Hacker Cinema
You've Been Framed!
1990 · TV series · 30 min episodes · 31 seasons
You've Been Framed! was a British television programme where viewers contributed to the programme with their humorous home movies for the entertainment of others. The series began on 14 April 1990 and ended on 27 August 2022. It was hosted by Jeremy Beadle from Series 1 to 9, Lisa Riley from Series 10 to 14, Johnathan Wilkes in Series 15, and narrated by Harry Hill from Series 16 onwards.
2 neutralfrom 2 commenters
Where to watch
No streaming data for this title.
2 comments on Hacker News
In the later years of the UK TV show, I'm sure they shortened the postal address to just the show's name: "You've Been Framed."
Memes are just comedy plus digital multimedia.
I think the rise of cringe and its encompassing genre of incidental humour is not due to the Internet / meme culture, but of recording generally. TV shows like "America's funniest home videos" and "You've been framed" feature a lot of cringe humour (much of it physical); film outtakes are cringe. Its existence depends on incidental recording. Social media produces so much cringe because it's always recording.