Barley Worth The Effort?
February 9th, 2005 at 20:27 by C J Davies
It’s the first Chris Morris TV project since the infamous – and ingenious – Brass Eye Special of 2001. Yet even hardcore devotees of the controversial media terrorist are raising their oh-so-sceptical eyebrows at latest offering Nathan Barley.
Has his reign as the darling of UK counter-culture finally come to a sputtering, Office-lite anti-climax as the naysayers are claiming? Check the results for your grubby selves – Friday, 10pm, Channel Four. Needless to say Hecklerspray will soon be forming an ‘opinion’.
Read Nathan Barley’s original exploits at TV Go Home
December 24th, 2007 at 1:23 pm
Nathan Barley was funny but you have to stop eating in the comedy equivalent of a greasy spoon! 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.