The History Behind Early Iconic Electric Guitar Solos

Noah Lefevre of Polyphonic looked at the history of the electric guitar and the legendary solos that subsequently followed. | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 1 year ago

Artist Turns People Into 2D Portraits by Painting Their Bodies With the Strategic Use of Shadows

60 Second Docs profiled Alexa Meade, an artist who transforms people into 2D portraits by painting their bodies. | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 1 year ago

How Names of Places Reveal the Location’s History

PBS' Otherwords digs into the vibrant etymological origins of toponyms (place names) behind different locations around the world. | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 1 year ago

How Each New York City Borough Was Named

Name Explain explained how each borough of New York City was named using simple, but clever animation to illustrate this colorful history. | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 1 year ago

Vocal Parakeet Activates Siri to Ask About Chickens

A parakeet named Kiw uttered the phrase "Hey Siri" while sitting on his human's iPhone and talked about parakeets and chickens. | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 1 year ago

Singer Performs Spooky Multi-Track Cover of ‘Monster Mash’ With His 10 Year Old Son

Jared Halley performed a multi-track cover of "Monster Mash" with his costumed 10 year old son Noah singing background and dancing. | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 1 year ago

Compassionate Man Rescues 17 Orphaned Kittens Bringing Them Home to Live With Him

A compassionate man in Istanbul came across 17 very hungry abandoned kittens and brought them home to live with him. | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 1 year ago

Sir Patrick Stewart Recites Star Trek’s ‘Space…The Final Frontier’ in a French Accent

Sir Patrick Stewart recited the "Star Trek" opening soliloquy "Space...The Final Frontier" in a French accent on the "Graham Norton Show". | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 1 year ago

John Mayer Skillfully Weaves the Grateful Dead Into His Own Songs During Solo Chicago Show

John Mayer skillfully worked Grateful Dead songs into his own material during an acoustic solo show in Chicago in October 2023. | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 1 year ago

How Ridley Scott’s Films Capture Hopeful Order During Elegant Chaos

How Ridley Scott's films capture hopeful order in a sea of elegant chaos over far swaths of time in the far ahead future and the distant past. | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 1 year ago

Hobbyist Showcases the Collection of Imaginative Art Cars That He’s Created Over The Years

Great Big Story visited Kanyaboyina Sudhakar, a hobbyist in India who builds the most creative art cars imaginable. | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 1 year ago

White Cat Comes to the Rescue of a Little Bullied Puppy

CCTV caught the amazing sight of a white cat leaping across the room to rescue a black puppy who was being bullied by an aggressive corgi. | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 1 year ago

An Attempt to Reconcile the Infinite Interdimensional Timelines in ‘Rick and Morty’

Adult Swim released a "Rick and Morty" mini-episode that tries to reconcile the timelines that were introduced over the past six seasons. | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 1 year ago

The Intricate Process Behind Rare ‘Dinosaur Egg’ Salt

Insider Food visited the Filipino family who keeps up the tradition of making asin tibuok, a rare salt known as "The Dinosaur Egg". | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 1 year ago

The Remarkable Cambridge Professor Who Learned to Speak at Age 11 and Read at Age 18

Great Big Story visited with Jason Arday who, despite not reading/writing until the age of 18, became a professor at Cambridge University. | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 1 year ago

An Explosive Popcorn Popper in Super Slow Motion

The Slow Mo Guys added explosives to a hand-cranked Chinese popcorn popper and captured the reaction in super slow motion. | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 1 year ago

Dog Who Thinks He’s a Cat Jumps Onto Counters Like His Feline Siblings

A rescued pit bull named Mako, who thinks he's a cat, jumps onto counters and other high surfaces just like his feline siblings. | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 1 year ago

Dolly Parton Sings Powerful Cover of the 4 Non Blondes Anthem ‘What’s Up?’ With Linda Perry

Dolly Parton performed a powerful cover of the 4 Non Blondes anthem "What's Up?" with songwriter Linda Perry on guitar and background vocals. | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 1 year ago

Mister Rogers Plays Toy Piano While Jamming in a Trio Featuring a Stumpf Fiddle and Guitar

In an episode of "Mister Rogers Neighborhood", Bob Rawsthorne jammed on a stumpf fiddle in a musical trio with Mister Rogers on toy piano. | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 1 year ago

Clever 2023 Idents For UK’s Channel 4

The 2023 Idents for UK's Channel 4 use the number 4 to open portals for viewers to virtually peek at what holds in store for the future. | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 1 year ago

The Vast Expansive World of Evolved Ants

PBS Eons looks at the vast world that ants have created for themselves through evolutionary advances that took place over millions of years. | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 1 year ago

Corgis Float Down Canal in Adorable Corgi Rafts

A corgi named Saki and a group of her corgi friends happily floated down down a a canal in adorable inflatable corgi rafts. | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 1 year ago

A Well Timed Mashup That Combines the Sound of a Dial-Up Modem Handshake With an Orchestra

Staybeam cleverly combined the sound of a dialup modem handshake with 1996 footage of Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducting an orchestra. | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 1 year ago

An Amusing Song About Shopping at a Grocery Store

Kate Micucci released an adorably amusing song about going shopping at the grocery store where she sings about what she's going to buy. | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 1 year ago

Elder Tabby Cat Sets Guinness Record for Loudest Purr

A beautiful elder tabby cat named Bella in Cambridgeshire, England set the Guinness World Record for loudest purr by a domestic cat. | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 1 year ago

Elegant Piano Covers of Classic Video Game Themes

German musician Gracia Pizzuto performs elegant covers of classic video themes on piano giving them a fuller sound. | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 1 year ago

Dedicated Woman Takes Care of Feral Cat Colony in the West Harlem Neighborhood of New York City

West Harlem resident Liz Waytkus takes care of the feral cat colony that lives on a vacant lot at 142nd Street and Riverside Drive. | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 1 year ago

A Helpful Sea Otter Gathers Cones to Bring to Her Human Who Is Cleaning the Pool

A dextrous little sea otter helpfully gathered colorful cones from the water and placed them on the side of the pool next to her human. | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 1 year ago

The Leaning Pole of Philadelphia

There's a post on a sidewalk in Philadelphia leaning at an angle that is painted to look like the famous Leaning Tower of Pisa. | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 1 year ago

An Amazing Machine That Unbends Twisted Rebar

JP Botelho cleverly constructed a machine that quickly unbends twisted or bent rebar into a straight line, making it ready to be used again. | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 1 year ago

Man Builds a Catio Treehouse for His Cats

Half-Asleep Chris built a nifty treehouse using a dug-out tree for a catio that he built for his beloved cats Ralph and Bella. | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 1 year ago

A Bouncy 1920s Jazz Cover of ‘Enjoy the Silence’ by Depeche Mode

Postmodern Jukebox and singer/clarinetist Chloe Feoranzo performed a bouncy 1920s jazz cover of the Depeche Mode song "Enjoy the Silence". | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 1 year ago

A Compilation Intros to the German Version of ‘The Muppet Show’ (1977-1982)

A compilation of the intros to "Die Muppet Show", the German-dubbed version of The Muppet Show which ran from 1977-1982. | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 1 year ago

A History of the Roland TR-808 Drum Machine Featuring Examples of 16 Legendary Beats

Captain Pikant dove into the percussive history of the Roland TR-808 drum machine with 16 examples of its wide influence across music. | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 1 year ago

A Compilation of 20th Century Moral Panic in the UK

The BBC Archive compiled decades of footage showing moral panic over new things that were perceived as a threat to the status quo. | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 1 year ago

An Amusing Website That Recites the Terms of Service For Instagram and TikTok As Lullabies

Legal Lullabies is an amusing website that reads aloud the respective terms of service for either Instagram or TikTok. | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 1 year ago

Clever Cat Tricks Unsuspecting Dog Into His Gated Pen

An orange tabby named Cheeto cleverly lured Larry the English mastiff into his gated pen, shut the door and escaped through the slats. | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 1 year ago

Cat Who Loves Swimming in Ocean Thinks He’s a Dog

A little orange tabby creamsicle cat named Marlin, who loves to go swimming in the ocean, thinks that he's more dog than cat. | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 1 year ago

Rare ROV Footage of a Tiny Ghostly ‘Casper’ Octopus

The ROV Hercules, encountered the ghostly sight of a tiny bioluminescent octopus floating around on the midnight zone sea floor. | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 1 year ago

Little Boy and Donkey Are the Best of Friends

A little boy named Gunnar and his beloved donkey Snickers are the very best of friends, doing everything together at the family farm. | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 1 year ago

An Amusing Compilation of David Byrne Practicing His Dance Moves for ‘Stop Making Sense’

An amusing compilation of David Byrne practicing his dance moves for the 1984 Talking Heads concert film Stop Making Sense. | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 1 year ago

A Rousing Acoustic Cover of Deep Purple’s ‘Highway Star’ on Four Guitars

The incredibly talented guitarists of 40 Fingers played a rousing acoustic cover of the classic Deep Purple anthem "Highway Star". | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 1 year ago

A Search for the Best Hot Dogs in New York City

Joe Avella of Insider's Food Wars took his British co-host Harry Kersh on a tour of New York City to find the best hot dogs. | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 1 year ago

Boys Are Speechless When They Come Home to Find That a Happy Puppy Has Just Joined Their Family

A pair of brothers came home from school to find a tail-wagging puppy sitting on the sofa waiting to meet them as a new family member. | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 1 year ago

An Island in Turkey Where Cats Outnumber Humans

The CATS AND KITTENS channel captured candid footage of the stray cats who live on Heybeliada, an island just off the coast of Istanbul. | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 1 year ago

The Sticky History of Super Glue

Simon Whistler of "Today I Found Out" looked back at how the amazing connective qualities of Super Glue were discovered almost by accident. | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 1 year ago

Platypus Builds a Cozy Burrow for Her New Baby

A platypus named Zoom builds a cozy, light-tight underground burrow for her new platypup in a clip from PBS' "Platypus Garden". | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 1 year ago

Musician Plays Popular Song Intros from 1963 to 2023

Milo Andreo smilingly played a measure from famous song intros from each year starting with 1963 and concluding with 2023. | Continue reading


@laughingsquid.com | 1 year ago