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Am Australian. I realise he's parodying an archetype, but question whether it needs (more) parodying. The sweary thing is one way to distinguish from the comp
by Jedd 7y ago
Am Australian. I realise he's parodying an archetype, but question whether it needs (more) parodying.
The sweary thing is one way to distinguish from the competition I suppose, but all my favourite comedians manage to amuse without regular obscenity, in part because they reserve it for when emphasis is needed. (I'm not prudish about swearing - I swear like a trooper at home - but I do seek more thoughtful / less cheap material from my comedians.)
I also note that he's adopted - though not as savagely as many - that favourite youtube technique of removing the full stops from the end of every sentence, leaving the whole monologue sounding like one long breathless sentence replete with visually jarring cuts. It's a horrendous editing technique. Evidently enough people can put up with it for it to remain popular, but I just quit any videos done in that style.
- samplatt 7y agoHe's leaning into the archetype, sure, but it's not a parody. People that know him are reporting that he's mostly "just like that", only now he's making videos. >leaving the whole monologue sounding like one long breathless sentence Unfortunately, the trend (piloted by South Park and cemented by Family Guy) of humorous media these days is to have as many jokes packed in as densely as possible and rely on the fast-fire rate to compensate for the weaker jokes. That's just what's popular these days.
- glangdale 7y agoCan confirm. I've met him, briefly - he's not quite as 'full on' in person as when performing to a camera but it's not an act.
- Jedd 7y agoOh, I'm sure. I expect (hope) that IRL he takes a breath between sentences, and while I've met people who manage to have a swear:meaning word ratio of 1:10 or higher ... I expect he's actually much more thoughtful in person, as he's clearly a smart guy. But I wasn't trying to assert otherwise in my earlier comment.
- jansan 7y agoHe reminds me a lot of the guy in this legendary interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAXp58W9aEE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAXp58W9aEE I guess some Australians are just like that, love it.
- BigJono 7y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KavEoHGiU5I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KavEoHGiU5I This is my favourite one.
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- DonCopal 7y ago> youtube technique It's called "supercuts".
- Jedd 7y agoI thought supercut[0] referred to an editing style of taking clips from different media, but with the same theme or meta-content, and string them together. The style is discussed around the web (mostly annoyed people asking why other people do it). It seems to be called a jumpcut[1] though the definition for that doesn't really match what we're talking about. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercut https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercut [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jump_cut https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jump_cut