I spent all of yesterday absolutely convinced that I'd already written this post, and ended up forgetting to actually write it. Oops. Oh well.
While I was bored at the day job, I was browsing through a channel on YouTube that I've developed quite a fondness for. Said channel is called Dead Parrot, and is, from what I can determine, an official distribution source for a variety of excellent British comedy shows, including Peep Show, Black Books and The Peter Serafinowicz Show.
Dead Parrot has also done a bunch of original content, though, with seemingly their most well-known stuff being a short series called YouTube Comment Reconstructions. Here, arguments from YouTube comment sections are overdramatically acted out by a pair of very British actors in some beautifully directed pieces of black and white film.
I absolutely love these, because I'm a big fan of juxtaposition used as a comic device. The severity and the seriousness of the overall aesthetic and tone clashes wonderfully with the absolute absurdity of the arguments that are being made, and the fact that the scenes mostly consist of two middle-aged men reading out arguments that teenage girls made to one another in the heat of the moment just leads to absolutely delightful scenes of hilarity.
I love it. There's an example above; the whole playlist is here if you want a good giggle.
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