A blimp fail is the specific comedy of a pompous, self-important Colonel Blimp type delivering their grand pronouncement with full ceremony and authority — and being immediately, completely, publicly wrong. The bloated confidence makes the collapse funnier: the more elaborate the bluster, the better the fail. Classic blimp fail territory includes making a sweeping statement about how something will never work right before it works spectacularly, or lecturing at length on a subject they clearly don't understand to a room that contains the foremost expert in that subject.
He spent ten minutes explaining why streaming would never replace physical media — historic blimp fail, and we were at a Netflix launch event.
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