Webcameron Revisited

I've been itching to revisit Youtube to see if any further material has been generated, sane or otherwise, in the wake of Sion Simon's awful Webcameron spoof. (Sion has deleted his original post, but thank f*** for piracy: you can see it here, here, or in post-modern "let's Youtube a TV picture of something that's already been on Youtube" style here.

There have been several new spoofs and responses to Sion's effort, responses to the responses, and general nutters who might be talking about something to do with the whole thing but it is very hard to know for sure. I'm bringing you only the best of them here (or the worst, depending on how you look at it.)

First off, I like this one - is it another MP? Surely not. Particularly good are (a) the way the guy looks at the computer screen, constantly to the right of the camera, all the way through; (b) the way he looks like he's reading out an email someone just sent him, (c) keeping calm through all the swear words. Can't really agree with the view this guy expresses though - surely it's because the 'comrades' have got a sense of humour that they didn't like Simon's spoof, because it... er... wasn't funny?




Secondly we have this quixotic effort from a Scottish woman who seems to be pitching her stand-up comedy (or rather, lean-on-the-worktop comedy) somewhere between Billy Connolly and the Krankies. I ain't been to the Edinburgh Festival for about 10 years (shame on me) but if 'Southside Late' is still on, this is the kind of material you used to get there. It's probably best after a few pints.




Finally, and probably weirdest of all, Santa Claus does Webcameron. Complete with "Marvin the Paranoid Android" voice. This one is actually reasonably funny, although there's only really about 60 seconds of material there - it's just that the guy speaks... very.... s..l..o..w..l..y. But I guess Santa might do that if he's 700 years old. (As might Cameron.)



Probably diminishing returns are setting in now (or maybe they were there from the start), but it's fascinating the way content begats content on Youtube... maybe Tony Blair's last winter in office will be the "Winter of Content". Sorry, that really is bad.