Are you a fan of Aunty Donna?
I can't say that I am, but I did enjoy that video. A 1987 rube cube for 4 hunge? Now that's a bargain!
Seems like it might be something up your alley
Yeah, I enjoy this kind of stuff (though, I think you'd have to understand exactly what's being parodied to really appreciate it. I mean, that's a very obvious thing to say, but, I can see a lot of people watching that video and thinking "WTF even is this?").
The thing about this kind of comedy is that it's temptingly compatible with a fairly low-effort, just-having-fun style of content creation that I tend to not enjoy. I find myself more wanting to savor the high-effort, carefully-metered-out stuff. Something special happens when a seriously stupid (in the best sense) idea gets handled in a but-we-need-to-get-this-just-right kind of way (the stuff by The Lonely Island often gets there, IMO:
"This is the second best idea that we've ever had!").
The stuff that
really makes me smile though is when there's a kind of positive feedback loop between the material and the performer(s), and you just
can't imagine anyone else ever being able to do the same job. Stuff like John Cleese as Basil Fawlty, or Rowan Atkinson as Mr. Bean. The best example of this that I can think of is Peter Sellers playing Inspector Jacques Clouseau...
Those old Pink Panther movies were before my time, so I probably don't appreciate them as deeply as I could, but they still make me really happy in a way that modern stuff just doesn't. The
"Pavlova of the parallels" scene is one of my favorites. There are so many excellent scenes to pick from those movies, but one that I remember literally sending coffee through my nose was seeing Sellers (an Englishman) playing a French police inspector (Clouseau) emerging from the fog disguised as a Swedish sailor (
"It's only an old salty Swedish sea dog, out there from the salty seas, you know!").
