SPAMasterpiece Theater
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| Genre | Comedy |
| Creative director(s) | Jolon Gabriel Bankey |
| Presented by | John Hodgman |
| Starring | John Hodgman |
| Judges | John Hodgman |
| Voices of | Dana Devonshire Russ Gooberman John Hodgman Xeni Jardin Erik Sheppard |
| Narrated by | John Hodgman |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
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| Executive producer(s) | Xeni Jardin |
| Producer(s) | Dana Devonshire |
| Editor(s) | Derek Bledsoe Wesly Varghese |
| Camera setup | Derek Bledsoe Wesly Varghese |
| Production company(s) | Happy Mutants, LLC |
| Distributor | Boing Boing TV |
| Release | |
| Original network | Digital Entertainment Corporation of America |
| Original release | March 2 – December 10, 2008 |
SPAMasterpiece Theater (or S.P.A.M. Theater) is an American web series starring humorist John Hodgman where he does dramatic readings of unsolicited email spam received by Boing Boing editors in a parody of Masterpiece Theatre. The series featured images and videos from Creative Commons-licensed media.
In 2008, S.P.A.M. Theater debuted. Each episode features a dramatization of email spam. Originally, the series featured images and videos from Creative Commons-licensed media from the image hosting and video hosting website Flickr and the nonprofit digital library Internet Archive. The second episode "FOR MY DAUGHTER'S SAKE/DE@L OF A LIFETIME" featured the voices of Russ Gooberman and Dana Devonshire. In the third episode "Love Song of Kseniya," Boing Boing's Xeni Jardin reads her own email spam. In the fourth episode "The Proposition," Erik Sheppard of Voice Talent Productions contributes a voice.
In October 1, 2008, Jardin announced the official debut of the web series SPAMasterpiece Theater—almost a month before the American release of John Hodgman's satirical almanac More Information Than You Require. Hodgman described it as "true tale[s] of romance, adventure, infamy, and low-cost prescription drugs, all culled from the reams of actual, unsolicited emails, received here by us and people like you -- what we call SPAM." The hosted series included dramatic readings by Hodgman in a parody of Masterpiece Theatre. In 2010, Boing Boing Video's Jardin was picked as "Curator of the Month". She commended the series with "These were so much fun to put together."
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