We got a new British guy at work and he tries to be funny, sometimes he is sometimes not, like all of us i guess. BUT....
He has this new way of talking where he has to accentuate words followed by a pause in the middle of a sentence for dramatic effect and seemingly comedic effect. Sort of like a modern take of anything Dickens wrote.
I thought it was him just being a knob although Stephen Fry has been doing it for years, but I first really noticed it with Simon Pegg and Jessica Stevenson in "spaced" - which i adored.
I'd do a little take off of them talking with the wife, using their dramatic pauses when doing silly stuff, like washing the dishes for comedy effect and I thought it was quite charming.
Just watched the new "Never mind the Buzzcocks" and everyone is speaking this way and it sounds completely rubbish and fake.
anyone ELSE notice this???
Everything now needs to be plumy, measured and accentuated for comedy value - yeah but we all just sound like Donald Sinden now - fucking fantastic