They say that imitation is the most sincere form of flattery. If that’s true, then Jerry O’Connell must simply adore Tom Cruise.  

Why? Because Jerry O’Connell has made a parody of the Tom Cruise: Scientologist video that we appreciate so much because it makes us feel a little bit saner by comparison.  

We were sort of hoping that some poor androgynous teenager would make a sobbing, overemotional plea for Tom Cruise to be left alone like that kid did for Britney Spears, but this works too.  

Jerry O’Connell. You don’t hear about him much these days unless he’s inexplicably marrying supermodels. To be honest, we haven’t really been fans of Jerry O’Connell ever since that colossal brilliance of a show, My Secret Identity. We were only ten when it came out, but really, can anyone else levitate themselves with cans on spray paint? Didn’t think so.  

By now everyone and their grandmother’s kittens knows about the Tom Cruise Scientology video that has given us so much heckling material that we are eternally indebted to Mr. Cruise and Scientology and the brilliant souls who released the video to mankind in the first place. The video has probably spurred record hits on wikipedia of people looking up what the devil SP’s stand for, and why Scientologists are superior to paramedics when it comes to car crashes.  

Anyway, to help commemorate the blissful inanity of the video, Jerry O’Connell made a video of his own in the form of a Tom Cruise spoof. It  can be found on Will Ferrell’s site funnyordie.com, which has brought us entertainment such as The Landlord, featuring a swearing toddler, and The Green Team.    

The video’s not the best thing in the world. In fact, Jerry O’Connell as a rule tends to annoy the living snot out of us, and we develop a strange desire to beat up fat boy scouts everytime we see him for some reason. However, the random inserts of raucous, modestly unsettling laughter and sentences that drone on into pointless voids of nothingness are quite enjoyable.  

So go ahead and check it out. We know you're only pretending to work, anyway.