Jeromy Jarre: Nice Versus Nasty

Coming back to the last post about cruelty passed up as comedy, YouTube pranksters are often as funny as toothache in that respect, but this week a guy called Jeromy Jarre showed in two videos how to do it completely right and how to get it completely wrong.

The first video was ‘ace in the hole’, the second plain old ‘asshole’.

Here’s video one:

Ahhhhhhh innit nice?

Here’s video two, done in conjunction with Vitalyzd TV

Ewwwwww innit nasty?

The first one was as sweet as it was silly, the participants got a laugh out of it, and even when he had to take the slap forfeit none of them had the heart to do it to him properly  – as he had no doubt guessed, you’d have to be a real meanie to have slapped him full on when your own forfeit was only to be kissed. In one, he managed to even get a free hug out of it. Win-win.

The second one however was plain mean. Not excusing the girl for spitting on him (wow what a skank!), but hostility begets hostility – she may have felt afraid suddenly for her safety from the way he turned nasty in a blink.

The same premise of the prank could easily have been achieved in a far funnier and less humiliating fashion.

How about this?

Once she agrees to the ride with Vitalyzd in the hot car, Jerome (waiting nearby) now reappears, walking over to the car. Vitalyzd gets out and the following dialogue takes place.

Vitalyzed: ‘Man, there you are! I thought I’d have to go round the block again waiting for you to turn up. Car’s all fixed, you can have it back.’

Jerome: ‘Great! I’ve parked the one you loaned me down the street here, here’s the keys.’ [they exchange keys]

Vitalyzed: ‘Thanks, but look I’d agreed to give this lady a ride down the block before you turned up. D’ya wanna honour my promise for me?’

Jerome: ‘Um, yeah, okay… I guess… unless she’d rather take the ride in your car.’

It now puts her in the dilemma of having to decide whether to:

1. Stay in the car (showing herself as shallow in trusting a stranger on the grounds of the car he’s driving).

2. Go to the other car (at the risk of making it appear she thinks Jerome is a psycho or she has the hots for Vitalysed).

3. Get out of the car and decline both offers (either out of not wishing to offend either or from suspicion she’s been set up, but at the cost of a ride).

Whatever the outcome, you’ve got a clever laugh without being a choad in the process.

As Slappy Squirrel used to say, ‘Now that’s comedy!’