Why is Daytime TV Like This?

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[mikeymegaLIVE]

Beautifully taking the piss out of daytime TV while actually taking the piss out of lazy Youtube video critiques - it's beautiful and so annoying!

[jayviolentmob]

The background music, the drawn out descriptions, the twitchy camera/editing, the one-word-at-a-time subtitles, the 30sec episodic packages. God, this is perfect satire for how cringe YT essays have become. Couldn't even make it to the end, I was so put-off. Nice work, my friend.

[shytot]

I'm a 70+ year old bloke and can I say that the segment about daytime ads every 5 minutes on ways to kill time before you peg out is priceless.

[lrrroftheplanetomicronpersei]

How I love it when the Homes Under the Hammer landlord divides the two-bedroom house up into fourteen individual flats.

[imdmm]

Don’t forget renovating old houses on a mere budget of 1 million that mum and dad gave as an Easter present.

[ollierobertson]

Ad breaks spot on and the timings between them. How ppl get through just one of these shows without losing their shit, I'll never know!!

[eddyfromouterspace]

I love that the joke is not about daytime TV but about YT video essays. Perfect editing!

[weswheel]

Surely a way to save on funeral expenses? Go on the cruise and wear a t-shirt saying, "If I die, just chuck me overboard". There's a back print saying, "Please check I'm dead first."

[runlarryrun]

My daytime tv pet hate - when a micro celebrity is invited onto a chat show to relate their "mental health struggles" then proceed to tell a fairly ordinary tale about a tough, but common life event that made them feel a bit sad until they got over it.

It's such a slap in the face to people dealing with MH problems that can incapacitate them & aren't going to go away with breathing exercises & positive thinking.

[TahiraSkates]

The "if you want a flat in South London at an affordable price, you're gonna have to put up with...." is the most accurate thing ever.

[Donky-flip]

Hilarious! also love the "You tuber" editing clichés, complete with annoying mandatory subtitles 🤣 love it! …..err, unless there was actually no irony intended. In which case, I apologise.

[nevertrustatory]

My Dad used to work for Thames TV before Maggie sold off the ITV franchises in ‘91, after the ‘Death on the Rock’ documentary. The company that got Thames’ licence, Michael Green’s Carlton, employed one David Cameron as ‘director of corporate affairs’. By 1994 the ITC criticised the ‘poor network programming’. It didn’t improve.

[jamesproctor]

I'm glad the voiceover guy from Coldhaven Television got the cruise voiceover job on ITV3.

[HearthingTV]

This was such a distinctly British skit and I love it so much.

[hanskneesun]

I couldn't agree more, the main themes seem to be buying and selling houses or antiques, auctions for houses or antiques, repairing houses or antiques or documentaries about repossession from the bailiffs point of view.

[Lianne]

Oh, I don’t know. That time they had that woman on This Morning who predicted the future by chucking a load of asparagus on the floor was pretty good.

[sulalee]

That was SO ITV3. Perfect just perfect, Michael. Oh and the lousy landlord who, on buying the house, decides he's just going to lay a bit of lino, and bugger all else. 😆👍

[Annie-cqbi]

I once watched a game show where supposedly grown up people ran a short distance grabbed a bean bag, and ran back to put it in a bucket, while being urged on by an overexcited presenter and a cheering audience...I last did that when I was at infants school. I didn't know it would be a skill for life....

[cf]

OMG Michael. the landlord!! Love it!🤪🤣

[Pionirish]

I'm very grateful that you took the time to talk about something on your YT channel and <checks notes> **released it during the day**