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November 6, 2014 1:52 PM   Subscribe

YouTube Comments Reconstructions are gloomy, dramatic reenactments by British actors of YouTube comment wars (including spam) about topics as varied as Nelson Mandela's death, Soccer vs Football, sexual semantics or Lil' Kim vs Niki Minaj (by the UK comedy group Dead Parrot, featuring actors Eryl Lloyd Parry, Grahame Edwards and Anthony Sergeant) (NSFW audio).
posted by elgilito (13 comments total) 35 users marked this as a favorite
 
These are just fantastic. I love the tension they bring to this discussion of Harry Styles.
posted by biddeford at 2:26 PM on November 6, 2014 [2 favorites]


Lovely.
posted by janey47 at 2:46 PM on November 6, 2014


Brilliant!

Reminds me of April Winchell's (of Regretsy fame) Sock Puppet Theatre ("Puppets enact your flame wars and internet meltdowns").
posted by mon-ma-tron at 3:04 PM on November 6, 2014


Cool. I thought I'd go through and try to find the actual comments they used, so I looked at the One Direction video, but it's got over a million comments. I thought I'd seen large comment threads before, but that is really something else.
posted by rubber duck at 3:15 PM on November 6, 2014


Also, those Sprint ads with James Earl Jones and Malcolm Mcdowell.
posted by mon-ma-tron at 3:19 PM on November 6, 2014 [1 favorite]


Pretty sure I first saw these on Metafilter being as it's the only web zone that I click into. Nonetheless, I will use any excuse to watch them again.
posted by asok at 3:48 PM on November 6, 2014


Holy shit, this is fucking amazing.
posted by Saxon Kane at 4:11 PM on November 6, 2014


I knew this would be good. But... holy shit. The existence of YouTube comments is finally justified.
posted by absalom at 4:49 PM on November 6, 2014


Lord keep and preserve us if anyone ever gets around to doing this with MeFi comments.
posted by evidenceofabsence at 5:03 PM on November 6, 2014


Previously (in spirit).
posted by dhens at 5:08 PM on November 6, 2014 [1 favorite]


I was also going to post Adam Buxton. It's my favourite thing ever.
posted by EndsOfInvention at 12:37 AM on November 7, 2014 [1 favorite]


This is the funniest thing I've seen in a long time. Or, to put it another way, [British actor voice] "Your mama!" [/British actor voice]
posted by languagehat at 10:53 AM on November 7, 2014


When the one dude keeps merrily saying "lulz" I just lose it.
posted by ifjuly at 5:04 PM on November 8, 2014


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