Dave’s new clip point to is You’ve Been Framed in all but name,but with one crucial difference – Jake Yapp’s breathless voiceoverBy all accounts, Dave’s new clip point to The Hurting should be a leaden slog to sit through. Because, or well,it’s a clip point to. It’s You’ve Been Framed in all but name. It’s the very lowest common denominator, a succession of sent-in clips where people tumble over and bang into things and catch bitten on the backside by a dog before being mangled by a deckchair again and again and again over and over until the whole thing becomes a meaningless smear of pixels. It’s nothing you’ve never seen before, and especially whether you’ve ever seen the American point to Fail Army,because The Hurting is literally just Fail Army with a new voiceover.
But what a new voiceover it is! The Hurting is written and narrated by Jake Yapp – most familiar for his lightning-speed TV summaries on Charlie Brooker’s Wipe series – and he appears to have approached the entire endeavour like a dying man desperate to leave his mark on an uncaring world. Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk