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Derren Brown - is he for real?

34 replies

Dominique07 · 02/10/2009 21:45

If he can stop a man in the street, put him in a trance and take £5000, then he might as well take control of the country! Is this real?

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LevitatingCopy · 02/10/2009 21:53

No - he's the irritating little shit in the playground who says 'okay, stare into my eyes and choose bullshit option A, B, C or D' - then runs away going 'hee hee, was it E all along, or was it Z????'

with no further explanation and expects you to find it entertaining. (All with the benefit of TV studios, actors etc etc, so no magic necessary.)

EmNotPGYet · 02/10/2009 22:06

But it didn't wory! Hee hee!

hocuspontas · 02/10/2009 22:07

So what happened at the end? I was distracted by a game I was playing on the laptop and looked up and the credits were rolling.

Monkeytrews · 02/10/2009 22:09

No he isn't. He's great. But they are tricks not magic, or any other tomfoolery. Enjoy it though

GhostWriter · 02/10/2009 22:10

He's very funny.

trellism · 02/10/2009 22:11

No, he's a magician. His job is to deceive you.

TheFallenMadonna · 02/10/2009 22:11

Ha! I teach A level psychology, and I swear half my students are doing it because they want to be Derren Brown

Monkeytrews · 02/10/2009 22:19

precisely Trell (not siure if i spet thaT RIGHT. educatuon wsted andc all that..

LevitatingCopy · 02/10/2009 22:19

MT - but I genuinely don't get what there is to enjoy - the deal is that he sets everything up so he can snigger at how clever he is, and doesn't let anyone in on the joke.

Monkeytrews · 02/10/2009 22:20

hmm Tfm with the big boiobies. I supsect yo are xcorrect, but is un alkso a good chat up line whomever saex tyou are seduicing

OurLadyOfPerpetualSupper · 02/10/2009 22:27

I was distracted by mn my novel, but the last thing I heard was 'I'm really sorry, I've lost your money' - then a tv person was saying 'don't worry, he'll get your money back'
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Ds reckons that's the end of the series.

Is that what they call post-modern irony?
We're supposed to laugh because the ending was not what we expected, and the poor sap apparently lost his cash.

LevitatingCopy · 02/10/2009 22:34

Why oh why are we supposed to think this is clever and entertaining He might be clever, he might not, what fucker would know as he's hidden behind a slew of tv production and 'mysteriousness'. So what IS the point?

LevitatingCopy · 02/10/2009 22:36

He is the Gordon Brown of the Magic Circle

LevitatingCopy · 02/10/2009 22:38

perhaps he's a relation

Monkeytrews · 02/10/2009 22:39

you just made me think of quorn. is DB a veggie?

wingandprayer · 02/10/2009 22:43

All this buggering it up and getting it wrong for this TV series, it's part of a bigger distraction I reckon. There's something else afoot. Why would he destroy a successful albeit annoying career for a couple of ill thought out unsuccessful stunts?

LevitatingCopy · 02/10/2009 22:47

So that everyone will think he's extra clever and mysterious (and er, possibly endowed with vegetarian powers ??)

Monkeytrews · 02/10/2009 22:47

are you talking about DB or GB?

I think ther formers are assured - but that's only cos I thin the latter cant wauit till he;s oot of it! Bless him. Who whould be a fucking politician now when the oppostion literally is the media - andrew marr and all the corruyptiopn that entails.

Monkeytrews · 02/10/2009 22:48

is

LevitatingCopy · 02/10/2009 22:54

Perhaps GB and DB could do a job swop

LevitatingCopy · 02/10/2009 22:55

hmmmmmm

wingandprayer · 02/10/2009 22:57

LOL @ Monkeytrews. My stunning political insight crept up on me.

Mr Marr on the other hand will live to regret certain probing questuions. Glass houses, big legal privacy bricks.

PfftTheMagicDragon · 02/10/2009 22:57

He's really a nobbin

wingandprayer · 02/10/2009 23:00

Now who on this list of all bloody nobbins are you specifically referring to Pfft?

TheMoistWorldOfSeptimusQuench · 02/10/2009 23:00

So what was going on? Did he get it wrong on purpose? Why?

No way could he have got into a casino with a camera hidden up his sleeve - so the casino must have been in on it.

I don't understand.