Brass Eye Special - Channel 4 Apology

C4 apology after slew of tabloid-led BES complaints.

[@michaeldixon9942]

This is the one thing we didn't want to happen....

[@KumaBean]

🤣👌

[@petras8385]

nice

[@jrichardlaw]

An apology for one of the most accurate satires ever produced. They highlighted exactly how the media sensationalise.

found the p e d

[@rajgopee1245]

It was ahead of its time. If that broadcast now more people are savvy to media b.s now. Of course you'll still get the classic dumbass sun reader failing to get it now and again

[@cookslooking10]

There are many victims of child abuse who would have struggled to find any humour in the subject, I don't think it's unreasonable to insist there should have been adequate warning beforehand, they did not say that any of the actual content should have been censored. Massive fan of Brass Eye but this was the one time it wasn't hard to see what all the fuss was about. Chris Morris has even said if you didn't find some part of it offensive there's probably something wrong with you.

[@bettyswunghole3310]

The really disappointing thing is that the media don't seem to have learnt anything from the experience.

[@cookslooking10]

@H What difference would adequate warnings before the program have made to your enjoyment of it?

[@iantpls]

Just perfection. Parody, satire and then an apology. You cant make it up.

[@erniemccracken2429]

They should have signed off this apology with “…and we really are so very truly sorry!”

[@HD32PLAY]

The voice sounds like it's coming from a Roboplegic Wrongcock

[@robertwright7937]

You sound like a right custard gannet. It's a f@#$$ disgrace.

[@robertwright7937]

@Richie Ingpiece If only we'd listened to Dr. Fox.....clearly a wise man.

[@robertwright7937]

@Enoch Powell We need Edmonds! He'll sort this out in a jiff. If he's out of jail for killing Clive Anderson, anyway.

[@Simple1Jack]

I always thought it was “Rom-Cock” 😂

[@D1rty_Dj]

@@robertwright7937 🤣🤣🤣 Big up too all brass eye and the day today fans worldwide We need .more of us

[@PupRiku]

"Channel 4 took care to ensure no harm was caused to children". Did people think a comedy show was just gonna fully nonce a few kids up for shits and giggles? :')

[@paultwiss199]

Probably Daily Mail readers, who live in a perpetual state of being offended.

[@Cartoonman154]

​@@paultwiss199 I'm sure people who are offended by this isn't confined to any one publication. Also, self awareness is a helpful tool.

[@darylcastillo1439]

@@paultwiss199 Who had a picture of Prince Andrew's barely teen daughters in bikinis on the opposite page of the complaints of this programme. The ironic hypocrisy...

[@allanj1872]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@allanj1872]

@@darylcastillo1439 what u on about

[@sturycroft]

Yes, we REALLY must apologise for that last broadcast... it really is a shit.

[@sturycroft]

😂.

[@D1rty_Dj]

😁🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@KNIGH7]

This is what you get when you mix people who get offended easily with politicians who jump on the condemnation bandwagon before even viewing the special.

[@DarkAngel2512]

Abuse victim here and the "here we have a paedophile disguised as a school" line had me wetting myself. Abuse jokes can still be funny. Jokes are jokes at the end of the day

[@frozenbinarystudio]

This is arguably my favorite line from the entire series, especially with the follow up: "We really need to catch him, he really is a shit"

[@DarkAngel2512]

@@frozenbinarystudio 😂😂 the scene with the paeodo in stocks and he's saying to the paeodo how the paedo fancies kids and wants bang his son and the paedo replies he doesnt fancy him and he's like what dyu mean you dont fancy him, are you saying he's ugly etc.

[@frozenbinarystudio]

@@DarkAngel2512 that guy was Simon Pegg lol

[@DarkAngel2512]

@@frozenbinarystudio thank you :)I'm terrible with names. I confused Graham Linehan for Peter Thatchell even though I know damn well who PT is.😂

[@commerceserverservercommerce]

this wouldn't have happened if people weren't thick and actually knew the satire in it

[@DarkAngel2512]

This "apology" was made by Brass Eye. Not Ch4

[@pauldiffin9148]

I want an apology for this apology.

[@clarkejoseph49]

There’s been a dramatic development at the ITC, Ted Maul has this…

[@BossySwan]

The broadcast should have disguised itself *as a school*

[@DuwangKaizer]

For those who are wondering, the ITC are now replaced by Ofcom.

[@MrThecarebear]

and they are even more crap than the ITC were.

[@Football__Junkie]

This is unintentionally hilarious

[@rlinders9972]

So you’re telling me that this “apology” wasn’t satire that Brass Eye themselves made.

[@DarrinSK]

"This is the last thing we wanted to happen"

[@robertcreighton4635]

This apology made me do a lot of cake until my eyes bled marzipan

[@singrdave]

In other words, this is the one thing we didn't want to happen

[@MrSuede79]

Can't think of a better compliment to the series, honestly. The equivalent of having the "Parental Advisory Warning" label on your old CDs: you know you're in for some good s$%t

[@futureisgosub]

That apology is nonce sense

[@chris060372]

Some people live for offence. Imagine if this episode were broadcast for the first time now. There would be an internet riot.

[@glasbarry]

Wouldn't be allowed on TV. 2001 was a very different time. Times have hardened up,

[@NiceuRiceu]

But then there would also be an outcry of people arguing that brass eye is just a funny comedy and doesn't deserve harsh treatment

[@MrThecarebear]

@@glasbarry 2001 was only 19 years ago!

[@callumfisher8101]

@@MrThecarebear Things have changed alot in 19 years...whole new generation of people knocking about.

[@DarkAngel2512]

@@MrThecarebear and Gen Z were born when this was airing. :(

[@NxDoyle]

It's a work of art.

[@SkinnyEMedia]

Now the Meghan and Harry conversation and Piers Morgan complaining and leaving off caused more Ofcom complaints than this satire ever did!

[@bettyswunghole3310]

The number of people who were offended covered an area of internet the size of Ireland.

[@D1rty_Dj]

Hahaha 🤣🤣🤣

[@MrTomosa]

Wow, that is cowardly.

[@applemask]

It would have been cowardly if they'd done it without being legally ordered to.

[@saiello2061]

The complaints were less about the subject matter but how the kids were seen to be treated in the show. There was one scene where Chris Morris shoves a couple of kids into the drawers of a filing cabinet and shuts them in. I believe this was the cause for most complaints... 🤣😂🤪

[@D1rty_Dj]

Chris was merely making sure that his children were safe I know his are Are yours??? 🤣🤣🤣

[@saiello2061]

@@D1rty_Dj They are now, now that they've been sprayed with raw sewage... 😂🤣😂🤣😂

[@D1rty_Dj]

@@saiello2061 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@tommymurphy459]

They were probably all too strung out on cake to notice the offence that they were causing...

[@mrnaughtycat]

When I first watched this I had a nice pink arse and no hair on me balls lol

[@Jokaanan]

there are some comments on uploads of the episode that could really use this clip being broadcast as a response

[@vanillacoffee]

If this were really happening, what would you think ?

[@robertwright7937]

I'd think I wasn't happy about it, but I'd have to go along with it.

[@vanillacoffee]

@@robertwright7937 Peter, thank you.

[@robertwright7937]

@@vanillacoffee lol😆

[@RUDI-UK]

Is there an onion limit?

[@thehammersmithcrumpetradar]

And yet, if anything gets aired that is funny, people demand this every 3 minutes or seconds

[@zeusuk100]

Channel 4 didn't like it, but they had to go along with it

[@fml0653]

Does anyone understand what the text beneath the ITC logo said? The first line read Independent Television Commission, obviously.

[@koiyune]

it's unintelligbe text, sadly.

[@wheelmanstan]

haha, I've always thought satire and magic tricks are a great way of testing IQ's

[@explained3275]

"The BBC would like to apologise for the poor writing in the following sketch...."

[@secondhandflowers]

Love this video. One of my favourites

[@no9008]

it has now been purged off youtube. Welcome to 1984.

[@CringePoop]

@@no9008 you can find it with a quick bing search, idk what you're talking about. i'm not even from the uk either

[@bonnie3447]

I'm more offended by that apology.

[@trainwreck3697]

"unawares"?

[@hermanthetosser4219]

JLB-8 making a comeback

[@chrisbeaumont4630]

MORRIS'D

[@fernlew8828]

100% perfect satire and nothing else.

[@jackcrawford3921]

What date was this broadcast?

[@jackcrawford3921]

@rileypotts59 just a few days before 9/11

[@CadiasFinest]

​​@@jackcrawford3921it was the 26th July 2001, it says in the video

[@jackcrawford3921]

@@CadiasFinest no that's when the show was broadcast, I'm referring to when the apology was shown

[@CadiasFinest]

@jackcrawford3921 oh my bad.

[@koiyune]

it would of probably been around a couple of weeks or even days when it was originally broadcasted

[@D1rty_Dj]

If someone thinks goldfish are the same as flatfish Well then theres something wrong

[@Isleofskye]

THey are not the same as my Gypsy friends do not give away Flatfish at Funfairs.

[@carlgriffiths8482]

Who complained Jimmy Savile

[@TripleJumpYTP]

bruh

[@bettyswunghole3310]

Personally, I think Channel 4 should apologise for pretty much every programme it's put out _since_ Brasseye...

[@timmorodgers4271]

It was worth it

[@coprographia]

Pleading like this over unparalleled satire while turning a blind eye to Jimmy Saville. How craven can you get.

[@DarkAngel2512]

This wasnt a real apology. It was part of Brass Eye.

[@frazzle657]

It's not an apology for the public its for the bbc for mocking their antics

[@daveking1565]

It was hilarious

[@Spirit-Of-The-Age]

For those who still don't understand the real motive behind the work of the genius that is Chris Morris (the main guy behind Brass Eye) then here he is, explaining it all.........kzbin.info/www/bejne/opq5ZqqBds6bnpo

[@SoulFlask]

looooooolll

[@GnosticAtheist]

Is this true? It sounds like satire. If it is true then you need to make sure you do not live in a nation where such weakness is allowed. Its just disgusting that a human would want an apology for jokes. It makes my skin crawl.

[@DarkAngel2512]

It's not real.

[@cookslooking10]

@@DarkAngel2512 Thu, Sep 6, 2001, 01:00 The Independent Television Commission (ITC) today demanded that Channel 4 broadcast an apology over its controversial spoof paedophile documentary Brass Eye. The television regulator ruled the programme, which sparked a flood of complaints when it was shown in July, had breached its code in two areas. In a statement issued today in response to the complaints, the ITC accepted Channel 4 had failed to give adequate warnings about the nature of the programme and ruled that not enough care had been taken to avoid causing "gratuitous offence" to the viewer. The ITC decided an appropriate course of action would be to take the rare step of asking Channel 4 to broadcast an apology, the details of which are yet to be finalised.

[@DarkAngel2512]

@@cookslooking10 😂😂

[@psyanide1603]

@@DarkAngel2512 It is real. The paedo episode is the episode that got Brass Eye taken off air for good, which is sad.

[@DarkAngel2512]

@@psyanide1603 Oh wow. So silly. I'm an abuse victim and loved that episode. I'm wondering who got that banned if it was abuse victims or those offended on their behalf. I think if only those who are offended complained about stuff this world would function a lot better. Really if people are offended they can simply not watch.