I didn’t see this before it was taken down, but saw it a couple months ago, I believe - truly bad. However, I was on a FC DH once and had a CA doing a galley PA with a smattering of jokes. I sat with my face in my palm, but when I did look around the pax were enthralled - truly loving it.

Not my deal - I’m a voice from the front type - and I really do think you have to have a certain personality to make it work, but I don’t believe pax necessarily see a face to face interaction as cringey as other pilots do.

All that said, a little goes a LONG way, and I think the majority stray on the cringey side of the fence.