Brass Eye S1 Ep2 "Drugs" REACTION!

I just realised that you thought all these duped celebrities were actors. Holy shit. That must have taken a lot of the fun out of it.

Jamie Sherry

Forgotten about Cake! Got so many people to talk nonsense in the name of drugs awareness.

James MacDonald

Spaceman I always wanted you to go Into space, man

Daniel Monney

Yeah and now he watches Bodger and Badger.

Richard M

Another MP who was murdered was Jo Cox in 2016. She was shot and stabbed in the street outside a building where she was going to hold a constituency surgery. The murderer was a far-right nut named Thomas Mair.

Will

Ah, yep. It's all come back to me now.

Joe Thornhill

Youthink thats hard to pronounce....you try saying it on Cake!

Jason Bonner

Ha google Rolf Harris

Mark Jephson

I doubt he had any influence on British comedy at all.

Ash X

He played the weird cleaner, in the turquoise suit, that Manny hires in BB s1 e3. He was the racist guy who laughed to himself in the elevator in IAP s1 e6. I can’t remember which episode of IT Crowd it was but he was on the phone to Jen to fix her computer, he had a very strange accent, might have been the where Matt Berry wore the electric underpants. I didn’t see the Red Dwarf episode with him in it but it’s on his list of credits.

James Ellison

Oh god just noticed that's David Amess they got reading 😬 rip

Michael

Jamie you're either leaving a comment on the wrong persons patreon or you're very confused bro 😬 If you really want to get into the weeds of it, you shouldn't, by that logic, be giving your money to any western government whatsoever. Because either way we would still be committing and funding genocide while we enjoy light entertainment here on patreon from the comfort of our homes. Just because the fascism is now coming home to subjugate its own domestic citizens in the United States, doesn't change the material reality that's been daily life for the global south since the cold war. This is getting a bit heavy now.. uhh, turns out, little monkey fella Just enjoy the patreon! There is no war but >CLASS< war, Jamie.

Michael

Wrong person bud.

Geraint Harrison

Jamie

or the original Norman Gunston

Anthony Brown

Especially considering shitty Noel'shouse party did those Gotcha's

Neal Murdoch

I never knew this, very interesting - what a boring bastard

daniel shears

Huh, Gallifrey Gals just reacted to The Promised Land and I didn't notice. Nor did I notice him in BB, I.T.C, or IAP when watching King Boomers reactions to them. EDIT: Of course! He was in Hot Fuzz!

Joe Thornhill

Hmmm looking back now, was it just a coincidence Rolf Harris and the Dark Scene with the school girl were so close together? KB Google Rolf Harris...

bdazzer85

The Thatcher clip was real and it was from when she visited Chile and fainted during a speech. That was after she was in power

RA Keogh

More starring Mark Heap on ‘Green Wing’

Albanacher

This was supposed to be the first episode but Noel Edmonds (The Shatner's basoon) guy found out he'd been duped and filed a lawsuit which delayed the whole series.

Neal Murdoch

He’s been in things like Big Train, Black Books, IT Crowd, I’m Alan Partridge, Game of Thrones. He’s one of those comedians who appears in one episode of so many comedy shows, and often very funny, his names Kevin Eldon. He was in Red Dwarf The Promised Land

James Ellison

Sacha Baron Cohen is still duping celebs on and off today. He undoubtedly got a lot of inspiration from Chris Morris, who was the pioneer in this.

Ash X

22:56 So, Claire Skinner was playing mum characters even back in the 90's, but now I can't think where I've seen the dad from. Was he Birdman in Red Dwarf?

Joe Thornhill

Noah was alright, but more and more of his reactions seemed to be pivoting towards things that aren't funny. Gladiators and kids' TV are fine, but not really what I was looking for when I found his channel. Maybe he ran out of content like it seems Josh is starting to do. I mean, are Jonathan Creek or This Is England even comedies?

Z is for Zed

Bogies!!!!!

1234

everyone interviewed and to do promos is a real celeb or minister at the time.. you coulnt troll the dealers in london these days they would take a machete out...

rtkeane

You also had stuff like The Word and Takeover TV being instrumental in alternative music acts and filmmakers breaking out in the early/mid-nineties too. As you say, pushing boundaries and asking questions of what television was for. Plus giving that airtime to American sports and Italian football. What's it got now? Grand Designs and Sarah Beeny's New Life in the Country.

Charlie

best episode ever... so glad you've got to brass eye, derry girls is a great one for watching with queen boomer and good to see all the favourites funny as fuck as they get old...

rtkeane

I think the early 2000’s was when things PC culture started to take over. Kids programmes were still top-tier muppetry back then. Dick and Dom in da Bungalow, is something you have to experience.

Sundeep Paul

Here's a wild coincidence. Rolf Harris (The grey-haired Australian who was talking about "Czech Neck") Turned out to be a predator and while in prison, he developed an aggressive form of cancer that caused his neck to swell. Karma is crazy.

Jack Morgan

He did bring it up in Parliament! But it was part of a wider question on drug controls iirc. But yeah, RIP. Horrible thing to happen.

Joe Gardiner

There's always been something off with Noel Edmonds... The way he treated ordinary studio audience members when he dragged them onstage and the way he talked down to them on Noels House Party... The weird thing at the end of the lovely Dale Winton's Gotcha award where he was desperate not to have bodily contact with Dale when Dale wanted to embrace... All the dodgy characters from that era all had one thing in common which was unbelievable self confidence and there was nobody more confident and arrogant than Noel at the time!

BigChanChan

He doesn't do it for me... Tried many times but nope... He seems like a nice guy though... After Work Reactions used to be my favourite but some of the shows he reacts to on Patreon after being voted in these days are absolutely trash!... KB and bxkid7 are my favourites but bxkid7 doesn't get the love he deserves... I'm hoping KB does a collab with him one day to help propel his channel lol.

BigChanChan

In 'In the Loop' the constituency surgery was where Steve Coogan was talking to the main guy about the wall, and not the war. Channel 4's whole point was to be able produce boundary pushing stuff the other channels wouldn't show. One of their first shows was a discussion program called "After Dark" that had people discussing stuff like state corruption, conspiracy theories that turned out to be true, etc. The late 90s was their zenith though. When this was on air you'd have stuff like Mark Thomas driving tanks through McDonald's driv-thru's, setting up a legal real-world arms dealer company ran by school children, etc. A mix of Big Brother existing and showing them they could make a ton of money producing garbage for cheap, and politicians starting to threaten their funding in the early 00s onwards, the creativity dialled down to almost 0 over the next 3 decades.

Kirk Deighton

I remember hearing about the stabbing of an MP at a surgery but never connected that it was David Amess, RIP.

Patrick

Methelenedioxymethamphetamine is the technical chemical name for ecstasy, hence MDMA

R Lawrence

He's afraid to watch it because it's so crap and so am i. Saw one and a half episodes, that'll do

R Lawrence

I didn't know that when David Amess (the politician holding cake and saying it should be brought up in Parliament) was stabbed to death years later he had apparently at first thought it was, as the killer later worded it, "a brass eye-style sting". I did used to wonder if it was immoral what Chris Morris did to people but I brushed it aside but now I'm feeling guilty for watching it at all. I don't know what I think about it now, I literally just found out. (I knew he was murdered I just didn't know that additional detail).

R Lawrence

Panel shows are just so much safer and so much cheaper than sketch shows these days. I'd say there's still hope for something like this. If a well-established comedian with a good track record wanted to do make a brass eye, they might be able to.

Will

He apparently threw a fit when he learnt he’d been pranked in this episode. But when you think a lot of his ‘gotchas’ were about pranking other celebs, you’d have thought he’d see the funny side.

Gary Tamblyn

Sorry to be a pedant but it was Claire Skinner with Kevin Eldon, not Jane Horrocks.

Gareth

Nerdy comment. Constituency surgeries are where members of the public can turn up and have a one to one meeting with their MP to discuss any problems they are having. It used to be the case that you could just turn up without booking, but after what happened to David Amess, I think they tightened up security quite a lot. Understandable I guess, that was horrible. I still think it’s a pretty cool part of UK democracy though. It’s pretty much the only thing I like about our political system at the moment (that and Count Binface). It also leads to situations where the Prime Minister could be at the UN discussing the Middle East, and the next day he’s sitting in a dusty office having to listen to one of his constituents rant about the dog shit outside his house!

AdamMcAdamface

Everything about this was brilliant and true. i'd still sell my hole for cake.

emu cat

Great stuff. 10/10.

Jason Scade

All the people doing public service readings are all real people and mostly roped into it under false pretences, and it’s fucking hilarious

Geraint Harrison

Not rolf Harris ahhhh

Geraint Harrison

And??

Louise Miller

The guy who was played one note was Bernard Ingham , Margaret Thatcher's press secretary ! He was a bit of a rottweiler but a loyal, effective and resilient member of Maggie's team. An ebbulient Yorkshireman, Bernard was I suppose like a bit of an older, less sweary, but still formidable version of Tony Blair's Press Secretary, Alistair Campbell, who many think is the person that Malcolm Tucker was based on on 'The Thick of It'.

South Coast Rich

Was quite hard to concentrate on the show because your dog looked so sweet around 5 minutes in

Sam Popplestone

I'm loving how much you're enjoying this

Sean Riley

Very sad but also that was very good 😆

Stephen Brindley

Not sure what’s worse, your racist comment or that some other idiot has liked it.

Charlie

As you'll have seen from all the other comments, a big part of Brass Eye was duping celebrities to say stupid things, and Brass Eye must have been what influenced Sacha Baron Cohen and his Ali G character, who essentially did the same thing soon after. There's not a chance anything like Brass Eye gets made today - Morris just wanted to see how far he could take things, and it ended up with seminal episodes like this. Even lines you maybe didn’t get the first time round, like when he says that he’s educated enough to recreationally take heroin, but builders and blacks aren’t, is a completely outrageous thing to say - no TV company would go anywhere near that sort of thing obviously these days. It's easy to see some of the beginnings of Jam/BlueJam in some of the sketches in this one, especially the parents who fake their death so that their young daughter doesn't become a drug addict! A totally mad show, and have loved the rewatch. Forgot how dark this episode actually was, but I’m still of the opinion that this is the most outrageous and sharpest satire there’s been in British TV history. It never got as good as this again.

Richie

I the controversy and pushing boundaries will come back eventually, people get bored and want something new and exciting

Stephen Brindley

The PSA parts are all real minor celebs who have been duped into thinking they are doing it for something legit. It suppose to mock celebrities lending their face and name to spurious campaigns to get a bit of good promo without even really considering what they are promoting. With the claims getting more and more ridiculous and to the point they will often read out bout how it is fake yet they are still unaware It's mental, as I remember the stabbing as around 10 years before it happened, I lived bout 10 doors down from that church and I've seen Brass Eye but never connected the two together as it being the same guy. Sad loss of life and the fact that guy got duped by the show and brought it up in Parliament shows he actually cared bout what he was doing to some degree.

Matt

obviously my town(Basildon,Essex) comes up when drugs are mentioned......👀🤔🤷‍♂️😂😂 RIP 😔💜

Adam Hale

David Amess i was really taken aback seeing him in this tbh I first watched this years ago way before it happened

Stephen Brindley

The dead parents were the actor kevin elden who appears in nearly everything you watch and Jane horrocks

Paul Liversage

Ha forgot Bernard Manning was one of the duped idiots in this episode "Sick bastards!" "What a fucking disgrace!"

Oliver

RIP David Amess, you were needlessly culturally enriched.

Pat Chapman

Funnily enough, this episode is not really about drugs and it is more about how celebrities and politicians jump on any bandwagon or campaign, tell the public what to do, all without doing any research or thinking. They sign up to anything so they can get their face on camera. So it's really an episode about celebrity campaigners.

Ash X

I got excited there watching Thatcher passing out. 😜

Martyn Dawson

Oh and Jimmy Greaves was a top England footballer (one of the best ever) and later sports tv presenter.

Paul Cole

They’re real people in the public eye. Noel Edmunds, tv presenter for decades, had some of the biggest shows on British tv. Rolf Harris, Australian who made it big in the uk as a singer, comedian, artist, tv presenter and was ultimately taken down for historic sex abuse. David Amess is a real politician, sadly murdered a few years ago, stabbed to death by an Islamist extremist in a church in his constituency in Leigh-On-Sea, where he was holding a meet and greet to get a feel for what his constituents wanted from their MP. They’re all given a basic background of a fake issue, given a script and told to read it out and they do so. The Brass Eye special on Paedophiles will blow your mind.

Paul Cole

You should so watch The League of Gentleman. Dark comedy in a really creepy weird town but it's absolutely hilarious. It's the kind of thing that probably couldn't be made today either.

Michael Leighton's Karl Pilkington Animations

Taffe316, the original and best American reactor reacted to these shows years ago.

Dave Roberts

David Amess was a REAL member of parliament at this point. He was stabbed to death in 2021, murdered in a 'terrorist incident'.

Dave Roberts

The thing with the David Amess participation is that a young woman in his constituency died from ecstasy it was a very high profile case and one which happened when I was at school and used to hammer home "Don't take drugs." Because (at least partly) of her death he was genuinely concerned and probably was eager to get involved without realising the nonsense. I personally can't stand the party he represent but by many accounts he seemed to serve his constituency well up until his murder, and despite being an MP for a long time never sought a government/cabinet position

Paul Draper

Yeah, pretty much all the people you see in those campaign/interview segments are real celebrities or politicians who have been duped by Morris. It's incredible what he got them to say, especially in the notorious Paedogeddon episode. I'm re-watching this for the first time in many years and it's still gut-bustingly hilarious and insanely dark. Morris is a genius.

Henry Graham

RIP David Amess

Andrew

The p****o stuff isn't funny/can't be done anymore considering what has come out in the news the last few years.. One of the nonces even makes an appearance in this episode.

Jon

That drug name you read out sounded like it could have been MDMA, the chemical name for ecstasy.

Z is for Zed

Also, going to double dip on the comments here, but regarding a programme like this being made today, it wouldn't and can't happen anymore. I think to a large extent the post-9/11 world became very scared and small-C conservative, people were far less receptive to irreverent and subversive pop culture like Brass Eye (which was hugely controversial even at the time) that questioned and ridiculed mainstream cultural and societal attitudes. Regarding streaming, it's now easier for people to choose what they want to watch rather than being exposed to something passively, for want of a better word, so it's easy for consumers to just consume what feels safe and comforting rather than anything challenging. I'm aware of the irony of me saying this here of all places, but I'm not really a proponent of streaming replacing linear broadcasting because I think it's healthy for people to be pushed out of their comfort zone. I think the entertainment industries have more hegemony now too, a few huge media conglomerates have sort of consolidated control over everything and it feels as if the industry dictates trends rather than trends dictating the industry, which always happened to an extent but moreso now, and they want safe and reliable sources of income, resulting in safe and reliable pop culture. I'd love to write more about this but it's far too much for a Patreon comment.

Charlie

7:40 Jimmy Saville's sparing partner.

ThetaSigmaTheOriginal

Noel Edmonds was in this episode which is who they were referring to in the last Gavin and Stacey that you watched with Neil the babys middle names.

Sam Evans

Love this show, Chris Morris is a genius. That opening scene had me creasing 😂😂

nwall89

I forgot the dirty pedo Rolf Harris was in this. You’ve also got the MP David Amess who was stabbed to death at one of his constituency meetings, and Noel Edmonds, the person who Smithy’s son was definitely not named after.

Rob Palmer

KB talking about David Amess... might need to google that one.

Jon

Let's be honest, it's not the worst thing Harris has done.

Z is for Zed

David Amess really did ask questions about cake in parliament having been tricked by Chris Morris. He was later appointed chair of the government’s psychoactive substances bill committee.

Charlie

Oh, THIS episode

Will

Jam is a horror tv show with an ambience of comedy hanging around it

Spoingus

no... NO! Jam is the wildest show ever made, and you are too afraid to watch the full episodes. I dare you to get through it

Dave Jones