A YouTube star has used a North East landmark to project a series of 'dad jokes'.
Max Fosh, who was once a student at Newcastle University returned to Tyneside with a high-power projector, which he used to light up the Angel of the North with a series of witty puns.
And the act of hilarity was noticed widespread across the region, with many unsuspecting locals taking to social media to comment on the bizarre happening.
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The 26-year-old initially put his name out into the public domain while studying in the North East, and began making waves with members of the local community during a stint as a presenter with Radio Tyneside.
He later moved to London, but recently returned with a brand-new video idea for his some 600,000 regular viewers.
In his video, Max explained how his love of his own father's jokes is what inspired the video - stating that he wanted to honour them by 'making the biggest dad joke in the world'.
He said: "I wanted to do something nice to the biggest dad joke teller I know, by taking my dad's biggest dad joke and really making it my dad's biggest dad joke.
"Now I don't do things by half, so if I wanted to tell the biggest dad joke in the world then I needed two things; a big canvas, and a massive pen."
After sourcing a projector from an acquaintance in London, Max knew the perfect place to show his dad joke with his familiarity of the North East.
Knowing that the Angel of the North would be the perfect canvas, and that the constantly busy nearby motorways would get plenty of eyes on his joke - he set off on the 570-mile round trip north.
Speaking to ChronicleLive about the choice of location, Max said: "I chose the Angel of the North for two reasons.
"The first was because I went to university in the North East and it was where I started my career in the entertainment industry and so it was a bit of a doth of the hat to the place that I had such good memories of.
"Also, the Angel of the North is a perfectly sized canvas for something to be written on as it is incredibly wide but not that tall.
"I had had the idea for a long time, even when I was at university there from 2014-2018 and so to finally make it come to life was a really fun experience.
"I also hoped to make a few people smile from when they were returning home from work."
Max arrived at the Gateshead monument on January 10, where he met with Whitley Bay's very own William Lenney - who also runs a highly successful YouTube channel of his own (WillNE) holding over 4.5 million subscribers.
Max and his team setup the projector quickly to not draw attention to themselves from curious visitors nearby, and waited for the sun to set to tell his joke.
And surrounded by darkness with the only lights coming from those occupying the A1 - Max finally lit up the stunning 66 foot tall monument at around 5pm. His first joke read: "Where did the toothbrush meet the toothpaste? Outside the tube."
Fearing that his London-oriented pun wouldn't land well with passing commuters, he also prepared a variety of North East-based jokes.
One of which was 'Gosh, it's cold I can't feel my hands' - mocking the Angel's lack of hands, while another read: 'This fake tan is a bit strong' dubbing to the bronze colour of the statue itself.
Max also added that the stunt was incredibly well received by members of the local community, as well as by his loyal viewers.
He added: "I had a few messages from people after the video went out saying that they enjoyed the premise and that it made them smile.
"That was my main ambition with the stunt. To put a smile on peoples faces but also to project the worlds largest dad joke.
"I think I succeeded in both aspects."
He also spoke kindly of the region itself, and shared some of the fond memories he has of the North East on the whole.
Max continued: "I had the most incredible time in the North East and I look back on my university days with some really fond memories.
"I spent a lot of time volunteering at the hospital radio station ‘Radio Tyneside’ and I learnt a lot about the world of entertainment whilst I was there under the tutelage of David Nicholson.
"I found it to be a very welcoming place and Newcastle in particular really had everything you could want from sport to culture. All packed into a smallish city.
"I made life long friends from my time at Newcastle and hopefully with this particular stunt, it put a few smiles on peoples faces."
Max then returned to London to show his father first hand his day's work, to which he was over the moon, bearing a cheerful grin.
Chuckling in disbelief, his father said: "That's the Angel of the North...How did you do that?!" adding: "That is awesome."
You can check out Max's full video which has over 200,000 views on his YouTube channel, here.
