Poor Betty Butterfield, my new favorite YouTube character, is, sniff sniff, at it again. As always, she's going on about her tragic tragic circumstances. As she whimpers on about her "problems" you can't help but laugh out loud because she is so sincere about these nonsensical issues.
She whines, "I don't never have no money in my purse. Sometimes I can't scrape together enough money for cigarettes." What will she do? How will she survive?
The writing and acting in these short and simple videos is not only superb -- you'll want to return to the video again to replay it several times, if only in your head, to get every nuance -- but everything she says is so trivial that you can't help but enjoy a nice belly laugh at the overwhelming sorrow she puts into her soulful blubbering.
And be sure to wait for the closing shot as she drinks from her tall tumbler of iced tea -- or more likely it's Long Island Iced Tea. The faces she makes as her entire head convulses in slow-motion are priceless. Poor tragic Betty.