Assassinating Stephen Fry & Insulting Tim Minchin | DOUBLE EPISODE | Derren Brown 

Like most of Mr Brown's documentaries, this should be viewed with more than a small pinch of salt.

Really terrifying and interesting set of episodes. Huge fan of both Stephen Fry and Tim Minchin so it was cool to see them play along with these.

Deren is Like “thank you so much, thank you so much for coming…but I’m about to prove you dead wrong!”

What Derren Brown does is both fascinating & scary :)

Omg, wanted Derren to step in earlier but glad Jody was ok in the end. Made me cry when he went to confess. Bless him, he was so honest taking himself to the station. 😢

I am taken aback by how far Derren is willing to go to create his environments for his victims . THIS was so cruel. It could psychologically injure someone who is sensitive.. The young man will never forget his weekend at the Manor.

If you believe in tricks over your mind, its easier to convince you're guilt and done something wrong in time when some parts of your memory are out of your control. That makes anybody unease after watching quite a bit of Derren shows.

Sometimes my life feels like a Derren Brown experiment.

Absolutely terrifying how crystal clear all that was

I really don't want to believe this is real. Then again, I've seen how influential even cognitive dissonance can be. What a wonderful, scary world we live in.

Watching this poor, innocent young man makes me worry about the long term affects on him of this. What if he had done something to himself? Too dangerous, yet this happens to people! I'm also amazed at how men control their emotions even when the very worst is happening to them.

This was absolutely incredible!!! I'm in shock!! 🤯🤯

If a tv personality can do this, imagine what a government or clandestine agency with billions at their disposal can achieve!? Be afraid! Be VERY AFRAID!!

It was cluedo! Very clever!

From Darrens whole persona it's quite strange he used a lie detector test right? To prove something to us, the audience. It's quite well known lie detector tests do not work. He should make an episode on that, and perhaps how they're used with criminals perhaps. He would also be humiliating himself, by proving he himself was swindled.

This would absolutely not work on me. Like the second guy walking around and finding things are different, I wouldnt have doubted any of it at all, I wouldve immediately been like, nah, someone is fucking with me... especially during some strange retreat that I wouldnt normally be involved in... my first thought would be, I didnt do that, someone is trying to prank me or something.

Best episode of tales of the unexpected!

I laughed so much at how they f**d with that second guy 😂

What a fascinating man. Bloody talented artist too. (Some people 🙄). Oh, I think if life has shown me anything, it's that you can get people to do, and believe almost anything.

I wonder if there are people that cant be hypnotised like this

The second episode is literally sadistic I cannot believe that they would do that to such a lovely man.o

This is torture, poor 2nd guy😂

After Fry got shot, nobody stands up and attempts to leave???

I tried it with the audience and could remember my name and move - I guess you need to be there …suggestibility is down to your eyes fluttering when looking up

The "every American child is issued one" comment had me and my husband rolling. He doesn't know shit. 😂

Can he hypnotize me out of anxiety and procrastination?

Very interesting but scary. Id like to know what the experts thought and If derrin forwarded this information to the authorities in the Kennedy assassination. They MUST take this into account as its its a thorough and in depth video proof that this indeed can be done.

The man administering the polygraph should have been given the questions to ask and performed the test 'blind'. I don't think that happened, unless it wasn't shown....

i find it hard to believe these things now that im watching as an adult. With the second guy they act like him running off to the police station in the village was not part of the plan but the guy in the station is obviously an actor and has all the photos of the fake crime scene.

The English are way, way gentler on people than American police. Imagine being manipulated like this and ending up in the hands of American police!

This is absolutely insane if it’s real, wow. This dude could really be dangerous if he wanted to

If this is possible it poses many questions about 'assignations ' !

Unfortunately this feels like watching Derren performing on stage. He's not presenting or investigating another case, he's just himself. _"In my work I use a mixture of magic, suggestions, psychology, misdirection and showmanship."_ The magic begins with the wording. Amnesia usually describes a partial loss of memory that might or might not be temporary. You being in some kind of trance while driving home is not the same as your mind isn't in a state of awareness, therefor there is not much information to store in your memory in the first place. Might not be crucial, but it's the kind of trickery that comes to play in the whole episode. Hypnosis is a topic in itself. There are two major branches: Hypnosis used in medical treatment as in pain treatment for example and then there is stage hypnosis which is completely different and bogus in most cases. It's like Uri Geller bending spoons for entertainment. Just a show. And yes, in the end the same goes for this show. Guess I'm just a little disappointed having Derren in mind investigating claims of psychics in an earlier episode (or at least I watched it earlier, not sure about the way these two episodes aired).

I feel ripped off as an American cause I was never issued my lever action rifle as a kid.

Yeah, I think I'd prefer to be insulted.

It is fascinating…but is it ethical. I mean I would second guess my reality if I was that young man.

Fantastic.

Derren, PLEASE help me. I have had anxiety disorder and suffered since I was 4yrs old. I’ve tried everything, I mean everything. Please rid me or help me understand how to fix myself. I hope you can help x. I’m willing to be an experiment and pay as much money as a I can muster. I know how the disorder began, but my subconscious is too strong and no one has been able to hypnotise me as yet, I tried NLP and that worked for 2 weeks but I couldn’t afford £1000 per session. I wish they offered this on NHS, I wish you could heal everyone of a panic and anxiety/cptsd disorders. It would change my life and those of many others x

Does Derren like doing this to people? Am I missing something? I think I'm quite empathetic and seeing Jody upset is difficult to watch. I had to skip through it, hence didn't see it all.

Um, isnt all the preprogramming with the talk of violence, training him with guns under hypnonsis etc. Ok, someone could do it this way to some homeless guy no ones gonna miss etc. But this is just crazy, they are training him😂

Stephen Fry needs to update his language. We don’t say “mankind” any longer. We say “humanity”.

That's just cruel

16:58 'Such as every American child is issued with'. I'm fairly sure they're issued with 9mm handguns aren't they?

I do it all the time without people noticing. I learnt this at Nottingham medical school. A form of anesthetic using in-built chemicals... Easy with a bit of practice.. to put the entire lecture under, I was doodling at the time. Also a very good way of teaching.. how do you do it, Kris? What's the magic?.. That would be telling!

are we suppose to think this is real?

Why isnt he listening to the Ukranian bloke - clearly he is telling the truth, he has a world map on the wall. Classic sign of an established academic.

I bet that kid Thomas Matthew Crooks was targeted for the job

I'm a HUGE fan Of Derren, but I found this to be really cruel sorry. Jodie went through horrendous psychological stress during all this. I know it was an experiment, but to me it was one big practical joke - and not a funny one.

While these "experiments" may be interesting they are doubtlessly cruel and simply a modified version of "candid camera". Will this guy be traumatised for life or what? Do you have any idea as to what sort of damage you're doing. You are so lucky that this good young man didn't kill you, I've never found it amusing to laugh at others only with them.

The ease of which a collective or individual can be manipulated and subjected to a covert narrative or physical signal that overrides free will to resist instructions is evident in everyday communications exponential infiltration of a major global collective, so major that the P.L.C. (Professional liars club) went into defcon overdrive. The genie conundrum is easy, it's the consequences that remain in dissolution mutation. Containing or correlation management only serves to inculcate problems that to the unscrupulous sounds like a deal. The apathetic (innocently ignorant) conscious cognosentient being is a perpetual flux of intensity, and relatively disorientated by opiates of legal status. Jobs a good'en. Carefull you may create a fake reality murder or similer occurrence by way of your suggestive abilities

Honestly these some of these comments are so stupid. The guy went for the audition, he wanted to be part of Darren's experiment, he came out of it ok, he's happy and probably got paid so get over it. I'm sure Darren had no ill intention of harm. Imo it shows us all how we cam be minipulated by powerful people and how easy it is to be coerced into believing something that's constantly being fed to us. So many sheeple fell for the big C. Where millions died, but how many died? What's more alarming is the people allowed a government to lock down millions of their citizens! We're all gullible!

ok ya hooray henry blah blah

Well done Derren. Almost believable. You are the TV king of manipulation. Good show.

I feel bad for the assassinator of JFK if all of this is true because he was probably in a trance

Ah, watch a video of yours where you debunk scammers just to find out you're one yourself. Disappointing.

Quite an art, innit. Husband yet?😉🌈

No black people ?

How is this not mental abuse???

OK so came for the headline, coulnt find anything related in the clicking so Downvoted for the clickbaiting and making me thing that hypnotism is ever more of a charlatan trick

Fake as. Soooooo fake

Disgusting he has purposely put someone through a terrible experience without consent

i once auditioned for fifteen to one, i was the only person who banked, i didn't get asked back cos the lady (acting like a nasty anne robinson) couldn't phase me, i was funnier than she was. i wouldn't feel at all comfortable being hypnotised, i think i'm the type of person who is so bloody minded i wouldn't go under. i'm in no hurry to put it to the test though