Excellent point

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““It’s just an idiot talking rubbish to another idiot,” Phil concludes. “That happened to be on the telly. Some people find it the funniest thing on earth. Other people find it unfunny. And they're both right.”” Well, they’re not. The people who don’t think it’s funny are medically dead

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“Perhaps, most brilliantly, it is as its premise suggests: completely, and utterly innocent. There’s no cheapness or joke at someone’s expense, no controversy, no pain, nothing cruel: it’s pure freude without the Schaden ... it’s [the] Schrödinger’s dog of humour: simultaneously funny and unfunny.”

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Obviously, what with it being huge, it’s not just us here on this platform who love it. I’ve also found this of James Acaster talking to Layfield about it. But I think the best thing I’ve found is that ‘unabridged story’, which analyses why it works...

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Until 1 November 2016, anyway. Know Your Meme says Layfield posted this compilation in October 2017 of her most special moments with Hacker, but it only went big when Jacqui Abbott tweeted the now famous shorter, unexplained bit in April 2022

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