New Brass Eye unseen material!

[Darles Chickens]

Well I've not seen it before anyway... it seems to have been unearthed by a chap with close links to Michael Cumming (director of Brass Eye).  The first clip is Brass Eye Gold, and it's a crying shame that it never made it into the 'Sex' episode, though I guess the joke was reprised in the BES.

(Spoiler'd due to distinctly NSFW YouTube preview picture!)

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[youtube=425,350]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=nZAnj1pEcuw[/youtube]
[youtube=425,350]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=7uH12MJUbNk[/youtube]

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Notice the different Brass Eye interlude sting, with a different font too.

There must be tons of other cut material out there somewhere - maybe more will find its way out one day.  I was sure there was a SOTCAA page on Brass Eye way back when, but I'm buggered if I can find it now.

_{Edit: hello by the way, second post in 4 years... good job....}

[Slaaaaabs]

No longer available. :(

[Darles Chickens]

Ohh... seems to be a problem with the embedding.

Try these direct links:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=nZAnj1pEcuw
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=7uH12MJUbNk

[jaydee81]

Wow... great find. Love the Sullivan clip

[The Masked Unit]

They appear to be gone already!

[Small Man Big Horse]

That's brilliant stuff, especially the first one. Even though it's just a couple of minutes, this has been the highlight of my month comedy wise!

Edit: You need to use the direct links, The Masked Unit, I'm watching it now so it's definitely still there.

[Mob Bunkhaus]

The uploader, Youmatico:

Youmatico re masters the analogue early work of film maker, video artist and director Michael Cumming from U-Matic videotape,16 and 8mm film formats to small digital boxes viewable on the internet. The 'favorites' section of this channel features a selection of some of Michael's television comedy work already available on You Tube and there is also a condensed version of his Showreel # 28 viewable here. Available from time to time will be rare and unseen clips, out takes and selections from the more obscure television Michael has directed over the last twenty years.

There's Down The Line stuff and Kevin Eldon's 'Paul Hamilton' Comedy Lab on there.

I imagine that the unearther has as close links to Cumming as it's possible to get.

Hello Darles Chickens ( and all hail a fellow Spoonerite).

[Ballad of Ballard Berkley]

Crikey. Thanks for those. The Sullivan clip is great.

Sullivan: Take away the rubber hose.

Morris: I suppose that's the answer to a lot of our problems.

Just reminds you of how brilliant Morris is at keeping a straight face during these absurd interviews.

[Neil]

Oh my God! 

That David Sullivan clip is hilarious.  "This offensive?"

[Slaaaaabs]

I seen em now, the Sullivan one is superb!

[jaydee81]

Oh my God! 

That David Sullivan clip is hilarious.  "This offensive?"

Heehee... this is like the new Indiana Jones... the quest to find the hilarious LOST Brasseye clips.

Obvously the Sullivan one must've been cut for having ketchup squirted onto an erect penis dildo thingy. Bloody lawyers

[boxofslice]

Excellent.
Strange that it turns up after 11 years, wonder why it wasn't included on the DVD release?

[jaydee81]

Sullivan might even've objected to them being shown... in which case they couldn't have included them.
Nothing can stop the internet though!

[boxofslice]

Sullivan might even've objected to them being shown... in which case they couldn't have included them.
Nothing can stop the internet though!

If I remember correctly Sullivan was really pissed off at the time even to the point of giving out Morris phone number in the Sunday Sport.

[thepuffpastryhangman]

This clip never made the final cut as other Sullivan interview sections were chosen instead.

Sounds like quality control.

And that clip was better than anything on tele I've seen since, for some while.

[drberbatov]

If I remember correctly Sullivan was really pissed off at the time even to the point of giving out Morris phone number in the Sunday Sport.

That would never have worked. (a) There are a lot of telephone numbers in the Sport, it's a real number jungle (b) Most of them charge £1.50 a minute

[boxofslice]

That would never have worked. (a) There are a lot of telephone numbers in the Sport, it's a real number jungle (b) Most of them charge £1.50 a minute

I'm sure it was a two page article with a picture of Morris walking down the street, calling him a sicko and blasting him for making fun of their owner. Then underneath the piece was Morris' alleged phone number and asking readers to call it so they could tell him exactly what they thought of his 'brass eye'.

[Doctor Stamen]

Love the Sullivan clip, he's not having a good week is he.

[ThickAndCreamy]

Thanks a lot for these, absolutely hilarious as always. By chance is there any more clips that are unseen as I, as well as as most of CAB, would love to see them.

[Marvin]

Wow! Thanks so much for posting these.

That Sullivan clip is bloody fantastic.

[eluc55]

Nothing new to add, other than another vote of thanks, and a clap for the brilliant Sullivan clip. Much better than the one that got into the finished show, I'd say.

[Entropy Balsmalch]

Sullivan might even've objected to them being shown... in which case they couldn't have included them.

They never did with Brass Eye - which was always what made the lawyers twitchy - essentially the channel was claiming they could show the clips in the public interest, because the show was making a satire of stars who comment on subjects of which they know little about.

I'm remember Claire Raynor talking about how she only found out she'd been on it after someone phoned her up the next day.

And, since the broadcast, at least one "star" (a politician whose name elludes me) managed to get himself removed from the show - but only on the technicality they used bits of him between takes when he didn't think the camera was rolling.

It's much more likely the compliance department had a problem with the plastic fanny and the dildo - quality control or even editing pace - it's quite a long piece compared to most of the other interview sections, so could feel out of place and just didn't get in for that reason alone.

Who knows?

PS - edit for silly first word and also to add a "Thanx attack" for the clips - which I didn't do first time round.

[neveragain]

The excised politician was Maurice Bright, if memory serves.

Very nice to see the unseen too. Well done Mr. Chickens.

[Little Hoover]

It does also have his "good luck getting this on t.v" comment which takes you out of the reality of the show. And they might not have been able to edit around it.

[JCBillington]

It does also have his "good luck getting this on t.v" comment which takes you out of the reality of the show. And they might not have been able to edit around it.

Also, it's Morris' character, not Sullivan, that is the focus of the humour - Sullivan seems rather non-plussed and bemused, and certainly doesn't enter into the kind of debate that would make him look like a dick, and therefore be funny.

Still, great find.

[JCBillington]

The Caddy clip is very similar to, but not as good as, the vicar bullying bit from TDT.

[Artemis]

When Morris reveals the doll contraption thing I nearly collapsed in hysterics. Absolutely superb. Thanks!

Another clip I'd love to see, of the many there must be, is the one in the opening credits when he shows up at a press conference and you can see John Major (is it?). There must be plenty more.

[alan nagsworth]

it's quite a long piece

You're damn right it is!

Man, I should work with Chris Morris.

[non capisco]

Great find, cheers Darles Chickens!

As JCBillington said, the 'caddies' clip feels like an inferior On The Hour/Day Today sketch (although I did smirk at 'do you want tee?'), but the Sullivan one was glorious. The fact he doesn't really 'play ball' and react that much is funny enough in itself, just seeing him blithely looking on at that doll and saying 'well...that's bizarre'.

I wonder which episode the caddies sketch was intended for?

[Sexton Brackets Drugbust]

Great find, cheers Darles Chickens!

As JCBillington said, the 'caddies' clip feels like an inferior On The Hour/Day Today sketch (although I did smirk at 'do you want tee?'), but the Sullivan one was glorious. The fact he doesn't really 'play ball' and react that much is funny enough in itself, just seeing him blithely looking on at that doll and saying 'well...that's bizarre'.

I wonder which episode the caddies sketch was intended for?

I think the very beginning of the Caddies stuff is used as the ad bumper in moral decline. Right before the Clive Anderson news report.