Current mood: THE WIERD GOES SERIOUS...
Category: THE WIERD GOES SERIOUS... Movies, TV, Celebrities
The second bit of TV I saw (this time in full) was Louis Theroux jollying it around with the cops in drug land Philadelphia...
Apparently he was trying to get a grip on how and why drugs and guns happen...?!?!?
Now Louis Theroux is yet another TV presenter there thanks to Daddy (his Dad is wonderful writer Paul Theroux)
But whereas Paul Theroux wrote beautifully, about paddling fold up canoes, riding on trains, and swanning it in Hawaii, Louis more often specialises in doing obvious and zany portraits of wierd public figures, like Jimmy Saville or Neo Nazis...
I find, he has a penchant for the easy journalism - get in some eccentrics and they'll do the rest...
I reckon he has people in his 'research' office typing 'WIERD PERSON MAYBE RISKY' into google time after time after time...
GET ME THE JOB!!! GET ME THE JOB!!!!
I NEED TO LIKE TALK TO THESE CRAZY PEOPLE!!!!
Yes boss, the bottom line is that I find Louis dumb geek in a sweetshop routine gets very tiring very quickly - and no when more so, than when he takes on Police Camera Action...
So, in this one, there he is in US of A, and he's dressed in a blue bulletproof vest, being driven about by hamburger cops, asking idiot fucking questions as to why drugs and guns are all over the streets with no names...
Sometimes the questioned try and communicate something - and sometimes they peer back stonnned disbelieving at him like the school trip twat that he is...
Yes boss, the only amazing thing with this show was that one of the drug lords or copper corner boys didn't slay him for the PURE NERVOUS hell of it....
But that didn't happen,
and what did, was pretty ignorable....
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