Caleb Gamman
is a New Zealand-based YouTube creator specializing in opinion pieces delivered directly to camera. His work covers a wide variety of topics, but is broadly fixated on science fiction (especially Star Wars), gaming, film, and the modern tech industry.
He typically employs a very loose and deadpan method of delivery, influenced by comedians like Stewart Lee as well as the absurdist nature of the 'Weird Twitter' sphere of posters. Often this involves non-sequiturs, sudden belligerent jabs, and a shifting personality that oscillates between his more grounded actual self who frequently acknowledges his own shortcomings, and a self-caricature who has a comically condescending, dismissive attitude towards both his subjects and his audience. Ideologically he is firmly left-wing and his analyses of culture and industry are usually done so with a bent towards advocating social welfare and "the complete dismantling of neoliberal capitalism".
Among his more popular works are the Fixing sub-series of videos, wherein he documents the creation of his own fancuts of films and often exhaustively details his reasoning behind editing choices and VFX additions. To date he has created these cuts and respective videos for Attack of the Clones, Revenge of the Sith, Blade Runner, and Inland Empirenote , with an additional episode dedicated to the game Fallout: New Vegas where he applies a similar philosophy towards modding the game.
Prior to his current output, one of Gamman's earliest creative projects was caleb night show, a six-part "bootleg-ass Eric Andre" talk show teeming with Stylistic Suck that involved him interviewing a rotating circle of friends and acquaintances in a multistorey car park with trite repetitive questions usually about suggestions on how to improve the show itself, as well as various floundering attempts at diversiying its content like Let's Plays and ghost hunting. The series began with a pilot episode intended for television which would never be picked up, and the five subsequent episodes all portray Caleb's breakdown as a result of its reception, with each one representing a different stage of grief.
