Yeah I didn’t like the ones he did with famous people so much because his act doesn’t work. His whole thing is based on Louis As faux-naive-English-gentleman which was a stroke of genius for Weird Weekends and that, but doesn’t really wash in circumstances. Like when he was with the Hamiltons and he’d be like “well I don’t know much about politics but…” yeah, we can see through that pal.
Yeah he’s good. Loved the Weird Weekend series, especially the militias one and the rasslin’ one, and the swingers one is just tragic comedy gold.
The later ones on the gun crime in Philadelphia and that weird paedophile institution that was kind of prison but not quite were fantastic.
Yeah seems a bit of a fish/barrel/shoot interface there. The reason Theroux is so good is he’ll a) pick something to cover which often isn’t conventionally covered and b) gain access to it to an unrivalled extent. Not sure what the point in him taking scientology on is given those.