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# Actors Re-Create YouTube Comment Wars
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/actors-re-create-youtube-comment-wars/
- Published: 2014-02-11T01:01:58.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:33:54.000Z
- Description: With notable exceptions, I tend to think of most internet comment sections as a kind of hell. In that scheme, YouTube comments would comprise their own circle. But, really, why get angry or upset about YouTube comments when you could simply laugh?
- Author: Jillian Steinhauer
- Tags: Opinion, Internet, YouTube, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:03 (2014, 2015, part 1)

With notable exceptions, I tend to think of most internet comment sections as a kind of hell. In that scheme, YouTube comments would comprise their own circle. But, really, why get angry or upset about YouTube comments when you could simply laugh? Enter … well, YouTube itself, and its new comedy network, Dead Parrot (which I can only assume is named after the [legendary Monty Python sketch](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vuW6tQ0218&ref=hyperallergic.com)).

Dead Parrot has teamed up with producer Adrian Bliss to create YouTube Comment Reconstructions. The reconstructions are just that — re-creations of particularly inflamed and idiotic YouTube comment exchanges — except they’re acted out by two well-dressed, middle-aged British men (or men with stellar British accents) who sit in shadowy domestic interiors populated with high-backed armchairs and baroque chandeliers. The skits are done in black and white, with classical music or the ominous sounds of a rainstorm accentuating the verbal spars.

Actors [Grahame Edwards](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3060088/?ref=hyperallergic.com) and [Eryl Lloyd Parry](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3309220/?ref=hyperallergic.com) (with occasional appearances by [Anthony Sergeant](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2110221/?ref=hyperallergic.com)) play up their accents to the point of absurdity, and their old-fashioned, Masterpiece Theater-inflected pronunciations ring out with particular gusto on the word “fuck,” which, as you might expect, gets used a lot — for instance, in explaining that “I fucking love kittens” or in calling the other person “fucktarded.” There are more gems: the careful enunciation of the word “Belieber,” one of the men holding up a glass of brandy and dropping a “win!,” or (my favorite) a third man appearing in the doorway as a spam commenter, earnestly touting the thousands of dollars he earned by “working ten hours a week online! I couldn’t *believe* it once I tried it!”

If the idea for the series seems a little obvious in retrospect, that doesn’t make it any less hilarious — a welcome reprieve for anyone who spends (as I do) far too much time online.