I sat behind LT on a plane to Vegas once. He was v nice!
― a sweet ballet dancer (ENBB), Saturday, 9 May 2009 04:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Was he goign to make this programme I wonder?http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007957z
― Ned Trifle II, Saturday, 9 May 2009 08:20 (fifteen years ago) link
what do you mean?
― just sayin, Saturday, 9 May 2009 13:03 (fifteen years ago) link
Erm...I mean if he was on a plane going to Vegas maybe he was on his way to film the programme mentioned in that link.
― Ned Trifle II, Saturday, 9 May 2009 15:14 (fifteen years ago) link
hahaha
― languid samuel l. jackson (jim), Saturday, 9 May 2009 15:29 (fifteen years ago) link
When was that episode made? This was in 2004 so I don't know.
― a sweet ballet dancer (ENBB), Sunday, 10 May 2009 02:55 (fourteen years ago) link
first TX June 2007, it says on that webpage
― the sound of mu (sic), Sunday, 10 May 2009 12:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Probably was just going for the hookers and gambling then.
― Ned Trifle II, Sunday, 10 May 2009 18:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Louis Theroux: The City Addicted to Crystal Meth - tonight on BBC2 (and then on iplayer presumably).
― Ned Trifle II, Sunday, 9 August 2009 10:35 (fourteen years ago) link
There was a really weird moment were Louis asked a guy what he was in for and he said, 'date rape'. The guy in question was mixing some kind of punch for their Halloween party and then was all, 'Hey Louis, wanna try some?'
― Mr Raif, Monday, 20 April 2009 17:39 (1 hour ago) Bookmark
"there's no rohypnol in it, is there? just kidding!"
― max arrrrrgh, Monday, 20 April 2009 18:07 (3 months ago)
i honestly can't remember if louis said that or i just made it up.
― max arrrrrgh, Sunday, 9 August 2009 15:24 (fourteen years ago) link
i love that there's a feature in the radio times explaining what crystal meth is
― thomp, Sunday, 9 August 2009 19:09 (fourteen years ago) link
uh, this is depressing. might have to wall-e instead tbh.
― N1ck (Upt0eleven), Sunday, 9 August 2009 20:31 (fourteen years ago) link
*watch
― N1ck (Upt0eleven), Sunday, 9 August 2009 20:32 (fourteen years ago) link
that was his best doc in years
― NI, Monday, 10 August 2009 08:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Great but depressing bit of work. Normally with these documentaries there's usually the hint of something more hopeful in the future, just didn't get it with this. Even Louis looked shocked and uncomfortable at some of the squalor he encountered.
Couldn't believe how much that long time user looked and sounded like George Bush.
― DJ Angoreinhardt (Billy Dods), Monday, 10 August 2009 09:08 (fourteen years ago) link
I was thinking, when he was at that BBQ with the dealers, what a dangerous situation it was that he'd put himself in. I don't know how these programmes are made, but presumably it was just Louis with a cameraman and a soundman?
― nate woolls, Monday, 10 August 2009 09:20 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm not sure his style/personality really works for documentaries like this, he always seems ironised or removed and a bit emotionless which works with the kooks and freaks of wrestling or gambling but seems a bit off with something as sad as this
― cozwn (webinar), Monday, 10 August 2009 09:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Just watching the Dirty South episode. Theroux and Master P is certainly a meeting of the minds.
― "i find your antics mirthful and infectious" (King Boy Pato), Wednesday, 14 October 2009 13:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Louis meets America's Medicated Kids
Thought this one was pretty good and suited his style a lot better than paedophiles and people addicted to crystal meth. He has another one airing soon, 'Law and Disorder in Lagos'.
― alananana (Mr Raif), Wednesday, 21 April 2010 22:35 (fourteen years ago) link
― "i find your antics mirthful and infectious" (King Boy Pato), Wednesday, October 14, 2009
fans of this ep may wanna check out
http://themartorialist.blogspot.com/2010/03/odyssey-to-find-mello-t.html
http://themartorialist.blogspot.com/2010/04/odyssey-to-find-mello-t-part-2.html
― stunt critics, blunts & hip hop (zvookster), Wednesday, 21 April 2010 22:44 (fourteen years ago) link
I need a picture of Louis' gangsta album cover with him regally stroking a cat.
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 21 April 2010 22:58 (fourteen years ago) link
I was on the bus yesterday, reading a newspaper over someone's shoulder, and there was an article by Theroux where he revealed that he was Nick Clegg's fag at public school. "When you say 'I want you to clean my shoes' what exactly do you mean by that? (awkward pause)"
― Check this, in fact. How exciting. He literally cuts the mustard. (snoball), Thursday, 22 April 2010 07:42 (fourteen years ago) link
xphttp://cdn.static.ovimg.com/episode/362934.jpg
― Check this, in fact. How exciting. He literally cuts the mustard. (snoball), Thursday, 22 April 2010 12:54 (fourteen years ago) link
props to you sir! that is fantastic
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 22 April 2010 17:03 (fourteen years ago) link
6ft 2 in the compact, no slackluckily the seats go back
― Dwight Yorke, Monday, 12 July 2010 15:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Westboro Baptist Church - big Lady Gaga fans
― Number None, Sunday, 3 April 2011 21:15 (thirteen years ago) link
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