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aaaaahhhh! Thanks, darling. That was going to drive me crazy. (Wow! What good actors.)

Thanks, I just wasted several minutes of my busy life trying to figure out what that video had to do with the giant pink bunny.

Aw, too bad it's a spoof. That was truly hilarious when I thought it was real.

Yes. As a spoof it's a total bore. But when I thought it was real, I couldn't help laughing, even though I was totally bewildered.

This is indeed from "In De Gloria", a Belgian (Flemish) sketch show. It is brilliantly done, and fooled some of my friends when it first started circulating on the web.

It is a faux-documentary piece that tells the story of one "Erik Hartman", a failed TV presenter who got his break on a human interest show called "Boemerang", somewhat reminiscent in style (probably intentional) of "Jambers", a popular 90s Flemish show that was Oprah-ish in principle, but with a strong emphasis on the seedy underbelly of random freako's hobbies, habits, and shortcomings.

This episode was to be his downfall, as he interviews victims of medical mishaps. All goes well interviewing the wheelchair-bound woman with the bone marrow damage, but when he comes round to the man who suffered a permanent voice change as result of a shoddy operation, he can't help cracking up in light of this amusing (to him) handicap. An audience member recounts having had a similar experience as the male interviewee (albeit with effects to a different register :)), and it all goes downhill from there.

Now, years after being canned from the network, he is a smalltime radio announcer for a cheesy local channel.

In the final scene Hartman recounts how, in his view, it was a setup to push him from the network, how he got no time to prepare that episode and had to wing it on the fly.

The power of the skit is not only in the style - for instance, the next-to-tearful shots of the antihero as familiar from such docu pieces - but to me, very much also in the audiovisual details: the music and clothing on the "chat show" are *exactly* like they always were on early nineties Dutch and Flemish talk shows.

The clip linked above only shows the part where the interviewees discuss the effects on their sex lives, with the weird-voice guy saying something along the lines of how "dirty talk" just isn't the same for him anymore.

The entire skit is here.