Brass Eye Decline Episode 2

[MALCBAGGIE]

Spreading his massacre. Genius.

[moriya2k2]

Is it true Chris Morris got fired over this?

[cartti1000]

@moriya2k2 no, it was because he called Michael Grade a cunt in a subliminal message in one of the episodes.

[YonDailyGossip]

I DETEST it when someone uploads something that isnt their original material and disables embed, i just don't get it man.Wanted to share on fb but nope the uploader aint having that.

[evilmeerkat007]

@YonDailyGossip i managed

[YonDailyGossip]

@evilmeerkat007

you you didnt mate, when someone clicks it on their facebook it says disabled.Go check.

[backmack4]

@YonDailyGossip If you want to copy a video just go to a video downloading website where u copy the URL for the video and paste it into the box and the website will download it. Then u just tell it to save it to your computer.

SIMPLE!!!

[YonDailyGossip]

@backmack4

aye i know man but ffs that takes 20 mins

cunt should just fucking make it embedable, i mean wtf have they got to lose?

[ligamentdisaster]

I'm sure I saw a programme about Noel Edmunds which featured somebody saying about a time when Noel invited his accountant over. Noel left a side door open for the accountant and he turned the gas on so the room would smell of it, then he put his head inside an oven and waited until his accountant came in. Of course, the accountant actually thought Noel attempted to kill himself.

This clip seems quite fitting when considering the above and those 'Gotchas' he's done.

[hendrix163]

Myra Hindley lookalike reading the news.Just brilliant, the way Morris takes the piss out of the mainstream media and the mad right wing tabloids. Any wonder, they felt so threatened by him? The uk media have been obsessed by Hindley for years.

[MALCBAGGIE]

Trevor Distance. Genius. One day there will be a real incident similar to this.

[manladyyasser]

the "cosmos" told him to do it.

[gitface007]

Why did the stick a tache on the bird, you could fool allsorts of people with this otherwise

[beadlehands]

"Any idea why he's done this?"

"No, he's never done this before!"

Comic genius.

[oxygene65]

About time Chris Morris did another series of Brass Eye. Talented guy.

[crumble90]

Peter Baxendale-Thomas from Alan Partridge at the end in the glasses and the funny beard!

[antistar1000]

Shot? By Who?

Noel Edmonds

What? No!

I fell off the sofa in tears of laughter when I saw this first. Morris is a genius.

[Widmerpool99]

"What?"

Boycey's greatest performance.

[raVe4theslaVe]

oh man....only morris can make me laugh this much.

[japanesesweet]

The surprising thing is how many times moments like this can be watched-it's because Morris pays so much attention to detail.

[biglads4tw]

Needs more Ted Maul

[TURBODORK2]

i wonder if edmonds found this funny

[C0CKWEASLE]

he made a complaint to channel 4 about it and appeared on right to reply :D

[JapeUK]

@C0CKWEASLE That's awesome, forget Brasseye, I want to see Edmonds deny being a mass murderer.

[tpl89]

John Challis interview is hilarious

[markdr123]

I am now going to make it my life's aim to show this to someone and get them to believe it.

[stevenc123]

When it came on TV I believed it until I eventually noticed that the reporter had a moustache.

[bolbonz]

The massacre did come to an end after all the police and news reporters were torn to shreds by fast bullets, mr blobby ran towards edmonds with more weaponry in case more unwanted guests appeared, he tripped over as his filthy spongy foot came loose. He dropped a grenade, pin was knocked off as a result of the bounce, that was followed by a rather loud sound and a billowing hot mass of devastation, mr banker who didnt know edmonds at the time said ''i dont even exist''.

[qwertydanish]

I'm completely bemused by this comment's low rating- it's a script worthy of the show itself :D

[pabloqtoo]

RIP Clive.

[Mitch1984]

Helicopter Gunship. So Funny.

[quicklung]

To spread his massacre over hundreds of miles

[crieff405]

its clear the woman had to wear a tash so no one would really believe it, which is a shame. It could have been the comedy War of the worlds.

[admartin420]

not by noel edmonds?? what?

[CycolacFan]

It was extremely funny at the time because nothing prepared you for it. This segment was shown in place of a commercial break so at first it was easy to believe it was real if you didn't recognise the actors. The woman with the moustache was a bit of a giveaway...

On the downside as anyone in media at the time will remember, it became very difficult to find celebrities willing to be interviewed for a while after.

[snakeversusgoat]

yeah it was absolute genius. what you don't hear in this clip is the little sound of someone knocking the microphone and coughing over the 'NEWS REPORT' screen - amazing attention to detail that made it seem like a real, hurried news flash

[notbubu]

I also remember watching it the first time it was broadcast and being completely taken in for the first few moments. What you also can't see on the clip was how the "News Report" slide was faded up and then back to black and faded back up again, as if it was by accident in the rush to get it on air.

[stevenc123]

I was the same. It was only when I noticed the reporter had a moustacher I caught on. And it took me a while to notice that.

[fuckwithfire1984]

love it

[weekendoff]

absolutely brilliant.

[schmeagals]

lol how funni is this!! i cant believe they banned this programme

[Punk7680]

The pedophile dressed as a school was a satire of the medias idea that'pedophiles are everywhere'

[khalithistle]

this is very funny but it does illustrate a large part of what was wrong with brass eye; it far too often used absurdity (as in this case) or anger as a substitute for actual intelligent satire. i mean, this isn't meaningful satire, at all. it's just silly.

[adcashmo]

The point of sketches like this one were to mock the whole world of celebrity, especially celebrities Morris dislikes: i.e. pretending they are dead (Clive Anderson) and getting others to beleive such ludicrous stories (John Challis).

See the 'Cake' episode for a better example of this.

As for intelligent satire, Morris' take-off of media hysteria in the Paedoph-isles episode is as good as it gets!

[khalithistle]

i didnt say morris was incapable of intelligent satire, far from it; brass eye had a lot of it, it just far too often slipped into pointless and slightly childish silliness like this instead.

[GLASGOWSNOG]

you thought it was funny though,so whats your point?

[khalithistle]

ive never been as impressed as many viewers seem to be with the "tricking celebrities" part of brass eye either; it makes little point other than simply "some c-list celebrities are really stupid and easily fooled": its almost a topical "punk'd". i mean it's not as if john challis and paul daniels are considered the intellectual elite.

[GLASGOWSNOG]

How can it be absurd if you find it funny.

[adcashmo]

opinions are like arseholes I suppose, but I think the fact that Chris Morris was placed around 10 in the comedian's top 100 comedians says a lot.

[adcashmo]

Morris' set-ups aren't like punk'd, where Punk-er and Punk-ee all laugh together afterwards; Morris dispises the people he mocks for either their "I'll do anything to get on TV coz I have no talent" (Edmunds) attitude or "I run the country but am so clueless I'll warn people about a made up drug in parliament" (David Amess).

His stuff is based on making people look at the world around them & realise how rediculous it actually is. None of his sketches are as random as they first appear.

[khalithistle]

people like edmonds and bernard manning are about the easiest targets you can get. again, they're not exactly the intellectual elite and they're not even in the public eye (or at least, edmonds wasnt at the time of this programme). the way morris fans revere this show you'd think he'd got tony blair to give a tv speech about cake or something. and if the point of this was to illustrate edmonds' desperation to get back on telly, it did a pretty lousy job of articulating it

[khalithistle]

i like brass eye but too much of it to me seems to be so incredibly angry it ceases to bother to make any sense or to be particularly clever. the "paedophile disguised as a house" is the best example i can recall of something really banal and near-childish that didnt have much actual satirical punch at all. its as if morris's (understandable) blind rage at the stuff he was satirizing clouded his writerly judgement

[pw3uk]

It wasn't a house, it was a school.

Get it now?

[SentinelConvergence]

The point about the 'paedophile diguised as a school' is that it's supposed to be absurd. It's a satire of the prevailing opinions offered in the media at the time and how the issue was turned into a witch hunt.

[akhtar3424]

i know that. but its not GOOD satire, its incredibly banal. its very easy humor and not really penetrating social commentary at all. i could have written a sketch for that segment about paedophiles lurking in photobooths to hunt out predators (which, now as i type it, seems actually cleverer than morris's school). as i said, morris's raw anger in brass eye seemed to push im into doing extremely absurd, superficial satire which ultimately was so absurd and superficial it was just silly.

[SentinelConvergence]

One could level many charges against Brass Eye and I think you raise an interesting point, but considering it's surreal nature I think banal is one that you'd be hard pressed to justify. I would suspect the level of Morris' absurd writings reflect his opinion on the ridiculousness of media scare tactics that, at times border on yellow journalism. Being subtle wouldn't serve any purpose considering the satire's intended target, people who know little of tact or decency.

[C0CKWEASLE]

There is absolutely nothing wrong with Brass Eye. It's probably the most intelligent piece of political and social satire ever made as far as I'm concerned.

[adcashmo]

exactly. Has anything better ever been made? Team America? Good, but I don't think so....

[MrBronson66]

It's not supposed to be "meaningful satire". It IS supposed to be "just silly".

"Brass Eye" was never wall-to-wall satire, and neither was "The Day Today". Absurdity was just as much a part of it. I don't think many (good) comedians are interested in purely satirical shows, as they tend to end up rather strained and smug, like Rory Bremner. It works better if you leaven it with more basic gut-level comedy - even "Beyond The Fringe" has got the one-legged Tarzan sketch in it, etc.

[paulglory]

R.I.P clive........the streets are not safe with Edmonds on the loose...lock this man up NOW!!!!!!!!!

[watchmen88]

Is it true that Clive Andersons wife thought this was real?

[Toolpusher]

Tragically, it was real. I cringe every time I watch "Deal or no Deal", expecting Edmonds to snap and unleash his violent fury on more innocents at any moment.

[khalithistle]

i really dont think clive anderson could be described as "innocent"

[PaulRoberts]

Bloody hilarious! Trevor Distance is bloody heroic.

[EeeRodneyJones]

I suppose the pressure just got too much for Edmonds. Clive Anderson was a funny man. He will be much missed.

[matthewbgod]

Grade is a cunt

[C0CKWEASLE]

spreading his massacre over hundreds of miles! LMFAO....I never tire of watching this DVD

[OasisDublin]

"police were prevented from entering the grounds by machine gun fire"

[Daripa1]

Edmonds sued??? Yeah, but it was OK for him to put hidden TV cameras in the houses of unsuspecting members of the public for 'entertainment'. How's that for a Gotcha??

[terrasidius]

excellent!

[Malxrox]

Brilliant!!!! Loved most of Brasseye and this was one my favourite bits!!!! Unforunately Noel did not see the joke and sued the producers of the show!!!!

[soundtrackfanatic]

He's never done it before, lol.

[Gigfan]

''He was seen firing a rocket launcher at a wedding party over a mile away'' XD god this is classic

[Toolpusher]

Same reason the rest of the Celebs did it, they'll say anything to get their faces on TV ;)

[Chinaboatman]

I'll never understand why Edmunds did it.

[wigggo]

Absolutely superb - 'Nolly' was out in the commercial wilderness when this was made which only added to the poignancy.

[KenfromDublin]

Hilarious, I forgot about this.