Slogan spawning (Brass Eye)

Member Name: Piehead

Product:	Brass Eye
Date:	06/10/00 (88 review reads)
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Advantages: Pants wettingly funny

Disadvantages: Ooooh controversial!

A cross between Mark Thomas and the Fast Show. Funny sketches with sometimes serious messages. This series not surprisingly got cancelled after one series. A series which I seem to remember kept getting delayed due to "technical difficulties". The slogans and language used cannot be reproduced here, but one particular favourite of mine was as the program returned from the break there was a Channel Four News Flash reporting exclusively that I think it was Noel Edmonds had gone on a killing spree at Clive Andersons house, completely mad, completely believable and very controversial. There were weekly pleas for fictional charities with celebrites warning of, say,the dangers of heavy electricity which can fall out of overhead cables to earth slicing any human flesh underneath. It seems a shame that the show was only permitted one series, I just hope it gets repeated again somewhere, sometime.

It stars Chris Morris from The Day Today as a sort of Panorama Presenter tackling topics like drugs, animal cruelty and Science gone mad. These topics are then sensationalised to the level on disbelief, disbelief to sane people, but not to media seeking celebrities. Eg Paul Daniels's appeal for help to get an East German Elephants trunk out of it's own anus before it ingests itself in the zoo, or Rolf Harris telling people to beware of the new "made-up" drug from Prague, "Everyones taking cake", aka Josh Acklands spunky backpack. What on earth is that all about? Who knows, but it's damn funny. How about asking Jas Man from Babylon Zoo if he's ever written a spherical song and getting a sensible reply of "not yet, but that is the dream". Completely bonkers and well worth a viewing. Especially as Channel Four have decided it's now worth repeating, 5 years after original transmission. Bunch of Custard Gannets!!!

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