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Disgusting Bliss: the Brass Eye of Chris Morris Free FREE DISGUSTING BLISS: THE BRASS EYE OF CHRIS MORRIS PDF Lucian Randall | 288 pages | 01 Sep 2011 | Simon & Schuster Ltd | 9781847391803 | English | London, United Kingdom Disgusting Bliss: The Brass Eye of Chris Morris, By Lucian Randall | The Independent Skip to main content. Morris first came to national prominence at the heart of a group of virtually unkwn comedians which included Armando Iannucci, Patrick Marber, Stewart Lee and Richard Herring, and Steve Coogan. Disgusting Blissfollows them from their news satire On the Hour, later Disgusting Bliss: The Brass Eye of Chris Morris as the equally successful The Day Today, and examines the mysterious, anarchic figure of Morris, whose total avoidance of celebrity left a gap filled by a kind of mythology, while the fury of his work polarised opinion and prompted government ministers to threaten to ban him. Drawing on exclusive new interviews and original research, Disgusting Blisspaints a compelling portrait of Chris Morris from childhood to the height of the storm he created in taking on the media industry in which he worked. He lives in London. Show more Show less. Peterson Paperback Disgusting Bliss: The Brass Eye of Chris Morris. Van der Kolk Paperback, 4. Save on Non-Fiction Books Trending price is based on prices over last 90 days. You may also like. Paperback Textbooks Now. Business, Economics Paperback Textbooks Now. Paperback Picture Books for Children Now. Paperback Textbooks. This item doesn't belong on this page. Disgusting Bliss: The Brass Eye of Chris Morris by Lucian Randall Goodreads helps you keep Disgusting Bliss: The Brass Eye of Chris Morris of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Preview — Disgusting Bliss by Lucian Randall. Morris first came to national prominence at the heart of a group of virtually unknown comedians brought together by Armando Iannucci. This book follows them from their news satire On the Hour, which transferred from radio to television where it was reinvented as the equally successful The Day Today. It became impossible to watch bulletins without thinking of Morris's Paxmanesque anchor character chastising a reporter -- 'Peter! You've lost the news! But Morris himself was always the most compelling character of all. Drawing on exclusive new interviews and original research, this book creates a compelling portrait of Morris from his earliest radio days and of the comedians and writers who frequently took on the industry they worked in, polarising opinion to such a degree that government ministers threatened to ban them entirely. Get A Copy. Paperbackpages. More Details Original Title. Other Editions 4. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Disgusting Blissplease sign up. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Aug 23, Disgusting Bliss: The Brass Eye of Chris Morris rated it did not like it. Unbelievably tedious Virgin Megastore fodder and an insult to the brilliance of the subject. This is not only a massively dull procession of biographical trivia, but it is also written in a ridiculously earnest style, exactly the kind of unintelligent engagement with media that Chris Morris has satirised throughout his career. Honestly, some of it could have been lifted straight from the Alan Partridge Disgusting Bliss: The Brass Eye of Chris Morris 'Coogan, a great mimic from his childhood days' or 'It seemed a rather pointles Unbelievably tedious Virgin Megastore fodder and an insult to the brilliance of the subject. Honestly, some of it could have been lifted straight from the Alan Partridge autobiography: Disgusting Bliss: The Brass Eye of Chris Morris, a great mimic from his childhood days' or 'It seemed a rather pointless argument on both sides which didn't go much Disgusting Bliss: The Brass Eye of Chris Morris than to note that other people had done satire too - Morris's work by its nature would never be justified in terms of earlier writers' - the second example a desconstruction of the author's own comparison between Chris Morris and, er, Jonathan Swift. It's a dull A-level essay extended over 60, words. I note Lucian Randall's other works include biographies of intellectual luminaries such as Noel Gallagher I should have known better. In Burnage, a child was born View 2 comments. Feb 06, Paul rated it really liked it. Not so much a biography of Chris Morris as an overview of the team of comedians and writers who made The Day Today, Brass Eye and much more -- all of whom went on to become very successful in their own right. As far as Chris Morris is concerned, what comes across is a picture of someone who is generous, fiercely intelligent and obsessively professional. We need more people like this. May 24, Mark Love rated it really liked it. As a long time Chris Morris fan On The Hour, Day Today, Brass Eye, etc I would have bought and digested this book regardless, so thankfully it was actually quite good - well researched, but not brilliantly written. Morris himself is absent from the book, but he unusually consented for others to talk openly. Lucian Randall provides a roughly chronological walk through Morris' various projects and personas, and the difficult and sometime dangerous Disgusting Bliss: The Brass Eye of Chris Morris that went on to bring them to screen trying As a long time Chris Morris fan On The Hour, Day Today, Brass Eye, etc I would have bought and digested this book regardless, so thankfully it was actually quite good - well researched, but not brilliantly written. Lucian Randall provides a roughly chronological walk through Morris' various projects and personas, and the difficult and sometime dangerous work that went on to bring them to screen trying to buy drugs with ridiculous names from west london street dealers; or walking around Balham in a top hat whilst inhaling helium having alerted locals that a strangely dressed paedophile was in their neighbourhood at the height of the News of the World hysteria. Definitely one for fans only. Sep 02, Matthew Revert rated it really liked it. I'm a Chris Morris obsessive, so I would have picked up this book even if it was written by me. This is about as close as any of us will ever get learning about Morris. Randall has done an admirable job of collating a wealth of information taken from interviews, newspapers and just about anywhere else. It's not written perfectly, but the power of Morris does come through. Disgusting Bliss: The Brass Eye of Chris Morris you like Morris half as much as I do, you should pick this up. Mar 20, Mark Barrett rated it it was ok. A middle-class boy, who has all of the head-starts and opportunities which that brings, grows up to use his position to rail against the very system that helped to make him. Not just that, though. Randall never truly gets anywhere near telling us anything original or insightful about Chris Morris. One good thing: it got me watching old reruns of Brasseye which I enjoyed. Sep 08, Jack rated it did not like it Shelves: 21st-centurybrit-litnon- fiction. Not really worth having been written as biographies go -- can't say I learned much interesting about Chris Morris, though supposedly the great bit in Brass Eye where he calls a man a series of bizarre fake insults for 'paedo' is actually with a self-confessed small bean regarder. Casual read got me listening to some Blue Jam on youtube though. Disgusting Bliss: The Brass Eye of Chris Morris 13, Jordan Phizacklea-Cullen rated it really liked it. Despite suffering from Morris unsurprisingly declining to be interviewed at length and glossing almost entirely over 'Nathan Barley', this meticulously researched study of one of the UK's premier satirists has contributions from all the major and minor players and suggests that the man may just be one of those true one-offs, leaving you eager for his next project. Sep 06, D. Calf rated it liked it Shelves: biographycultural-critiquebritain-in-thesmedia-studies. Fist-headed Man Destroys Church Very well put together review of the actual genius which is Christopher Morris. Interesting, entertaining, informative. Excellent work. I was facted until I jolly well farted! Oct 19, Lee Threlkeld rated it it was ok. Disappointing, but what did I really expect. The material is all that matters. Horse carnage. Jul 26, Jan rated it it was ok. It took 83 pages before I felt engaged. The first four chapters are frustratingly leaden. I began to wonder what the point of the book was, and why I was reading it. Chris Morris is elusive. There might be a good reason for that. The bare facts of his early days don't really make for an engaging narrative. There is a sense that Randall needed to stretch the material to justify its inclusion. I Googled Randall at one point to check he was real, and not Chris Morris in disguise. Randall has writte It took 83 pages before I felt engaged. Randall has written other biographies, but that's not to say Morris wouldn't take such measures to create a believable ruse. The subject matter is handled better, and is interesting because the focus is on the technicalities of making such ground breaking shows.
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