Brilliant that at around 7:00 Campbell turned all dark arts on the host. Superficially: that host needs a new look - the mincey greaser look is not even of this millenium
I agree that In the Loop and the thick of it are exaggerations of Westminster and international machinations. For instance I don't think that someone like Tucker could barnstorm an american general like he does in the loop and not cause an international incident. But it is amusing to think it could happen. The first series of the thick of it was more accurate than the subsequent ones, in showing generally put upon ministers who are forced to toe the line of spin despite their own reservations.
Alastair Campbell does make some good points. The characters in the film do not seem to want to change anything. To get into politics you need to at least have an interest in policies.
"very little in there that might have happened" ...campbell still manages to astound me. missing the irony in complaining about the spin-doctor whilst still spinning lies.
This interview shows how effective of a spinner Campbell actually is, he successfully diverted almost all the attention off himself and into what was criticizing him.
this interview means nothing in the end, I have no trust for anything Campbell says through all his implication, not saying anything but for all I know he could be telling his honest opinion or trying to save face and lying through his teeth
Campbell manages to come over well in this. However it doesn't change the fact he supported blair in starting a war that resulted in the deaths of a few hundred thousand people. People aren't cynical about politics because of satires like In The Loop, they're cynical about it because of cunts like him and blair.
How can he say the characters don't have a belief system? Tucker's nasty but he'd never do anything like join the opposition and half of what makes it funny is people like Simon Foster struggling about doing what he thinks is right and what is in his own best interests. If anything, both The Thick Of It and In The Loop shows people in politics in a better light than I thought of them previously.
I think the media should lay of the Politicians a bit, they have a job to do and they do it effectively, they have to manage and keep on top of the fucking country - it's not as easy as you think
i hope one day campbell is put on trial for the war crimes and slaughter of all those hundreds of thousands of iraqis, in which he played his part. i hope so, but i'm not holding my breath.
people forget campbell is a spin doctor its his job to show the facts that support whoever he is employed for, when david mitchell took him in the channel 4 program mitchell had no facts at hand apart from what he had heard and as a result the facts campbell gave to him about the war being a good thing completely destroyed whatever quips mitchell had, if you put alastair campbell in front of ian hislop or jeremy paxman it would be a different story
Campbell relies ultimately on intimidation, playing the self made political realist tough guy to perfection. You don't discuss things with him, you can ask questions and you get answers. Don't question the answers too much or he gets pissed off. Then you either back down, or you fight. He seems alright and I'm sure he tries to do what he thinks is right but you should never trust a man like that! I doubt questions his own wisdom or analyses his own contradictions. That's a dangerous thing.
But really, this is just two ridiculous people in a room having a ridiculously pointless conversation. I guess Kermode's cynicism is already taking it's world-changing effect on me!
Re 10'clock live. What the hell do you mean by having the mass murderer Alistair Campbell on the 10'clock show?? Some things are way beyond comedy. That's bad taste David Mitchell. There are a lot of bereaved families out here in the real world y'know.
lol'd at his claiming Kermode's viewpoint was cynical with all the devious and cynical shit he pulled in government. Check him on the 10 o'clock Live show episode 2 where David Mitchell interviews him and he gives this rousing bullshit to justify the Iraq war. Campbell's legacy is he's a cunt
@Oscar301 Re 10'clock live. What the hell do you mean by having the mass murderer Alistair Campbell on the 10'clock show?? Some things are way beyond comedy. That's bad taste David Mitchell. There are a lot of bereaved families out here in the real world y'know.
Campbell is a master of this stuff, so it's not a normal territory for Kermode.
"Cynicism is lazy"! Campbell is a lazy fuck, then.
I don't think the movie was as good as the series, possibly the intimacy of the camera work. Still good, but I'm keeping the box set and jettisoning the film DVD. Maybe I found the character switches didn't suit me.
On second thoughts, the bit where Malcolm (tries to?) intimidate(s) Tony Soprano - Awesome bit that.
It's the principle, this would just be a cunt in a trivial interview normally, except this attitude from journalists sems to spill over into a lot of news stories and form ignorant publc opinion. Campbell is a journalist so he too is guilty of this behaviour, except he didn't present an annoyingly cynical view of politics (which is always far too easy to do) and go looking for a fight then back off when he realised he was in too deep. Like Kermode. Like many, many journalists.
Good on you cambell i can't fucking stand film critics get a fucking cunt you lazy arrogent cunts do some real fucking work insted of critising people that have actully done something themselves
Venal and crass! Many should be sitting in prison after stealing from us through their expenses accounts. Campbell is a liar with blood on his hands. He followed the likes of Bush and Bolton and still refuses to acknowledge his shameful legacy.
I would have expected a bit better of the BBC. Kermode is demonstrating lazy, cheap tabloid journalism in this interview, trying everything he can think of to frustrate Campbell and get a reaction out of him. Pouncing on everything he says and desperatley trying to twist to make some sort of scandal. It's wonderfully ironic that Campbell says in this interview that politicians are not all opportunistic shits, because this pathetic journalistic equivalent of an outhouse clearly is.
@y0uthagainstfacism Not being funny, but if you think that good journalists have no right rousing emotions or reactions from shits (clever shits, but still shits) like Alistair Campbell, then you have a very warped view of the world. And I fucking despise Mark Kermode, but this was a slightly ironic interview about a film, not fucking Frost v. Nixon.
Campbell misses the elements of drama, parody and hyperbole needed to make a political comedy work. also he states that politics is responsible for all mankinds greatest achievements. Politics is also responsible for the deaths of tens of millions of innocents in the last hundred years.
@kayozz13 Fair play? He's a master spin doctor and manipulator who took the country to war that has killed a million people, and now continues to manipulate his way out of answering any questions. Everything he says is a lie or a manipulation. Like on 10 O'Clock live when he said they had reduced child mortality in Iraq, when actually child mortality had increased because of the US backed UN sanctions on Iraq, not because of Saddam Hussein. NOTHING about him is fair.
"Campbell dismissed the film as boring but he did so with the kind of studied attempt at insouciance you might usually associate with a 14-year-old boy calling a girl who's just rejected him fat and ugly". Chris Addison, New Statesman, 2nd August 2010. He's right.
It isnt artists and critics who are responsible for creating cynicism and apathy , its people like campbell and his cronies and politicians who took us into an unjust war, abuse their expenses and lying. And the good things that have come of politics were mostly not instigated by the political class but by the masses who exist outside the political class. Alistair campbell - totally full of it. Cabt stop spinning< even for a tv show about cinema.
Campbell comes out of this as a complete dick. That he lost his humour and became patronising towards Kermode (06m00s) was a big mistake. Campbell and Mandy are single-handedly responsible for the public's fury and cyniciism towards politicians these days. I bet the civil servants in Whitehall were celebrating the night Labour lost - Labour's legacy of the disaster in the Middle East won't be forgotten - some legacy for Campbell, Blair, and Labour.
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In the Loop was pure crap. I could'nt work out how to play the DVD in which it was left to the viewer to paste the movie together because it was all in bits. It had no storyline, it could not have been shown in a cinema. AND WHY DOES THAT PRAT IONNUCHI NOT TALK ABOUT REAL ISSUES LIKE IMMIGRATION, ISLAMIFICATION AND THE MULTICULTURAL NIGHTMARE!
unusually, kermode is persistently annoying in this. trying to get some sort of anti-political scoop from campbell, who does very well. his criticism of the responsibility of the arts was very valid too.
well played mr campbell, made the interviewer look stupid and brought really good publicity for the film itself, very good interview for him-interviewer got too personal and made himself look stupid compared to campbell
I'm so unsurprised Alastair Campbell won't indulge in any of these similarities, but Malcolm Tucker has probably done more good for his image than anything else he's done. I quite like Alastair though...
hes 100% right about the media i was watching bbc news the other day when they still thought 5 people had been killed in the shooting in cumbria and the anchor said his sources told him there might be more, when they announced there were 12 killed he said it again, and again, and again he must have mentioned it 9 or 10 times. eg 3 hours after 12 announced dead "so chris(or watevr) there were 12 people killed" "yes well my sources did tell me there might be more and it turned out there was"
Campbell actually admits he has the same kind of drive and determination as Tucker. That makes Armando Iannucci a genius, Peter Capaldi a god, and Alistair Campbell a sociopath. Fact.
@ch1mpanzeethat I think that if Tucker is a portrayal of Campbell, it's a quite a nice one really. What I love about they way Iannucci wrote Malcolm was that he wasn't just storming round threaten people - there a moments throughout In The Loop and in most episodes of The Thick Of It when Malcolm shows a tenderness and humanity toward another character. That's what makes the character so interesting. We see him rushing around and shouting but we are reminded that he is trying to do good.
what i hate about this video is that campbell, who played a part in leading us to a catastrophic war, is made to look reasonable by the moron interviewing him.
please let us know àne good point he made there ?? because the only thing i saw was a poor chap trying to choke himself to death with a pen when the war mentioned !!
please let us know one good point he made 'cuse the only thing i saw was a poor chap trying to choke himself to death with a pen when the war was mentioned!!
I'm a big Kermode fan, as a film critic. As an interviewer, he does well when talking to people from the businnes of film about film. This was pretty meaningless, though, and even as someone who's pretty easily bored with politics, Campbell has a few good points about Mark's attitude to politics, and he's right about something more, 'The Thick of It' on a good episode is better than 'In the Loop'.
For Campbell watching 'In the Loop' must have been like looking in the mirror. Why is he called a 'Spin Doctor'.....professional liar sums it up so much better and more accurately. He was in front of George Bush and didn't swear at him.....what a missed opportunity.....He would have got two c***s, a f**k and a 'you red neck retard w**ker' from me!!
Very shallow stuff from Kermode but then again, there would always be a high risk of doom in this interview as it was set against the contextual backdrop of 'In The Loop' with trite character comparison.
To be fair Campbell does do very well on this interview. Love him or hate him he is a good spinner and you'd want him on your side if you needed to come out of things smelling of roses and making your opponents looking like shit.
He lulled Alistair Campbell into coming across as a boorish, humourless twat. He made him look like more of a cunt than, for instance, Jeremy Paxman could ever have done in a month of Sundays. I watched this interview then went out that weekend and watched the movie, precisely because Alistair Cuntbell hated it so much.
They made the mistake of seeing this film as if it was written as an attempt to portray politics as it actually happens when in actual fact it is a film of exaggerations and caricatures.
Most intelligent people realise that a lot of politicians aren't as bad as they are portrayed in the media and do a lot of good. But we also get ones like the man who claimed for his moat cleaning on expenses lol its entertainment and isn't meant to be gospel truth because it wouldnt be as amusing if it was.
Always said Ionucci was a far better writer than performer. The script of In 'The Loop' is a modern masterpiece, especially the dialogue between Gandofini and Tucker, tasty!
All I can imagine is Malcolm Tucker watching this interview and being happy with the way Campbell handled it. In other words, it was a perfect interview for him and other politicians, and a pointless one for the BBC. He did have a good point about the Brritish media though — we do have a tendency to take the piss out of whoever is in charge, regardless of our personal opinion of them.
Campbell is a profesional bulls**ter. The man sat in the Iraq inq. and said he thought going to war was the right thing to do and he stands by it. Sadam killed 30,000 people, our wars on Iraq have killed 1.5 million people in order to stop him. so many more than he would ever have killed. anyone who can sit with a straight face and lie to that extent in the face of all the facts is obviously a completely inhuman arse and I find it laughable he tries to make out hes the good guy.
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Alastair Campbell is a evil kilt-wearing bastard.
karezza6 1 week ago
Thumbs up if Campbell looks like Al bundy in the thumb nail.
insidher 1 week ago
Politics has done a lot, but only because it's the only game in town.
Bloodlovefreak 3 weeks ago
"Did I ever swear infront of George Bush?...."
BooJoMan 1 month ago
spinny hendrix
kyleglanville91 1 month ago
Listen to the editing at 1:24.
Terrible.
TheHex90 1 month ago
Mark Kermode = moron.
TheHex90 1 month ago
@TheHex90 Well, you're wrong. :-)
jamesthemod 1 month ago
I love Mark Kermode's big question is like "What's the worst swearing you ever did?" like you'd feel really naughty saying at primary school
GetOverIt2 1 month ago
Really good to hear Alistair Campbell talk about the importance of politics
AndyWhale1 2 months ago
Campbell is a SAD CUNT from KENTISH TOWN. Devious, twisted, pointless FUCKTARD.
davesmith22222222 2 months ago
Brilliant that at around 7:00 Campbell turned all dark arts on the host. Superficially: that host needs a new look - the mincey greaser look is not even of this millenium
attachmanatee1221 2 months ago
In your face Kermode. I don't know who is the oiliest...but Kermode winds out.
konspiracykid 3 months ago
Cunt.
WillofIceandIron 3 months ago
I love how he's playing with the pen.
flyworld3 4 months ago
The film guy thinks he's as smart as Campbell... sorry mate, you're out of your league
JamieMcJapan 4 months ago
The meeting of two great minds, but Kermode was simply outclassed. Campbell's on another plain altogether.
MartyFunkhouser00 4 months ago 2
Huh, the Good Doc actually asked some pretty inane questions towards the end. Bit dissapointing.
FranBMan22 4 months ago
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FranBMan22 4 months ago
Alistair Campbell is someone I would invite to dinner :)
pizt 4 months ago 2
I quite enjoyed that...
chufdj 4 months ago
Thank god I don't look like the guy on the right.
bumshka21 4 months ago
did i ever swear in front of George Bush?
lilmurfer 4 months ago
He may be a manipulative, devious psychopath, but he is extremely charming when you get to meet him.
EdDueim 4 months ago
Dear Mr. Interviewer, he completely owned you. Sorry. But you can't expect to derail the devil with politely worded questions.
derdriui 4 months ago
My goodness! "Politics is not venal and crass" but you got away with starting a war! Bloody psychopath.
derdriui 4 months ago
Oh man, CLASSIC spin doctor! "What do you think of this criticism of you?" "It wasn't funny enough."
derdriui 4 months ago
I agree that In the Loop and the thick of it are exaggerations of Westminster and international machinations. For instance I don't think that someone like Tucker could barnstorm an american general like he does in the loop and not cause an international incident. But it is amusing to think it could happen. The first series of the thick of it was more accurate than the subsequent ones, in showing generally put upon ministers who are forced to toe the line of spin despite their own reservations.
BelatedCommiseration 5 months ago
Alastair Campbell does make some good points. The characters in the film do not seem to want to change anything. To get into politics you need to at least have an interest in policies.
therealtruth123 5 months ago
@therealtruth123 you're so gullible...
derdriui 4 months ago
did i ever swear in front of George Bush....
Adam1986London 6 months ago
Fuck off you lieing prick.
Mat2001uk 6 months ago
"very little in there that might have happened" ...campbell still manages to astound me. missing the irony in complaining about the spin-doctor whilst still spinning lies.
hiyarubytuesday 6 months ago 2
This interview shows how effective of a spinner Campbell actually is, he successfully diverted almost all the attention off himself and into what was criticizing him.
CivitasUltraAporia 6 months ago 2
this interview means nothing in the end, I have no trust for anything Campbell says through all his implication, not saying anything but for all I know he could be telling his honest opinion or trying to save face and lying through his teeth
Coolguyrob2006 6 months ago
Campbell manages to come over well in this. However it doesn't change the fact he supported blair in starting a war that resulted in the deaths of a few hundred thousand people. People aren't cynical about politics because of satires like In The Loop, they're cynical about it because of cunts like him and blair.
fiveredpears 6 months ago
Alistair Campbell is such a cunt.
TomatoNanny 6 months ago 2
the presenter was a prick
manwhoplayedwithfire 7 months ago
@manwhoplayedwithfire Totally agree. He got told big time. "You should know better" - I smirked.
lamuziq 7 months ago
Can't stand the media. They are the most corrupt organisation in the world.
ExtremeBogom 7 months ago
Nooooooooo, it is not funny.
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burnettcasey97 8 months ago
How can he say the characters don't have a belief system? Tucker's nasty but he'd never do anything like join the opposition and half of what makes it funny is people like Simon Foster struggling about doing what he thinks is right and what is in his own best interests. If anything, both The Thick Of It and In The Loop shows people in politics in a better light than I thought of them previously.
ciaracustard 8 months ago
That's some top class spinning.
itworks92 8 months ago 21
I think the media should lay of the Politicians a bit, they have a job to do and they do it effectively, they have to manage and keep on top of the fucking country - it's not as easy as you think
TheRedGoldfish 8 months ago
Yeah, I concede Campbell handles this pretty well (as he should given his job).
Xantion 9 months ago
I'm so cultured, look at my stupid fucking hair that mainstream people wouldn't understand. Dickwad.
steveigog 9 months ago
CAMPBELL = CUNT
TUCKER = TERRIFIC
CapitalBhoy78 9 months ago 3
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Combined they are....TERIFFICUNT!
Restayvien 8 months ago 3
LOL he answered Kermode with the kind of razor sharp wit that only Malcom tucker could have.
thumpah 9 months ago
did i swear in front of bush ?
woodhd 9 months ago 2
Campbell I don't like him but I admit he's bloody good at what he does
Weeman44444444444444 9 months ago
I like Kermode a lot but he comes across so arrogant about topics he has hand fed, singular minded information on.
IDante1Savage 10 months ago
This should have been done by someone else rather than Mark Kermode.
gigagraviton 10 months ago
This should have been done by someone else rather then Mark Kermode.
gigagraviton 10 months ago
Despite what he may or may not have done, Campbell is a genius.
georgepowell72 10 months ago
i hope one day campbell is put on trial for the war crimes and slaughter of all those hundreds of thousands of iraqis, in which he played his part. i hope so, but i'm not holding my breath.
Yusef100 10 months ago
@Yusef100 eugh. hes not a policy maker. hes a spin doctor. get i right.
some2485 9 months ago
Holy hell, this Kermode guy is so pretentious. Are all of the "high class" British presenters like this? Quite insufferable.
skilledtrailers 10 months ago
@skilledtrailers You're under the impression that because someone is cultured they have to be "pretentious"............
ladsrus 10 months ago
@ladsrus No. I'm under the impression that operating under an arrogant pretense of wisdom when your points are actually insipid is pretentious.
skilledtrailers 10 months ago
@ruth05503841 He needed money?
AvaPozen 10 months ago
TBH In the Loop had its moments but The Thick of It wins hands down so maybe that's why Alastair didn't really enjoy it.
Brizdyn 11 months ago 3
Yeah and like all the best cartoons, through the exaggerated features, the figures are still easily recognisable.
TheConciseStatement 11 months ago
people forget campbell is a spin doctor its his job to show the facts that support whoever he is employed for, when david mitchell took him in the channel 4 program mitchell had no facts at hand apart from what he had heard and as a result the facts campbell gave to him about the war being a good thing completely destroyed whatever quips mitchell had, if you put alastair campbell in front of ian hislop or jeremy paxman it would be a different story
etocadet 11 months ago
Campbell relies ultimately on intimidation, playing the self made political realist tough guy to perfection. You don't discuss things with him, you can ask questions and you get answers. Don't question the answers too much or he gets pissed off. Then you either back down, or you fight. He seems alright and I'm sure he tries to do what he thinks is right but you should never trust a man like that! I doubt questions his own wisdom or analyses his own contradictions. That's a dangerous thing.
codelocator 1 year ago
"... did I swear at George Bush?" Heh.
But really, this is just two ridiculous people in a room having a ridiculously pointless conversation. I guess Kermode's cynicism is already taking it's world-changing effect on me!
MrVinushka 1 year ago
Re 10'clock live. What the hell do you mean by having the mass murderer Alistair Campbell on the 10'clock show?? Some things are way beyond comedy. That's bad taste David Mitchell. There are a lot of bereaved families out here in the real world y'know.
digger65uk 1 year ago
lol'd at his claiming Kermode's viewpoint was cynical with all the devious and cynical shit he pulled in government. Check him on the 10 o'clock Live show episode 2 where David Mitchell interviews him and he gives this rousing bullshit to justify the Iraq war. Campbell's legacy is he's a cunt
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@Oscar301 Re 10'clock live. What the hell do you mean by having the mass murderer Alistair Campbell on the 10'clock show?? Some things are way beyond comedy. That's bad taste David Mitchell. There are a lot of bereaved families out here in the real world y'know.
digger65uk 1 year ago
Campbell is a stupid cunt. Comrade-Kermode is absolutely right.
eliinnos 1 year ago 3
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He may be a cunt but he definitely isn't stupid.
codelocator 1 year ago
"*thinking* did i ever swear in front of George Bush?"
milbytrillion 1 year ago
Everything needs deflation once in a while, it doesn't make the satire gospel.
jacktalbot 1 year ago
Can't help but liking ol' Campbell.
trailofdeadpeople 1 year ago 14
1 million innocent people dead as a result of your war and you don't think that politicians are crass? you disgusting cunt.
Bjarku 1 year ago 3
Campbell is a master of this stuff, so it's not a normal territory for Kermode.
"Cynicism is lazy"! Campbell is a lazy fuck, then.
I don't think the movie was as good as the series, possibly the intimacy of the camera work. Still good, but I'm keeping the box set and jettisoning the film DVD. Maybe I found the character switches didn't suit me.
On second thoughts, the bit where Malcolm (tries to?) intimidate(s) Tony Soprano - Awesome bit that.
patkawasaki 1 year ago
It's the principle, this would just be a cunt in a trivial interview normally, except this attitude from journalists sems to spill over into a lot of news stories and form ignorant publc opinion. Campbell is a journalist so he too is guilty of this behaviour, except he didn't present an annoyingly cynical view of politics (which is always far too easy to do) and go looking for a fight then back off when he realised he was in too deep. Like Kermode. Like many, many journalists.
y0uthagainstfacism 1 year ago
God, until I was aware of this bloke, I thought the Thick Of It/In The Loop was unrealistic and exagerated. What a little shit...
DIGIxPUNKx1996 1 year ago
It was great to see Kermode waaaay out of his depth here
noogster87 1 year ago
Wow, Campbell reminds me of my dad.
Rhademanthus 1 year ago
@Rhademanthus Man, Im so sorry
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hope he has a mental breakdown again
RICHARDTOMLEY10WHARF 1 year ago
"I didn't find it terribly funny" Yeah funny that because it's about cunt bags like you.
CrazyEddi3 1 year ago 6
Good on you cambell i can't fucking stand film critics get a fucking cunt you lazy arrogent cunts do some real fucking work insted of critising people that have actully done something themselves
jimmy2k4o 1 year ago
I know lots of people can't stand Campbell but I can't help but have a grudging respect for him.
kyleovyick 1 year ago
He looked fairly uncomfortable at every point there was a colossal media fuck up in the film. Which was nearly all the time.
mustrapefoley 1 year ago
Why are some people so surprised that Alastair Campbell is very good at talking?
joshspinks 1 year ago 4
@welshrarebeats No...
GallagherWellerBrown 1 year ago
Classic ignoratio elenchi from bad Al
Boratlon 1 year ago
Venal and crass! Many should be sitting in prison after stealing from us through their expenses accounts. Campbell is a liar with blood on his hands. He followed the likes of Bush and Bolton and still refuses to acknowledge his shameful legacy.
crowebroke 1 year ago
I would have expected a bit better of the BBC. Kermode is demonstrating lazy, cheap tabloid journalism in this interview, trying everything he can think of to frustrate Campbell and get a reaction out of him. Pouncing on everything he says and desperatley trying to twist to make some sort of scandal. It's wonderfully ironic that Campbell says in this interview that politicians are not all opportunistic shits, because this pathetic journalistic equivalent of an outhouse clearly is.
y0uthagainstfacism 1 year ago 2
@y0uthagainstfacism Not being funny, but if you think that good journalists have no right rousing emotions or reactions from shits (clever shits, but still shits) like Alistair Campbell, then you have a very warped view of the world. And I fucking despise Mark Kermode, but this was a slightly ironic interview about a film, not fucking Frost v. Nixon.
DIGIxPUNKx1996 1 year ago
What is it Campbell has against cartoons!
MrLPRyan 1 year ago 4
fantastic interview. Campbell is a cool bean, never new this
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Hahahah i have never seen such a great clip. One of my friend on RentAFriend. com send me this clip. Thanks to John for sending this.
calhounjohn 1 year ago
"... but are they all a bunch of venal, self-serving, unprincipled shits? No, they're not."
Cue, the Expenses Scandal...
MrKingsandCastles 1 year ago 5
Campbell misses the elements of drama, parody and hyperbole needed to make a political comedy work. also he states that politics is responsible for all mankinds greatest achievements. Politics is also responsible for the deaths of tens of millions of innocents in the last hundred years.
neurofire 1 year ago
1.22 lol ^-^ x
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mrflibble101 1 year ago
You gotta love armando iannucci
mesmiths 1 year ago
I'm not a campbell supporter but Kermode comes across as a repetitive and diluted tosser throughout this interview.
GrandAlbo 1 year ago 7
Haha actually i'm going to say fair play to Campbell. He handled it quite well actually.
'The media is obsessed with itself' - genius.
kayozz13 1 year ago 58
@kayozz13 Fair play? He's a master spin doctor and manipulator who took the country to war that has killed a million people, and now continues to manipulate his way out of answering any questions. Everything he says is a lie or a manipulation. Like on 10 O'Clock live when he said they had reduced child mortality in Iraq, when actually child mortality had increased because of the US backed UN sanctions on Iraq, not because of Saddam Hussein. NOTHING about him is fair.
derdriui 4 months ago
So who's lazy?
1. Journalists & satirists who criticise government politics or
2. politicians & their flunkies who blithely accuse the media of being lazy as a way to avoid answering the question?
HopkinMorgan 1 year ago
"Campbell dismissed the film as boring but he did so with the kind of studied attempt at insouciance you might usually associate with a 14-year-old boy calling a girl who's just rejected him fat and ugly". Chris Addison, New Statesman, 2nd August 2010. He's right.
TomatoNanny 1 year ago
It isnt artists and critics who are responsible for creating cynicism and apathy , its people like campbell and his cronies and politicians who took us into an unjust war, abuse their expenses and lying. And the good things that have come of politics were mostly not instigated by the political class but by the masses who exist outside the political class. Alistair campbell - totally full of it. Cabt stop spinning< even for a tv show about cinema.
ethansaunders1 1 year ago
Campbell comes out of this as a complete dick. That he lost his humour and became patronising towards Kermode (06m00s) was a big mistake. Campbell and Mandy are single-handedly responsible for the public's fury and cyniciism towards politicians these days. I bet the civil servants in Whitehall were celebrating the night Labour lost - Labour's legacy of the disaster in the Middle East won't be forgotten - some legacy for Campbell, Blair, and Labour.
MikeyTTTT 1 year ago 2
i hate the way mark kermode keeps peering over his glasses!
tecnique000 1 year ago 2
Kermode has picked at a loose thread and failed to realise it is from his own sweater.
josepheath 1 year ago 3
@josepheath say what you mean why don't you
frolicks 1 year ago
@frolicks I did. That is what I meant.
josepheath 1 year ago
Alistair Campbell you tried to cover your ass here, but we still believe you to be the f-star-star-star CUNT we always thought you were anyway.
vinnyvasquez 1 year ago 4
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In the Loop was pure crap. I could'nt work out how to play the DVD in which it was left to the viewer to paste the movie together because it was all in bits. It had no storyline, it could not have been shown in a cinema. AND WHY DOES THAT PRAT IONNUCHI NOT TALK ABOUT REAL ISSUES LIKE IMMIGRATION, ISLAMIFICATION AND THE MULTICULTURAL NIGHTMARE!
statewithinastateuk 1 year ago
People are way to hard on Campbell
kwanon199 1 year ago
unusually, kermode is persistently annoying in this. trying to get some sort of anti-political scoop from campbell, who does very well. his criticism of the responsibility of the arts was very valid too.
8KeyserSoze8 1 year ago 8
alastair campbell is a genius, pure and simple. and he is SO right about cynicism being the fallback of the lazy.
kermode: PLEASE SHUT UP about the film "upsetting" him and stop embarrassing yourself.
lucylu26 1 year ago 7
Alastair Campbell comes out of this very well and makes some excellent points, some at the expense of the lazy media and Kermode.
dbolton9 1 year ago 5
Kermode made himself look stupid. campbell came out of that very well.
markjeppo 1 year ago 3
"Inventing swearing"
Yes indeed.
Adrillius 1 year ago
well played mr campbell, made the interviewer look stupid and brought really good publicity for the film itself, very good interview for him-interviewer got too personal and made himself look stupid compared to campbell
bestyboi90 1 year ago 2
I'm so unsurprised Alastair Campbell won't indulge in any of these similarities, but Malcolm Tucker has probably done more good for his image than anything else he's done. I quite like Alastair though...
reckless120 1 year ago
The man just can't tell the truth. He physically can't do it.
LizaLips1 1 year ago
alistair campbel is so clever its scary, but he is a lying piece of crap - he would be one of the best lawyers this world would ever see.
precisely because he is amazing at spinning.
WizardFM 1 year ago 2
hes 100% right about the media i was watching bbc news the other day when they still thought 5 people had been killed in the shooting in cumbria and the anchor said his sources told him there might be more, when they announced there were 12 killed he said it again, and again, and again he must have mentioned it 9 or 10 times. eg 3 hours after 12 announced dead "so chris(or watevr) there were 12 people killed" "yes well my sources did tell me there might be more and it turned out there was"
TheJay9002 1 year ago 2
Campbell is a Cunt
iBeep2009 1 year ago 5
Campbell actually admits he has the same kind of drive and determination as Tucker. That makes Armando Iannucci a genius, Peter Capaldi a god, and Alistair Campbell a sociopath. Fact.
ch1mpanzeethat 1 year ago 43
@ch1mpanzeethat I think that if Tucker is a portrayal of Campbell, it's a quite a nice one really. What I love about they way Iannucci wrote Malcolm was that he wasn't just storming round threaten people - there a moments throughout In The Loop and in most episodes of The Thick Of It when Malcolm shows a tenderness and humanity toward another character. That's what makes the character so interesting. We see him rushing around and shouting but we are reminded that he is trying to do good.
ciaracustard 11 months ago
Pompous jumped up posh toss pot.
tinghaling 1 year ago
@tinghaling is that your own opinion? or is that an opion concieved by the media.
trezbongez 1 year ago
...Always remember Cambell went on 'Who Wants Top Be A Millionaire' and thought SkyLab was built by The French - of all countries!
keepingnix 1 year ago
I have an awful lot of time for mark kermode and unfortunately I have to admit that I think he botched this interview more than a bit. cmon mark!
tomphillips88 1 year ago
1:18 - 1:25, Campbell looks like a small child :L mind you he could cut through someone with seemingly no effort whatsoever
ChrisMiller1994 1 year ago
The tie Campbell is wearing in this interview is the one he lent to Gordon Brown when he left Downing Street last week.
Got that from the BBC news quiz I did
pineappletoast 1 year ago
what i hate about this video is that campbell, who played a part in leading us to a catastrophic war, is made to look reasonable by the moron interviewing him.
somerandomer 1 year ago
Rasscasseman = Spin, spin and more spin.
I thought that Alastair Campbell made some good points, and he looks pretty fit for an old man.
Moonlightcurves 1 year ago
please let us know àne good point he made there ?? because the only thing i saw was a poor chap trying to choke himself to death with a pen when the war mentioned !!
troir 1 year ago
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@Moonlightcurves
please let us know one good point he made 'cuse the only thing i saw was a poor chap trying to choke himself to death with a pen when the war was mentioned!!
troir 1 year ago
Campbell = Spin, spin and more spin.
Rascasseman 1 year ago
I'm a big Kermode fan, as a film critic. As an interviewer, he does well when talking to people from the businnes of film about film. This was pretty meaningless, though, and even as someone who's pretty easily bored with politics, Campbell has a few good points about Mark's attitude to politics, and he's right about something more, 'The Thick of It' on a good episode is better than 'In the Loop'.
Hargiwald 1 year ago
Campbell: Um... I probably swear more than most.
Kermode: Do you?
I love how Kermode says that so accusingly, like "Finally you're admitting to something!"
graemeoliver84 1 year ago
For Campbell watching 'In the Loop' must have been like looking in the mirror. Why is he called a 'Spin Doctor'.....professional liar sums it up so much better and more accurately. He was in front of George Bush and didn't swear at him.....what a missed opportunity.....He would have got two c***s, a f**k and a 'you red neck retard w**ker' from me!!
BazzerObama 1 year ago
"What was the worst swearing you ever did?" Come on Kermode, that Graham Norton/Jonathan Ross style questioning is beneath you.
Matt7895 1 year ago
Very shallow stuff from Kermode but then again, there would always be a high risk of doom in this interview as it was set against the contextual backdrop of 'In The Loop' with trite character comparison.
tellyisrubbish 1 year ago
Campbell owns him quite frankly. I'm surprised Kermode let this see the light of day.
Gazs93 1 year ago 3
'I found it a lot less funny than I though I would' MOMENT OF REALISATION CUNT!!!!
Jadabh3 1 year ago
Very well done by Campbell actually.
Haeronthegreat 1 year ago 3
did i ever swear in front of george bush?
harveycoleman14 1 year ago 4
Is this an Ali G interview?
"Haz you eva had 2 phones like dis"... what?
rickky67891 1 year ago 3
haha that smug fuck kermode got kerbstombed
starcalibre 1 year ago
"Did I ever swear in front of George Bush?"
got to loove Campbell for that :)
marjumeschin 1 year ago 6
@marjumeschin Funny. On seeing George Bush 'Fucking cunt' would be my first words
Jadabh3 1 year ago
What an F star star Cunt!
donbiancardi 1 year ago 3
the offence im afraid ill have to take it lol
ihearttheplanet 1 year ago 2
To be fair Campbell does do very well on this interview. Love him or hate him he is a good spinner and you'd want him on your side if you needed to come out of things smelling of roses and making your opponents looking like shit.
leonidasaa 1 year ago 4
0.34 does he call him malcom?
MrDishDash 1 year ago
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politics doesnt change the world the international banksters do ...
both campbell crowd and the culture snob are guilty of hiding this truth:
will they air antony suttons work on the bolsheviks, world wars , hilter and the cold war:
utube : antony sutton and hitler
the british public are living in a well crafted illusion
utube: occult law + new version
kdcruz75 1 year ago
he isnt an interviewer he is a film critic,,if u want campbell grilled,,get him on question time not on THE FUCKING CULTURE SHOW
ibez07 1 year ago
I think your missing the point a bit.
He lulled Alistair Campbell into coming across as a boorish, humourless twat. He made him look like more of a cunt than, for instance, Jeremy Paxman could ever have done in a month of Sundays. I watched this interview then went out that weekend and watched the movie, precisely because Alistair Cuntbell hated it so much.
Publicity like that you can not buy.
glasgowNEDSareCUNTS 1 year ago
@glasgowNEDSareCUNTS
politics doesnt change the world the international banksters do ...
both campbell crowd and the culture snob are guilty of hiding this truth:
will they air antony suttons work on the bolsheviks, world wars , hilter and the cold war:
utube : antony sutton and hitler
the british public are living in a well crafted illusion
utube: occult law + new version
kdcruz75 1 year ago
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@ibez07
politics doesnt change the world the international banksters do ...
both campbell crowd and the culture snob are guilty of hiding this truth:
will they air antony suttons work on the bolsheviks, world wars , hilter and the cold war:
utube : antony sutton and hitler
the british public are living in a well crafted illusion
utube: occult law + new version
kdcruz75 1 year ago
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hmh check my video: watch?v=16VQO3dp-i4
squamfish 1 year ago
In teh Loop was boring and unrealistic says Campbell.
You couldn't buy publicity like that
youngian67 1 year ago 35
They made the mistake of seeing this film as if it was written as an attempt to portray politics as it actually happens when in actual fact it is a film of exaggerations and caricatures.
Most intelligent people realise that a lot of politicians aren't as bad as they are portrayed in the media and do a lot of good. But we also get ones like the man who claimed for his moat cleaning on expenses lol its entertainment and isn't meant to be gospel truth because it wouldnt be as amusing if it was.
jimmyhayers 1 year ago
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@jimmyhayers
politics doesnt change the world the international banksters do ...
both campbell crowd and the culture snob are guilty of hiding this truth:
will they air antony suttons work on the bolsheviks, world wars , hilter and the cold war:
utube : antony sutton and hitler
the british public are living in a well crafted illusion
utube: occult law + new version
kdcruz75 1 year ago
Kermode is shit, but that film is absolutely brilliant.
jimmyhayers 1 year ago
Always said Ionucci was a far better writer than performer. The script of In 'The Loop' is a modern masterpiece, especially the dialogue between Gandofini and Tucker, tasty!
reggaejuggler 1 year ago
Two phones???
How much do you swear???
He's well out of his depth, and receives a bollocking midway.
onedeafear 1 year ago
Kermode is out of his depth in this interview, and Campbell makes much more sense.
Film critics are always so self-righteous.
saturnsheart 1 year ago
You have to be, I guess to be critical.
jimmyhvac 1 year ago
Kermode is such a lightweight, but he does look over his glasses a lot, which means he must be clever...
He's suprised that Campbell has had two phones, as though being a film critic is in any way comparable to running the country.
Not that I have any love for Campbell.
EtcEtcAndEtc 1 year ago
Wow, almost beleived him.
nickdc1 1 year ago
Spiky interview. But a proper one.
Raymint 1 year ago
All I can imagine is Malcolm Tucker watching this interview and being happy with the way Campbell handled it. In other words, it was a perfect interview for him and other politicians, and a pointless one for the BBC. He did have a good point about the Brritish media though — we do have a tendency to take the piss out of whoever is in charge, regardless of our personal opinion of them.
bourgeoistrash 1 year ago 37
@bourgeoistrash Malcolm wouldn't be happy he was wearing a tie.
jimbopumbapigsticks 1 year ago 5
Campbell is a profesional bulls**ter. The man sat in the Iraq inq. and said he thought going to war was the right thing to do and he stands by it. Sadam killed 30,000 people, our wars on Iraq have killed 1.5 million people in order to stop him. so many more than he would ever have killed. anyone who can sit with a straight face and lie to that extent in the face of all the facts is obviously a completely inhuman arse and I find it laughable he tries to make out hes the good guy.
necaacen 1 year ago 2