Chris Morris on satire in the Trump era and his new film 'The Day Shall Come'
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- Chris Morris is the writer-director behind countless comedy hits including Four Lions, The Day Today and Brass Eye. His new film 'The Day Shall Come' follows an idealistic preacher targeted by the FBI in their fight against extremism.
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The FBI has been quoted as saying they don’t like this movie, but they had to go along with it.
In German Peter!
Ich nichten lichten...
@@GoldnDusty Presumably you mean "Rufen Sie ein Taxi bitte sonst verpass' ich meinen Flug?
Trenta percenta?
“I don’t believe they said that Peter.
What do you have to say for yourself?”
A FBI spokesman said “this is the one thing we didn’t want to happen”
Ich,
...nichten lichten
😂😂😂😂👏👏👏👏😂
They don't deserve punishment....they deserve GUNISHMENT!
nice
Hahahaha
A friend of mine met Chris Morris and said “you’re my hero” Chris responded with “you disgust me”. Makes me like the man even more
It was probably said completely as a joke lol
@@MannyJazzcats I really don't think it was.
Is your friend a shrub rocketeer?
Ian McSherry He’s actually a piano dentist
Someone I know got:
"-You're Chris Morris..!!"
"Yes I fucking am."
last time i saw Chris he was disguised as a school
Its not a drug, it's a drink.
Ha!!!!!
@@fraybentos666 it's a cake surely.
Jessop
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When Chris Morris pops up for his twice-a-decade television appearance it's a very special day.
😂😂
I agree. Absolutely fascinating what he is revealing here.
@@chesterwig This is what a lot of the 9/11 truth movement brought up. The FBI have been creating these terrorist attacks for decades. Look at the first world trade centre bombing where the FBI were caught to have created and carried out the entire operation from the making of the terrorists to the making of the bombs and the whole plot all along. Look up Operation Northwoods too where they show they are willing and able to carry out operations like this on their own people.
@@analogdistortion I was there. On floor 107, sipping a cappuccino.
It's a very special day today.
very odd to see him in a suit on a news program and not saying things like "If time were a drug, big ben is a massive needle pumping it into the sky!"
Yes we need another film with more liberal moralising because there arent enough coming from Hollywood. Oh what... the film sank without a trace. Oh dear...
@@designanddirection 'liberal moralizing' aka literally any film where they dont paint terrorists as literally the devils incarnate as opposed to actual human beings
@@designanddirection Did you listen to this interview? Are you not utterly appalled? I've been aware of some of these FBI 'stings' down the years and every one of them horrifies me. When something as nasty and corrupt, as what Chris Morris is describing is happening, what do you think is the best way, a film maker should respond to it?
I think it's spelled 'drg'
@@designanddirection You're a real custard gannet.
All great satire has a ferocious moral core. Chris Morris is the fiercest of the lot.
Well fucking said - art is passion.
I disagree, there can be good satire that has a moral core but it's all fundamentally flawed, but the greatest satire has a nihilist core.
Satire doesn't matter to nihilists.
@@totaltotalmonkey Morris is hardly morally anarchic.
Very much agreed.
Legend. It's a massive compliment to Channel 4 News that he's willing to come onto the show.
That was the most sobering, direct, clear-cut analysis on the war on terrorism over the last 18 years I've ever heard on a public news channel. Kudos to Channel 4 for having a 15-minute discussion on the topic, and many kudos to Chris for his deeply insightful analysis.
stephen stewart His entire point, along with the entire plot of his movie, answers that question. The FBI target these pathetic social outcasts, plans out a terrorist attack, psychologically influences them to carry it out, supplies them with all the technical know how and all the supplies, then arrests them as they start to carry it out. It’s the manipulation of previously non-dangerous idiots into carrying out a literal terrorist attack, just so the FBI can look like they’re good at catching terrorists. How do you not have a problem with that?
@Linnea the Prayer China is number 1 polluter.
@Linnea the Prayer How am I a hypocrite exactly?
@stephen stewart They do the same thing here in Australia all the time in order to justify the BS war on terror and the erection of a police state that's true purpose is the targetting of dissidents, as they are fearful of social unrest as the economy is about to completely tank. Dr Haneef, Mambou Habib, David Hicks are just a few scapegoats that come to mind, while Schapelle Colby was set up in order to curry favor with the Indonesians, who were promoting a law an order campaign. They destroy lives everyday here....especially the indigenous. Souless psychopaths rule the world .
@stephen stewart 🤦🏽♂️
If it wasn’t for this guy we’d still have back street dentists.
'I used to do a wet polish... with my tongue...'
Piano key dentists
Anaesthetising with Clarky Cat and a couple of yellow bentines.
And.......bomb dogs.
Dentist
Jokes and references aside, you can see Jon has a lot of respect for Chris Morris.
It sounds like (probably because he says it.) this film was a shocking wake-up moment for Jon Snow. (He may well have said to himself 'You know nothing, Jon Snow.') He seems to have been oblivious to the nature and scale of the FBI machinations and remains stunned about what the film prompted him to discover.
If you are sat in front of Jon and he isn’t coming at you with hard biting questions, it’s probably because he agrees with you. I’d say the respect between both of them was of the highest level and they probably carried on the chat afterwards. Two very intelligent gentlemen who are masters at their craft..
@@alexday5892 Jon Snow is one of the good guys and great at his job ( the two go hand in hand in his case). Interested in everyone and every topic, with humanity at the heart of every question.
He tried a bit too hard to get Chris to take a pop at Trump though.
When you think you’re funny and intelligent, then you see Chris Morris talking
He is a professional you know
You can *still* be a funny and intelligent man....
Honestly, it probably wouldn't be too good for your personal life if you believed you were *the most* funny and intelligent man.
@@zetetick395 you obviously ain't none of the 2 above
I hope you never did think you are funny or intelligent. As someone who starts CZcams posts with "When" I could have told you, you are neither.
@@endoflevelboss woof too true
This stimulates a part of the brain called Shatner's Bassoon.
Joss Acklands spunky backpack also
Must be on the Clarky Cats again
It’s all nons sense
That almost sounds like fun, that is until you hear the story of a Czech teenager on cake who was run over by a tram...he thought he had 3 weeks to cross the road.
Andrew Shaw I still laugh to myself at that line 😂
Not often you get to see Chris Morris being interviewed on the news, good to see him come out of hiding again.
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In 25yrs this is the first time I've ever seen him as himself and not in a character. I'm still not convinced he isn't a character here now.
Brilliant guy.
@@AwesomeBlackDude Spam Reported
Same with Gary Glitter and Rolf Harris....for the same reason too...
He hardly does interviews at all.
"I don't really see the point of comedy unless there's something underpinning it. I mean what are you doing? Are you doing some kind of exotic display for the court, to be patted on the head by the court, or are you trying to change something? The problem is that I think we've got used to a kind of satire which essentially placates the court. You do a nice dissection of the way things are in the orthodox elite, and lo and behold, you get slapped in the back by the orthodox elite who say 'jolly good, can you do us another one'. That's not what it is about so in a way these times should bring on something with a bit more clout. It's about the thrust, and it's really about whether the people you're lancing can get off your spike." - Chris Morris
Perfectly said about the point of satire and why so many satires fall flat if they just placate or just roast the court.
Chris Morris takes satire too seriously now, though, doesn't he? Utopian thinking like "it can change society" etc. has meant that his work has lost its comedy. His last 2 films weren't anywhere near as funny as his TV series, which sprung from a freer, sillier attitude. He now sounds like an investigative journalist.
@@thewizardssleeve119 Four Lions was absolutely as funny as his TV. The Day Shall Come though I agree didn't hit the mark.
I never realised 'Four Lions' was anything to do with Chris Morris, he's a straight-up genius. This interview shows just how intelligent he is.
I can’t think of anybody else who could have made that concept work. Unrelenting genius
Get with the programme, butt
Chris Morris has always been my idol, razor sharp, sobering and unflappable as ever, such a massive treat to have his insight into the world to listen to.
Scholar Of Babylon Yes I agree, but never ever turn off your actual brain.
Mark Donald he cant be flapped. You can’t flap him for love nor money.
I've been a fan of his for 20 odd years now, from On The Hour and the Radio 1 shows. I think everything he's done is on another level to anybody else, The Day Today, Brass Eye, Blue Jam on Radio, especially that.The 10 minute monologues on there are amongst his best ever work,The TV version of Jam is really underrated, it's dark AF and no way would get made now.
@Rob42077 Why do right wing nuts always throw "empiricism" around like they actually know what that means
@@roblinnbailey2359 ...I flapped him once but he hit me in the ecstasy pipes.
“This is a conversation...”
“Yes.”
"Do wasps really sting us?"
Bury the beds.
"It seems to me too"
@@jacderida "I mean, we're told they do"
@@Dj0mah This is probably my all-time favourite Chris Morris moment.
We’ve all been living in the last episode of “Brass Eye” since 2001.
Ahhhhhhhhhh - is that way I like MJs music so much
Ahhhhhhhhhh - is that way I like MJs music so much
I think they've almost finished filming. It's going to be a doozy.
@@JudgeHoldem What's a 'doozy' when it's at home?
If there's one life-lesson that the brilliant works of Chris Morris have taught me over the years, it's that fact into doubt won't go.
Now fact me til I fart.
Not only that, but fact × importance = news.
Truth be. If truth be need be.
When Chris Morris does speak I do my best to listen carefully.
Its rare these days to see such eloquence and intellectual acuity.
it's rare to see a comment section - especially anywhere near this topic - that contains normal humans. Chris Morris brings out the best in all of us.
Much like your words Nick. Nice one.
*on mainstream television
Intellectual acuity should be a very basic requirement. Unfortunate it is not commonplace on television . Generations have been de- educated, and quite literally tube fed hyper sexualised, celebrity led , mind eroding , nonsense.Intelligent language has been abandoned by most.
@@MimiYouyu I'm in my 40s now,
so I only get the chance to De-Educate myself on Saturday nights :(
The USA has a Legal system, not a Justice system.
“I may just put a lot of effort into a tweet”. Deadpan perfection
“May just put a lot of effort into a tweet” in context hilarious 😂
Sorry but what is the context?
@@edwardowen2 That he's just spent 9 years making a film and he might put the same amount of effort into writing a tweet.
The tweet comment was truly hilarious :D
Haha well spotted
Pretty much:
What will you do next ?
'I'm looking at the coup in Iran from 1953, I have an abiding interest in that...
or I may just put a lot of effort into a tweet.'
More real than the news, Chris Morris has successfully inverted himself.
Lol Journalist learning from comedian ie: who is the terrorists recruiters? 9/11 plotters? What are racist like, white supremacists blah blah. C. Morris on the spot btw.
Let's take a moment to appreciate this interviewer asking great questions, letting his first speak, not shying away from controversial topics
For once.
Don't do Hero's but Chris Morris is the real deal.
Heroes
@@JB_inks Haha! "heroeses"
"I may just put a lot of effort into a Tweet". What a dude...
Except he's not on Twitter (prove he's not).
Chris Morris truly is a genius of our time. Absolute legend. Miles ahead of the curve.
Morris brought out the best of Peter Cook in the mid 90's during a short-lived but beautiful collaboration; he still seems inspired by Cookian high aspirations, ideas that satire is not just a rough tool of "nice comedy", but something more sharp.
This man is pure brilliance. Could listen to him and his musings all day. So much to learn from a person like him.
Chris Morris, the funniest man alive.
It is nice that he's such a good-hearted, well-informed guy.
I'm always struck by the fact he seems to be a fundamentally decent man who's more interested in the rest of the world than he is in himself. Unlike most people in the public eye.
"I may just put a lot of effort into a tweet."
Very funny.
How did the interviewer fail to laugh at that....
I had to pause the video as it nearly killed me.
@@Mawds69 same here. I laughed so loud at that casual, throwaway line.
@@benj5386 well I'm glad you told us how you responded to it because we all wanted to know
@@mclovin8739 I'm pleased you told us about your gladness because we all wanted to know.
Excellent interview! A rare treat to see Chris Morris sit down and talk like this. Great job!
My Christ he's sharp. Erudite and on point.
Christ's chin!!
Jesus Hector christ.
These are the headlines. God I wish they weren't.
My all time favourite line from Morris!
I caught an EU minister in a hotel in Brussels and he said he didn't like Brexit, but he'll have to go along with it.
@@peterohanraha-hanrahan3022 Nichten Lichten
@@KarlHamilton Trente Percente!
HAPPY NOW?
Goodness me we've missed you, Chris. Sharp as a razor blade and soberingly poignant.
The snide Tweet reference was perfect.
Can someone clear the tweet comment up? I don't understand why he said it.
I presume he's just making a self deprecating reference at the way he takes too long to produce something, as far as I know he isn't even on twitter. Armando Iannucci surely would have retweeted him at some point if he was.
@@theNomadz I agree, but I also think he's referred to it as it seems to be the preferred platform for political discourse these days.
@@benwolstenholme4279 He's not on Twitter, and AFAIK never has been. Can't remember which interview it was around 'Four Lions', but he said he didn't have the requisite personality disorder, or words to that effect.
@@benwolstenholme4279 I think it might be a playful dig at Jon Snow, who was famously an early adopter of Twitter among the mainstream and is still a prolific tweeter.
His comedy has had such a positive influence on my life, especially while I was at school.
Really insightful interview. I am not over stating this. Chris Morris has and is an incredibly powerful voice. For me, satire, breaks down and reveals truth. It is the most effective way of holding the mirror, to reflect back. It can be uncomfortable, but is uniquely, necessary for a sane society.
This man is a living legend. A true genius and will always be ahead of the curve.Brasse eye is still ahead of its time 20 years later
We need another brasseye. Nothing has come close since
We used to have the genius of Chris Morris on our screens, now we've got Mrs Brown's Boys, The Last Leg and Not Going Out.
Chris Morris ain’t goin’ out like that though. I’m glad he’s bringing us more excellent content.
Warren implying that the nineties didn’t have utter, utter dross everywhere on television.
@@lostuser1094 I'm not! (I even liked your comment to show no hard feelings), and I'm not saying that the nineties didn't have plenty of televisual turds being flung into our faces. It most certainly did. Back then we still had to search out good stuff on TV. These days there's nothing to search out.
You can't even do comedy in this 'I'm offended' soyciety
theNomadz *soysoyiety
When he finished that sentence with "...I dunno, I may just put a lot of effort into a tweet." It was the most brass eye quip he pulled out in this interview.
Chris Morris, brillant discussion, thank you. Please, Chris, turn your attention to adoption and child social services where the same thing is happening: abusive parents are being missed by the system, loving parents are being targeted, destroyed, and their children taken away. A starting point for the services would be if, for instance, the child is having difficulty in school, struggling with anxiety. The parents are blamed, and abuse charges are manufactured. The services then keep their adoption statistics on target, and look like they are being effective. The occasional child who is murdered by their abusive families looks like they slipped through the net, when the isn't a net.
I've never clicked on a video so quickly in my life.
More Chris Morris in general, please!!
comanchio1976 SAME!!
Same!
When he decided to make the film he told the producer "Hello, producer? Get me a team that can work as a team."
You're all fired
And if you can’t work as a team then you’re fired
Team team team team team team, I even love saying the word "team"!
Always a pleasure seeing him interviewed. Sadly, it doesn't happen often.
"I may just put a lot of effort into a tweet"" hahaha laughed way too hard at that
Vote Chris Morris for next Permanent PM! 👍
Next Permanent PM? Isn't that a contradiction? If the PM was permanent there would be no next one.
And he would be a dictator, not a PM
@@pseudonayme7717 being a dictator is about more than just staying in power for a very long time.
"I might just put a lot of effort into a tweet". Classic Morris.
Haha I love how that one slipped under the radar. Or maybe Jon Snow just has excellent composure.
Damn right.
Chris is simply pure pragmatism and realism, love it.
The genius of Chris Morris. Never outflanked by the bonkers. "Chris Morris, thank you for joining us." Chris Morris, thank you for existing. You genius, you diamond, you rare and beautiful thing.
I call on Chris Morris to MAKE MORE CONTENT
he's got a film coming out
I call app Chris Morris
The amount of content is too damn low! But the quality and commentary is always so damn high!
Jake Wyeth gift!
I call on content to _MAKE MORE CHRIS MORRIS!_
Anyone feeling stressed at the end of the day...
WILL BE FIRED!!!!!!
Love Morris' laugh when Snow says "It's hard to believe".
Check out Adam Buxton podcast for a really good interview with Morris. It's probably the most relaxed I've heard him in an interview.
Yeah! So great! Didn't even realise it was this comic behemoth!
Really good interview
Thanks for the heads up. Will look for it. Title of podcast? BBC or independent?
@@Iamthenoi The Adam Buxton Podcast episode 104
Thank you! Added to my podcast list.
This Guy is a british gem, always producing the highest calibre in comedy and political reasoning. So refreshing to have someone so honest and who can portray his point perfectly.
Chris Morris is a gift from god, Genius
Him and Charlie Brooker have been the best at satire for years 😉👍
@@Madyetmellow I guess you haven't watched The Day Shall Come or the Netflix era Black Mirror yet. There's only Armando Iannucci's satire that hasn't become stale
We need Chris Morris more than ever.
"we have got other versions"
Beautiful.
He got a good chuckle from Chris with that line
The courage, tenacity and sincerity shown. Ted Maul would be proud. Chris Morris: a living legend
What a rare treat. He's always such a brilliant interviewee.
He's back! Morris was probably my first internet search. It's nice to see him again. Take heed, fellow youtubers!
Fantastic interview all round: Good, succinct questions from Jon Snow, and fantastic commentary on American politics & its national security from Chris Morris.
Cant wait to watch his new film whilst off my head on Cake and Clarky Cats
Any triple sod ?
Careful. You might end up with your arms feeling like a couple of fortnights in a bad balloon.
I prefer heroin to cake.. Luckily, the amount of heroin I use is harmless, I inject about once a month on a purely recreational basis. Fine. But what about other people less stable, less educated, less middle-class than me? Builders or blacks for example. If you're one of those, my advice is leave well alone. Good luck.
Jessopjessopjessopjessop
@@johnfinlay1990 No thanks! I don't use The Horse.
That was a great interview - Chris Morris’s mind works so fast.
He really does embarrass Jon Snow and his preconceptions.
Chris Morris is a national treasure. A real OG.
I’d love to hear a conversation with him and Adam Curtis
Chris should be careful.
In case the FBI send out the roboplegic wrongcocks.
Might not even be the FBI. Might just be pervert mechanics.
The FBI have said "this is the one thing we didn't want to happen".
They might leave him quadraspazzed and on a life-glove.
These comments are just another form of racism
@@Nathan-gd7xq have you been smoking clarky cat?
Chris Morris is a legend in comedy and TV man. Thank you for bringing this very important issue to light. Unfortunately not many people will hear about it.
Who is he?
Thank you for coming back Chris, the world has needed you.
"isn't donald trump many steps ahead of you?"
"ahead of ME?! haha"
That bit was hilarious
Haha, amazing. I love Chris Morris
I felt so sorry to hear about the passing of Ted Maul, Chris Morris's old colleague. I hope they eventually find his remains.
What happened? Was it a bomb dog?
@@MLB9000 A stairwell nonce bashing.
Ted maul disturbs
@@tipperary1082 he's quatro spaz now on a life glug.
@Chris Collins Another casualty of the wipespread cake epidemic
a very rare interview indeed when chris isn't trolling the interviewer lol
or is he trolling !?
I'm trying to remember seeing him answering the questions. Snow deffo knows he's up against a master tho. haha
Well if it was Peter O'Hanraha-hanrahan...
@@davedogge2280 lol well theres no answers about a monster taking the form of a giant breast so I think its safe to assume he's serious
Super refreshing to see an interview where the two people don't yell and interrupt each other constantly and both have interesting and well thought out exchanges. Oh it's British TV, of course.
It's vanishingly rare on British TV too. Takes someone with the quality of Morris to enable it.
@EBGBeee ...and Snow, to be fair. I would happily have watched an hour or more of these two legends in conversation. 15 minutes doesn’t feel long enough!
This interview is so soothing, full of justly indignation, enthusiasm, brilliance of mind and cleverness, which is much needed these days and which gives me hope. Thank you.
Please Bring back Brass Eye!!! 👍
Just watch the BBC or Sky News.
I get the sense that Chris Morris has enough wit and integrity not to tarnish his legacy by resurrecting past glories that are still fresh and relevant today. Brass Eye was perfect, he has moved on, you can still re-watch it. We don't need another bloated, overworked, tired, middle-aged, embarrassing reboot like Red Dwarf or the Fast Show trading on nothing more than nostalgia.
Bring it back? Just look at life today and you'll see that we're living in Brass Eye
Watch the interview. He just said that a satirist needs to keep his eye on the ball and he doesn't feel that "the ball" is there (i.e., in satire of the presentation of current affairs) anymore.
Wouldn't work. In fact not only that....perhaps even his latest won't work. Reality is almost a satire of itself.
Great to see Mr Morris out in the light again :) The Day Today still remains the comedic bible of incisive and insightful satire, what a great piece of work!
When I think 'what have we got as a nation?' Chris Morris is one of the people who come to mind. We do have some real talent showing us the ridiculous nature of the world we live in. If it were in a novel you would not believe it.
This man is a genius. I dont use that word often. Top Mark's for Channel 4 for doing an extended interview. The tweet comment went straight over Jon Snows head. Brilliant.
A very reassuring presence, is Mr Morris. Look forward to the film.
Chris Morris is a comedy genius, Brass Eye was absolutely brilliant. He’s an incredibly intelligent articulate man who really knows how the world works.
'You've got to keep your eye on the ball, and I'm not sure the ball is there anymore'. Top man
Chris Morris is "the business". Probably the greatest satirist of our times! Genius.
We are lucky to have someone like this to see through the spin.
He is close to doing a spherical interview.
Making them round
Guy is a legend
An absolutely phenomenal film, everyone should definitely watch it.
Doctors say he may survive, but only with his neck as an internal organ.
wish i could have even a quarter of the intelligence chris morris has. amazing man
We need far more of this man on our telly. Don't stay away again please Chris!
How accurate the saying "many a true word is spoken in jest" is. Chris Morris is a very clear thinker which helps him deliver this sad (or dreadful) reality via his cutting satire.
Great guy. Really like him.
The intellect of Chris is powerful - so articulate and sees things and describes them in a way that makes yer think. I find myself hanging onto his every word and he is a comedy genius and is also a great electronic music composer. Is there no end to the talents of this man?
Synth Magic yeah, the electronic music composer part. I’d say the end to his talents is somewhere before there
Wow that was great, two really significant members of society, thank you both 🙏
"Those are the headlines. Happy now?!"
Those are the headlines. God, I wish they weren’t.
This is the NEEEEEWWWWWWS!
Artist with a message. I almost forgot what that was... Welcome back Chris!!!
I could listen to him forever. so glad hes back. YES!
Always good to see Chris Morris - never a dull moment !
I’d not seen him in so long I thought he might have died 😱
I could listen to Chris Morris talk all day.
Always got time to listen to Mr Morris, very much like his work.