Brass Eye S1 Ep6 "Decline" REACTION!
Added 2025-03-06 17:00:14 +0000 UTCThis show is such a wild ride.
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Got to do Paedogeddon after this journey with Brass Eye. In for a penny, in for a pound.
Richie
2025-03-09 17:24:01 +0000 UTCDude! You have to do paedogeddon. It's the pinnacle of Chris Morris' TV satire. You've been inoculated to the dark humour over 6 episodes now.
Neal Murdoch
2025-03-08 20:09:12 +0000 UTCYou have to do the special. It's incredible Morris then went onto do Jam on TV (after Blue Jam on the radio), then his short film My Wrongs, Nathan Barley (with Charlie Brooker), IT Crowd, the films Four Lions & The Day Shall Come as well as directing multiple episodes of Veep. Once you've done the special & Partridge, I highly suggest checking those out - particularly Jam & Veep. It's a wild ride and these were the shows that made me want to work in TV comedy. I was very lucky to meet him when we did the DVD releases of The Day Today, Brass Eye & Jam & all the Easter Eggs and extras.
Duncan Hart
2025-03-08 17:53:10 +0000 UTCGreat shouts. Screen Wipe is superb. Beyond scathing, KB will love it.
Jason Scade
2025-03-08 09:04:59 +0000 UTCswear that statue was driving a 205 GTI too.....👀🤔🔥🔥👌😂💜💜
Adam Hale
2025-03-08 07:54:22 +0000 UTCDid I just see father Stone!
FRER Productions
2025-03-08 00:12:51 +0000 UTCyou might want to find Nathan Barley written by Charlie Brooker (Screen Wipe fame) which by the the way was the F***ing the dogs B*****ks. and Chris Morris.
Stephen Wilkinson
2025-03-07 22:36:39 +0000 UTCI forgot about the Clive Anderson report. Again alot of do gooders complained about it. If i remember right evcen Clive hime self frought it was funny.
Stephen Wilkinson
2025-03-07 22:13:48 +0000 UTCThe special was the nail in the coffin for brasseye, as a load of celebrities and alot of the press who did not want to appear supporting the subject matter, complained about the show and wanting it banned, some even admitted to never even seeing the show. But well done channal 4 as I think they showed the the special 3 times. Each time the rating went up. 😊 keep up the good work. You need to try and find a show called Monkey dust.
Stephen Wilkinson
2025-03-07 21:57:41 +0000 UTCthe Mary Whitehouse brigade hated brass eye and tried everything to get it taken off but in the 80 90 channal 4 didnt give a shit.
Stephen Wilkinson
2025-03-07 21:43:04 +0000 UTCI remember it being delayed, but can't remember why. It definitely wasn't as sharp as the original 6 episodes, and I think even in those short years in between, things had moved on a lot (widespread internet use for one thing). I really hope Boomer does it though. It's obviously got controversial parts to it, but it does have one of the best jokes - 'that was the one thing we didn't want to happen'.
Richie
2025-03-07 20:06:20 +0000 UTCAs with anything, you now have the context of the show and maybe these 6 episodes have softened the blow to the craziness in the special, so that you could laugh at some of it now. And it's not much longer, right? So you might as well watch it.
Joe Thornhill
2025-03-07 19:24:53 +0000 UTCAlfalfa? Another word I had no idea about. Thank got for subs. Stop being a ponce, Boomer and just say you've got some hair sticking up, lol.
Joe Thornhill
2025-03-07 18:47:11 +0000 UTCOk, so the Cocoa Shunter bit with Darcus Howe in the Zeit Guest interview... For me, this was Morris at his wildest. Darcus Howe was a human rights activist and writer (watch the Mangrove episode of Steve McQueen's brilliant Small Axe film series for an excellent true story involving him) Anyway, a cocoa shunter is a homophobic phrase, so Morris decided to accuse a famous, black human rights activist of being a cocao shunter, a phrase he obviously knows can also be heard as a racist term too. He then gets out of anything legal by saying that it's the introduction to someone else, offending them too in the process.
Richie
2025-03-07 18:21:09 +0000 UTCThe parody of the band Pulp doing a song about Myra Hindley, a notorious child killer from the 1960s
Yaapsdad
2025-03-07 12:35:38 +0000 UTCPlease do green wing mate....I'm sure you'll love it
Miles brown
2025-03-07 12:26:36 +0000 UTCI don’t know if it’s the subject matter or If it just isn’t done as well, but I definitely didn’t enjoy it as much as the main series. I understand what they were going for, but… yeah.
Will
2025-03-07 07:55:54 +0000 UTCIt's true you probably couldn't get the show on tv today, but there are loads of other options than tv now which there wasn't then.
R Lawrence
2025-03-07 05:42:03 +0000 UTCGreat stuff Boomer, Chris Morris is the unsung hero of Satire... All through The Day Today and Brass Eye he shined an absurdist light on all that was frustrating and hypocritical about the mainstream media and 25 years on i'm sure you'll agree how relevant and funny it still is... I was in the UK when the special aired and it got the whole country talking - mainly in the way that the show would lampoon, they try and defame anything they don't understand and condemn anyone who challenges their integrity - which it must be said, is wafer thin...
Michael
2025-03-06 23:43:36 +0000 UTCYeah Stewart Lee did a bit in his act about a real life event her Joe Pasquale nicked one of Michael Redmond's jokes, the one where he stands in someone's garden, which Lee then explains doesn't work if a celebrity says it, the joke only worked if it's a complete stranger, I've seen Michael Redmond live a few times, he's very funny.
Mark Jones
2025-03-06 23:31:37 +0000 UTCPaedogeddon did an excellent job at showing the hypocrisy surrounding paedophilia. There was even an article questioning the morals of the episode right next to another about how big the boobs of a 15 year old singer are now. https://www.reddit.com/r/chrismorris/comments/y5t5s3/daily_mirror_criticizing_c4_for_brass_eye/#lightbox
R van Kuik
2025-03-06 22:03:37 +0000 UTCblimey that's mad, the thing that is also so shocking & what so many don't figure in/ think of, when you watch the documentary's and things is, the women killed, it not only destroys that persons life, taking that from them, but their children, siblings, parents etc, the 16 yr old lass in Halifax, it killed her old man, and the other women who survived how do you ever fully get past something like that, the trauma of it, credit to them all... he did yeh few yrs back of covid
Dave L
2025-03-06 21:26:01 +0000 UTC@Jasmine Here is a direct link to it on Vimeo. Is that working for you? https://vimeo.com/1062197917/1835a8ebd0
Jason Scade
2025-03-06 21:10:42 +0000 UTCExcellent ep / reaction. 😂 I somewhat spam recommended this and The Day Today a while back, I'm sure a bunch of people did. Thank you so much for doing both. Awesomely hilarious journey.
Jason Scade
2025-03-06 21:04:22 +0000 UTCUnpopular opinion - the Paedogeddon episode isn't as funny as these original six episodes. Not because of the subject matter - there are plenty of jokes and references to paedophilia and other horrific stuff in these. More that it just felt a bit "off". Can't put my finger on why - maybe because it was made 5 years later and it just seemed like the chemistry was not quite there. That said, it's still better than most things and you should watch it. Does anyone remember that it was delayed by a week when first broadcast? I remember sitting down to watch it, but they put an old episode on instead. It was shown the following week instead but I have no idea why.
Jonny
2025-03-06 20:59:31 +0000 UTCGreat reaction! I came to you through your The Day Today reactions, but have been waiting for these. I will never forget the experience of sitting down every Thursday night at 9:30pm (correct me if I'm wrong), with my parents (a civil servant and a head teacher) and watching each of these, aged 17. It was excruciatingly embarrassing to watch in that company, but genuinely the funniest and wildest comedy I've ever seen. I recorded them all on a VHS tape and watched it endlessly. This last episode did not have the Peter Sutcliffe Musical section as the controller of Channel 4 Michael Grade had made them edit it out. Chris Morris then added a subliminal frame in the end credits saying "GRADE IS A CUNT". I remember that that only came out because he showed it to someone at a party (might have misremembered). Rewatching it now, that Sutcliffe section isn't that good, but it is a legitimately shocking thing to make fun of. The Pulp spoof about child-murderer Myra Hindley is way funnier. Also, on that broadcast, the phrase "Try telling that to these bog-brained Murphys. You'd have more chance of getting a blowjob from the Pope" had the word "blowjob" replaced with the sound of his car revving. The fake news report was great too - I remember my Dad thought it was real until he saw the female reporter with a moustache. I'm glad you appreciate the effort he put into it - all his characters are so funny and distinct.
Jonny
2025-03-06 20:57:10 +0000 UTCFirst time I noticed that too. Micheal Redmond, he was a bit of a legend in stand-up comedy too
RA Keogh
2025-03-06 20:40:48 +0000 UTCI went to school in South East London where they kicked the shit out of you if you were just white they didn't care how you spoke.
R Lawrence
2025-03-06 20:18:44 +0000 UTCNow you know who Peter Sutcliffe is you can appreciate the character Pete Sutcliffe in Gavin & Stacey!
Manly Stump
2025-03-06 20:17:26 +0000 UTCI’m not bothered if you do the paedo episode, I’m looking forward to new shows.
Julian T
2025-03-06 20:15:12 +0000 UTCThe gangster dude, Frankie Fraser, was in a gang who were rivals of the Kray Twins. Interesting Wikipedia page lol
Julian T
2025-03-06 20:14:06 +0000 UTCBoomer! Even if you have to quit Paedogeddon halfway through again, we need a patron video so we can watch you crash out 👀
Rach
2025-03-06 19:59:05 +0000 UTCDon't forget the shameless ripping of "Atomic" by Blondie for the guitar riff
Manly Stump
2025-03-06 19:47:05 +0000 UTCMy mother-in-law was very nearly a victim of Peter Sutcliffe's He died recently, from Covid, I think.
ThetaSigmaTheOriginal
2025-03-06 19:46:47 +0000 UTCImho, the special even made me a little uncomfortable, and I have a dark and twisted sense of humour. On the other hand, some of the jokes were damn funny.
ThetaSigmaTheOriginal
2025-03-06 19:40:48 +0000 UTCHis account has run out of storage.
ThetaSigmaTheOriginal
2025-03-06 19:38:10 +0000 UTCThe skit around 6 mins is about a female serial killer. And the song and artist is parodying a real one. It might not translate well for those who weren't around in the 90s. Even gen z Brits might not get what the joke is about.
ThetaSigmaTheOriginal
2025-03-06 19:37:32 +0000 UTCI think he might well still find it too much. It is kind of another level up from the main series! But time will tell.
Will
2025-03-06 19:22:25 +0000 UTCI love this detail: "Michael Grade, then chief executive of Channel 4, repeatedly intervened to demand edits to episodes of Brass Eye. The final episode included a single-frame subliminal message reading "Grade is a cunt""
Henry Graham
2025-03-06 19:12:25 +0000 UTCI'm going to throw this out there, and I don't mean to have a go at you or anyone else but I think it needs to be said: "posh" is perhaps my most loathed word in the English language, because it's basically a way for the self-appointed working class to trash the lower-middle class. I used to get bullied at school for being "posh" largely by other lower-middle class people who came from exactly the same area as me but spoke slightly differently - or at least pretended to - and so thought they were living a gritty life in the ghetto rather than leafy, suburban London. No one hates anyone as much as the English lower-middle class hates itself.
Charlie
2025-03-06 19:07:13 +0000 UTCI can't play it. Why isn't it uploaded via the patreon player?
Jasmine Carpenter
2025-03-06 19:02:09 +0000 UTCOn Chris Moriss's Wikipedia it shows that the last thing he did was write and direct a film called "The Day Shall Come" in 2019.
Mouse
2025-03-06 18:58:02 +0000 UTCIt was called “A Different Class.”
Rob Palmer
2025-03-06 18:57:28 +0000 UTCno way bro , please do a patreon reaction to the special..... , its fantastic , regardless of the awful subject matter. besides , it literally does the opposite of what many people think the special is about , I'm sure that's not the reason for you maybe not wanting to do it , but i really think with all the context and 2 years of uk comedy it'll go down better than you think , don't mind game yourself into not doing it bro , i honestly think its the best episode by far along with some JAM episodes! peaceee 👍👍
TheHigh
2025-03-06 18:53:10 +0000 UTCThanks Craig, was trying to think of the song but couldn't remember it. Chris Morris does an awesome Jarvis Cocker impersonation though!
AdamMcAdamface
2025-03-06 18:41:35 +0000 UTCMorris spoke recently in a BBC doc about the Day Today, this is a little snippet. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0ktqktg
nwall89
2025-03-06 18:40:46 +0000 UTCThen you had some fairly high up politicians publicly denouncing the show, and later admitting they never actually watched it. They managed to prove the point of the show entirely!
AdamMcAdamface
2025-03-06 18:37:35 +0000 UTCTotally agree, the pinnacle being the Daily Mail article about being outraged at the show, and then on the next page a photo of 15 year old Charlotte Church with the headline "She's a big girl now" (obviously referring to her breasts). It seems that for the Daily Mail, satirising media coverage is off limits, but sexualising a child is perfectly fine.
AdamMcAdamface
2025-03-06 18:34:44 +0000 UTCVic Reves said he once made Peter Sutcliffe a cup of tea when he was working as a lorry driver.
Martin N
2025-03-06 18:34:32 +0000 UTCand for what its worth, King Boomer, whilst it is bad lol, I agree with others you should do the special, as it got 3,000 complaints, even if you end up in agreement with that, be interesting to hear your take on it and the complaints/ story that was. Also with this time with Alan Partridge, the show is mocking the 'One Show' on the BBC, may be worth watching a few clips of that to see how wet it is and dull and what it is a parody of
Dave L
2025-03-06 18:32:34 +0000 UTCI never put it together that they got Father Paul Stone to play Father Jools Doolan. Last I heard Chris Morris was trying to do a comedy movie about you guys and us doing the 1950s coup in Iran, and he was pretty disdainful of comedy just pandering to power these days.
Kirk Deighton
2025-03-06 18:28:30 +0000 UTCYou've gotta do episode 7 lol. Really enjoyed these reactions though!
Ryan
2025-03-06 18:27:44 +0000 UTCtruly horrific and horrifying case
Dave L
2025-03-06 18:19:52 +0000 UTCGreat reaction Boomer, never saw this show back in the day when I was a kid, this show feels on the edge even now, oddly whilst things are more 'woke' these days, this show would not feel out of place as the dark comedy it is, but must have been so controversial back when first on TV and aired, will have to look up how many complaints it had to UK ofcom As for Peter Sutcliffe, King Boomer he was indeed one of the UK's worst serial killers, it's a really interesting & disturbing case, if interested in criminal history, there is so much to it, from the botched police investigation and all the clues that were lost & not tied together, as they drowned in paperwork and fundamentally not really knowing how to deal with it & there being no DNA, but also during the murders the police got a tape recording come in to them, with letters, like something out of a film, with the person speaking on the tape proclaiming to be the killer. It threw the incompetent police investigation off, as they inexplicably then believed the murderer to be a Geordie, it cost the lives of other women Even the story of how he was caught is mad.... was not by the detectives, but just two vigilant response uniformed patrol officers who stopped him in his car, which had false plates on, with a prostitute sat in the car with him. The police 20 years on also got the man who sent in the hoax tape, from DNA/ cold case review Was a good 7 part drama on ITV few years ago about it called the Long Shadow, with David Morrissey and Toby Jones, and another 20 years back called This is Personal, with Alun Armstrong.
Dave L
2025-03-06 18:18:45 +0000 UTCYeah....ie knowing which makes no difference to the skit
R Lawrence
2025-03-06 18:15:06 +0000 UTCThe Special is maybe the greatest piece of television satire ever made, aimed squarely at the media, which reacted in exactly the way you'd expect. It got shown twice then "banned", but not very effectively becuase they put it on the DVD.
Regular Viewer Bunty Hoven
2025-03-06 18:12:06 +0000 UTCRobert Elms is a broadcaster and wrote for The Face magazine, and as for "cocoa shunter", well I'll say no more.
Regular Viewer Bunty Hoven
2025-03-06 18:09:39 +0000 UTCOther than who the black guy was (darkness howe) no one knows who Robert elms is (well most don't anyway, i don't) or what shukka sante means or whatever he said, sometimes the joke is just the random stupidity of it. It didn't just go over your head it was aimed over everyone's head because it had nothing to do with anything. You're doing fine.
R Lawrence
2025-03-06 18:01:31 +0000 UTCLooking forward to the return of Partridge!
Jon
2025-03-06 17:47:14 +0000 UTCOi bumder; don't pretend there isn't one more....
BoSquiddly
2025-03-06 17:43:23 +0000 UTC"Debating to do Paedogeddon"?? There is no debate, you have not finished this show without that episode. That episode is not optional.
John Moore
2025-03-06 17:39:44 +0000 UTCYou were asking about the definition of posh: it really just means someone who uses the so to speak "queens English" which is mostly upper-class people so it means that as well. I'll use likeable examples of posh people though it doesn't usually mean likeable: Stephen Fry and Hugh laurie are posh, baldrick isn't. Mark and Jeremy (because they basically come from middle class families who live in the country) are posh, superhands isn't. The polar opposite of posh would be the Benefits family, ie cockneys. Will is posh, Jay isn't. Posh basically means you can tell by a person's accent that they are middle or upper-class (I think "middle class" has begun to mean something quite different in America than it did in the past and still does here for the most part). The terms are inadequate though because the benefits family (which is an accurate caricature of the "working classes" that are on benefits) are called working class yet they've never done a day's work in their lives because they were raised on benefits (ie welfare), not that I can look down on them too much since I was as well but it is what it is.
R Lawrence
2025-03-06 17:37:12 +0000 UTCand it was common people video but ripping of the song Mishapes
Craig McCulloch
2025-03-06 17:33:12 +0000 UTCYou have to do episode 7! I believe in you!
Kane Le-Petit
2025-03-06 17:30:29 +0000 UTCNot sure if you were aware, but Myra Hindley (the subject of the pop song at the beginning) was also a particularly nasty serial killer (along with her boyfriend Ian Brady).
Will
2025-03-06 17:20:06 +0000 UTCthat album is awesome
Craig McCulloch
2025-03-06 17:19:30 +0000 UTCDo iiiit do it episode 7!!
Craig McCulloch
2025-03-06 17:18:00 +0000 UTCThe song is a spoof of Pulp's Common People. Well worth checking out
Richard Stokes
2025-03-06 17:13:22 +0000 UTC
