There was some show on Bravo where a young British guy (I think from the BBC) wandered around rural Idaho in search of anti-government (mostly of the right-wing variety) people. The British reporter talked to this one guy who was armed to the hilt awaiting the New World Order invasion (but he still told the British guy that the Beatles were his favorite group). The British guy also had a conversation with a guy who lived in a house made mostly of hay bales, an environmentalist hermit, and some folks at the Aryan Nation compound. One of the Aryan Nation leaders mentioned that “Are you being served?” is one of his favorite shows, though he doesn’t like Mr. Humphries.
What was the name of this show? What was the reporter’s name? Has he done any other projects of this type?
The programme was indeed one of Louis’s efforts. Others I have seen include:
LT helping the KKK improve their public image.
LT visiting Thailand to discover how the Bride Business works.
Lt checking out body builders.
And some others which escape me at the moment. Louis is the son of travel writer Paul. He is currently featuring on/working on a series in the UK, where he spends time with various so-called C-list celebrity type people.
Yes, he’s done a couple of series of these shows (at least) and is making another one as we speak. Sounds like you may have seen just one show. Quite interesting the way he manages to ingratiate himself with people who seem to know he’s sending them up. Treads the line very well.
I like the ones with him and the Californian swingers and also the one with him in the Cal porn industry – nicely surreal at times.
If you like this kind of thing and get the chance, try to also see any of the Ruby Wax shows (especially the Imelda Marcos one but the others are almost as good). Very similar and if anything, she pushes things just a little further. Very surreal, especially when she gets Imelda to sing…Excellent.
Louis also worked for Michael Moore’s TV Nation, and in it he spent a day with the extreme pro-life people for one segment. The Secret Service asked for the tape and arrested some of them after they said killing certain SCOTUS justices would be “justifiable homicide.”
Neil Hamilton was an MP (member of parliament) in the UK he had to leave parliament because it was discovered he was accepting cash bribes for asking questions in the House.
Now some woman has come forward accusing Neil Hamilton and his wife of raping her - the court case is to come soon.
But, during all of this, just by coincidence, Louis Theroux was following the Hamiltons around filming them for his new series - bizarre. Should be an interesting show when it comes out.
BTW, it seems that everyone with a camcorder has been filming the Hamiltons for far too long, so Louis had to get there eventually. Please can someone make them go away? Or just shoot me now.