Louis Theroux - something diffrent (Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends)

Member Name: mercury7

Product:	Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends
Date:	31/10/00 (12 review reads)
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Advantages: Offbeat, original

Disadvantages: Naivety can only stretch so far

Having only recently been introduced to Theroux's style of comedy, I must admit that the jury is still out on this one, as far as I'm concerned.
The first show I saw it was hard to make out whether he was sending up the guests or himself; or maybe both. Either way he got away with it and it sort of worked. I did laugh so he must be doing something right.
His tactic of appearing pretty naive, but at the same time drawing out information from his subjects, which otherwise they would not divulge is quite difficult to do.
The following week he was in South Africa, and his targets had more nous about them. They sensed the trap. and did not fall into it. In fact, they were positively antagonistic towards him. I think he sensed that trying to make a fool out of boers was going to be impossible, and at one point thought he would be punched on the nose!

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