Chris Morris
Christopher Morris
Search results
Brass Eye (stylised as brassEYE) is a British satirical television series parodying current affairs news programming. A series of six episodes aired on Channel 4 in 1997, and a further episode in 2001.
Brass Eye is a satirical TV show that mocks current affairs, celebrities and politicians with absurd and shocking sketches. Watch episodes, cast, reviews, trivia and more on IMDb, the world's most popular and authoritative source for movie, TV and celebrity content.
- (12K)
- 1997-01-29
- Comedy
- 25
Jan 29, 1997 · Brass Eye is a satirical show that parodies news and current affairs, featuring a reporter with a 'moral-o-meter'. Watch free episodes online and see how Morris exposes the absurdities and hypocrisies of modern Britain.
Jul 29, 2016 · Best of Brass Eye. Daniel Stokell. 683 subscribers. 15K. 1.2M views 7 years ago.
- Carla The Elephant
- Cake
- Clarky Cat
- Bad Aids vs Good Aids
- The Relationship Between Crime and Race
- Me OH Myra
- Sutcliffe The Musical
- Sidney Cooke Blasted Into Space
- Nonce Sense
- The Michael Grade Subliminal Message
- GeneratedCaptionsTabForHeroSec
Morris wasted little time in proving that some famous faces will agree to anything for a bit of camera time, hoodwinking the likes of Britt Ekland and Wolf from Gladiators into believing that an East German elephant named Carla had got her trunk stuck up her proverbial. This animal rights-themed first episode was capped off brilliantly with a poem ...
One of Brass Eye’s most effective stunts was the complete fabrication of Cake, a giant luminous yellow cake-shaped drug claimed to cause a bloated neck and affect an area of the brain named Shatner’s Bassoon. Despite such ridiculous claims, and the fact that Morris even explicitly referred to it as a made-up drug, the show managed to convince Tory ...
Cake wasn’t the only drug featured in Brass Eye that had been constructed entirely in Morris’ warped imagination. In the same episode, Morris’ undercover reporter also ventured onto the streets of London to ask an increasingly annoyed real life drug dealer for various fictitious substances including Yellow Bentines, Triple-sod and Clarky Cat.
Of course, Brass Eye wasn’t always just about getting C-list celebs to make a fool of themselves. In the Sex episode, Morris spoofs a Kilroy/The Time, The Place-esque weekday chat show to highlight the ignorance over AIDS, favouring those who contracted the disease through blood transfusions (Good AIDS) over those who contracted it through drug abu...
Only Chris Morris could get away with a sketch as potentially inflammatory as this. In a hopelessly misjudged test designed to assess police discrimination, a white news reporter is ‘blacked up’ and sent onto the streets, only for him to immediately turn into a violent criminal. This being satire and all, the piece then returns to the studio where ...
Brass Eye featured several inspired musical parodies including glam-rockers Rye Spangle’s highly inappropriate “Playground Bang-a-round” and JLB-8’s Eminem-esque “Little White Butt.” But the most unforgettable belonged to fictional indie band named Blouse – who looked and sounded suspiciously like Pulp – and their somewhat problematic ode to notori...
Another infamous real-life murderer was also at the centre of a different sketch in the same ‘Decline’ episode, with Peter Sutcliffe this time being given the Morris treatment. Here, the Yorkshire Ripper has been allowed out of jail to front an all-singing, all-dancing spectacular about his own life in an attempt to prove that he’s actually just mi...
You could fill this entire list with moments from the hugely controversial 2001 Paedogeddon special, which at the time sparked the most complaints over a single episode in British TV history. One of the most memorable was the fake news clip which reported that convicted child molester Sidney Cooke had been sent into space to ensure he could never o...
Of course, the most elaborate and most famous part of Paedogeddon was the anti-paedophile Nonce Sense campaign, which despite literally spelling out the ridiculousness of it all, still tricked a whole host of celebs into reading out baffling ‘information’. One of the highlights included a highly gullible Dr Fox stating it’s ‘scientific fact’ that p...
Revenge is a dish best served via a foul-mouthed subliminal message, according to Chris Morris. Frustrated by the frequent interference from Channel 4 chief executive Michael Grade, Morris then made it clear exactly what he thought of his boss by inserting a single-frame message reading ‘Grade is a c***’ into the last episode of the series. We thin...
Brass Eye was a Channel 4 comedy series that parodied news and current affairs with Chris Morris's trademark dark humour. From fake drugs and celebrities to paedophile campaigns and subliminal messages, here are some of the most memorable sketches that made viewers laugh and cringe.
- Jon O'brien
The complete and uncut legendary cult series from the mind of Chris Morris that caused outrage and uproar across the United Kingdom, receiving over 3,000 com...
Jul 28, 2016 · Brass Eye, a parody of a 60 Minutes-like newsmagazine show, had been dormant after airing one season in the UK in 1997. But it returned four years later for this surprise broadcast, one that saw...
