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Baron Von Grumble - twat or comic genius?

Discussion in 'Lounge' started by gliddofglood, Jun 18, 2013.

  1. Or something in between?

    I have to admit to finding his vlogs vastly entertaining. I have no idea why random thoughts, spoken over a movie of inner city commuting or squirting down country lanes should make great entertainment, but it does for me.

    I can also see that some might just not have that sense of humour - he's probably fairly polarising. But if you want a good laugh - in my opinion - check out this vid; the stories are great (just don't invite him round for the night).

     
    #1 gliddofglood, Jun 18, 2013
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  2. He is a member if the club I'm off to do 2 days at Cadwell with this afternoon. His off roading on the gixxer was pure class but cant watch the others: find them boring
     
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  3. I was enjoying that till he had to add pissing and f******
    Had to laugh at the directions and after he said I think that's the right way

    I got mesmerised by the journey mainly and switched off to what he was saying
     
  4. I would like to know what he looks like, I have watched his videos for a while. As he says I bet he is very different to how I might image how he looks.
     
  5. I'm interested to know what he does for a living. Seems to work in Soho - I was wondering if he wasn't a copywriter or something.
     
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  6. Yeah, he lives out in the sticks but travels into Soho for sure, I believe his other half is preggers too. lol
     
  7. According to recent vlogs he is now a dad (baby girl I believe).
     
  8. I'm glad to hear that as his vids are very professional. But then if he is a professional, that would explain it.

    It's when you get people who do something entirely different but just happen to be dab-hands with all sorts of software that life becomes depressing.
     
  9. Oh well that explains it then!
     
  10. Yeah, thats a catch phrase, Double Decker! Well good luck to him. There are people out there that make $000,000 (6 figure) salaries from posting videos on youtube.
     
  11. He did post a question on the subject of monetarisation. Suffice it to say that it didn't look like 6 figure payments were in order unless you are Psy.
     
  12. Many people like

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  13. Baron has a little less than 2m views to date, so that will roughly (based on your stats) have made him some £935.

    Well, better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick, but currently not worth giving up the day job for. And if you take into account the amount of work that has gone into his "oeuvre" then if you wanted to make money, you'd be better off working in Macdonalds.

    The world is a competitive place, the Youtube universe monstrous. Get into the top 10? You'd need a lot of luck.

    The Baron disqualifies himself from mainstream popularity by appealing to people with motorbikes. That excludes about 95% of a potential audience.
     
    #13 gliddofglood, Jun 18, 2013
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  14. I really like the vids, stumbled on them some time ago and after seeing the off road gixxer vid I thought he was a dick but then watched the others and the guy is brilliant, very witty and great running commentary on stuff we all think of when just plodding about. His comments about the Olympics is classic.
    "What is it with the Olympics?, just because someone can run faster than you..whats the big deal? I can go faster than you on my bike !. Brilliant.
     
  15. Watching that video just gave me motion sickness.
     
  16. He's the fella who did a bit of off-roading with a Gixxer? Yes, he's funny. :upyeah:
     
  17. he's a twat.

    i honestly cant find a single thing funny about anything he says or does....
     
  18. I've been following his Vlogs for a while after stumbling into them. I find him quiet entertaining. The Gixxer off road was a good 'un and his Eurotrip looks promising.
     
  19. Gotta say I agree with Funky. It's all staged and a tad predictable. To me anyway.
     
  20. Guy sounds like Robert Webb the comedian to me, even uses some of his own catch phrases and stuff
     
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