videro, n. Nuevo Spanish for 'creator or wrangler of videos; one who videos.'

@Shawn Wolfe

Oh my god. I had never seen anything from Mr. Show before. That was pure, unfiltered Funny; I cried so hard I literally could not see.

It is a formula that, dissected, sounds hopelessly unfunny: guy crashes into wall of thimbles over and over to the exasperation of his audience. It's certainly doomed to be grist for the tired SNL mill.

Something pushes it beyond that fate, though, and I think you nailed it: it's his timing, his precise flailing straight into the wall, and the audacity to repeat the same shtick endlessly.

Truly brilliant. Thanks for the link.

@xadrian, I understand Krulwich is an acquired taste and, although his editing style was jarring and I was not sold at first, I have grown to love his stories. I perk up when I hear the overlapping dialogue and occasional interview bloopers woven into something wholly different from any other NPR news story.

Related to this piece on hallucinations and blindness, he recently did a story on deafness and auditory hallucination, "Hearing Things: When Sounds Come Unbidden"

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17818400

If you find that you like Krulwich's delivery and style in these smaller news pieces, he and Jad Abumrad do a wonderful show on WNYC called Radio Lab that is also available as a podcast.

http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/