![]() After declaring that she speaks fluent American, Stewart reveals her confusion about the British term “pounds,” and whether it indicates that England exists in a different part of the solar system. Consider “ England is Confusing,” the video that apparently received howls of outrage online. The insanity in her words speaks for itself. ![]() Her monologues to the camera have the spontaneous flow of improvisation, and you never sense her straining to sell a punchline. The reason why many people are fooled by Stewart is because they are blindsided by how good of an actress she is. Not only is Stewart skewering one of the most despised personalities in American political history, she’s also sending up videos made by girls her age who claim that a guy’s sheer hotness has impregnated them. It’s only as she continues to talk that you realize that she’s articulating her whole-hearted crush on Donald Trump, whom she claims “made her pregnant” simply by the way he adjusts his hat that famously reads, “MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.” Her eyes well up with tears as the words spill out of her mouth with startling emotion, and the whole thing is scarily convincing. She begins the video by speaking in the sort of mumbly monotone you’d expect from a teen on a public forum. Stewart’s first video that caught my attention was entitled, “ I’m Pregnant.” It was originally uploaded last August, yet I only saw it recently when a Facebook friend posted it on his feed. Yet it was clear to me from the get-go that this young woman-most likely age 17 (according to her videos)-was embracing her online platform as an opportunity to experiment with what I’d refer to as absurdist performance art. Many people have interpreted her filmed confessions as a terrifying reflection of modern youth in all their chronic cluelessness. I was reminded of those blissful days when I stumbled upon the YouTube videos of Pupinia Stewart, one of the most misunderstood comic talents on the Internet. Needless to say, we didn’t get past Platform Nine and Three-Quarters, but the resulting footage has a wonderfully warped quality to it, chronicling the supposed breakdown of a Harry Potter superfan as he undergoes a sexual identity crisis (he ultimately ends up as Mrs. Since we were’t using any editing software, we shot the entire thing in chronological order, thus requiring me to continuously change costumes and voices in every shot. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone as a film starring me as all of the characters. Perhaps most memorable of all was the time that my sister undertook an insanely ambitious project: she was going to adapt J.K. “Slowly, the penguins steal my sanity.”-message on T-shirt worn by friend in high schoolĪmong my very favorite memories of adolescence are the times that my sister and I would grab a camera and just goof off, filming some sort of silly sketch that would make both of us laugh.
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