Chris Morris shows are just six episodes each. After this there's another news parody called Brass Eye, which IMO is even better. Some people in these shows are unkown outside of Britain, but it doesn't really matter.
@@bradlucy Don't know why the other shows, Jam and Nathan Barley, are allowed on YT. Gotta warn you ; Jam's not for everyone. It's the weirdest and darkest sketch show ever.
One of Chris Morris creations, the use of language is... amazing, surreal anti-comedy, awkward pauses. The scariest thing about this is that as time goes on, the real news looks more like it. Brass Eye is loosely a sequel and went really deep into mocking the tabloid mindset and caused a fair degree of upset over here 🤣🤣🤣
Alan Partridge has had many shows too. What a wonderful character and I didn't know it came from this. Similar to The Simpsons being a 5 minute cartoon interlude on the Tracey Ullman Show but do they get any credit?
The Day Today is brilliant but you must watch Brass Eye after this, same writers (Chris Morris who is the presenter) it's legendary 👌 Morris is a genius
Great reaction guys thanks! The work that must have gone into creating this show is astounding, its intellectual content is way ahead of its time, largely due to some incredible comedy writers and performers....loved watching this again.
The presenter, Chris Morris, who produced and directed this show, I had the privilege of meeting him when working as an extra on a film set... super duper nice guy..
I LOVE Chris Morris. The Day Today was groundbreaking. You should check out Brass Eye after this, but most of all, for his full genius and for the darkest comedy of all time, watch JAM.
20:55 Back in the day here in the UK, there was a lunchtime TV show that included a business & markets segment. I can only assume it was aimed at people on their lunch break who worked in the City of London. To the average person, it was complete gobbledegook. The stream of utter nonsense that business corespondent Collaterlie Sisters spouts is a spot-on satire of that show.
@@Problembeing when Nick Rose used to say "Don't have nightmares", he definately wasn't talking about 'Jam'. The only thing that's disturbed me more is the A.I. beer and pizza commercials or the Will Smith eating spaghetti A.I. videos. But as disturbing and weird as Jam is, it's fu¢king funny though. But I think Brass Eye has the edge. It's so well done.
Brass eye (a sort of sequel to The day today ) once did a feature on a supposed new drug 'CAKE' (which didn't actually exist) they got a whole group of celebritys to do pieces condeming CAKE (which didn't actually exist remeber). Edit found a YT clip - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Xbq3kc29Tmg.html
His Majesty's Pleasure is the current term. Thankfully by wit & luck of the language no signs needed to be changed. Unlike the letter boxes that had to be converted with the new crown design. I wish Broadband speeds could as easily be updated across the country.
A good percentage of the people involved are real ( ie members of the public and politicians ), so the show blurs the line between reality and fiction. A great show.
Some really great brains at the peak of their vibrant youthful creativity... It CHANGED British comedy! And it's aged suprisingly well... (unlike a lot of the cast)
There’s six episodes. Well worth a watch. A lot of British references but as you mentioned at the end it’s a satire of how media frames things. This show is groundbreaking and it took North America a decade to catch up to its brilliance and sophistication. The Onion RU-vid channel started doing Americanised sketches very similar to this show but 15 yrs later.
What you may not get is that the London Jam Festival bit starting at 5:25 is a fairly spot on parody of BBC news presenter Jeremy Paxman’s interviewing style.
I usually don't like reaction channels but seeing you two watch and appreciate the favourite shows of my youth almost feels like I'm watching it with you (I've subscribed ;) ).
What was great about this is they showed it in the slot before Newsnight, the BBC’s long running night news programme, so anyone turning on the tv early would hopefully get confused.
You should also checkout "Brass Eye" it's basically the same show. It was originally planned as a spin-off from The Day Today but it was passed on by the BBC, so Channel 4 took it over
I missed this series, so first time seeing this. Crying with laughter. I watched Brass Eye which featured many unwitting famous people encouraged to talk "nonce sense".
10:18 that head bang by Greg Louganis was a famous event at the 1988 Olympics. He recovered fully. But he kept secret at the time the fact that he was HIV+.
The bit where he does the headlines has been posted on social media with real recent news stories so much lately. The pseudo sequel Brass Eye is great too, a different kind of silly, a bit darker.
All the programs in the "Attitudes Night" segment are parodies of actual things. E.g. the man with the groupie is a spoof of politician Christopher Mayhew, who was filmed taking mescaline for a documentary.
1994, I was around my girlfriends place and the first of the short episodes came on. At the end of it, she looked at me and asked if what she had just seen was real.
It's a series which just gets better and better and then Brasseye is even better again and then comes Chris Morris's masterpiece, a show called 'Jam' which would be cancelled after about 30 seconds if it was shown on TV today, great to see you reacting to this!
Brass Eye (1997) was a much better series IMO. A perfected version of this. The peak of Chris Morris. The Day Today did have some classic moments though (the rapper Fur-Q springs to mind).
The joy of this period was the ability to latch the true to the surreal. It was possible to be cool watching this. Probably (although I wasn't around for it) as it was cool to watch Monty Python before it.
Absolute top tier show!!!! This, then Brass Eye, and then on to Alan Partridge... The Day Today Bethlehem (the Xmas special) is definitely worth a watch too! Also the film "Four Lions"
3:30 American TV shows used to look weird on European TVs because of the differences in frame rate between NSTC and PAL/SECAM. It's really amazing that they went to the effort of finding an American TV camera to emulate the effect.
Why did you cut the end off? Good to see you're doing this show, hope you follow with Brass Eye and then Jam. This is also a segue into Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge which is also a must watch.
