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Quote: ArtHouseYobs @ 11th June 2014, 11:11 PM BST

Well Marc, We just go for topics that interest us so I guess the target in all of our vids is just real life eccentricity. Most of my comic inspirations nowadays come from docs and reality TV. For now our plan is just to develop the YouTube channel and gain subscribers.
I agree with you Sootyj about that joke not being clear enough, We've only been making vids seriously for about 3 months so it's been a bit of a baptism by fire. Hopefully in 6 months time We'll have sharpened our production values and acting skills and I'll have learned another accent so all my characters don't have to be cockney. Check out our YouTube channel for new videos every thursday -

https://www.youtube.com/arthouseyobs

Cheers guys! Ross

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Fair play AHY, and tell me I am thinking too much about this. But you are inviting your audience to join in and laugh at a small sector of the community who have psychological and or sexual needs that are not met in the 'normal' sense of accepted social behaviour by normal people. (Substitute Gay for an example just a few years ago) To facilitate this you present the archetypal Essex wide boy, with blonde bimbo wife with legs etc displayed as trophy. The twist is that the stereotype wife is just that, and Essex man threatens her that if she doesn't play along with his 'perverted' kinks, then he will stop paying her and she can go back to being a less well paid whore amongst the scum whence, Pygmalion like, he plucked her.

I am sure this wasn't the narrative you had in mind when making this. But there it is. Content is everything.

I will certainly look forward to seeing what more you have to do. You clearly have talent and I would like to see that harnessed for good and not evil. Would Bernard, bless him approve for example? It's not a bad acid test. Anyway well done for making stuff I am not judging you.. Just the target and invitation to complicity through laughter within it. Hope that makes sense?

Cheers

Marc

not a bad channel. Just watched that Carlos sketch and actual lol'd when he came out of the wardrobe.

I totally get what youre saying Marc and going after the vulnerable is undoubtedly the lowest form of comedy. For me the distinction here is that as opposed to the characters you tend to see in the infantilsim docs, this guy is anything but sympathetic. He was narcissistic cityboy type (that probably didnt come across completely) and maybe I felt that that was a safe way to explore the subculture, without maligning its actual constituents who don't need any more grief Im sure. We did originally have a sub-plot attempting to show the manipulative sensationalist approach to manufacturing a channel 5-esque documentary of that type that we ultimately had to abandon for time and pacing reasons. I've always been a fan of controversial comedy so I guess my motto is to err on the side offence but hopefully, with time, I'll be able sharpen my wits and develop a more coherent voice.

Cheers Lucy, you can't beat a good saucy asphyxiation joke.

Cheers AHY, there is nothing wrong with offence and attacking thoughts prejudices and people who may embody them. I would just urge consideration in who you choose to attack and how. A good trick here would be to have the audience complicit then with a reversal of expectations pull the rug from under them. Comedy is all about the release of tension that you have built up. As in Drama. Particularly in the longer form such as your piece here. (No innuendo intended )

Agreed with comments that the edit could be a bit tighter, but I thought it captured that "freakdoc" spirit well. Solid performances, too. Loved the "nearly right" joke at the start. I wouldn't recommend compromising your comedy too much just to appease the backslapping brigade, unless you can do that while staying true to your sense of humour. If you can do funny and nice/milquetoast/acceptable, go for it. If you can only do one or the other, go with funny.

I don't think he would compromise anything by agreeing with the people who slap his back, BBB. But you probably meant something completely different?

We all joined in and laughed at little Britain and a lot of them had psychological and or sexual needs that were not normal. Bitty

What's normal mean in this context?

A grown man sucking on his mothers tit during a dinner party is not normal. That is what this sketch sort of reminded me of. Typical Essex girl, with a typical cockney who likes a bit of bitty.

And secondly when you say we all... I didn't find it remotely funny. And thirdly however, and I have no desire to write another essay, but they are not the same at all. Because in LB we are laughing at the people the grotesques and not at the act. We don't laugh at the village gay because he is gay.

Quote: Carlos Manwelly @ 12th June 2014, 5:47 PM BST

A grown man sucking on his mothers tit during a dinner party is not normal. That is what this sketch sort of reminded me of. Typical Essex girl, with a typical cockney who likes a bit of bitty.

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I asked what is, not what isn't

I think you are looking to much into it, there was no need to write your first essay, watch enjoy or don't enjoy. I didn't think there was need for a deep analysis of it.

I didn't find it remotely grotesque, I just found it funny.

Well if people want to make stuff for their mates and have a laugh... fill your boots I say. Absolutely nothing wrong with that. If you wish to progress to a different level then thinking about things, and listening to good advice probably won't hurt though.

I agree, but if it is not your type of thing/comedy then your feedback is going to be biased. You are probably never going to say " I don't usually like people taking the piss out of other peoples mentalness, but this time I really liked it"

Feedback biased never. I wasn't giving just feedback I liked it/I didn't like it. I was giving advice. By all means ignore it. Like I said stuff for funs sake is fine.

I know you was and I am with you all the way on that. It just sounded like a report I once read from my psychologist, it made me think for a while anyway.