Looking for the next great breakout web series? It may very well be YouTube Comment Reconstruction. The recent brainchild of English comedy troupe Dead Parrot uses terrible YouTube comments as its fodder, and it is a real gem.
The first YouTube Comment Reconstruction takes an argument between two One Direction fans and turns it into high theatre, with two actors reciting the dialogue across a candlelit dining table. The mood, setting, and black-and-white color scheme feel like Masterpiece Theater, but the source material screams ‘tween girls who spend too much time on the Internet’. The result is something really special.
YouTube Comment Reconstruction feels similar in many ways to 2013’s biggest breakout web series hit, Convos With My 2 Year Old; like that series, it is short, easily-digestible, and based around a simple bait-and-switch gimmick. In both cases, the scripts write themselves, but the actors bring things to a higher level with their wonderful comedic performances.
Dead Parrot are also adding to the growing ‘dramatic rendition’ drama.
This Dramatic Reading Of A YouTube Comment Flame War Is Brilliant
Looking for the next great breakout web series? It may very well be YouTube Comment Reconstruction. The recent brainchild of English comedy troupe Dead Parrot uses terrible YouTube comments as its fodder, and it is a real gem.
The first YouTube Comment Reconstruction takes an argument between two One Direction fans and turns it into high theatre, with two actors reciting the dialogue across a candlelit dining table. The mood, setting, and black-and-white color scheme feel like Masterpiece Theater, but the source material screams ‘tween girls who spend too much time on the Internet’. The result is something really special.
YouTube Comment Reconstruction feels similar in many ways to 2013’s biggest breakout web series hit, Convos With My 2 Year Old; like that series, it is short, easily-digestible, and based around a simple bait-and-switch gimmick. In both cases, the scripts write themselves, but the actors bring things to a higher level with their wonderful comedic performances.
Dead Parrot are also adding to the growing ‘dramatic rendition’ drama.