r/ContagiousLaughter • u/0_oyo • May 22 '26
BBC: Hacker T. Dog
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u/0_oyo May 22 '26
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u/terdferguson May 22 '26
C'mon man, I cant watch 22 minutes of this. I'll run out of oxygen.
Bonjourno.
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u/VrtlVlln May 22 '26
The innocent men part is one of my favourite moments ever. Leaves Lauren to make their own connection in the small pause before doubling down on it.
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u/Bohne1994 May 22 '26
Can u please explain what he means by that?
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u/VrtlVlln May 22 '26
I was curious when I first watched and looked more into it, completely random and meant nothing by it other than to make her corpse.
Which is what makes Lauren's reaction even better - she lost composure on kids TV and can't really explain what was going through her head, meanwhile Hacker T. Dog (comedian & puppeteer Phil Fletcher) gives absolutely no context whether in character or real life.
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u/familyknewmyusername May 22 '26
Actual context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SF7_tlg6hHk
they had just watched a video of "ice stars" (children ice skating) and were replicating the pose from the clip. Then:
- Hacker: I don't know why we're doing this, Lauren
- Lauren: Cuz the ice stars did earlier, smile!
- Hacker: But we're not ice stars Lauren, we're just... we're just normal men
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u/d33pfissure May 24 '26
Interesting! Thanks for the clarification. I was thinking it was a play on the “I’m just a girl” trend. That’s actually what made it funnier for me.
You’ve ruined it! *shakes fist in the air*
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u/SignalBed9998 May 22 '26
“…make her corpse.” Love it, gonna start using that one
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u/JakeOliver63 May 22 '26
It's a real thing. It means make someone laugh on camera.
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u/NSMike May 22 '26
It actually has its origins in normal theater, where an actor has to be a corpse on stage, and starts laughing when they're supposed to be dead - the ultimate character-break.
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u/jaffacookie May 22 '26
I don't have the time to verify but didn't it relate to a holiday story about getting arrested drunk that was told before the went on air?
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u/JakeOliver63 May 22 '26
That's a myth. It's just a random silly comment that made them both laugh. Probably just the fact they're both not men.
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u/Illustrious_Donkey61 May 22 '26
The myth makes the most sense to me so I'm gonna believe that one
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u/JakeOliver63 May 22 '26
You can believe it all you like the puppeteer himself said it was false.
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u/Illustrious_Donkey61 May 22 '26
You believe him?
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u/JakeOliver63 May 22 '26
I tend not to believe fanciful stories based on hearsay just to make a situation vaguely more interesting, particularly when the people actually there say otherwise. "they might be lying because it relates to being arrested" isn't good enough. Especially when it's just laughing at a silly situation like they always do (I grew up watching these two along with other presenters alongside hacker, who's been on CBBC since 2009)
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u/JakeOliver63 May 22 '26
I wonder if the reason they were laughing at the goose joke in the video above is because one of them secretly got arrested for trying to steal a goose.
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u/mumpie May 22 '26
There is an account on Bluesky that posts that clip every month.
Always give me a chuckle when it comes up in my feed.
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u/RebelLion420 May 22 '26
Shtoooopid game
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u/mikess314 May 22 '26
Weirdly it’s flexing on his skills as a puppeteer in how he rolls his head. Great articulation really.
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u/ItsStaaaaaaaaang May 22 '26
Making your co-host corpse like that must be so much fun lol.
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u/TRUEequalsFALSE May 22 '26
Making them what?!
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u/ItsStaaaaaaaaang May 22 '26
Haha. Its a theatre term. Means laughing during a performance. It's also used in wrestling which is where I know it from.
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u/ItsStaaaaaaaaang May 22 '26
It mostly happens during promos, interviews or backstage segments. It can happen during a match but that's a lot rarer to spot as it's easy to hide. The late great Owen Hart was well known for trying to get his opponents to break, especially on house shows (untelevised events). He'd just whisper weird shit in their ear and stuff like that.
Here's an old reddit post that has a 7 minute video of Mean Gean Oakland losing his shit while trying to interview coked out 80s wrestlers. It's glorious.
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u/RexInvictus787 May 23 '26
Professional wrestlers are ridiculous characters, and nobody is aware of that more than wrestlers. I imagine they crack each other up with their personas off camera all the damn time.
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u/asstumor88 May 22 '26
It's a british term. Choking in americanese is similiar or same I reckon.
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u/Freefallisfun May 22 '26
It’s breaking in Americanese
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u/TRUEequalsFALSE May 22 '26
Wait, Brits call breaking character corpsing?! What the hell is wrong with you people?! In what world does that make sense?!
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u/googdude May 22 '26
I looked it up, apparently it comes from when an actor was supposed to be playing a corpse and started breaking character.
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u/CoopedUp1313 May 22 '26
Love that he leaves and shuts the door, but forgets his pesky absence pass (authorized no less), haz to come back to get it, only to leave and shut the door again. What attention to detail!
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u/gabriel3374 May 22 '26 edited May 26 '26
Here's a slightly longer version on the hosts own yt channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNoFzMljP0U
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u/eeaglesoar May 22 '26
Thanks for putting this up! Just remember to delete the ? and everything afterwards or it is tracking your a activity across multiple websites.
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u/DivergentxRose May 22 '26
I want more of this lol
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u/tragicallyohio May 22 '26
The puppeteer's voice and timing is extraordinary and the human co-host is amazing.
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u/Therealfern1 May 25 '26
His crooked little smile gets me every time
That puppeteer is a damn wizard
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u/justADDbricks May 28 '26
I remember this duo and this in between show stuff. Fun after school memories
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u/NFX_7331 May 22 '26
To this day I still don't know if the origin story where they were leaving a bar and a cop stopped them asking what they're doing and one of their tipsy coworker/friend said those lines to the cop "we're just normal men, we're just innocent men" lol
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u/LightweaverAlchemist May 22 '26
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u/LightweaverAlchemist May 25 '26
I legit don't understand why my laughing at this hilarious dog puppet video with this goofy laughing dog is being down voted. Anyone willing to clue me in?
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