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Film Description
Six episodes from Chris Morris and Charlie Brooker's new media satire based around webmaster, guerrilla filmmaker, screenwriter, DJ and 'self-facilitating media node' Nathan Barley.
Nathan Barley was hilarious, but many people just didnt get it. They expected more Jam, Brass Eye or Day Today type humour that was face-value.
If you hail Chris Morris as a genius enough times he'll come out with something so complex that not even his hardcore fans get it the first time. Nathan Barley was it.
Barley was humour you had to think about, it carries an important social message about THE RISE OF THE IDIOTS. It says something about these new-media tossers who’ve never done a decent day’s work in their lives and think they’re cool because their site is #1 on Google for the phrase “fat people falling down”.
I know because I am a new-media tosser and struggle everyday to think of actual, valuable, informative content for my websites. While everyone else just posts videos with titles like ‘Drunk Parisian Tramp Covered In Diarrhea, Begs For Money Outside The Louvre; American College Kids Point And Laugh’. They become an celebrated internet-phenomenon while my only fan is a 47yr old man from Sidcup called Gerald.
Barley was a brilliant commentary of the world today, how stupid it is and how easily we allowed ourselves to become stupid.
Just because ANYONE, ANYWHERE can broadcast ANYTHING nowdays; it doesnt mean it’s worth watching/reading. Dan Ashcroft’s struggle to retain his dignity in the face a brain-dead public and vegetative colleagues is SO FUNNY. Especially when he gets sucked into stupid, ridiculous twaddle like COCK-MUFF-BUMHOLE - just like the rest of us! Especially funny is the fact the archetypal IDIOT he is raging against is such an IDIOT that he thinks they are friends.
In every episode you see him run face-first into an invisible wall of dumb, never expecting it and never beating it. That mental anguish is funnier than any physical pain Jackass or Dirty Sanchez have ever filmed.
Check out my creative writing project which drew inspiration from Jam and Nathan Barley - filthish.com.
