Parodying the Ridiculous

I've never watched Glen Beck's show (from which Beck will be "transition[ing] off later this year"), and now thanks to Jon Stewart, I don't have to!

I'd also managed to avoid watching the "Friday" music video by Rebecca Black that went viral earlier this year, but finally gave in after Hemant posted the "Sunday" parody video that was produced by a Christian church near him. I thought at first that the parody must be a really horrible knockoff of the original, but after watching at least a full minute of each of them (about as much as I could stand), I'd say they're equally bad. Would somebody please tell me why anybody needs Auto-Tune for a song with a range of about 4 notes? If you can't manage to sing that much on-key without electronic aids, please confine your performances to your own shower.

H/T to Ed Brayton at Dispatches From the Culture Wars and Hemant at Friendly Atheist