Commentating is harder than I thought. Tips?

[FrozenEye]

what kind of stuffty commentaries do you watch?

The Yogscast, for one.

I already knew they scripted it, though.

[Ad Bot]

[Tokthree]

>Start video recording
>Play game
>Stop video recording
>Start video playback
>Think of funny and/or manly things to say at certain points
>Start audio recording
>Start video playback
>Say funny and/or manly things
>Stop audio recording
>Combine files
>GET ALL WOMEN.

Commentaries like that are almost always huge time sinks or extremely stiff and dull.
AVGN, for example, is an example of the former

[Jairo]

go watch playingwithmahwii on youtube
he makes funny commentaries that actually surprise himself (sometimes he does live or he waits like a week and then commentates on videos so he doesn't predict everything)
his reactions and stuff are priceless

[slimabob]

I talk to myself while gaming all the time.