Chris Morris & Paedogeddon - Discuss

blu3cat
blu3cat Posts: 1,016
edited October 2011 in The bottom bracket
Paedogeddon the one-off Chris Morris penned show.

In light of todays Ricky Gervais twitter PR generated storm in a tea cup, thought maybe some real indignation could be stirred up with just a little effort.

So Paedogeddon was one of the finest satires ever written. Biting, harsh and funny. the fact that the baying red tops actually fell for the joke made it all the more funny.

or

Was is a sick publicity stunt by someone who thinks that kiddy fiddlers is humourous.

I know which one I know to be true.
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  • LeicesterLad
    LeicesterLad Posts: 3,908
    edited October 2011
    :lol: Comedy gold. Pure comedy gold.

    and good thread :wink:

    and if anybody disagrees, they are talking nonse-sense.
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  • MattC59
    MattC59 Posts: 5,408
    Didn't see it :lol:
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  • Cleat Eastwood
    Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
    Can you get it on VHS?
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  • ihazon303
    ihazon303 Posts: 55
    Definitely one of the finest things on TV, right up there with Libby Kennedy.

    You really need to see the rest of Brass Eye though, they're all just as good!


    Definitely deserves the separate discussion - I wanted to stay out of this on the Gervais thread... but how can I do that now?
  • LeicesterLad
    LeicesterLad Posts: 3,908
    +1 for the whole of brass eye, well worth the cost of the dvd
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  • rodgers73
    rodgers73 Posts: 2,626
    Good in that it was fantastically funny.

    Bad in that it was his pinnacle and he was never that funny again.

    After Brass Eye, he ended up doing some really rather dreadful stuff that left me fairly cold (Jam, Blue Jam, Nathan Barley etc).
  • 70\ʹspenguin
    70\ʹspenguin Posts: 957
    edited October 2011
    I <3 Chris Morris! Was an avid fan of the Day to Day and B Eye. Im not going to get into the debate but i believe Chris Morris (and Armando Iannuci) got to the people they were aiming at perfectly and it was a stroke of genius on their behalf! I dont think they could have wished for a better outcome! The press reaction was a perfect example of life imitating fiction.
  • finchy
    finchy Posts: 6,686
    Great TV about media hypocrisy. Then again, we all knew the answer to that one already, didn't we?
  • LeicesterLad
    LeicesterLad Posts: 3,908
    +1 for The Day To Day also, the Alan Partridge bits in that are class!

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  • ihazon303
    ihazon303 Posts: 55
    Wasn't Jam before Brass Eye?

    But... The Day Today was just fantastic. Spawned a certain Alan Partridge, too, which has to merit an award by itself!

    Eat my goals! (an off-topic quote, sorry)
  • blu3cat
    blu3cat Posts: 1,016
    I want indignation dammit!
    "Bed is for sleepy people.
    Let's get a kebab and go to a disco."

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  • ihazon303
    ihazon303 Posts: 55
    I'm indignant that there was only one?
  • rodgers73
    rodgers73 Posts: 2,626
    ihazon303 wrote:
    Wasn't Jam before Brass Eye?

    But... The Day Today was just fantastic. Spawned a certain Alan Partridge, too, which has to merit an award by itself!

    Eat my goals! (an off-topic quote, sorry)

    I think Jam was the radio show, which may well have been before BE. My apologies. Blue Jam was the TV sketch show that followed BE and it wasn't great.
  • blu3cat
    blu3cat Posts: 1,016
    ihazon303 wrote:
    I'm indignant that there was only one?
    :D
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  • thegreatdivide
    thegreatdivide Posts: 5,807
    LeicesterLad wrote:
    +1 for The Day To Day also, the Alan Partridge bits in that are class!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xhlx43rTs2Q

    Yes!

    Classic Tour de France Partridge

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYdbanbEAYk

    On topic...the first time I saw 'Paedogeddon' I was stunned - and I was a big Brass Eye fan - but now it's just gold :lol:

    Did you know that paedophiles smell like hammers?
  • MichaelW
    MichaelW Posts: 2,164
    The Red Tops didn't fall for it. You don't get to be editor of the Sun by being naive and stupid.
    They misdirected the peado-fury of their stupid readers, telling them that this was an insult to the victims rather than a well aimed jibe Red Tops.

    I do believe that RedTop editors despise their readership. Can you imagine them inviting any readers around for dinner? Now try that with broadsheet editors inviting fellow Guardian Readers or Telegraph Readers to dinner. See the difference.

    The best part about the whole Paedogeddon issue was where you had to prefix your argument with " I didn't actually see the programme myself, but speaking as a Mother/Father.... "
  • blu3cat
    blu3cat Posts: 1,016
    [quote="
    I do believe that RedTop editors despise their readership. Can you imagine them inviting any readers around for dinner? Now try that with broadsheet editors inviting fellow Guardian Readers or Telegraph Readers to dinner. See the difference.
    "[/quote]

    A Uni Friend of my wife is a Journo and yep, that is a pretty spot on assesment, whenever we go out it's other journos and professionals rather than typical red top readers. I take your point.
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  • Tom Butcher
    Tom Butcher Posts: 3,830
    I'm sure Chris Morris will be thrilled to think his comedy is seen as equivalent to getting cheap laughs from using the word "mong". Far from being equivalent I'd have thought it's more likely that the people who were outraged by the paedo programme are the ones who are by and large quite happy to laugh along with Gervais.
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  • KnightOfTheLongTights
    KnightOfTheLongTights Posts: 1,415
    'There they go, looking a lot like cattle ... but cattle on bikes.'

    I'd agree with Tom, don't think there's a great deal of connection between CM's satire and RG's ... well, whatever he's doing.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,177
    Brass Eye was a work of genius. Blue Jam was a radio show prior to Brass Eye and was also superb, just good old surreal comedy. For some reason Morris isn't one of the media darlings so seems to get dropped at the slightest hint of controversy without being anywhere near as offensive as some others. The Blue Jame sketches where he was trying to arrange for a French taxidermist to stuff the DJ Johnny Walker and the one where he had a friend out in a cab pretending to be on the phone to his mum were probably the best of the lot.

    Think I'll re-watch my Brass Eye DVD next week when the family are away!
  • psychle
    psychle Posts: 83
    I think "just good old surreal comedy" is doing it a bit of a disservice. Some of it was and still is a genuinely shocking and insightful view of the world. Comedy as art form.

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  • Redhog14
    Redhog14 Posts: 1,377
    Isn't the problem for Chris Morris the old adage " don't shit in your own back yard"?

    He and Armando were excellent together, pale imitations like the 2 peep show guys just don't have the sharp edge.

    As far as Peadageddon I always love seeing the Dr Fox bit where he says "Peados have more dna in common with a lobster then you or I - Fact" whilst waving a cooked lobster.
    @surroundedbh
  • evil_breakfast
    evil_breakfast Posts: 460
    "When you fall over in the snow do you make a couple of bumps?"

    Classic.

    For me, Jam is on a par with Brasseye.
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  • iainf72
    iainf72 Posts: 15,784
    MichaelW wrote:
    The Red Tops didn't fall for it. You don't get to be editor of the Sun by being naive and stupid.
    They misdirected the peado-fury of their stupid readers, telling them that this was an insult to the victims rather than a well aimed jibe Red Tops.

    One of the funniest bits about the whole red top outrage was this

    ChrisMorrisVsTheStar.jpg
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  • DavidBelcher
    DavidBelcher Posts: 2,684
    Redhog14 wrote:
    As far as Peadageddon I always love seeing the Dr Fox bit where he says "Peados have more dna in common with a lobster then you or I - Fact" whilst waving a cooked lobster.

    I suppose he could always blame Adam Werrity for that....erm, hang on, wrong Dr. Fox methinks. I'll get me coat. :oops:

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  • Rouge Penguin
    Rouge Penguin Posts: 347
    The Drugs episode is almost as good.

    I can't recall why, but id seen it before the night it was aired on C4. Told everyone to watch it becasue I knew there was going to be meltdown over it. To hear that people were phoning in to complain over a comedy programme, thinking it was serious, tells you how stupid redtop readers are.

    The dvd is a great investment. Comedy genius.
  • DavidBelcher
    DavidBelcher Posts: 2,684
    iainf72 wrote:
    MichaelW wrote:
    The Red Tops didn't fall for it. You don't get to be editor of the Sun by being naive and stupid.
    They misdirected the peado-fury of their stupid readers, telling them that this was an insult to the victims rather than a well aimed jibe Red Tops.

    One of the funniest bits about the whole red top outrage was this

    ChrisMorrisVsTheStar.jpg

    Exactly the sort of self-contradicting juxtaposition of content that the Mail seems to specialise in these days.

    David
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  • 70\ʹspenguin
    70\ʹspenguin Posts: 957
    Rouge Penguin wrote:
    The Drugs episode is almost as good.

    Comedy genius.

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  • fast as fupp
    fast as fupp Posts: 2,277
    Nathan Barley was totally Mexico!
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  • ynyswen24
    ynyswen24 Posts: 703
    Chris Morris is a national treasure.

    I see your Bernard "its a f..'ing disgrace" and raise you Bernard Inghams and the floating cassette player ...

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