The Morbid Allure of "Cringe" Content (ft. a History of Cringe Comedy)
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From cringe comedies to TH-cam's cringe compilations - why are we drawn to the awkward suffering of others? 🤡 I dive into the Cringe Kings of modern entertainment and the growing culture around this type of content online.
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Contrapoints' excellent video on "Cringe": • Cringe | ContraPoints 💖
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🕚TIMESTAMPS🕓:
0:00 - Intro
2:09 - A history of cringe humour
3:45 - Why do we cringe?
6:05 - The birth of the “cringe comedy”
6:47 - Curb Your Enthusiasm
8:40 - Da Ali G Show/Sacha Baron Cohen’s works
10:37 - The Office
11:58 - The character writing of “cringe comedies”
14:21 - Why are “cringe comedies” so funny?
17:58 - Ad break!
19:48 - Online cringe content
20:19 - “Cringe Pop”
21:22 - The consequences of “posting cringe”
24:29 - What constitutes “cringe content” online?
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Succession is ABSOLUTELY so good. There are so many moments where I feel so painfully bad for characters that I genuinely despise. Fuck.
@@wenting2457 YES OH MAN they have mastered this, and it shows how stellar the writing is.
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Roman, in particular, is such a piece of shit - but god damn did they make me feel for him in the second season. He started off being my most hated character and has grown into one of my favourites. 😂
Succession is worth watching for the score but you will stay for the characters and relationships.
@@Ashamedofmypast Ah yes, the score is ADDICTIVE. ❤️ But the way they craft the on-screen relationships, personalities and power dynamics truly make the show a masterpiece.
I get cringe responses feeling bad for the person or feeling annoyed by the stupidity, never do I laughed though… it’s just extremely painful/sad/annoying content to watch for me… thank you for the video now I at least know what others see in it because it was a mystery to me 😅. Also never knew what people saw in the office… I couldn’t watch it it was so bad xD.
The first clip feels like it came out of an animated adult comedy.
The way the woman sounds oml
Gotta love her 😂
No matter how many times I see a case of "Ma'am, this is a Wendy's" I'm still always unprepared for it. As if my mind insists that it shouldn't happen irl, despite being very true to life.
She kinda sounds like a Simpsons character
I just feel bad for that lady and wanted to cry when I saw that. It’s neither funny nor cringe to me it’s just sad…
It felt like a Parks and Rec bit.
The contrapoints video about this helped open my eyes, the way people document “lolcow’s” is so unhealthy
Especially with Chris Chan. Like I had no idea that the christorians GR00M3D a 13 year old boy. Like people always bring up all Chris Chan, but never the christorians.
I used to hate The Office during my middle school years, probably because I didn't want to acknowledge that I as a person was as cringe, if not more so than anything that happens in the show
Aw man it was actually therapeutic for me in my high school years - laughing at the awkwardness of those characters helped me develop a sense of humor for my own frequent social flubs back in the day, ahaha.
I actually didn't watch The Office until about seven years after it finished airing. I enjoyed it but it didn't hit me like Parks & Rec did.
@@katherinealvarez9216 I'm surprised more people aren't obsessed with Modern Family-if you're looking for a single-camera comedy that's hilarious, has great characters, provides plenty of memorable cringeworthy moments, and has a strong emotional aspect to it throughout, it's a great show to check out!
“Jessie slaughter” (Damien) is such a survivor of the early 2010’s internet, and the fact that their ab*ser’s crimes were turned into a glorified drama cycle in 2020 shows how far internet culture still has to go
The internet still has a far wat to go. If you look up the gamer from Mars' video about Jessie Slaughter (Damien), some of the comments are still blaming him.
If you haven't watched it, I'd highly recommend "Nathan for You" as a fantastic cringe comedy. It's probably closer to Borat or Ali G in that its cringe comes from the main character playing a version of himself and interacting with people who assume his sincerity.
Nathan for You is so incredibly underrated. It kills me everytime.
Agree. The very last episode of Nathan was incredible. I began watching it because I try to see stuff Tim Heidecker is involved in. "Check it out! with Dr. Steve Brule" for instance. For me the cringemaster is Neil Hamburger in the movie "Entertainment".
Nathan is funny as hell but I'd never want to meet him in real life
I’m already cringing from knowing what’s to come from only watching the intro ^_^
It occurs to me that there's also a form of (for lack of a better term) meta-cringe, where I end up cringing at someone who is cringing at someone, because the "cringer" is cringing over something totally mundane, fine, or age-appropriate, and is thus revealing themselves to be immature and deeply insecure. Cringing at young kids is "cringe." Cringing at people for being gay, trans, disabled, or for having a hobby you think is "nerdy" or eccentric is cringe.
I couldn't agree with this more. And the term "meta-cringe" is perfect, haha. In certain cases, who we point at and call "cringe" says a lot more about us than the person we deem as such.
Honestly, Peep Show is to me like the holy cow of cringe comedy. The secondhand embarrassment value of it is literally overwhelming (binge-watching is almost masochism imo) , augmented by the POV camera shots the show uses and the classic dryness of British humour. A peep show of the miserable ups and downs of two narcissistic, socially inept dudes (differently from Curb your Enthusiasm, the shown is written so that we initially emphatize with them but eventually realize what awful human beings they are... and we still can't get enough!) . A friend of mine actually quit watching cause he couldn't handle the cringe.
Sounds like something right up my alley 🤣 I few other commentors have recommended this one so I think it may be next up on my list of cringe comedies to binge.
@@ana-isabel Ohhh that's glorious. Can't wait to have a semblance of your reaction! Personally I had two watch the full series twice to get used to it and it still gets me irky at some points...
Peep Show is amazing! I'd also recommend Back, which is Mitchell and Webb in opposite roles to their Peep Show characters.
@@moeezS Didn't know they had another show, I'm def checking that one as well, thanks for the recc
Ana has a talent of making me interested in the most popular internet trends that are so popular that they usually repel me immediately.
22:32 4chan put a child in danger? I'm not surprised, but I am very angry.
0:46 I feel very sorry for this woman. Please tell me that she's okay now.
Yeah . I don't mind comedy that I'd cringe but I don't enjoy people laughing at those everyday people who are confused and not playing for laughs .
I wanted to be able to go up and take her to one side and just talk to her . 😔
@@edmundscycles1 lol okaaaaay
I like that the songs you named for cringe pop are what I was unironically into in middle school.
The Office is basically why my friends and I make the "Jim face" to each other whenever someone embarrasses themselves haha
In fact, my friends and I regularly bring up our old social media posts and videos when we were teenagers as our own cringe compilations and its always a fun time LOL
Another solid video Ana!
Thank you! :D Oh man, I do the exact same thing where I bring up old posts or messages my friends and I had sent to each other just to cringe and laugh at how dumb we used to sound... sadly I feel like I'm usually the only one entertained by it 😅
I could never put to words what Arcade Craniacs videos' category was until now, it is the zoomer reboot of cinge comedy, and a spectacular one at that. Edward and Nicole really struck gold when they shifted their content from arcade and claw machine videos towards 'CALLING THE IMPOSTER AT 3 AM (GONE WRONG!?!)' kinda stuff.
Eventho, Schadenfreude being a very large part of my humor, cringe never really appealed to me as a form of comedy. But still interesting to see why it appeals to others so much
(Also, I like foreigners using german words :D)
I don't watch cringe videos because I get first hand cringe for free just from experiencing myself trying to talk to people IRL
I feel you.
Ana is gonna exploooode this year, I feel it in mah' bones. ❤️
@@kaityhues4801 LMAO.. Well there goes my day. 😂
"I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson" is a show that I think qualifies as cringe-comedy. It's available on Netflix.
It's a skit show similar to Tim and Eric's Awesome Show. Really funny if you're into that type of comedy style.
That first clip omg
I guess I’m somewhat shocked that she doesn’t like her voice. For me it’s the best thing about this channel. The content is good, but I could really be fine just listening to her anime-sounding voice read the dictionary.
Aw this is so sweet - thank you 😅 (Still got that that icky feeling in certain parts when reviewing this video before publishing, but this makes me feel a lot better haha.)
I've been trying to get my sister and her boyfriend into The Office, but they've been unable to get past the first season so far. I love the whole show. I'll get them there one day
If you can just get them past season 1, they'll (hopefully) like it! I had a hard time getting past the first season too, it's a lot drier and less funny than the rest (in my opinion anyway)
Oh man I loved season 1. The cringe was intense, it was so good. Diversity Day is one of my fave episodes of the entire show
Agreed with the above comment that Diversity Day was hilarious 😂 But I also will admit that I found the season less funny than the rest (and waaay too derivative of the UK original). Once I got into the second season though, I was a d d i c t e d
The only 'cringe' is how underrated your channel is. Amazing video :)
Thanks so much Ants In My Eyes Johnson! Hope business is going well 👌
@@ana-isabel It's going great! I'm pretty sure!
That intro has some strong "This is a Wendy's" vibes.
I feel for Rebecca Black. Her song was no worse than anything Beeber would sing just that she didn't have a huge record company paying off the media to say good things about it
Peep show is a great example of cringe comedy but at times it can be so bad that it physically hurts your soul
Peep Show is another british sitcom thats been running for ~9 seasons and is amazing
Cringe comedy is actually my favorite! lmao its definitely because it just feels the most realistic and usually happens to us in real life.
Sidebar, in high school, I actually unironically loved Friday by Rebecca Black. Me and the homies all sang it every Friday.
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Agreed! It's something I find incredibly relatable, having been a painfully awkward teenager and still fumbling through social interactions as an adult hahaha.
And aww, I will admit the song *was* an earworm 😛
Didn't expect to see you here
OMG watch The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret. It is the most uncomfortable and yet funny show I have ever watched.
Gonna watch that
Highly recommended. If you can find the original recording of the pilot episode, it's much better than the one they televised later. The friend character has a different actor, so you can tell them apart
man, I love your scripts. You do a great job of mixing academic language with more matter-of-fact/natural sounding commentary. Keep doing you!
Aww this is exactly what I aim for - thank you!
Watching cringe comedy honestly got me past a lot of my social anxieties.
Is it weird that I can't stomach cringe comedy? My second hand embarrassment is so strong that it's actually painful and unenjoyable. When I was a kid, I couldn't even get through an episode of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire because watching people lose large sums of money due to poor choices made me want to gouge my eyes out. Sometimes I wish I could enjoy it at all because the genre is so popular, but it just hurts too much!
When I was a kid I loved cringe comedy, but as an adult with a lot more social experiences and my own personal blunders, it just heightens my anxiety to see it.
There’s levels of cringe, and there are some kinds of cringe comedy is absolutely painful to watch and I hate it.
Alas, I am of that tiny subsection of humanity that finds little to no humor in cringe "comedy". Discomfort isn't funny to me, whether it is my own or someone else's that I'm experiencing. And quite frankly, I don't understand the kind of person/mind that finds entertainment in that stuff. To each their own, and all that, but I'll never understand it.
I thought I was the only one!
Hot Rod is perhaps my favorite in the lineage of cringe movies from that era.
Thank you for reminding me to re-watch this one :)
I just realized your hat has horns! That’s awesome.
Another great video Ana, looking forward to the next one.
Live clips of the band “psychosexual “ are the chef’s kiss of music cringe 😂 it’s almost to much to handle. Musicians making bad decisions gets me every time
Another thoughtful and well presented essay. You're one of the few TH-camrs that I will happily sit through multiple unskippable 15 second ad inserts. :-) I think you're right on the money with the last analysis about cringe fest humour, it's more about feeling superior that looking for any deeper insight into humanity. There was a Canadian TV comedian named Rick Mercer who used to do a regular piece called "Talking to Americans" where he traveled to cities in the USA to show how little Americans know about Canada. That's low hanging fruit for humour (those pieces are on TH-cam). The first one or two segments were amusing but after that you kinda want a mercy rule as it is like shooting fish in a barrel. Nice work, and BTW you have nice clear and articulate voice for your voice overs.
Thank you so much! 💕 And yes, I feel like the comedic/entertainment factor declines the more "low-hanging fruit" a "cringey" subject is. I hadn't seen Rick Mercer and his segments before reading your comment - though after checking out a few of his clips on TH-cam, I agree it does run a little stale after fooling the nth American on some false Canadian trivia. (I guess it also has to do with the repetitive format though!)
And thanks - I owe it all to my Blue Snowball mic for making me sound decently professional hahaha.
Fantastic video as always! Great work!
If only Jack Benny could've stuck around for eighty more years.
You do really good work. Very well done. Not just this video. Thanks for the entertainment and education.
Thank you for watching! 🙏
A new TH-cam essay !! Yesss I love your videos
What I like about your videos is the show don't tell mentality. You always work really hard on these small video bits that illustrate the points you are making and that makes the watch a pleasure.
I truly appreciate that - thank you! 🥺
Another great video Ana. Here's my recommendations: Peep Show, Friday Night Dinner, Nathan For You, How To With John Wilson, Louie, Better Things, The IT Crowd, Father Ted.
It's always sunny in Philadelphia fits this as well
Your videos are so well made an interesting!
I'm pretty late for this and maybe someone has already mentioned it but you forgot about Between Two Ferns, the Zach Galifianakis' interview show. That was cringe but it was pure gold.
If you haven't seen it yet, I strongly recommend "Increasingly poor decisions of Todd Margaret". Unbelievably funny. And yes unbelievably cringe. It's David Cross at his absolute best.
You had me at David Cross haha - will look into this one, thanks! 😃
One show that I though had a lot of cringe comedy was Louie when it was on FX. That’s show was had like some of the most awkward people and situations on it, I don’t think they stream it anywhere anymore unless you buy it but it was really good in my opinion, showed how crazy and awkward people can be.
Btw amazing video! Never thought how cringe is actually a form of comedy
Glad you enjoyed the video! Also just looked up "Louie" and wow, I can't believe I slept on this one. Given that it falls under my favorite comedy genre, stars Louis CK and holds some pretty stellar reviews - weird how this slipped my radar; but thanks so much for suggesting it! 😃 Gonna try and get my hands on the first season.
Love your channel
Great video and explanations as always the only Cringe style comedy I could recommend that I enjoyed is "Trailer Park Boys" the show and the movies
13:02 Facts
Only 22 vids? Dayum! I guess it is, you've always had such great video production and dialogues, I always felt that you were a much more seasoned youtuber. I suppose all that time as a cosplayer also helped with you demonstrating how to engage with an audience.
Aw, thank you! ☺ (I guess my high school years of making random FMVs also helped with the editing side of things ahahaha)
There is cringe where it knows its cringe . Where it gets dangerous is where people enjoy watching normal everyday people making mistakes or being out of their depth .
Ted Lasso(?) Also that clip at the end was b-e-a-utiful
that intro felt like assault
wtf did you do there with those last few seconds of this great essay? i am completely disturbed and have no idea how to get this shit out of my brain again!
Found a masterpiece and thought I'd share it :)
@@ana-isabel masterpiece indeed... it really did haunt me again a few days ago when talking about something slightly related - see how bad you got me with this one? :p
Because to me, this intended/unintended cringe thing and its audience turns out to be a huge rabbit hole, leading to some not so flattering conclusions about humans in general, maybe worthy of its own essay in some form or another... ;)
I wonder what it says about me that I can’t think of a single cringe comedy show that I like. I feel it’s often either dull or mean spirited.
thank u very cool Anabel
Yeah, Ylvis (who did What Does The Fox Say) are a Scandinavian comedy group and they released a whole bunch of hilarious songs as well as that one. Worth a listen!
Great video as always, hope you're staying warm!
During the editing process I actually did come across their other hits ("Stonehenge" and "Trucker's Hitch", in particular). WDTFS had worn out on me from overexposure, but I got to admit their other stuff is pretty catchy 😛
But thanks! :D and you from Aus too? It's been freezing lately!
@@ana-isabel yeah! I'm in Melbourne :) I do agree with you regarding the overexposure of WDTFS, my husband loves that song and I hated it for so long, then I listened to the other stuff and it made more sense, I guess. That or something broke in my brain haha.
Fawlty Towers could be considered cringe, and Keeping Up Appearances also gets into absurd/hypocritical social situations.
Was hoping you'd talk about Impractical Jokers, but great video as always
For me cringe content is almost like that opposite to the perfection we usually see on curated content.
After watching TV, movies, edited youtube video with the mess-ups edited out, it's nice to remind yourself that people are human. And I'm not looking at it as "I'm glad I don't mess up as badly as this person" it's more like seeing "heavy cringe" just balances out the total lack of cringe in MOST content.
This! :D While I admit I also enjoy the schadenfreude side of things haha - it's nice and somewhat therapeutic to see a side of people behind the scripts and filters and heavy edits of most online content. I'm thinking of popular TH-camrs in particular (or content creators I follow); seeing them have their awkward moments can be kinda charming.
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"Zach Stone is Gonna Be Famous" begs to be added to your watch later catalog.
Bo Burnham is growing before your eyes and proves so many years ago that he's made out of pure comedy gold, musical organs attached to him or not.
i was recently the victim of targeted harassment by a person acting on behalf of a group of people (their friends, according to them) over some perceived slight that they refused to acknowledge their error on... i used the word "lie" in a way other than they were used to so they used that to justify abusing me, resulting in a lot of cringey behaviour from me due to various mental issues i have. and they just kept going, frequently mentioning how they and their friends were laughing at me... it ended with me reporting them and their account got locked so at least they got punished for it, but it was so horrifying for me to be abused in such a way. they kept trying to gaslight me that i wasn't being abused/harassed as well... like, wtf?! i hope they get away from their clearly toxic friends and realise how horrible of a person they were being. they even admitted to and bragged about not having sympathy, acting like having it was a bad thing... just... no. and now i have to spend time and effort to recover from that... i _hate_ how many emotional scars i have :/
I've done it. I liked doing it in sarcasm, to get people talking or to have fun or talk about things not usually talked about. I liked to see others push like that. I've done it in contempt or to push away too, so i've been the asshole. Sometimes those topics are good to talk about though regardless.
I always got banned from places for deranging irc channels or embarrasing my friends. I can be good and play nicely with others, I was always drawn to do it like a deranged urge to do so.
There's a fine line between actually cringe and comedy. Shows I would recommend that are similar to The Office "cringe" comedy are Trailer Park Boys , People Just Do Nothing (BBC), What We Do in the Shadows (show and movie), Arrested Development, Extras (BBC), and Spaced (Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright). Chris Lilley of Australia has also made multiple shows like this called Ja'mie: Private School Girl, Angry Boys, Summer Heights High, etc.
LOVED What We Do in the Shadows (the movie) and Arrested Development. Edgar Wright is my favourite director but I've yet to see Spaced (thanks for reminding me!). I know its got Pegg and Frost, so I'm instantly sold. Trailer Park Boys and PJDN both have that awkward mockumentary style I love so imma check these out too! :)
As for Chris Lilley's works, I remember trying to get into them in high school (I think Angry Boys had just come out and it was a hot topic), though they didn't quite gel with me then. Might give 'em a revisit to see if my opinion changes :p
You _HAVE_ seen "This Is Spinal Tap" correct? When you were describing the Documentary bit... This Is Spinal Tap fits the bill so well that I'm surprised you didn't even mention it a little bit
The main reason Metal Heads love The Is Spinal Tap... is... well... it is ridiculously accurate for how things go down. It is like... a less Metal version of Napoleon Dynamite (which, not going to lie... is pretty fucking brutal and metal xD)
Oh right, just a daily reminder, Metal Heads are the BIGGEST dorks out there... and the most cuddly people ever
Please Like Me and Everything's Gonna Be Okay are two shows that offer a nice type of cringe humor that I can't explain
We missed you, Ana!
Glad to be back! :D I'm sadly only able to churn out a video a month for now (they take about 3-4 weeks to produce, and I'm a one-woman team hahaa), but I do hope they're worth it!
The Danish tv show 'Klovn' is a great cringe comedy. Reminds me a lot of Curb.
Ana i am just enamoured with your Content
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I think you could easily find a similar piece on the hot topic site or etsy's. Hot topic has a category system so you can just browse thru necklaces or something like that, or on etsy's if you search for like a silver spike necklace choker I'd bet my right pigtail there'd be something extremely similar if not almost identical. Hope that might help
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I don't experience the "comedy" part of cringe comedy. It's just uncomfortable or there's vague sympathy for unwitting person, making fool of themselves.
"the PROSE of a centeries old poet"
Major points for using the phrase "poses the question."
wonderful video, brb, gonna watch Speak, the hungarian rapper
Excellent analysis. Cringe humor is great when it's good but when it's amateurish it's that absolute worst. Leave it to the experts, like Gus Johnson.
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Besides that, brilliant Video
I love cringe comedy, to the point where it probably affects my social situations. I've always been socially awkward, so it made sense for me to play it up for laughs but I'm not sure if that's detrimental or not, I get a kick out of it at least.
When I think of peak cringe, Nathan for You is the show that comes to mind. It follows real-life personality Nathan Fielder as he gives failing businesses a ridiculous idea to stay afloat, which makes for a lot of Borat-style satire around business and marketing. Fielder also plays up a persona for the show that makes it really hard to tell when he's acting and when he's being genuine with his thoughts, which kind of ups the cringe. If you haven't already, that's a must-watch for cringe lovers! Also glad to see some love for Contrapoints
I've seen "Nathan For You" recommended in plenty other comments and it's gotten me super hyped to check it out! :D The Borat-style format has me sold. Plus it's always impressive just how *committed* these actors are in pulling off these satirical, elaborate pranks hahaha. I'm definitely seeing this.
(and Contrapoints' videos are works of art ❤️ Not that she'd need my promotion lol, but I'm always happy to spread the love :3)
Cringe = a sub5 person minding their business
This video is so good! But it did make me remember who Sam pepper is so we have beef now
Thank you! Though apologies for the awful reminder haha
Intentional cringe is something filthy Frank pioneered one TH-cam.
I'd say there's a healthy dose of cringe comedy in Schitt's Creek, even if it's not 100% dedicated to that style like The Office and such.
The lady in the opening video, I feel sorry for her actually. But at the same time, I'm thinking, "Um, why are you blaming everyone else for not helping you? Why not take care of yourself and do what you need to do to improve your situation?" (this is coming from someone who is struggling to get by right now) And then the "punchline" of the clip happened and...wow, just wow.
I hate your bedspread, but your personal sense of style and general vibe are awesome
My sister who has a mental disability was really into anime dance videos when she was in high school, and liked to do the dances. Shed do it at school not caring about people being around and it didnt take long before her class mates started recording her and making compilations of her. She eventually stopped going to school, for the most part stopped going outside and is basically a neet now. Not that like that was the only factor in that but when I think about this kinda stuff it makes me mad. Kinda a bit to throw out there but idk I wanted to vent it I guess. I sometimes watch cringe stuff too, but sometimes it's too far I guess idk. And yeah I'm full aware that what they are doing is cringe but like idk.
I'm so sorry to hear this. I believe a previous commenter brought this up but seeing the incredibly mean-spirited, unwarranted "cringe compilations" online (typically punching down on vulnerable people) creates an almost "meta-cringe" reaction - where I'm wincing more at the miserable person who'd go out of their way to create something that hateful. As someone who watches a lot of cringe comedy, it's a genre that *can* be incredibly entertaining; but there are definitely proper, tactful ways to go about it.
I self-identify as cringe content.
That's why I never go outside
My life is like a cringe comedy.
20:43 "i play pokemon go everyday..." makes me wonder, if the kid still picks fights with everybody on youtube
Cringe was fresh at one point but now it's swallowed almost all other comedy and I'm sick of it. And there is such a demand for 'real' cringe that even borderline and obvious staged things are used for cringe fodder.
Oh my gosh you should watch This time with Alan Partridge or any of Steve Coogans other shows! Honestly I only watch them the odd time when I see them on but each time I'm crying laughing over the cringe! I think it's on BBC but I could be wrong :3
Woaaaah hold up did Alan Partridge have another spinoff show? :O I only know of "Knowing Me, Knowing You" + the movie that came out years later (both HILARIOUS works by Coogan!).
@@ana-isabel he did! I think there might be another one I'm not too sure! Also great to find another Steve Coogan fan!
@@Mkg16 Same here - I don't often meet one! 😁 Just looked up "This Time With Alan Partridge" and it just came out two years ago; no wonder it slipped my radar, but I'm getting right on this!
@@ana-isabel Ah that's great! Enjoy :D
Ironically, Ricky Gervais still puts himself on a pedestal.
I've often thought that much of the backlash is attributable to a hater's simple sense of anger and jealously when someone's 'cringe content' vaults them to true popularity and a sustainable career (of sorts).
I never thought of this way! I can definitely see a ton of truth to this - but damn, the (sometimes life-threatening) lengths people will go to break someone down out of mere annoyance/jealousy is just... bizarre.
@@ana-isabel Indeed, ever have I been shocked and dismayed by the depths some will dive to, when they feel they're entitled to do so.
I think you have a wonderful voice.
Loved you on ICarly!! Lol jk. But seriously how do you not have more subscribers?
She did have a cameo om the new iClarly show
1:38 i felt this one
Thank you for giving a name to a comedy I don't like. I couldn't understand why I didn't like so many American comedies. To me, it's one step above slap-stick humor (which I don't like either). I don't laugh at somebody I feel sorry for or dislike. Last Man On Earth made me _loathe_ the MC. It either looks like stupidity or lying (usually to oneself) to try and keep/raise your social status. Egotistic, fake, facade. Then again, I don't give them past 2-3 episodes. Although I do love Ali G.
I'm shocked "last man on earth" hasn't gotten a mention, and I'm 14 mins in