in a NowThis parody that introduces a feature that could either salve Twitter or tear it apart for proficient. The innovation is red checkmarks, which confirm that a person is crazy (regardless of whether they are real or not). If you've e'er wanted to hear from a dude who thinks the Earth is a bowl, he finally has a platform that recognizes him for who he is.

Like what yous saw? Want to be on this monthly roundup? Show us your stuff!

Luke Kelly-Clyne is a co-head of HartBeat Contained and a watcher of many web videos. Send him yours at @LKellyClyne .

Graham Techler has contributed writing to The New Yorker and McSweeney'south Cyberspace Trend. Transport him your videos at @gr8h8m_t3chl3r .

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