TV: World's Wildest Narrative

One thing the Youtube generation sometimes misses out on is the addition of narrative. With a voiceover presiding over the events of video captured in real life, sometimes the effect of the video is enhanced. Many times a narrator has unintentional side-effects to the subject he narrates, making it seem funnier, more absurd, or more compelling than it actually is. One of those narrators is Sheriff John Bunnell, of "World's Wildest Police Videos."

Here's a small example of his work:



This should be a funny video, right? I mean, the images themselves are funny. And yet Bunnell's narration is so overboiled and trying-to-be-funny that it pushes the video back into unfunny land. This is a rare gift, and it must be cherished.

And that's not the end of it. If you're familiar at all with the show, you know that the entire unfunny cow commentary is actually a beat-for-beat recreation of the usual overboiled commentary that accompanies felony suspects. So in essence, I believe what we have here is unfunny self-parody, which is actually funny.

I'm overthinking this.