With homework and research-assistanting once again forces in my life, I really need video to watch shorter than 3 1/2 hours. I tried Godfather 2, and it was good, but also long. These are much shorter options:

Anna Deavere Smith performing verbatim from her On the Road: A Search for American Character interview project:

And why the hell didn’t somebody tell me The Onion had launched a whole big video project? It seems really weird to me that a parody newspaper would all of a sudden have a staff of funny comedians doing news schtick, but I guess there’s no reason they can’t because they’re doing it. And it’s really well developed stuff, I think.

For instance:
‘Gays Too Precious To Risk In Combat,’ Says General

and
Al Qaeda Also Fed Up With Ground Zero Construction Delays