another good show I thought, but I always end up with more questions than answers
― Boobage Dirtbag (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 3 April 2011 21:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Enjoyed LT descending into openly mocking the crazed filmmaker convert guy by the end - "well the Bible would say that wouldn't it"
The little gay Asian guy coulda been a documentary of his own, poor guy was so uncomfortable in his own skin
― MPx4A, Sunday, 3 April 2011 21:18 (thirteen years ago) link
I know. Our Joel was all righteous teenage anger but I said to him "these people are just really deluded, not evil". I like it when Louis is upfront with his hosts and avoids that non-committal doubletalk thing.
― Boobage Dirtbag (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 3 April 2011 21:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Their justification for Obama being the Antichrist was pretty solid
― Number None, Sunday, 3 April 2011 21:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Popular guy, powerful, doing the work of the Devil. Could be Charlie Sheen I guess.
― Boobage Dirtbag (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 3 April 2011 22:30 (thirteen years ago) link
he's done a second Westboro episode? did they welcome him back into the house again or?
― it's in my backpack (sic), Sunday, 3 April 2011 23:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, follow-up show cos several members have left since the first one. Relations were cordial but suspicious, for the most part.
― Boobage Dirtbag (Noodle Vague), Monday, 4 April 2011 10:37 (thirteen years ago) link
cousin of the oirish villain in charlie's angels 2, which surprised me
― the salmon of procrastination (darraghmac), Monday, 4 April 2011 10:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Cool, look forward to it hitting the youtubes.
― Varg Vikernes: "...a giant and leaky bag of mayhem" (sic), Monday, 4 April 2011 11:09 (thirteen years ago) link
not Charlie's Angels 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ticxD0GfewA&feature=player_embedded
― Number None, Monday, 4 April 2011 11:10 (thirteen years ago) link
u crazy charlie's angels 2 is the best
― the salmon of procrastination (darraghmac), Monday, 4 April 2011 11:23 (thirteen years ago) link
ty #0
― despite not doin a tweet for five weeks (sic), Monday, 4 April 2011 12:15 (thirteen years ago) link
This is worth watching with a thumb on the pause button, to catch the rival protesters signs. The best ones I managed to catch were "Tits or GTFO" and "Magnets: how do they work?"
― nate woolls, Monday, 4 April 2011 13:23 (thirteen years ago) link
The handiwork of Anonymous going by the Guy Fawkes mask
― Number None, Monday, 4 April 2011 13:24 (thirteen years ago) link
it's a shame they didn't spend more time interviewing the two girls who had left the church. Lauren, particularly, seemed like she had a lot more to say.
― jed_, Monday, 4 April 2011 14:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, she was pretty eloquent, but I did pessimistically wonder if they'd kept it sneakily short because leaving her on for ten minutes might have led to the depressing revelation that she'd only dialed back to a less batshit brand of bigotry - was possibly thinking of the similar recent non-Louis Amish doc where the family basically defected/got excommunicated and just went out and found different (in that case actually worse) ways of expressing their fanaticism
The time constraints led to it being framed as a debate between Humanist Louis and blinded-by-rage liberal students on one side and a cult of radge quasi-Christians on the other, and he had to frequently acknowledge the minimal chance of them ever having enough common ground to not argue past each other - when he first went in 06 did he involve any marginally less mental Christians as a comparison? The kicker with the Westboro people is that they're the people even right wing fundamentalist Christians think are nuts, right??
― MPx4A, Monday, 4 April 2011 17:50 (thirteen years ago) link
neone watching him on bbc2 now in some american jail
― nakhchivan, Sunday, 22 May 2011 20:34 (twelve years ago) link
i am and i'm just glad i ain't there.That poor lad with the glasses :(
― not_goodwin, Sunday, 22 May 2011 20:36 (twelve years ago) link
I take it back about poor lad o_O
― not_goodwin, Sunday, 22 May 2011 20:39 (twelve years ago) link
theroux always asks several more questions than most ppl would
little lad w/ glasses 'i'm not a violent person but what happened was an overtly violent thing' (!)
― nakhchivan, Sunday, 22 May 2011 20:40 (twelve years ago) link
"Eat it up or right it up" classic!
― not_goodwin, Sunday, 22 May 2011 20:43 (twelve years ago) link
"write" even
'hey harry potter i know you'
― nakhchivan, Sunday, 22 May 2011 20:53 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.whosarrested.com/florida/miami-dade-county/miami/tgkcc/122704-nianthony-martinez
― Romford Spring (DG), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 09:55 (twelve years ago) link
that was his best programme yet i think, terrifying and heartbreaking and enraging in equal measures.
― Deeez Nuuults (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 10:26 (twelve years ago) link
I saw that and wondered why it said 1st Degree Murder - wasn't it only attempted murder? Reading about the case makes him seem less Harry Potter-ish.http://miamiherald.typepad.com/gaysouthflorida/2008/05/friends-charged.html
Also, on the same site, is an explanation (I think) for why he was accused of trying to escape. Seems he was released accidentally and instead of saying "surely some mistake", he walked out and was free for 3 days before being re-arrested.http://miamiherald.typepad.com/gaysouthflorida/2008/05/two-accused-in.html
― Ned Trifle (Notinmyname), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 10:28 (twelve years ago) link
good programme
Louis always asks several more q's, granted, but imo he's getting better dealing with these guys? Questions more relaxed/direct, gets better response
― ♪♫ hey there lamp post, feelin' whiney ♪♫ (darraghmac), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 10:34 (twelve years ago) link
xp - yes, and I felt all those things often as he talked to one inmate.
Interesting times for the US penal system.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13508182
― Ned Trifle (Notinmyname), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 10:35 (twelve years ago) link
― Deeez Nuuults (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 11:26 (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
this.
― WHO THE FUCK READS THE (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 10:36 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, there was no discernible snark. whether that was the subject matter or the very real possibility of getting a doing i don't know.
― Deeez Nuuults (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 10:36 (twelve years ago) link
xpz And, of course, the same (to a lesser degree) can be said about the UK system.
― Ned Trifle (Notinmyname), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 10:37 (twelve years ago) link
http://miamiherald.typepad.com/gaysouthflorida/2008/05/friends-charged.html
I did a double take when I opened that link as Steve Rothaus is the double of Louis Theroux.
― Cluster the boots (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 24 May 2011 11:23 (twelve years ago) link
Louis and friends get down -- in 1990:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taUqt_E0aOs
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 24 October 2011 15:45 (twelve years ago) link
He looks like Where's Wally in that clip when he has his hat on.
― 50,000 raspberries with the face of Peter Ndlovu (aldo), Monday, 24 October 2011 17:40 (twelve years ago) link
good stuff.
― spellcheck is really advanced these days (cajunsunday), Monday, 24 October 2011 20:06 (twelve years ago) link
Buxton/Cornish/Theroux OTM
― the men who glare at stoats (sic), Tuesday, 25 October 2011 00:18 (twelve years ago) link
look like the beastie boys
― conrad, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 00:39 (twelve years ago) link
mysterious organ
― dis civilization and its contents (nakhchivan), Sunday, 17 June 2012 11:49 (eleven years ago) link
this gonzo dude is SO MUCH LIKE richard lewis on curb yr enthusiasm
― dis civilization and its contents (nakhchivan), Sunday, 17 June 2012 11:50 (eleven years ago) link
except with more of an emphasis on pornography
― dis civilization and its contents (nakhchivan), Sunday, 17 June 2012 11:52 (eleven years ago) link
It's unbelievable how much that guy aged in between the two movies. I literally didn't know people actually went to prison on obscenity charges!
― She Got the Shakes, Sunday, 17 June 2012 13:21 (eleven years ago) link
he was pretty crazily coked up in the modern-day interview, right?
― Sisig Steve (stevie), Sunday, 17 June 2012 13:35 (eleven years ago) link
that would be the less worrying possibility
― dis civilization and its contents (nakhchivan), Sunday, 17 June 2012 13:49 (eleven years ago) link
monte and his gf kagney/cagney (?) were quite touching tho
yeah, definitely. Louis makes excellent documentaries, his interview technique always yields much sharp material.
― Sisig Steve (stevie), Sunday, 17 June 2012 13:58 (eleven years ago) link
Favourite bit was the haggard cokefiend calling him "Louis Thorax"
― sktsh, Sunday, 17 June 2012 14:29 (eleven years ago) link
Louis Thorax is not a bad pornstar name tbh
― Sisig Steve (stevie), Sunday, 17 June 2012 15:27 (eleven years ago) link
Louis Shag-her
― Meet the G that Skrilled me... (snoball), Sunday, 17 June 2012 17:05 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGnws3TAkSw
Foods chimpanzees eat:
― del griffith, Friday, 4 January 2013 21:31 (eleven years ago) link