Fiction

This is a familiar tale. A relatable one. One that involved you and the fellas going for a nice ride through the neighborhood, getting chased by a food cart cook, wheeling on over to a rooftop party and meeting a unicycle gang.

Told in 30-second chapters that look like real ads for fake products, this excellent short from writer/director Ben Callner examines love and advertising in a hilarious, touching and inventive way.

Orchestrating a social gathering is tough. All sorts of dynamics are at play, different sections intermingle, tempo changes and some people just do their thing solo. That's why a good party host not only brings the tunes, but also acts like a good conductor.

Think your boss is an equal opportunity feminist just because she said she is? Oh, honey…

SNL writers Brian McElhaney and Nick Kocher truly stumbled upon a universal quirk of the human experience with this hilarious sketch.

Doll, I got bad news for ya: All your friends are off at brunch posting Instagram stories without you.

"Jacob and the Giraffe" makes no sense. And yet, it also makes perfect sense. Come for the weirdness, stay for the incredible animation, twist ending and general visual storytelling excellence from Cool 3D World.

This brilliantly shot and edited short from writer/director Stephen Ohl honestly chronicles what it's like to have a rough night followed by a much rougher morning.

This comedy short from Comedy Central's One Take Movies squad will either make you want to rewatch "Ocean's 11" or go see your local improv troupe.

Welcome to heaven, Jack! Well, er, *sort of* welcome. You can't come in yet. In fact, you have to go somewhere else first…

The description of director Vincent Lynen's short purports that it's about "Macho's, guns, cars, motorcycles and hot girls." We think it's fair to say it's about slightly more than that.

Lizzie Rose's short film is a dark one. It's really dark. Like, "death in the first two minutes" dark. but it's also very funny and extremely touching.

In the past few years, the New York Times has gone out of its way to humanize Nazis and racists. How far away are they from doing the same to your standard message board jerk like Todd here? Hopefully we'll never find out.

AI-powered devices like Siri, Alexa and Google Home might be the future of technology. They might also be the end of the human race.

Deity of deadpan delivery Demetri Martin wrote, directed, produced and starred in this excellent how-to about extracting the Earth's precious resources to from our pesky surrounding environment.

We know it's a parody, but CollegeHumor's take on what's going through the MoviePass CEO's head right now rings weirdly true.

Hopeless romantic and super inventor Ed uses a "nonlinear, existential reformation remote" to try to fall in love over and over again. James Kennedy really did it in this cleverly written and extremely well-produced short.

Brendan H. Banks' "TK630 – A Star Wars Fan Film" looks, sounds and feels like a real "Star Wars" film. It's also just as much fun.

This short film from writer/director Cleo Samoles-Little does a really great job of taking us back to being dirtball kids again.

As it turns out, if you're really good with a camera and have a cast of actors with incredible body control, you can animate in real life.