Rude Tube

Seasons

2008

UK

5.2

A look at the weird, wonderful, and downright idiotic trials and tribulations of some of the world's craziest people through the use of online videos.

Episode List

S1 • E1

Pilot

Countdown of 50 video viral classics.

S1 • E1

Pranks and Stunts

Groups of people post the weirdest pranks, from lame ones such as PostIts all over the boss's office to mean ones such as an atomic wedgie given to an unsuspecting roommate with a car wrench. Individual - or group skills vary from playing a vegetable as if a musical instrument to an artful football ad parody, double-jointed contortions or freestyle mountain climber Dan Osman. Danger varies from street chain surfing to exercising while dangling at night from a 200 meter high crane without safety gear. Jackass stuff includes a life piercing on one's own tongue or 'hardcore sitting', actually crazy stunts in a wheelchair an a skating ramp. Some even post when it literally went bloody wrong.

S1 • E2

Freaky Skills and Geeky Thrills

S1 • E3

Celebrity and Wannabe

YouTube is about the fastest way to some celebrity status, with or especially without actual talent. Some don't even know what they're doing, like a dentist-dazed kid, others would do anything, like swallowing excessive doses of spices or even a fatso stripping and waving his butt-crack into the camera. Yet genuine TV starts seek a second, uncensored career on line too, like Dustin 'Screetch' Diamond, now alias D-man, or accidentally star in a fluke scene. Some perform classical acts, like yo-yo, some do it so badly it becomes comical, other establish regular records. Some make parodies of celebrity life. Some give real or ludicrous advice, comments or 'courses'. Some make highly creative commercials, crossed with fiction.