Customer Reviews
Best comedy satire series ever - By: Nicholas Wright, 27 Dec 2007 
Controversial, 'near the mark', sick...... Sound familliar to many other Channel 4 programmes broadcast over the channel's history? Well Brasseye is no different. Chris Morris' dark wit, coupled with a few unsuspecting celebrities, has created one of the deepest & cleverest satire TV shows in recent history.
In a time with 24hour news channels & shows such as crimewatch that try to scare the veiwer into believing some of the most ridiculous things; brasseye comes as a welcome break. Chris Morris, having outdone himself in the series, has inexplicably managed to point the finger at an overimaginative media & an oversensitive public alike. Takling issues such as Animal Cruelty, Drugs, Science, Decline & Sex, the programme immediately lends itself to very 'sensitive' issues. The 2001 special on paedophiles - in my opinion is the best. Following soon after the murder of sarah payne, an over vigilant public had started accusing anyone of being a paedophile. On one occasion a peadeotrician had 'PAEDO' graffittid on to her car! The public & media both needed putting back in their place.
Channel 4 & Morris you have out done yourself. more programmes of this calibre need to be made.
Perfect - By: Master Baker, 29 Aug 2007 This is Morris's highpoint, & absolute perfection.
There will never be anything funnier than this. Maybe AS funny, but not funnier....
america couldn't even come close to something this smart and edgy - By: Jared Jennings, 11 Jul 2007 being a yank, that's my intro. there reallly is no comparison to u.s./u.k. comedy. seeing as how my farovite shows have been british alll my life, from pre-teen to teen (the young ones/monty python), till the stuff i've found as of late. anyway. the episodes are alll great. sadly with the sex episode, despite the mindblowing intro & great line "why were you gobbling your gun like a c*ck", was pretty good. still, to have this as a show i could just turn on the telly & watch, i couldn't be so lucky.
the special was one of the best things i've ever seen, the rap was awesome with the doll attached to his crotch (amazing).
Genius - By: Mr. A. Sands, 16 Apr 2007 Chris Morris's brain must be permanently set to RANDOM to produce in this, & The Day Today, 2 of the funniest programs of the 90's on British television. This is totallly random & you must appreciate that kind of humour if you're to appreciate this. It is also totallly offensive & will offend you if you find ANYTHING offensive.
In particular, the "infamous" paedophiles episode, which incidentallly was done many years after the original series. This episode was created as a response to the Paedo-fear-mongering that was throughout the country at the time, & boy did it hit a nerve.
Humiliating "celebrities", getting fake drugs mentioned in the commons, & fooling people into thinking that Noel Edmonds had killed Clive Anderson are only the tip of the iceberg of this dark, disturbing & deeply funny series.
I found this funny as a 15 year old who had stumbled across alll the dark humour he could ever want, & again, years later, as a 24 year old. But this time, I can appreciate it even more with regards to the way it is shot, ridiculous camera angles/editing & the ludicrous things which happen within.
Buy this now!
Morris the genius - By: S J Buck, 03 Apr 2007 Chris Morris is the most under-rated British comedian out there. The series Brass Eye pushed the boundaries again, basicallly continuing from where The Day Today left off. It satirises the medias attitude towards issues such as drugs, animal welfare & most controversiallly paedophilia, which was a one-off special in 2001.
The special caused uproar at the time & many newspapers got on their high horse about it. Heres a fairly typical quote from part of an article callled "The Brass Neck of Brass Eye" which appeared in one Daily paper.
"The supposed satire, presented by Chris Morris, was almost universallly condemned & provoked a record 3,000 complaints when it was shown in July & controversiallly repeated a day later. Among those disgusted by it were Home Secretary David Blunkett, Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell & Home Office minister Beverley Hughes - who branded it 'unspeakably sick'"
Well I can only thank the newspapers & politians for alerting me to somebody producing some worthwhile TV. You immediately know that anything that makes politicians comment is probably going to a little bit more interesting than "Big Brother" or "I'm a celebrity pay me more money". Just like Beyond The Fringe in the 60's, Monty Python in the 70's & few series over the last 2 decades, Brass Eye points the finger back at the media & indeed other television programs & says "are you sure about that". In fact I didn't see the show at the time & bought the DVD several years later, but I had made a mental note that this was one to get!
Numerous celebrities were duped into appearing on these shows, & if you have a particular celebrity you hate you will love seeing him or her being made a complete fool of. However this is an area where I have some sympathy, as at heart most of us are fairly gullable, & in fairness to them they were trying to help (and of course gain media exposure at the same time).
So the contents of this DVD is going to upset some people, & maybe I am in the minority, but I strongly recommend it.
