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Remix a Gordon Brown speech
Posted by Gavin Lucas, 9 October 2009, 16:04 Permalink Comments (6)

"I want to be wasted this weekend," says Gordon Brown to rapturous applause in a short film created using Speechbreaker - a new online toy created by Lean Mean Fighting Machine in which you can piece together various words uttered by the three main UK political party leaders at their recent party conferences.
Here's how Speechbreaker looks onscreen:

When you've constructed your "speech" from the available words, you can preview how it will sound and look before either sending the film to a friend by email or uploading it to the Speechbreaker YouTube channel.
Of course, writing speeches for leading political figures is not, we'd imagine, the most fun job in the world - which is probably why re-arranging the words of these pompous wind-bags to make them say ridiculous things is such enormously good fun.
Making David Cameron say that he loves "nurses and cheerful druggies because they all love a crazy party and nothing else matters" and then adding an applause is almost as entertaining as getting Gordon Brown to say "At our overnight party President Obama will teach me good hard explicit punishments - all for money." (applause)
However, turning our attentions to Nick Clegg, the only words available to play with are "choose", "the", "liberal" and "democrats", making it more than likely that this little online toy, created by Lean Mean Fighting Machine was funded by Clegg's party, the Lib Dems. As negative campaigning goes, it's brilliant because the Lib Dems don't actually say anything bad about their two rival parties - they let you do it instead. This probably shouldn't be as much fun as it is...
Here's another one that tickled us:
Make your own version at speechbreaker.co.uk/
6 Comments
A great piece of viral. I love how everyone is automatically making Brown and Cameron speeches as rude and coarse as possibly. Would be interesting to find out how many videos have been uploaded to youtube so far...
Particulary loving this Jedi speech: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PJhWEt8K2o
2009-10-10 09:48:30
The best example of this kind is Chris Morris' wonderful edit of a George Bush speech:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYvfxvDwJxA
also available to download (legally) from Warp Records via http://downloads.warprecords.com/bushwhacked2.mov
2009-10-12 16:55:20
love it! really great you can upload direct to youtube.
make those politicians weep!
but, where's the link to post it straight to twitter or friendfeed et al too?
2009-10-13 14:53:32
If it didn't involve bigging up the frankly MENTAL lib dems (although all the parties are pretty crazy) I'd love it!
2009-10-13 15:17:17
So much fun! " I GET MAGNIFICENT EXPENSES BECAUSE GORDON BROWN IS ON LOVE WITH ME". The possibilities are endless!
2009-10-13 17:08:18
Great stuff.
2009-10-14 11:32:16
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