Picnicface keep it real

Picnicface are a group of young Canadian stand-up comedians who produce a wild variety of short on-line sketches that mostly seem to satirise the daftest and glibbest aspects of North American youth culture. For instance, the enthusiasm for high calorie energy drinks is lampooned in Powerthirst whilst the dreary idea of "Keepin' it real" is revealed as being as hollow, aggressive and wilfully ignorant as present day notions of "Respek". Much of what the boys and girls from Picnicface do has already been covered, far less elliptically, by comedians such as Chris Rock and David Chapelle, but it is their surreal Canadian take on these themes that makes them interesting to watch. I am also fairly certain that it won't be long before we see at least a couple of their number performing in more mainstream media. You can watch their material and read about them here.