The following paragraph is to be read in your most
IMPROBABLY EPIC tone of voice.
We all know it can be fun to read terrible fanfics, 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.
A subtrope of
Audio Adaptation.
Examples:
- A You Tuber going by 'Raizaiel' performed, of all things, a dramatic reading of 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 figure out how to pronounce one.
- My Immortal has had dozens of dramatic readings. Here's one. It's brilliant.
- And here's another. Complete with a Deadpan Snarker for a narrator and Visual Puns aplenty, all 44 chapters are now up.
- This YouTuber has concocted an ingeniously hilarious series of Dramatic Readings, which is currently still in the works.
- The first chapter of Twilight badfic Forbiden Fruit The Tempation Of Edward Cullen can be found here
- Light And Dark The Adventures Of Dark Yagami has a few so far (links on it's page), although only one of them are finished.
- The Huemn Ceniped 2 The Humen Milipede has also had this treatment given to it.
- Man Without A Body has done a hilarious hammed up dramatic reading of Atlanta Nights, which can be found here.
- The Dramatic Readings team painfully blatant Mary Sue story "The Hero and the Wolf" can be found here.
- The same team took on Celebrian. Yes, the one and same. You can find the reading here.
- The Celebrian reading is epic hilarious on part six, when the reader resorts to Ny Quil to get through the story.
- The Trope Codifier is arguably A Dramatic Reading of a Real Breakup Letter from a Real Person.
- Latawnya, the Naughty Horse, Learns to Say "No" to Drugs has two.
- Half-Life: Full Life Consequences has its Dramatic Reading combined with Machinima. (Here.)
- William Shatner reading Sarah Palin's speech as poetry. Can be found here.
- Edwyn Tiong's (of "Trapped" fame) reading of blog entries of Matthew "MDickie", known egomaniac and creator of "The You Testament", using his best Smug Snake voice.
- The Eye of Argon. That is all.
- Here is a group reading of Legolas By Laura by contributors to the PPC.
- Here's a dramatic reading of the infamous Harry Potter fanfic, HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. Here's another.
- Trope Maker in YTMND has boomaga's dramatic reading of the Cease and Desist emails from eBaum's World. It even made it onto the YTMND Soundtrack, as did it's PTKFGS counterpart.
- The creators of Yu Gi Oh The Abridged Series did a Dramatic Reading of an issue Yu-Gi-Oh! R ("the D&D one").
- According to Doctor Who Magazine, 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 deliberately bad, Fanwanky Purple Prose, and challenging others to identify which bits were genuine.
- David Langford describes a dramatic reading of Lionel Fanthorpe's March of the Robots being too much for a "Vogon Poetry" competition.
- The entire point of Bennett The Sage's, Masterpiece Fanfic Theater.
- Peta People Smart!, read in december 2005 in YTMND.
- DOT...DOT...DOT. A dramatic reading of a game review that managed to completely miss the point.
- During one of the Dean Martin celebrity roasts, Orson Welles did this to "That's Amore".
- The Zero Wing intro got one. Believe it or not, this predates the music video you've already seen.
- Subverted slightly by the one for Code Geass Mao Of The Deliverance, a fanfic which has generally received positive support from fandom. Nonetheless, someone made a media-enhanced Dramatic Reading for it which can be found here. Enjoy!
- Someone on CAPSLOCK_ATLA put together some dramatic readings for How I Became Yours. The first is quite funny, but the later installments can cause abdominal ruptures from laughing too hard (especially Zuko's voice, which sounds like Milhouse Van Houten).
- Here is one of Naruto Veangance Revelaitons.
- This guy and friends do dramatic readings of this very wiki, mainly Troper Tales.
- Let's Read Homestuck! An in-progress dramatic reading of the wildly popular webcomic.
- Gilbert Gottfried reads Fifty Shades of Grey. The Internet is over, we can go home.
- Hellfire Commentaries did a Dramatic Reading of Total Justice, a Merchandise Driven line of toys that revolved around superheroes getting "Fractal Tech Gear" to fight Darkseid, who is searching for "The Ultimate Weapon". The first and second parts being able to be seen.
- Dramatic reading of raspephabio.
- Sexy and I know it: The Dramatic Reading.
- Gary Oldman reads from R Kelly's memoir, Soulacoaster.
- A YouTube user has done dramatic readings of fanfictions by The Pete Peterson Experience.
- A youtube user called Monkfishification has done one of a VGcats self-insert fic called "Burning Heart." Can be seen here.
- A YouTube user has done a dramatic reading of the United Nations member states... alphabetically.
- Stevo the Human makes dramatic readings fo Touhou badly-written fanfics, like The attrack of th eyokai and Reimu fights the bad guys of ardkness.
- Mr. Mendo does a reading of the guidebook to The Simpsons: Bart vs. The Space Mutants.
Examples from fiction:
- In A Clockwork Orange, 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".
