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Chin acting
Jun. 11th, 2010 08:48 amEarlier in the week Masterchef featured a contestant who attempted to make liver pate out of a kidney. Yum.
However, that wasn't the most disturbing thing I've seen while watching Masterchef this week. That honour goes to a series of commercials for Boost chocolate bars, which feature vignettes of a man who shares a flat with a life-size bar of chocolate. The first one had them playing Scrabble and arguing over the word 'oligarchy', and that was... unusual. It's the second one I've seen, though, which I find really icky. It's the bubbling chocolate water in the foot spa, mostly.
Yesterday, while I was busy with high-powered financial, er, stuff, Brian was in his corner of our office watching DVDs. Specifically, a medical education DVD, featuring actors playing patients going to see a real GP. One patient in particular, a middle-aged businessman suffering from anxiety, was played by the world's worst actor. He was hilariously bad. It's hard to explain, but when the doctor asked him if there was a pattern to his anxiety and he said, 'Yeah, doc, I reckon it's worse on... Fridays when I've... had a few drinks,' well, that was the funniest thing I've ever heard. Up till then I'd been listening quietly, but that bit made me laugh, after which Brian played the whole thing again so I could savour the physical performance as well. You've never seen so much thoughtful chin-rubbing. He was also good at holding his chin and nodding while looking into the middle distance. He was a chin actor extraordinaire.
The scene after that had the doctor asking himself if the patient had a drinking problem, but I think he should have tackled the acting problem first.
However, that wasn't the most disturbing thing I've seen while watching Masterchef this week. That honour goes to a series of commercials for Boost chocolate bars, which feature vignettes of a man who shares a flat with a life-size bar of chocolate. The first one had them playing Scrabble and arguing over the word 'oligarchy', and that was... unusual. It's the second one I've seen, though, which I find really icky. It's the bubbling chocolate water in the foot spa, mostly.
Yesterday, while I was busy with high-powered financial, er, stuff, Brian was in his corner of our office watching DVDs. Specifically, a medical education DVD, featuring actors playing patients going to see a real GP. One patient in particular, a middle-aged businessman suffering from anxiety, was played by the world's worst actor. He was hilariously bad. It's hard to explain, but when the doctor asked him if there was a pattern to his anxiety and he said, 'Yeah, doc, I reckon it's worse on... Fridays when I've... had a few drinks,' well, that was the funniest thing I've ever heard. Up till then I'd been listening quietly, but that bit made me laugh, after which Brian played the whole thing again so I could savour the physical performance as well. You've never seen so much thoughtful chin-rubbing. He was also good at holding his chin and nodding while looking into the middle distance. He was a chin actor extraordinaire.
The scene after that had the doctor asking himself if the patient had a drinking problem, but I think he should have tackled the acting problem first.