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SPAMasterpiece Theater

SPAMasterpiece Theater (or S.P.A.M. Theater[1][2][3][4]) is an American web series starring humorist John Hodgman where he does dramatic readings of unsolicited email spam received by Boing Boing editors in a parody of Masterpiece Theatre. The series featured images and videos from Creative Commons-licensed media.

Background

S.P.A.M. Theater

In 2008, S.P.A.M. Theater debuted.[5] Each episode features a dramatization of email spam. Originally, the series featured images and videos from Creative Commons-licensed media from the image hosting and video hosting website Flickr and the nonprofit digital library Internet Archive.[1][2][3][4] The second episode "FOR MY DAUGHTER'S SAKE/DE@L OF A LIFETIME" featured the voices of Russ Gooberman and Dana Devonshire.[2] In the third episode "Love Song of Kseniya," Boing Boing's Xeni Jardin reads her own email spam.[3] In the fourth episode "The Proposition," Erik Sheppard of Voice Talent Productions contributes a voice.[4]

SPAMasterpiece Theater

John Behrens and Sean Bonner talk about SPAMasterpiece Theater in Xeni Jardin's BBtv office.

On October 1, 2008, Jardin announced the official debut of the web series SPAMasterpiece Theater—almost a month before the American release of John Hodgman's satirical almanac More Information Than You Require. Hodgman described it as "true tale[s] of romance, adventure, infamy, and low-cost prescription drugs, all culled from the reams of actual, unsolicited emails, received here by us and people like you -- what we call SPAM."[6][7][8][9] The hosted series included dramatic readings by Hodgman in a parody of Masterpiece Theatre.[10][11] In 2010, Boing Boing Video's Jardin was picked as "Curator of the Month". She commended the series with "These were so much fun to put together."[5]

Episodes

S.P.A.M. Theater

SPAMasterpiece Theater

Music

The first four SPAMasterpiece Theater episodes opened with a chiptune remix of Jean-Joseph Mouret's "Rondeau: Fanfare" (1735) by Hamhocks Buttermilk Johnson.[6][16][17][18][7][8][12][13][14]

Reception

Vulture's Matthew Perpetua praised the series with "Hodgman's deadpan delivery is typically excellent, but we're particularly fond of the deliberately pretentious juxtaposition of stock footage in the dramatizations. PBS might want to look at this."[11] In a retrospective celebrating the anniversary of Boing Boing TV, BBC Online's web producer Ellen West described SPAMasterpiece Theater as "It's like Adam Curtis doing a nonsense Power of Nightmares."[19]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c Jardin, Xeni (March 2, 2008). "S.P.A.M. Theater, Vol. I". Boing Boing. Happy Mutants, LLC. Retrieved September 10, 2016.
  2. ^ a b c d Jardin, Xeni (March 7, 2008). "S.P.A.M. Theater, Vol. II". Boing Boing. Happy Mutants, LLC. Retrieved September 10, 2016.
  3. ^ a b c d Jardin, Xeni (April 21, 2008). "S.P.A.M. Theater, Vol. III: "Love Song of Kseniya"". Boing Boing. Happy Mutants, LLC. Archived from the original on April 25, 2008. Retrieved September 10, 2016.
  4. ^ a b c d Jardin, Xeni (May 22, 2008). "S.P.A.M. Theater: The Proposition". Boing Boing. Happy Mutants, LLC. Retrieved September 10, 2016.
  5. ^ a b Jardin, Xeni (February 10, 2010). "Curator of the Month: Boing Boing Video". YouTube Official Blog. YouTube. Retrieved September 10, 2016.
  6. ^ a b c Boing Boing tv (October 2, 2008). "John Hodgman in BBtv's SPAMasterpiece Theater (comedy)". YouTube. Google. Retrieved September 10, 2016.
  7. ^ a b c Jardin, Xeni (October 1, 2008). "John Hodgman in BBtv's SPAMasterpiece Theater". Boing Boing. Happy Mutants, LLC. Retrieved September 10, 2016.
  8. ^ a b c Jardin, Xeni (October 1, 2008). "John Hodgman in BBtv's SPAMasterpiece Theater". Boing Boing Video. Boing Boing. Archived from the original on October 7, 2008. Retrieved September 10, 2016.
  9. ^ a b Martellaro, John (October 9, 2010). "John Hodgman Hosts SPAMasterpiece Theater". The Mac Observer. The Mac Observer, Inc. Retrieved September 6, 2016.
  10. ^ Lehman, Daniel (October 2, 2010). "John Hodgman's 'Masterpiece Theater'". Blog Stage. Backstage. Retrieved September 6, 2016.
  11. ^ a b Perpetua, Matthew (October 2, 2008). "Masterpiece Theater: John Hodgman's Spam". Vulture. New York. Retrieved September 10, 2016.
  12. ^ a b Jardin, Xeni (October 10, 2008). "John Hodgman in BBtv's SPAMasterpiece Theater, Vol II: "Wuthering Wire Transfers."". Boing Boing Video. Boing Boing. Archived from the original on September 19, 2016. Retrieved September 10, 2016.
  13. ^ a b Jardin, Xeni (October 28, 2008). "John Hodgman in BBtv's SPAMasterpiece Theater, Vol III: THE STOMATOLOGIST". Boing Boing Video. Boing Boing. Archived from the original on September 19, 2016. Retrieved September 10, 2016.
  14. ^ a b Jardin, Xeni (November 4, 2008). "John Hodgman in BBtv's SPAMasterpiece Theater, Vol IV: V1V4 M3X1CO". Boing Boing Video. Boing Boing. Archived from the original on September 19, 2016. Retrieved September 10, 2016.
  15. ^ Jardin, Xeni (December 5, 2008). "Unicorn Chaser: John Hodgman Spamasterpiece Theater Bloopers". Boing Boing Video. Boing Boing. Retrieved September 10, 2016.
  16. ^ Boing Boing tv (October 10, 2008). "John Hodgman in BBtv's SPAMasterpiece Theater, Vol II". YouTube. Google. Retrieved September 10, 2016.
  17. ^ Boing Boing tv (October 28, 2008). "John Hodgman in BBtv's SPAMasterpiece Theater, Vol III". YouTube. Google. Retrieved September 10, 2016.
  18. ^ Boing Boing tv (October 28, 2008). "John Hodgman in SPAMasterpiece Theater, Vol IV (BBtv)". YouTube. Google. Retrieved September 10, 2016.
  19. ^ West, Ellen (October 2, 2008). "Happy Birthday Boing Boing TV". The Culture Show Blog. BBC Online. Retrieved September 10, 2016.

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