Brass Eye / Chris Morris...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7/listenagain/tuesday/ (23:00)

"Panic as European Average falls below European Average".

there was some talk (which may have been a real-life conversation) about the bbc tapes of On The Hour being different from the original broadcast. anyone know details? (i'd thought one of lee or marber had asked for their stuff to be removed but i could be mistaken. both get a credit on the bbc7 repeats)

Quotes from an interview at http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/interviews/leeherring.htm

OTT: Sorry to go over old ground, but we'd like to know a little more about your involvement with On the Hour. Does it bother you that people often seem to forget about your contributions?

RICHARD HERRING: If they do then it's a little irksome, but inevitable and also the reason that we ended up pulling out 'cos we weren't getting the credit. I think it would have been even more annoying if we'd done The Day Today 'cos the same thing would have been true. It's annoying when people think we've been influenced by The Day Today or even things like Father Ted or The League of Gentlemen, because in fact our work on On the Hour was an influence on those people (a bit). It's a shame we haven't worked with some of those people again, though I'm hopeful about working with Coogan and it's only him and Chris Morris that I would love to work with (and Rebecca Front obviously, but I am working with her).

STEWART LEE: I don't really care to be honest. Time will show (Patrick) Marber to be a dishonest opportunist and a liar, and Chris (Morris) didn't really know what was going on.

Certainly some bitterness with Marber there.

The ones they are currently repeating on BBC 7 include the L&H stuff:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7/listenagain/monday/rams/0430.ram

HAHAHA!! fantastic.

Budget
£500 (estimated)

David Jatt looks exactly like David Cross circa Mr Show 1996

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04sp5pq

Three hours of Chris Morris highlights

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/34433b8139cbcce073f2e525bdc8eff125df6daa/950_1283_4785_2871/master/4785.jpg

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/mar/11/the-day-shall-come-review-chris-morris-returns-with-wild-farce?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/34433b8139cbcce073f2e525bdc8eff125df6daa/950_1283_4785_2871/master/4785.jpg?width=620&quality=45&auto=format&fit=max&dpr=2&s=c0a47857fa8282580c3b1bd821156b2e

Sight&Sound not as keen

https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/reviews-recommendations/day-shall-come-chris-morris-fake-counter-terrorism-sting

Despite evident sympathy for his beleaguered protagonists, there’s also an uncomfortable sense of Morris punching down. Moses and his crew are consistently the butt of the joke, men who believe that horses can talk and klaxons can summon dinosaurs. Riz Ahmed’s lead in Four Lions was misguided but maintained a certain dignity that’s largely absent here

Except, with the exception of the Riz Ahmed character, most of the comedy in Four Lions centred on how unbelievably stupid the protagonists were.

Seeing this on Tuesday in Glasgow with Chris Morris in the house!

"I really don't see the point of comedy unless there's something underpinning it."

Chris Morris says satire is not about being "slapped on the back by the orthodox elite", it's about wanting to "change something". pic.twitter.com/3GcUpwOQwq

— Channel 4 News (@Channel4News) October 2, 2019

some braindead questions there, but he's still good. I'd like to think he was talking about the likes of Iannucci/HIGNFY/M Hyde/Miles Jupp type arseholes with the "doing exotic displays for the court" jibe.

I got a free ticket to see this tonight and forgot to go ☹️

"isn't Trump, half the time, many steps ahead of you?"

stay off the snow, Snow

I saw this new film and it's not good, at all. I'd call it a misfire but I'm not actually sure what the target was.

it did look a bit dodgy from the trailer. oh well!

This is a shame. The world needed Chris Morris, but reading about this new film it felt like, as jed_ says, the target and subject matter seem a bit niche. Four Lions was quite good but even in itself was very 'God, look at these chumps', rather than the scathing surrealism of Brass Eye and TDT

When the trailer for that new Chris Morris film first dropped it looked like complete crap but now he's done a couple of interviews where he suggests he's not quite as much of a useless wolly Zone 2 dinner party liberal as his comedy contemporaries we all weep like teased vaginas

— I (@trevorbastard) October 3, 2019

lol maybe mr bastard is being a bit harsh here, but he might be onto something!

Yeah I wasn’t majorly enthused when the trailer ended with a character blurting out “fuck a crocodile” or some such iannucci style “creative swear” but you know trailers are shit. Still wanna see it

has he fallen out with Iannucci now or something?

nah surely not, he was plenty involved with Veep wasn't he?

yeah no

He was a recurring director on Veep and took over from Armando as the interlocutor on Comedy Vehicle, but they haven't originated anything together since The Day Today in 1994 (or possibly the new audio sketches on The Day Today DVD in 2004, if Ianucci produced those)

This was their last original joint material i think, although yeah possibly the DVD extras for The Day Today

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/mar/17/september11.terrorism

This was earlier this year:

The Day Today, 25th anniversary dinner. We’ve lost the news.@RebeccaFront @Aiannucci @Pmarber @PeterBaynham pic.twitter.com/9esJ9uPDzL

— David Schneider (@davidschneider) February 12, 2019

Peter Baynham has quite the collection of writing credits now.

pisces - oh yeah! that was kinda a followup to The Smokehammer

http://web.archive.org/web/20011228224857/http://www.thesmokehammer.com/

and was followed by the Bushwhacked cut-ups

12th February 2003
http://web.archive.org/web/20030320043339/http://thesmokehammer.com/

Some kind of film about Brass Eye (with unseen footage) on tour:

http://www.michaelcumming.co.uk/oxide%20ghosts/

lol, it's me the Chris Morris fan who wants to see David Walliams introduce a film about brass eye

lol i was gonna say there's a few wrong'uns on that list

Can’t wait to hear what Flea has to say.