American Reacts to Brass Eye (#3)

[@deadcatthinks6725]

"Shatner's Bassoon"...gets me every time.

[@CoupSounds]

Amess did raise the issue of "cake" in parliament at the time and was mocked by the public for it for years and years. He actually became the chair of the Psychoactive Substances Bill Committee like 20 years after this aired.

[@InhumanFan98]

Yea he had later said his stance on "cake" was a parodic showing of his very real stance on recreational drugs. Still funny tho

[@_Madfly]

And the minister replied to him saying that the Home Office understood what type of drug cake was!

[@luke-alex]

of course, they couldn't use the footage of him actually asking the question in the House of Commons because it's illegal to use such Parliamentary footage for comedy purposes (which is why they could only show the transcript)

[@TeethSink]

I always wondered when Chris says "that now became a very real possibility" he was breaking the fourth wall and getting slightly concerned that their joke was going to come under real scrutiny and spoil it.

[@jonathancole833]

7:55 Claire Rayner, a newspaper agony aunt of the era. Bernard Manning was a comedian whose act was thought too un-PC for television. Jimmy Greaves was a footballing legend who later became a popular sports pundit. All dead now.

[@bigthecat100]

Just checked the credits at the end, the mother in the school sketch was Claire Skinner from Outnumbered! I thought she seemed familiar :)

[@HARRi81_UK]

Taffe, don't be a custard gannet, don't enter the nightmare of cake.

[@pompeymonkey3271]

Great to see that Mr Morris's satire is still appreciated these days.

[@PD-jk5hd]

Just a few years before this, Leah Betts died aged 18 from taking ecstasy (and 7 litres of water in 90 minutes). I was 10 at the time and in the same county, this led to a lot of intensive anti-drug talks in schools. She was also a constituent of David Amess, and he no doubt worked closely with her parents. No wonder he really cared and took this seriously! I'd never vote for his party but politics aside he seemed a genuine nice caring individual from many sources

[@WhipLashJimmyFrank]

True, of all the tories they could have assassinated they had to chose Amess. Bastards.

[@80sandretrogubbins25]

It was barely more than 1 year. It was shocking at the time, more so the choice of Amess.

[@DaveyHotrod]

After Leah Betts died the dance music community campaigned for proper drug education, such as my peers when I first took ecstasy - sip a bottle of water over an hour & find a cool place to sit down if you're too hot. The politicians condemned this saying it would encourage drug use. All it did was prevent people from asking for help or knowing what to do if someone found themselves in distress.

[@kilo1981]

In answer to your question at the end, Chris Morris would have been known as a regional DJ on the BBC and on independent stations in London. He would have also have had 6 episodes of the Day Today (shown on BBC2 - not a generally well watched TV station) behind him to. The Day Today was a more news bulletin based satire as opposed to Brass Eye's more current affairs based satire. So he wouldn't exactly have been a nobody, but unless you were aware of him he wouldn't have been on most peoples radar either. You have to remember the internet was still in it's infancy back in 1997 so it wasn't possible to quickly check things or research people the way it is now, also he used rudimentary, sometimes ludicrous personas or disguises, which again helped to hide his true identity even further.

[@jonathancole833]

Those guys at the start WERE real drug dealers. I think that Morris should have reported them to Trading Standards for not knowing the names of their products!

[@InhumanFan98]

Theyl lose customers when they dont have any sunflower overload. Its their own fault for not being on the ball 😂

[@nudebaboon4874]

Yep, All saints road and Lancaster road W11, I grew up around there in the 50s , moved out in the late 60s. It got really bad with drugs and stabbings around the mid 70s, up until the late 90s when it got cleaned up.

[@mathewperring]

I had forgotten just how amazing this show was. This might be the best episode that they made. And then there was "that" episode which back then got canceled and only shown once!

[@jonathancole833]

i think "that" episode was re-shown a day or so after the original transmission, but at midnight.

[@stephenmcdonagh2795]

P*edogeden was hilarious, like every other show, it spoofed the mainstream media who act like the paragons of other peoples' virtues. The fact that so many people in the limelight condemned the show without actually watching it, proved how Brass Eye got everything right, the bonus of celebrity talking heads reading out ridiculous comments then complaining later, showed them to be doubly stupid and vacuous.

[@reubenwaring]

Fun fact: Noel Edmonds was supposedly so mad about this being a hoax, that he never recorded a charity message again

[@cuntchops23]

And there was that time he lost it with a shotgun, resulting in a tense seige at his Mansion.

[@WhipLashJimmyFrank]

Amess among trying to ban Cake was also well known to be anti-hunting, he didn’t think Foxes were made of string, R.I.P good sir.

[@bakura23]

it's important to not your not aloud to knowingly lie in the houses of parliament and if you have misled the house you have to return and correct the record so David Amess must have had to return feeling so embarrassed. Also in the version i watched on channel 4's streaming service it ended with a disclaimer saying "Following his complaint about this programme to the ITC in 1997, David Amess MP wishes to make it clear that he strongly disapproves of the use of recreational and addictive drugs."

[@MrDCWood]

Started watching Brass Eye earlier tonight. This episode with Chris trying to purchase “Clarky Cat” from the dealer…God, it caught me unawares! “For the TENTH TIME, I do not KNOW it! I don’t know it!” 😂🤣😂

[@billyhodges7194]

Absolute balls of steel to negotiate actual dealers in London at night

[@mikebailey783]

Did you clock the actress playing Desiree's mother? - She went on to play the part of the mum in 'Outnumbered'!

[@dazuk37]

The part that isn't made clear is that ALL of those public figures and famous people were TOTALLY duped by it all. They were so desperate to be on TV that they believed this was a real docementary. There were cries from thjem at the time after the first episide aired to get the rest baned from being aired and they all realised they had been duped and how totally ridiculous they looked. It was even bought up in parliament.

[@InhumanFan98]

I love how noel edmonds got so mad that hed agreed to it and finding out it wasnt real. The contracts they have the celebs sigh when they do the warnings like with cake made it so the celebs couldnt sue

[@ldma]

You missed Joss Acklands Spunky Backpack

[@Spirit-Of-The-Age]

In answer to your question at the end about how famous Chris Morris was at the time. No he wasn't very famous in most of the MSM. He more had a cult following due to The Day Today, The Chris Morris Music Shows (which was on radio anyway) In real life he has always kept a low profile too. So at the time of Brass Eye around 1997 the celebraties he picked on just thought he was a genuine new TV reporter, making documentries. Brass Eye was where he did become very well known as there was a huge uproar about it. Especially after the Special Episode (on Peados) in early the 2000's . The work Chris Morris did on Brass Eye (and his radio music show in 1994, became the main inspiration for Sasha Barron Cohen (whom imho never was anywhere as good as Chris Morris.. Chris Morris has a underlying reason for his work here. 1/ To try and help wake people up to how the MSM TV news and documentries, and the MSM tabloid gutter press, can create irrational fear and prejudice in people, and how they start 'culture wars' 2/ To show how certain celebraties and politicians will jump on the bandwagon on any subject in an attempt to get more fame for themselves or to futher their own careers in politics etc, withour fisrt finding out the facts on any subject. Brass Eye was brilliant at highligting the sheer hypocrisy of these celebs.

[@roboi2241]

It's a shame we'll never see anything like it again or someone like Chris Morris covertly infiltrating the media, political and entertainment world and exposing them to their own absurdities and hideous exploitation of the gullible masses. I agree about S B Cohen, not a patch on Morris, Morris was essential, Cohen just made fools of easy targets and clueless Americans.

[@80ssynthfan48]

@@roboi2241 I don't see how the C4 of today would let this fly now.

[@kainfletcher4716]

R.i.P David amess.

[@Live-by2vk]

Hi taffe! I’m actually going to see Dave Gorman tonight (can’t wait) and it made me think you haven’t reacted to anything thing from him in a while, so hopefully he will turn up on your radar again soon 👍😁

[@PaulEcosse]

Has he done DG looking for all the other Dave Gormans? That was the first time I saw him or even heard of him. Seems like many, many years ago.

[@Live-by2vk]

@@PaulEcosse I don’t believe he has no. Last night was great btw, kinda like a modern life is goodish set 👍

[@StalwartShinobi]

Chris Morris wasn't known at all at the time and still today its rare someone knows his name, you have to tell people he did the Four Lions movie and they go '' oh yeahhhh I know him! '' even when though they haven't seen him still

[@StalwartShinobi]

Maybe IT crowd is what people know him from most. Jam he was just the I between sketches weird guy

[@makaio9578]

Yeah David Amess was stabbed to death a year ago on Saturday (15th October 2021)

[@Grithron2]

Er...so what? Politicians, like anyone who commits the crime of joining a corporate body which claims special privileges and qualifications (be it Parliament or Sainsburys) and thereby annulling their identity and morally bankrupting themselves - are the PROPERTY of everyone else, to COMMAND OR KILL AS THEY SEE FIT. You don't wanna die painfully - well, don't "other" yourself by claiming "status" and "entitlements"! If you are involved in either "the State" or "private (?) business" you are at war with humanity and thereby your status as a human, if you ever had it, is null and void - it's that twuntviggering simple. Actual humans do not form corporate bodies - or nuclear-families - because actual humans have individual psyches and therefore understand by the time they reach the age of 1 that all property is theft and all governance is abuse. erty

[@marvy3022]

@@Grithron2 Sounds like commie propaganda. Friendly reminder that you and your ilk are not human and will eventually be swiftly dealt with.

[@RoundTheArchives]

'Yellow Bentines' make UK people of a certain age think of Michael Bentine, one-time member of 'The Goon Show' and presenter of the very odd kids show 'Michael Bentine's Potty Time'. Example episode here : kzbin.info/www/bejne/a5i7Z5h4aJ12hqc

[@jonathancole833]

Hence Bentine was a good name for a made-up drug!

[@sayhibobbi]

Don't forget "It's A Square World"

[@GrubStLodger]

Jas Mann from Babylon Zoo is a real person from a real band and not made up. I swear there's a spherical song in their second album.

[@Grithron2]

Was there a second album? It speaks volume when your most famous song is not only the subject of an urban myth re misrepresentation, but is agreed to have been done better by a couple of fat middle-aged Scousers, like this - kzbin.info/www/bejne/nGSmfYmdndmJhq8

[@bungle0h521]

19:00 as far as piss take music goes, its still better than alot of experimental music out there

[@marcusmaher-triskellionfil5158]

Brass eye is out there...literarly.

[@CJFS00s]

(22:34) No, it’s been stated that Chris Morris has *NO* shame. 😄

[@mash83]

19:36 that spin

[@marcusmaher-triskellionfil5158]

Had these on DVD and remember showing it to an American friend in 2003 (I'm Irish) esp this episode, he sat there in stone cold silence, he couldn't wrap his head around what he was watching, he actually thought it was a serious news report show. 😅😅😅😅

[@Grithron2]

The mandrill house was the same as the tiger house in TDT episode 1?

[@Grithron2]

"Addicted to the Cure?" Well, we've all been there! We've all been just a piece of new meat in a clean room, or dead amongst the stones.

[@thatguyfromcetialphaV]

'Are you the boz boz?'

[@briancohenthepfjmassive.4769]

Queen Elizabeth first was known as the virgin queen for a reason.

[@matthewking4098]

"Cake is a made up drug"

[@geoffreysearby3181]

Does anyone know where the last robot wars episode went. It seems it appeared and then disappeared! Noah, you're such a custard gannet!

[@jamiepeter3567]

The copyright vultures at it again

[@geoffreysearby3181]

This makes me sad

[@scatterkeir]

Here's a clip of Chris appearing on a daytime TV show in character but getting busted. kzbin.info/www/bejne/rHbaZmWEl7SAn9U

[@Modj-j5m]

Very funny 😄

[@mrbedford]

no one knew who he was that's how most of those shows get away with it

[@robertcreighton4635]

Cake it's made by old ladies in high rise flats

[@phillipbishop5419]

Wow this show get weirder every episode I watch but fully enjoy it. My question did that MP really raise issue of cake in parliament it would be hilarious if he did to then find out it was joke.

[@jonathancole833]

He did indeed.

[@phillipbishop5419]

@@jonathancole833 thank you letting me now. Wow he certainly was taken in by ir

[@jonathancole833]

@@phillipbishop5419 To be fair, many people were taken in by Chris Morris!

[@phillipbishop5419]

@@jonathancole833 I guest you right

[@meandshe735]

This was funny up until David Amess, and whilst I appreciate that that was years later.... took the bite out of it for me. RIP took a very good man killed in an awful manner.

[@rorygibson3124]

Wait... you claim to be american, but also know that David Amess was an MP who was murdered...?