Two Gigabytes of IPod For You Today?

This trippy video depicting a world that revolves around iPods was written by David Wellington and Adrian Peters, a pair of British web humorists known as Mantlepies.

They were asked to rewrite and redub an earlier sketch – and several others – for comedian Armando Iannucci's end-of-year special: "2004: The Stupid Version."

Iannucci explains:

"2004: The Stupid Version, which goes out on BBC THREE, New Year's Eve. Its starting point is taking all the footage from the year and re-editing and re-voicing it to make it become something completely different.

What's been really heartening about making it was discovering lots of creative and funny people who do this sort of thing for a laugh, but in their homes or during the night in posh commercial editing suites. They then normally send these sorts of things out as virals on the internet.

What I wanted to do was bring some of them together and say to them, look, now you've got all the BBC's resources at your disposal. If you need help, we'll provide it. Don't change what you do, just aim higher. And they did. I've always fiddled about with videotape anyway, so the programme was also an opportunity to get a few more of those jokes off my chest as well."

Iannucci is a Glaswegian-Italian comedy writer, director and producer. The Sunday Times described his work as, "Quite simply the funniest programmes to grace the airwaves in the 1990s."

(Via Gizmodo)