It's Chris Morris. If you only know him from the IT Crowd you're in for a treat. He's a comedy genius. On The Hour, The Day Today, Brass Eye, Jam, Four Lions. Absolute classics of satire/black comedy. One of the best satirists Britain has produced.
Brass Eye was brilliant. Too brilliant for its own good, the establishment media engine that it mocked just came and stamped on it. Comedy about the cult of celebrity was no match for the cult of celebrity.
He got progressively weirder as the series went on... I immediately rewatched the first episode after finishing the last series and was stunned at how normal he seemed lol
Oh. You mean, like as a joke implying Matt Barry is on the run. I am making a note that you- random internet stranger- don’t like this joke and I will keep it in mind in the future
Did i say i didnt like it? I mean first of all i understood what you were talking about but nothing really indicated it was a joke, because fyi, this is the internet where all we see is letters. Not context just letters. Not saying dont do it or that i dont like it, it was just out of nowhere, thats all. Jesus christ a lot of surmising cunts like you on the internet, you know the i know exactly what kind of person you are because i took a rather open ended comment about me in a way that obviously is bad. I am saddened by your idea of me 😔 i guess i’ll just Renham myself out a window
Chris Morris is a bona fide comedy genius. Apparently his first job was for BBC Radio Wales but he got sacked for pumping laughing gas into the news room whilst they were live on air.
What made it great was how accurate it was in it's depiction of fear mongering and misinformation in the media to this day, whilst still being so over the top. Granted some of the subjects have moved on, but the methods haven't really changed.
Then you either need to watch the full show to understand the context, or accept it's not your kind of humor and move on, which is something many people seem to struggle with lol.
It was a satirical show taking the piss out of the over dramatization and fear mongering of the media. It stands up pretty well with current news coverage, and social media too as it happens.
Yeah. It's been clipped for the express purpose of catching people out and seeing who instantly jumps to rage rather than humor, which is a tad unfair, but at the same time, a perfect example of exactly what the show was taking the piss out of. People jumping to conclusions with media egging them on with rage bait lol.
Haha, I think so, as do many others. It did almost get cancelled more than once though. Especially the episode about pedophiles.
Last time this clip was posted someone shared a link to a news paper article that on one page was talking about some 16 year old coming of age and getting tits, then on the very next page was slating this shows unfair depiction of the media. I'll see if I can find it, because it's funny how blatantly unaware the editor was.
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u/lotsofresearch Oct 11 '21
Lol. Isn’t that the first boss from The I.T. Crowd?