LOUIS THEROUX S/D

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

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.

Their justification for Obama being the Antichrist was pretty solid

Popular guy, powerful, doing the work of the Devil. Could be Charlie Sheen I guess.

he's done a second Westboro episode? did they welcome him back into the house again or?

Yeah, follow-up show cos several members have left since the first one. Relations were cordial but suspicious, for the most part.

cousin of the oirish villain in charlie's angels 2, which surprised me

Cool, look forward to it hitting the youtubes.

not Charlie's Angels 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ticxD0GfewA&feature=player_embedded

u crazy charlie's angels 2 is the best

ty #0

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?"

The handiwork of Anonymous going by the Guy Fawkes mask

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.

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??

neone watching him on bbc2 now in some american jail

i am and i'm just glad i ain't there.
That poor lad with the glasses :(

I take it back about poor lad o_O

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' (!)

"Eat it up or right it up" classic!

"write" even

'hey harry potter i know you'

http://www.whosarrested.com/florida/miami-dade-county/miami/tgkcc/122704-nianthony-martinez

that was his best programme yet i think, terrifying and heartbreaking and enraging in equal measures.

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

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

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

that was his best programme yet i think, terrifying and heartbreaking and enraging in equal measures.

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this.

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.

xpz And, of course, the same (to a lesser degree) can be said about the UK system.

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.

Louis and friends get down -- in 1990:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taUqt_E0aOs

He looks like Where's Wally in that clip when he has his hat on.

good stuff.

Buxton/Cornish/Theroux OTM

look like the beastie boys

mysterious organ

this gonzo dude is SO MUCH LIKE richard lewis on curb yr enthusiasm

except with more of an emphasis on pornography

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!

he was pretty crazily coked up in the modern-day interview, right?

that would be the less worrying possibility

monte and his gf kagney/cagney (?) were quite touching tho

yeah, definitely. Louis makes excellent documentaries, his interview technique always yields much sharp material.

Favourite bit was the haggard cokefiend calling him "Louis Thorax"

Louis Thorax is not a bad pornstar name tbh

Louis Shag-her

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGnws3TAkSw

Foods chimpanzees eat:

• Mexican
• Chinese
• Ro-Tel dip
• hot dip
• spicy things
• pork rinds
• hot pork rinds
• Doritos

^^^ needs to be a poll