The above video is a short, parody commercial made by WWE advertising a fictional 800 service for Brogue Kicks on demand. When I first heard about the number being used as a gimmick thing for Sheamus, I thought it was pretty lame. Then I saw the video, and my opinion changed immediately. Obviously, it still accentuates a lot of Sheamus' awful character traits, especially when it comes to stealing a dude's girlfriend after he saved him from choking in the least likely way possible. However, there's a certain whimsy bordering on absurdity about even making a video like this in the first place.
Wrestling, at its heart, is absurdist entertainment. It's why I pop aneurysms when people argue they want more "realism" in the product. I mean, people are welcome to their opinions and tastes and all, but I can't really imagine liking an artform that doesn't go full tilt on the absolute wackiest strains associated with it. I know asking for more of these kinds of videos with other wrestlers might be asking for trouble, but similarly, if this is what WWE is going to start to pass off as comedy, I'm all for it. Hell, maybe they can actually, in short bursts, do what Seltzer and Friedberg have failed to do and in fact probably mangled in the process - do justice to the spoofs of old like Airplane.
Wrestling, at its heart, is absurdist entertainment. It's why I pop aneurysms when people argue they want more "realism" in the product. I mean, people are welcome to their opinions and tastes and all, but I can't really imagine liking an artform that doesn't go full tilt on the absolute wackiest strains associated with it. I know asking for more of these kinds of videos with other wrestlers might be asking for trouble, but similarly, if this is what WWE is going to start to pass off as comedy, I'm all for it. Hell, maybe they can actually, in short bursts, do what Seltzer and Friedberg have failed to do and in fact probably mangled in the process - do justice to the spoofs of old like Airplane.