Speech Heads, if you haven’t caught BBC 4′s Fonejacker, you are missing on on some speech hilarity. Fonejacker is the brain child of British-Iranian comedian, Kayvan Novak. Building on the rich cultural tradition of acts like The Jerky Boys, the show revolves around a slew of characters that Novak voices and uses to prank call unsuspecting Britons.
Of special note to us Speechies, Novak has a routine where he calls live operators and harangues them as if they were IVRs, reminding us of the pitfalls of the increasingly complicated natural language systems we love so well.
Talk about some comedy gold, my brother, Adam B., says this stuff is so speech-larious that it makes milk come out his nose–and he can’t even drink milk. He’s heinously lactose intolerant!
Hope the same doesn’t happen to you!
great work, e-dawg!