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Morris won the Best TV Comedy Newcomer award from the British Comedy Awards in 1994 for his performance in The Day Today. He has won two BAFTA awards: the BAFTA Award for Best Short Film in 2002 for My Wrongs #8245–8249 & 117, and the BAFTA Award for Outstanding Debut by a British director, writer or producer in 2011 for Four Lions.
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- Brass Eye’s Paedogeddon. One of the most controversial TV episodes ever aired, Paedogeddon garnered some 3000 complaints (to be fair, Ghostwatch got around 30,000 complaints) when it aired in 2001, making jokes about unintentionally sending real-life paedophile Sydney Cooke into space with an eight year old boy, and getting celebs to back its ‘Nonce Sense’ campaign.
- Brass Eye’s Shatner’s Bassoon. This episode of Brass Eye centres on a news report about a massive yellow drug the size of a birthday cake that’s doing the rounds which, if taken, affects the part of the brain called Shatner’s Bassoon.
- Four Lions’ bleach scene. If anyone could find the comedy in UK’s domestic terrorism problem, it would be Chris Morris. Four Lions is a fantastic film that manages to make you both laugh and cry at wannabe suicide bombers bungling their way through a terrorist plot.
- The Day Today’s Eat My Goal! Alan Partridge, Steve Coogan’s greatest character, started off life on Chris Morris’ The Day Today, as a sports presenter.
Christopher Morris (born 15 June 1955) is an English satirist, writer, director and actor. A former radio DJ, he is best known for anchoring the spoof news and current affairs television programmes The Day Today and Brass Eye, as well as his frequent engagement with controversial subject matter.
Oct 10, 2019 · In 2010, Morris reinvented himself as a movie director with Four Lions, a tightrope act of a comedy about a pack of bungling would-be jihadists, starring a young Riz Ahmed.
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Jul 17, 2018 · Taking a look back at Chris Morris’s British comedy series Brass Eye, a precursor to Sacha Baron Cohen’s new Showtime series Who Is America?
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Sep 24, 2019 · Comedian Chris Morris, Once the ‘Most Hated Man in Britain’: There’s Good Satire — and Being Offensive. Morris has skewered terrorism and the media’s coverage of pedophilia – his ...
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102 mins | 83% 80% Trailer. A taboo-busting British comedy about four idiotic terrorists, with an ill-advised scheme to blow something up, somehow. Directed by satire king Chris Morris (Brass Eye, Jam, The Day Today).. +2 more. TV. Nathan Barley: Season 1.
