Line #54 Main/DramaticReading


1	The following paragraph is to be read in your most '''IMPROBABLY EPIC''' tone of voice.
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3	We all know it can be fun to read terrible {{fanfiction}} [[TrollFic of]] [[HateFic any]] [[RevengeFic type]] or [[DarkFic disturbing Dark Fics]], but what about having them read ''to you'' in a dramatic, booming voice, just so that all of the {{Narm}} can be fully appreciated? This is where the Dramatic Reading comes in. You can expect almost every bad fanfic that becomes infamous to have at least one dramatic reading, and often other media such as published books can get dramatic readings if they're sufficiently infamous.
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5	A subtrope of AudioAdaptation.
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8	!!''EXAMPLES!'':
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10	* A Platform/{{YouTube}}r going by 'Raizaiel' performed, of all things, a dramatic reading of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzUYzsVx3ec Totino's Pizza ingredients]]. Complete with subtitles. There are over a hundred of them, mostly in chemical format. The reciter actually has to stop at one point just to [[FunWithSubtitles figure out how to pronounce one.]]
11	* ''Fanfic/MyImmortal'' has had dozens of dramatic readings. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrx2kZk4Pzg Here's one.]] It's brilliant.
12	** And [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9R4hPY7Xgs here's]] another. Complete with a DeadpanSnarker for a narrator and {{Visual Pun}}s aplenty, all 44 chapters are now up.
13	** [[https://www.youtube.com/user/tehpogo?feature=results_main This YouTuber]] has concocted an ingeniously hilarious series of Dramatic Readings, which is currently still in the works.
14	** And now a (sadly short) [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RhGj6rBNhs version]] read by [[Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale Cecil]].
15	* The first chapter of ''Twilight'' badfic ''[[TyopOnTheCover Forbiden Fruit:]] [[Fanfic/ForbidenFruitTheTempationOfEdwardCullen The Temptation of Edward Cullen]]'' can be [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYvYc2yK9vc found here.]]
16	* ''Fanfic/LightAndDarkTheAdventuresOfDarkYagami'' has a few so far (links on its page), although only two ([[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC253CAA4102C4FA4 here]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYNcOqVhTmvb4blZ5PSEQ4ZrJNeWpREaM here]]) of them are finished.
17	* ''Fanfic/TheHuemnCeniped2TheHumenMilipede'' has also [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P943SZOF6Js had this treatment given to it.]]
18	* [[https://www.youtube.com/manwithoutabody manwithoutabody]] has done a hilarious [[LargeHam hammed up]] dramatic reading of ''Literature/AtlantaNights'', which can be [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jBPek_3wY0 found here.]]
19	** From the same reader, ''Fanfic/MyInnerLife'' can be [[https://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=9657945AD58D5150 heard right here.]]
20	** And [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66twsuCehaI here]] is a {{machinima}} production of ''Fanfic/DoomRepercussionsOfEvil''. Or the ReMake [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1RJevflSmI right here.]]
21	** And the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KifDTE5mC3w Three Wolf Moon review,]] and ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1vY-km6RIo Olimar Fucks a Pikmin,]]'' and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiFNq5XHyOM a version]] of ''Fanfic/DigimonSavezTheWrold''.
22	** He has also done a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZqpLIrFjyo reading/spork]] of ''Literature/MidnightSun2020''. And really, many others. This guy has been uploading dramatic readings since 2008, on a pretty consistent schedule.
23	** He has also created [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKj4Mv67QXc&list=PLkpx8GQSAZWaHW7wC0DJoMv4qX3kSvxtb&index=2 a reading of Master Of The Universe,]] the [[Literature/TheTwilightSaga Twilight]] fanfic that was infamously turned into ''Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey''.
24	* [[Tropers/{{Thedramaticreadings}} The Dramatic Readings]] team painfully blatant Mary Sue story "The Hero and the Wolf" can be [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9744GYNlQE found here.]]
25	** The same team took on Celebrian. Yes, [[http://www.freewebs.com/bonsaimallorn4/Celebrian.htm the one and same.]] You can find [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC4Mo9dpGFY the reading here.]] The Celebrian reading is epic hilarious on part six, when the reader resorts to [=NyQuil=] to get through the story.
26	* The TropeCodifier is arguably [[http://youmakemetouchyourhandsforstupidreasons.ytmnd.com/ A Dramatic Reading of a Real Breakup Letter from a Real Person.]]
27	* ''Literature/LatawnyaTheNaughtyHorseLearnsToSayNoToDrugs'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWB9MfYoSfo has]] [[http://blip.tv/file/3380125 two.]]
28	* ''Fanfic/HalfLifeFullLifeConsequences'' has its Dramatic Reading combined with {{Machinima}}, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHxyZaZlaOs right here.]]
29	* Sprint Communications has produced a series of commercials of phone calls and SMS conversations read by Creator/JamesEarlJones and Creator/MalcolmMcDowell, such as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPPhPx6gcPc Lizzy & Kim's Call]]. Just hearing two acting legends piling on [[WorldOfHam hamminess]] while reading such inane and insipid speech is downright hilarious.
30	* Creator/WilliamShatner reading UsefulNotes/SarahPalin's speech as ''poetry''. Can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF_t1A8LGzg here.]] It goes further: he reads her [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mLvzARScak Twitter posts.]]
31	* Edwyn Tiong's (of "''[[VideoGame/TheTrappedTrilogy Trapped]]''" fame) reading of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRf800DiOrc blog entries]] of Matthew "[=MDickie=]", known [[SmallNameBigEgo egomaniac]] and creator of ''VideoGame/TheYouTestament'', using his best SmugSnake voice.
32	* ''Literature/TheEyeOfArgon'' was seemingly tailor-made for dramatic readings, the challenge being to get through even a single page without laughing. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fI7PqKhSrVc Here is one dramatic reading]] of it.
33	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CrG6UYSc6A Here]] is a group reading of ''Fanfic/LegolasByLaura'' by contributors to the ''WebOriginal/ProtectorsOfThePlotContinuum''.
34	** And [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBOiHnPVHHY here's one]] by the aforementioned [[Tropers/ManWithoutABody manwithoutabody]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMbjK1m6alg now in motion picture format.]]
35	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVFIxz4B6Js Here's]] a dramatic reading of the infamous ''Literature/HarryPotter'' fanfic, ''[[Fanfic/ThirtyHs HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH]].'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V4VxlsMuQ4 Here's another.]]
36	* TropeMaker in Website/{{YTMND}} has [[http://baumanletters.ytmnd.com/ boomaga's dramatic reading of the Cease and Desist emails from eBaum's World.]] It even made it onto the YTMND Soundtrack, as did its [[AlternateUniverse PTKFGS]] [[http://baumanlettersptkfgs.ytmnd.com/ counterpart.]]
37	* The creators of ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'' did a Dramatic Reading of an issue Yu-Gi-Oh! R ("the TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons one").
38	* According to ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'', there was a brief fad for reading random excerpts from ''The Eight Doctors'' and ''War of the Daleks'', interspersed with the readers' own improvisations of [[StylisticSuck deliberately bad]], {{Fanwank}}y PurpleProse, and challenging others to identify which bits were genuine.
39	* Creator/DavidLangford [[http://www.ansible.co.uk/writing/rlfintro.html describes]] a dramatic reading of Creator/LionelFanthorpe's ''March of the Robots'' being too much for a "[[Franchise/TheHitchHikersGuideToTheGalaxy Vogon Poetry]]" competition.
40	* The entire point of WebVideo/BennettTheSage's ''Masterpiece Fanfic Theater''.
41	* [[http://ultamatom.ytmnd.com/ Peta People Smart!]] was read in December 2005 in YTMND.
42	* During one of the Dean Martin celebrity roasts, Creator/OrsonWelles did this to "That's Amore".
43	* The ''VideoGame/ZeroWing'' intro [[http://www.overclocked.org/OCzerowing.htm got one.]] Believe it or not, this [[OlderThanTheyThink predates the music video you've already seen]].
44	* [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] by the one for ''Fanfic/CodeGeassMaoOfTheDeliverance'', a fanfic which has generally received positive support from fandom. Nonetheless, someone made a media-enhanced Dramatic Reading for it.
45	* Someone on CAPSLOCK_ATLA put together some dramatic readings for ''Webcomic/HowIBecameYours''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uun3a9lQ_yU The first]] is quite funny, but the later installments can cause abdominal ruptures from laughing too hard (especially Zuko's voice, which sounds like [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Milhouse Van Houten]]).
46	%%* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDxxfaJo1z4 Here]] is one of ''Naruto Veangance Revelaitons''.
47	* [=CrazyGoggs=] and friends did dramatic readings of [[Website/TVTropes this very wiki]], consisted of the long axed Troper Tales and several miscellaneous videos related to the forums. The original uploads are long gone [[ScrewedByTheLawyers due to Youtube's copyright system]], meaning that [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlYX-7SRa1k&list=PLO826hQ2W3w22Z4HKDzkFBEMUOre5cRQU only reuploads]] exist now.
48	* ''Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey'':
49	** Creator/GilbertGottfried reads ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkLqAlIETkA Fifty Shades of Grey.]]'' The Internet is over, we can go home.
50	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FV-nuhlB5A A drunken YouTuber reads it too.]]
51	** Watch Creator/GeorgeTakei [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WahBH9sANg do it, too.]] Oh my!
52	* LetsPlay/HellfireCommentaries did a Dramatic Reading of ''Total Justice'', a MerchandiseDriven line of toys that revolved around superheroes getting "Fractal Tech Gear" to fight Darkseid, who is searching for "The Ultimate Weapon". The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkxugApTarw first]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaKlp79Zr4w second]] parts being able to be seen.
53	* Troper and [=YouTube=]-user Lord Starfish has a channel for dramatic readings. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpzTzlgviUU Here is a video with the summaries of all the stuff he has currently read, and links to these readings.]]
54	* [[http://soundcloud.com/wuten/dramatic-reading-im-sexy-and-i Sexy and I know it: The Dramatic Reading.]]
55	* Creator/GaryOldman [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oh8Fe3liIIc reads]] from Music/RKelly's memoir, ''Soulacoaster''.
56	** And here's Gary [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8S1NOoxMY0 reading a Jersey Shore recap.]]
57	* A retired [=YouTube=] user, [[https://www.youtube.com/user/CheatsythePimp2?feature=mhee CheatsythePimp2,]] had done dramatic readings of fanfictions by Creator/{{THEPETEPETERSONEXPERIENCE}} and [[https://allthetropes.fandom.com/wiki/Comics_Nix ComicsNix]].
58	* A Platform/YouTube user called Monkfishification has done one of a ''Webcomic/{{VGcats}}'' self-insert fic called "Burning Heart." Can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KdHro5Hpm0 here.]]
59	* A [=YouTube=] user has done a dramatic reading of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vy6df9ra3qc the United Nations member states]]... alphabetically.
60	* [[https://www.youtube.com/user/Stevothehuman?feature=watch Stevo the Human]] makes dramatic readings of ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' badly-written fanfics, like ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fbLnnAws5E The attrack of th eyokai]]'' and ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jHVlmXy3f0 Reimu fights the bad guys of ardkness.]]''
61	* [[Website/TheAgonyBooth Mr. Mendo]] does a reading of the [[http://www.agonybooth.com/video884_Simpsons_Bart_vs_The_Space_Mutants_Manual_Nintendo.aspx guidebook]] to ''VideoGame/TheSimpsonsBartVsTheSpaceMutants''.
62	* ''Webcomic/MassEffect3Generations'' has one that can be [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSDGvG17ZWY watched here.]]
63	* [[http://www.pitpodcast.com Pretentious Internet Theatre]] is an audio podcast in which the host reads fanfiction in a dramatic manner, including ''My Immortal'' and ''Cupcakes''.
64	** One author turned an episode, which featured a dramatic reading of a story his wrote "Joker Save the Ponies", into a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3fgGDtCfGE machina video.]]
65	* WebVideo/{{Retsupurae}}'s Crappy Pasta videos, where slowbeef reads bad {{Creepypasta}}s accompanied by video game footage. He and Diabetus are prone to {{Corpsing}} during some of the more ridiculous parts.
66	* Platform/BZPower members Hahli Husky and Janus gave ''Toys/{{BIONICLE}}'' issues [[http://www.bzpower.com/board/index.php?app=blog&blogid=527&showentry=121112 one]] through [[http://www.bzpower.com/board/index.php?app=blog&module=display§ion=blog&blogid=527&showentry=125922 eight]] this treatment. (For issues #2-7, look no further than the sidebar of either link.)
67	* The most popular dramatic reading of the ''Literature/WarriorCats'' TrollFic ''Fanfic/StarKitsProphecy'' can be [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYUt9hb3TPEm3O_RqualtpYVlFdue8NJl found here.]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxHV8Vrbqfs This particular installment]] is considered to be the best.
68	* The [=YouTube=] channel Dead Parrot does dramatic readings of arguments found in [=YouTube=] video comments using British gentlemen. For example, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJXLyUoz2M4 an argument from the video of the fireman saving a kitten.]]
69	* ''Fanfic/MyBravePonyStarfleetMagic'':
70	** A [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7tT1TLFVdQ few]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaJ98gyLGDY have]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FREAjSrsXDQ popped]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yE6VqpnXQzc up.]]
71	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7nNh2TOGvs&list=UUZAllWXm6VopnzUZmrHtClQ As well]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxSuAZxgyO0&list=UUZAllWXm6VopnzUZmrHtClQ as this]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFIY-2zTZuI&list=UUZAllWXm6VopnzUZmrHtClQ Let’s Read]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDUYvK_hKC8&list=UUZAllWXm6VopnzUZmrHtClQ series.]]
72	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShH2cMbv8Og There's this one-shot.]]
73	** There’s also [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x24uoi3_starfleet-humans_tech this reading of]][[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x24urdc_star-fleet-mumans_fun Starfleet Humans.]]
74	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqahFb4BUJU Here's]] a Dramatic Reading of ''Fanfic/EvvaAgentOfSHIELD'', the SoBadItsGood ''Avengers'' fanfic by the same author as ''Fanfic/MoonDaughter''.
75	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQf_dCiD2PE&index=1&list=PLmJ61kQeTzvyZErJa-kpr34bWiJiNsv4K Here's]] another one, with an epic "Nick Furry" impression.
76	* The ''Series/BigFatQuizOfTheYear'' regularly features classically-trained actors, such as Charles Dance, giving dramatic readings from the autobiographies of borderline illiterate celebrities (the teams being tasked with identifying the author, or the person who hired the ghostwriter as the case may be).
77	* ''Film/KungPowEnterTheFist'' had a "dramatic reading" as one of its dub tracks.
78	* Creator/BenedictCumberbatch does a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNPp74zh8lM reading of R. Kelly's "Genius."]]
79	* This is the entire point of the [=YouTube=] channel [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9HOnuCns7fmBbP4za6rfkw Jack Reads Stuff.]]
80	* Watch Raymond Cruz (Tuco from ''Series/BreakingBad'' and ''Series/BetterCallSaul'') [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2uekClOYbo&feature=player_embedded read a Nissan warranty.]]
81	* ''Fanfic/HarryPotterBecomesACommunist'' has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puTsy7ncU2M&list=PLOFFp5xydL_aGn6blJmgOLmLWr-bclQuL this one that goes up to chapter 32]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_Eqoa2zbpE&list=PLoCT2WbpnrRjxpyvY6FhqSUOZV0a7qpoJ this one that covers all 191 chapters.]]
82	* When the comics podcast ''Podcast/HouseToAstonish'' reviews a book with particularly bad dialogue, they sometimes act them out as ''House to Astonish Theatre''. In ''[[http://www.housetoastonish.com/?p=2557 House to Astonish Live!]]'' they [[AudienceParticipation roped in members of the audience]] for their dramatic reading of the final issue of ''ComicBook/{{Nightwing}}'' Vol 3.
83	* Youtuber [[https://m.youtube.com/c/RegretfulReads/featured Regretful Reads]] specializes in SlashFic involving rather [[CrackPairing unusual shippings.]]
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85	!!Non-derisive dramatic readings
86	Closer to AudioAdaptation, but usually based on (Web)comics, so they still need the pictures.
87	* [[http://mspaforums.com/showthread.php?47307 Let's Read Homestuck!]] An in-progress dramatic reading of the wildly popular webcomic. Though due to the extremely meta nature of the comic, they've had to change some jokes here and there.
88	-->'''Doc Scratch''': [[RunningGag I told you, bro! I told you about]] [[LampshadeHanging those sight gags that don't translate to videos!]]
89	* Around Halloween 2014, the same group also did a [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQ7JOidKp_xyhLaOhUCOMjB0v_jmP-czF reading]] or ''Roleplay/RubyQuest''.
90	* Creator/IanMcKellen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhEL0ioJwKQ#t=1m58s reading instructions to changing a flat tire "in your most theatrical voice."]]
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92	!!Examples from fiction:
93	* In ''Literature/AClockworkOrange'', Alex and his goons break into a writer's house. Alex mocks the writer by reading his work-in-progress in a "sort of very high type preaching voice".
94	* ''Literature/EndoAndKobayashiLive The Latest on Tsundere Villainess Lieselotte'': when the anime adapted Chapter 2B of the second novel, the Broadcasting Club's SchoolFestival activity of a RadioDrama is modified to a "Dramatic Reading drama," which is effectively doing the same thing, but in front of an audience.
95	* In the aptly named ''Franchise/HarryPotter story'' ''A Dramatic Reading,'' this is done when Umbridge finds the Harry Potter book series in the Requeriment Room by some of the professors.
96	* Done repeatedly in-universe in ''Fanfic/SkyholdAcademyYearbook'', when [[Franchise/DragonAge Varric Tethras]] performs readings of stories written by either himself or his students.

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