Being Mr. Kenny

Miss Marple is one of the best ever TV shows ever in the whole wide world, better even than the News. This was recently certified by the Queen in the Honours list, where for the first time in British history something that wasn’t a person was made an MBE. Miss Marple was written by Agatha Christie through strictly speaking, of course, it is more correct to say that it was written through Agatha Christie, since the whole thing is divinely inspired.

Throughout the 80s and early 90s, it made the move into television. Starring Joan Hickson, it went from strength to strength, purely because of the most incredible overacting on the part of the entire cast. Apart from the BBC adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice, Miss Marple is the most overacted piece of television ever to be made. It has been demonstrated, scientifically, that overacting is the key to making dramas brilliant. As celebrity chef Gordon Ramsey says, “What is the point of subtlety when you can completely exaggerate something beyond all recognition until it approaches divinity. You know it’s true.”

His views can be proven scientifically, mathematically and biblically.

Overacting is the art of making mountains out of molehills. True overacting has the power to take fiction and make it into solid, hard fact. If you can really overact, with enough skill and precision, you can make Shakespeare’s plays into documentaries. But overacting can also be very dangerous. Overacting is now illegal in Japan after the terrible tragedies of 1993.

On December 12, 1993, three cinemas completely exploded when an experimental film was premiered. In keeping with the theme of pure exaggeration, the film had no title but was named with a scream. “We’re going to see AAAAARRRRGGGGHHHHH tonight, do you want to come?” It was directed by no fewer than 13 directors. The script called for 17 directors, but one of them spontaneously combusted when he finished reading the script, and the remaining three were annhilated upon contact — much like the reaction between matter and anti-matter.

You can read about this on Wikipedia.