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{{trope}}
We all ''know'' it can be '''fun''' to read ''<font color=red>terrible</font>'' [[Fanfic|fanfics]]... but what about having them read... ''to you?!'' ...in a dramatic, '''BOOMING''' voice, just so that ''all'' of the [[Narm]] can be '''fully''' appreciated? This... is where the '''Dramatic Reading''' comes in. You can expect almost ''every'' bad fanfic that becomes ''<font color=red>infamous</font>'' to have at least one '''Dramatic Reading'''. And often, ''other'' media such as ''published'' books can get '''Dramatic Readings''' if they're sufficiently ''<font color=red>infamous</font>''.
Also see [[Large Ham]] and [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]].
Don't confuse this trope with "Podfics", which are more like audiobooks for ordinary and even quality fanfics (albeit many podficcers can do Dramatic Readings on the side)
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** From the same reader, ''[[My Inner Life]]'' can be heard right [http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=9657945AD58D5150 here].
** And [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66twsuCehaI here]'s a [[Machinima]] production of ''[[Doom: Repercussions of Evil]]''. Or the [[Remake]] right [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1RJevflSmI here].
** And the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KifDTE5mC3w Three Wolf Moon review], and ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1vY-km6RIo Olimar Fucks a Pikmin]'', and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiFNq5XHyOM a version] of ''[[
** He is also doing a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZqpLIrFjyo reading/spork] of ''[[Midnight Sun (novel)|Midnight Sun]]''
* The Dramatic Readings team painfully blatant Mary Sue story "The Hero and the Wolf" can be [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9744GYNlQE found here].
** The same team took on ''[[Celebrian]]''. Yes, [http://www.freewebs.com/bonsaimallorn4/Celebrian.htm the one and same]. You can find the reading [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC4Mo9dpGFY here].
*** The ''Celebrian'' reading is epic hilarious on part six, when the reader resorts to [[Ny Quil]] to get through the story.
* The [[Trope Codifier]] is arguably [http://youmakemetouchyourhandsforstupidreasons.ytmnd.com/ A Dramatic Reading of a Real Breakup Letter from a Real Person].
** [[Crowning Moment of Funny]].
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** [[It Got Worse|It goes further]]: he reads her [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mLvzARScak Twitter posts].
* Edwyn Tiong's (of "''[[The Trapped Trilogy|Trapped]]''" fame) reading of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRf800DiOrc blog entries] of Matthew "MDickie", known [[Small Name, Big Ego|egomaniac]] and creator of "[[The You Testament]]", using his best [[Smug Snake]] voice.
* ''[[The Eye of Argon]]''. That is all.
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fI7PqKhSrVc Here is a dramatic reading] of it, though.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CrG6UYSc6A Here] is a group reading of ''[[Legolas By Laura]]'' by contributors to the [[PPC]].
** And [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBOiHnPVHHY&feature=email here]'s one by the aforementioned manwithoutabody.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVFIxz4B6Js Here's] a dramatic reading of the infamous ''[[Harry Potter]]'' fanfic, ''[[Thirty Hs|HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH]].'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V4VxlsMuQ4 Here]'s another.
* [[Trope Maker]] in [[YTMND]] has [http://baumanletters.ytmnd.com/ boomaga's dramatic reading of the Cease and Desist emails from eBaum's World]. It even made it onto the YTMND Soundtrack, as did it's [[Alternate Universe|PTKFGS]] [http://baumanlettersptkfgs.ytmnd.com/ counterpart].
* The creators of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The
* According to ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'', there was a brief fad for reading random excerpts from ''The Eight Doctors'' and ''War of the Daleks'', interspersed with the readers' own improvisations of [[Stylistic Suck|deliberately bad]], [[Fan Wank|Fanwanky]] [[Purple Prose]], and challenging others to identify which bits were genuine.
* [[David Langford]] [http://www.ansible.co.uk/writing/rlfintro.html describes] a dramatic reading of [[Lionel Fanthorpe]]'s ''March of the Robots'' being too much for a "[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy|Vogon Poetry]]" competition.
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* [http://ultamatom.ytmnd.com/ Peta People Smart!], read in December 2005 in YTMND.
* [[Dot Dot Dot|DOT...DOT...DOT.]] A dramatic reading of a ''game review'' that managed to completely miss the point.
* During one of the [[Dean Martin]] [[The Roast|celebrity roasts]], ''[[Orson Welles]]'' did this to "That's Amore".
* The ''[[Zero Wing]]'' intro got [http://www.overclocked.org/OCzerowing.htm one]. Believe it or not, this [[Older Than They Think|predates the music video you've already seen]].
* ''[[Code Geass:
* Someone on CAPSLOCK_ATLA put together some dramatic readings for ''[[How I Became Yours]]''. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uun3a9lQ_yU The first] is quite funny, but the later installments can cause abdominal ruptures from laughing too hard (especially Zuko's voice, oh my god).
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDxxfaJo1z4 Here] is one of ''[[Naruto Veangance Revelaitons]]''.
* [http://www.youtube.com/user/CrazyGoggs This guy] and friends do dramatic readings of this very wiki, mainly Troper Tales.
* ''[http://mspaforums.com/showthread.php?47307 Let's Read Homestuck]!'' An in-progress dramatic reading of the wildly popular webcomic.
== Examples from fiction ==
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