Brass Eye - 20 Years
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Great series. I like the OP didn't appreciate it fully until years after.
I remember the end of the 90's approaching and we could see political correctness approaching and its madness. I guess brass eye made some predictions about it.
I remember the end of the 90's approaching and we could see political correctness approaching and its madness. I guess brass eye made some predictions about it.
David Amess ended up chairing a committee on drug legislation recently as well I think
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You could, when it was used to describe a meteorological process, rather than an insult.
There is no way you would be allowed to broadcast some of the content the Brass Eye did on TV now. People would go nuts. Even back in the 90s it got taken off air because feeble people got offended or took it seriously.
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I remember one particular bit which involved firing a cow through the air, but can't remember the context.
I was just reading an article about Brass Eye and how it was 20 years ago. It was so ahead of its time, I can remember thinking it was crap back then because it all went over my head. Thinking back, it was almost like looking into the future and even the media it ridiculed were seemingly oblivious to it. This image made me laugh out loud a little.
Brass Eye was hilarious at the time and is still hilarious.
Untouchable as the greatest comedy show of all time.
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I have to admit, back then I was completely taken in by the media who told us that this TV program was an outrage to decency. I was oblivious to the fact they were literally telling us how to think.
The irony of the Outrage/Charlotte Church image is amazing, even the Brass Eye team must've looked at stuff like that and thought "are they playing along now?"
Oh I see that is he censorship works, you get bored of a word being used, so you start it out.
Nice !
The media never likes anything that holds a mirror up to it's hypocrisy.
I remember another one that was criticism of Brass Eye on one page, and on the opposite, a leching article about Princess Beatrice and Eugine on holiday in swimsuits now that they were 13/15. In those days you had things like a young Samantha Fox in suimsuits while the Sun ran a countdown until she was legal to take her top off and pose with her breasts out on page 3.
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I knew she was the youngest, but did they really run a countdown to legal? If so, that's horrendous.
Yep, swimsuits/bikinis while she was fifteen, baps out on page 3 as soon as she hit her sixteenth birthday IIRC. I'm sure she made good money out of it back then. I'm sure I remember the Sun hyping up "the day" just like you'd hype up the release date of an album or a movie.
Have revisited both Brass Eye and The Day Today in the last few years. Both rank amongst my favourite TV Shows, fantastically funny and can still make me laugh. Shame there wasnt a great amount produced by them after Brasseye, but would have had to have been quite different i suppose unless they took the interviews abroad (a la Borat etc).
"Cake is a made up drug" will always still in my mind.
Might well watch a few again!
"Cake is a made up drug" will always still in my mind.
Might well watch a few again!
I don’t think Brass Eye would work today. Modern politics and media are beyond satirisation.
