VH1 Goes ‘Behind The Tweet’ In Ridiculous Mockumentary Web Series

Twitter, as it turns out, is not just a place where quipsters replace movie titles with goats. It’s also home to some shocking revelations. This is what we learn from Behind the Tweet, a ridiculous new VH1 web series that provides the stories behind celebrity tweets.

As its title suggests, Behind the Tweet is based off Behind the Music, which offers an in-depth look at the careers of famous musicians. Behind the Music‘s formula has sustained itself for more than 200 episodes, and as Behind the Tweet shows, it works for satire, too.

In each Behind the Tweet minisode, celebrities, commentators, and a deep-voiced narrator deliver overly serious remarks about silly tweets. The result is a wacky web series that provides a fair number of laughs. Want to know how a Key and Peele

sketch launched some charged race relations on Twitter? Behind the Tweet has the (mock) answer.

Behind the Tweet shouldn’t work for more than one hit, but the participating celebrities run with the joke and allow it to sustain itself across six episodes. Beyond Key and Peele, Behind the Tweet also examines the Twitter histories of Brooklyn Decker, Jack Antonoff, Hannibal Buress, Dominic Monaghan, and Michelle Williams. Kudos to all of them for bringing the right flavor of deadpan delivery to the job.