Brass Eye

biblo

I just bought the DVD and it is absolutely hilarious. Does anyone else like it? (Do I even have to ask?) Does anyone know of any easter eggs on the dvd because I can't find any!

grumpytrousers

It's great, alright. The series that gave the world Alan Patridge - at least on the telly. Over ten years old, and remarkable in its prescience of entertainment masquerading as news, not to mention the 'public access' slots where any old muppet off the street is allowed sound off about any old toss they can come up with...

mike65

hang-on Grumpy thats The Day Today your thinking of, Brass Eye followed and featured Chris Morris as a solo artist

http://www.koekie.org.uk/funnel/brasseye/

http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:l-9VkdwbI20J:www.imdb.com/title/tt0118273/+brass+eye&hl=en&start=5&lr=lang_en

Mike.

biblo

grumpytrousers wrote:

It's great, alright. The series that gave the world Alan Patridge - at least on the telly. Over ten years old, and remarkable in its prescience of entertainment masquerading as news, not to mention the 'public access' slots where any old muppet off the street is allowed sound off about any old toss they can come up with...

That's The Day Today, which came before Brass Eye. The same crew though. Brass Eye's main aim was to dupe celebrities into talking complete nonsense. Like Richard Blackwood telling the world that Paedophiles can make computer keyboards emit a toxic gas that makes a child more suggestable.

griffdaddy

where did you buy it? i've been looking to downlaod it for ages (not cause i'm cheap but because i cant see it any shops) i also wouldnt mind laying my hand on some episodes of jam

grumpytrousers

yes yes yes - i stand utterly utterly corrected. Chris Morris makes two seminal shows (or series of) and I manage to mix 'em up. thank god he's not prolific, eh!

I was in UK when the Paedo special went out, and jesus -what an eye opener. How stupid can slebs be - toxic fumes, paedos with the minds of crabs, etc...

David quantick - one of the writers got awful grief from the Daily Mail about it (quelle surprise!)...I happened to have his email addy and sent him a note wishing him well. His short reply was that they were only a shower of nobs anyway!

CitySickness

All sorts of Brass Eye/Day Today/Jam info and easter-eggery available here

biblo

griffdaddy wrote:

where did you buy it? i've been looking to downlaod it for ages (not cause i'm cheap but because i cant see it any shops) i also wouldnt mind laying my hand on some episodes of jam

Yeah they are hard to find on download software. I bought it here. They have Jam on dvd too. Fairly cheap for both.

mike65

Brass Eye -Practically Giving it away!
The Day Today

Mike.

pork99

"The moustache is dirty! Bury the beds!"

smuckers

I have it too and its bloody hilarious.

Morris: Clive Anderson has been shot by Noel Edmonds
John Challis: What? No.

Morris: Do you write asperical songs or are they they just tiny bubbles of oxegen?

monkeyfudge

FACT x IMPORTANCE = NEWS

grumpytrousers

Yay - you're making same mistake as me....

have a rule of thumb!

Day Today - pisstake of Sky News
Brass Eye - pisstake of Tonight with Trevor McDonald

DerekD Goldfish

I got both Jam and Brass Eye for €10 a peice in Virgin absolutly hillarious. lent Jam to a mate he since thinks im a complete nut job (but then again he did a bit before)

daveJAM

I laughed so much I coughed up my pelvis bone.

pork99

The twisted brain wrong of a one-off man-mental

biblo

DerekD Goldfish wrote:

I got both Jam and Brass Eye for €10 a peice in Virgin absolutly hillarious. lent Jam to a mate he since thinks im a complete nut job (but then again he did a bit before)

I have never seen Jam. I hear it's absolutely insane.

Great quote from Brass Eye:

Chris: Are you a genius?
Singer: Yeah, well I think I'll become a genius over time.
Chris: So you were probably born with a few more genes than the rest of us?
Singer: Yeah

For those of you who don't know, people who are born with extra genes have Down's syndrome.

pork99

biblo wrote:

I have never seen Jam. I hear it's absolutely insane.

Jam - proves Chris Morris is a genius

There's a brilliant and disturbing sketch where a slimey old pervert requires a couple to agree to sex sessions with him as part of the price of buying his house.

It's twisted, you feel a bit unclean for having laughed at it - real hardcore black humour.

The entire series is "out there" I would not recommend it to anyone with delicate sensibilities.

I'm hoping that the "Armando Ianucci Shows" come out on DVD - another comedy genius.

Stark

I like Jam a lot. It's a mixed bag, some stuff is quite unfunny, some absolutely hillarious. The series warms up as it progresses.

emertoff

Chris Morris is a genius.
IMO only Armando Iannucci is as good in that particular genre of comedy/satire.

nlgbbbblth

grumpytrousers wrote:

It's great, alright. The series that gave the world Alan Patridge - at least on the telly. Over ten years old, and remarkable in its prescience of entertainment masquerading as news, not to mention the 'public access' slots where any old muppet off the street is allowed sound off about any old toss they can come up with...

Brass Eye - first broadcast Jan 1997 - made in 1996
The Day Today - first broadcast Feb 1994

Dont be at yourself

That Mr. Lizard sketch from Jam is hilarious.