Brass Eye’s outtakes show the brutal TV comedy was the tip of an iceberg
With rare footage and personal insights, the documentary Oxide Ghosts is a must-see for fans of Chris Morris’s satire, which is 25 years old
September 2019
'This isn't a paranoid future nightmare': the explosive return of Chris Morris
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October 2017
Twenty years on … how comedy genius Chris Morris invented ‘fake news’
Out-takes from Brass Eye have been made into a film to mark its birthday – but fans of the cult show can only view it at rare live cinema screenings
January 2017
Brass Eye at 20: still Chris Morris at his hysterical, gobsmacking best
From Cake to Paedogeddon, Chris Morris’s epochal satire always said the unsayable. No other comedy has touched it – or even come close
July 2016
The funniest thing
Simon Munnery: ‘I laughed so hard I fell off the toilet’
From Brass Eye to his homemade lightbulb suit, the comedian reveals the things that make him chuckle
September 2014
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February 2014
Chris Morris's Blue Jam back after 17 years
Radio 4 Extra to broadcast series one of programme which courted controversy with sketches, monologues and stings. By John Plunkett
February 2003
Brass Eye 'unlikely to return', says Morris
Chris Morris: the movie
March 2002
Brass Eye paedophilia satire up for TV award
ITN newsreader loses Brass Eye case
January 2002
MP loses Brass Eye battle
2.30pm: Barbara Follett was not treated unfairly by the makers of Brass Eye, a TV watchdog has ruled. By Jason Deans.
November 2001
Channel 4 rapped by TV watchdogs
Channel 4 has been reprimanded by TV watchdogs over a trailer for its controversial Brass Eye paedophile special, writes Jason Deans.
October 2001
Channel 4 to repeat controversial Brass Eye
5.15pm: Michael Jackson's parting shot from Channel 4 is a defiant repeat of the controversial Brass Eye programme about paedophiles and the media, writes Jason Deans.
Channel 4 escapes Brass Eye censure
8.30am: The ITC has rejected six complaints about a sketch that tackled the subject of child abuse, writes Claire Cozens.
The needle of the Eye
For 40 years, Private Eye has enraged and amused. As it enters its fifth decade, can the magazine keep pace with the newer, darker satire of TV's Brass Eye - or is it trapped in its own tweedy past?
