American Reacts to Louis Theroux: A Confusing Genius!
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- Опубликовано: 12 дек 2024
- This is Jimmy The Giant's insightful exploration of the work of British American journalist Louis Theroux! Theroux's work has garnered cheers and jeers, let's see why!
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Louis Theroux docs are easily some of the greatest TV of all time. So insightful, so interesting, and also always engaging.
Your show me on a map cracked me up. "Flower, flower, flower, assasin, flower, DUCKS." 😂😂
Oh man, you have just opened up yourself one hell of a can of worms finding Louis theroux, please look up his documentaries and react to them 🙏🏼 love your work ❤
Looee Theroo - in cooking, a roux is a base for a sauce and pronounced "roo".
Love Loius. 👏 And white sauce.
Louis style is a breath of fresh air...It can be frustrating when he's building rapport during the first half of his documentaries but once he's there his questions become fascinating and his interveiwees don't take offence...He always seems genuinely interested and non-confrontational which gets him closer to the source of what you want to hear...He becomes like a mole
If you’ve never seen any of Louis Theroux documentaries I can strongly recommend literally any of them! Weird Weekends is fantastic. He also did a great one on post partum mental illness and psychosis. Also the Westboro Baptist Church. I’m honestly so jealous of anyone who has never seen Louis Theroux because you have so many amazing new documentaries to watch!
Would make great reactions for you or even for Patreon, just putting it out there 👀 Lots of his old stuff is in America too, so you can react to a Brit reacting to US madness. There’s an interesting one about medicated children in the US which really doesn’t happen here (like kids medicated for bipolar etc) super interesting!
Louis Theroux has a disarming charm that lulls the subject into relaxing and revealing more than they intended. Micheal Moore is one of the best documentary, investgative and creative content makers ever. He amazingly won an Oscar for Bowling for Columbine and the producers tried to drown out his speech with recorded boos as they were desperate to appease the corporations, gun lobby and government. The mainstream media and corporate hacks try to silence him but he is a very important voice in the world and is needed more than ever.
His shows with the Westboro Baptist Church are phenomenal
Louis Theroux is a legend!
Louis is a legend. I understand him questioning why he never saw what Savile was...but Savile had spent his entire life hiding who he really was from everybody.
I saw Louis being interviewed recently at a live recording of the Adam Buxton podcast (He's an old school friend of Louis' and one half of Adam & Joe and can be seen in the old home videos on this video). He came across as a really likeable and a very intelligent and funny guy. Actually he was talking about his alopecia that night come to think of it.
Another person who is very good at disarming horrid people is Jamali Maddix in Hate Thy Neighbor a Viceland series. If you haven't seen them, definitely worth a watch.
his jimmy saville one and the west bapist church ones (think theres 3) are MUST WATCH if u aint seen them
Yeah the original Jimmy Saville one is nuts, it’s really disturbing but a must watch.
He knew Jimmy was a weirdo but I don’t think he understood what a monster he was until Saville died.
I lived in Catford for years and it does NOT look like that!!! 😵💫
I bumped into Louis Theroux at a hospital while his wife was in labour in about 2005 and was telling him about my mum’s massive crush on him. Not one of my finest moments 😂you should check out some weird weekends. They are so so good. On one he hung around (pardon the pun) with some swingers and attended a swinger’s party. The follow up he made to his Saville doc is worth watching also.
Louis basically discovered The Tiger King too.
He's a legend.
Ha! What?! 😂
@@JJLAReacts yeah, he did an investigation into wild animal dealers in the US and spent a while with Joe Exotic, a few years before Netflix.
Louis Theroux docs are fantastic. Throughly enjoy watching his stuff and a big fan of him. Wrote my dissertation on him for uni
The Jimmy Saville episode was really disturbing to watch. There's a scene at the end where Louis eventually decides to very passively, subtly address the rumours about Saville to his face. Saville dismisses them and I got the feeling that Louis knew they were true but, because his career depended on the culture of denial and cover-ups, he decided to stay relatively silent. I'm saddened by his lack of action but I don't hold it against him. The real monster was Saville and learning more about him can help us to understand him and stay vigilant about it happening in the future.
Everything is always much clearer in hindsight.
Fantastic insightful comment, thank you.
Well, if an AI pronunciation guide with no human intervention says it's Loo-uhs Thr-ow then it must be. No way that could be wrong.
Louis is pronounced _Lew-ie_,
Thru-oh is how his last name is pronounced.
@@brigidsingleton1596 Yeah, I was being sarcastic.
Lol.
@AlexByth you can never make a joke or be sarcastic on youtube without explaining it. that is a rule.
Before Louis Theroux and John Ronson, there was Nick Broomfield. He pioneered the likeable and apparently non-threatening reporter.
His The Leader, His Driver and the Driver's Wife documentary was genuinely groundbreaking when it came out in the early 90s. He interviewed Eugene Terre' Blanche, leader of the far right AWD, at the end of apartheid and made him look as ridiculous as he was abhorrent. He's created some great work included Ghosts, which is poignant and affecting too.
Broomfield, Ronson and Theroux are all brilliant but Broomfield is the OG.
Louis Theroux is a national treasure.
It's worth checking the films of Nick Broomfield - most of which are great and a big "influence" on the work of Theroux. Most of his work's interesting, but it's remarkable the lack of curiousity he's shown towards his employer.
You so make me laugh…. Don’t stop🤣🤣
Lol, they were nice pictures of Catford, I can't believe Loius grew up there❤
The topic it hasn’t covered is his documentary on Scientology which is amazing. I don’t think he’s become more confrontational, but those he interviews have.
I think it’s partly because he’s much more well known now. People know his style and what he does, so it’s a lot more difficult for him to present himself as innocent or naive. The OG weird weekends and early work was so fantastic because people didn’t know who he was.
You should have a look at Ruby Wax's interview series.
Us Brits generally pronounce Louis as Loo-ee, probably because of all those French Kings. In fact most people over here say Loo-ee Armstrong, which is kind of terrible :-)
Surreal seeing an American in LA looking up Catford on google maps. Catford is not a particularly nice area lol
Well, JJ.. you have been a great "listener" to me and I am grateful you have been there.
As Marge Simson would say "you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar"
You will never get the truth if you can't gain a persons trust, and that's what Louis does best.
Your friends will tell you anything you ask, your enemies certainly won't.
I love his work and hold nothing against him with the Jimmy incident, i too have been fool by a wrong un.
More Louis Theroux please!!!! He came up briefly in one of your videos a while ago and I thought you would love him, and you do which makes me happy
The sweet clip of Louis helping that elderly lady to put on her jacket was from his documentary on Dementia. I think it’s called “Extreme Love: Dementia” and it’s extremely heartwarming in places and sad in others.
I was a 'fan' of his Dad's writing, especially back in the 70s/80s. The ones that stand out for ne are "The "Great Railway Bazaar" and "The Old Patagonian Express". In the first, he sets out without a plan to take regular rail services from London, across Europe, the Middle East, the Indian Sub-continent and South East Asia, and then makes the return trip on the Trans-Siberian railway. The book covers four months and makes it clear that Louis inherited his father's ability to talk to strangers easily.
The second book covers travelling by local services from his home in Massachusetts down across North America and then across Central America and down to Patagonia.
Americans tend to pronounce "Louis" as "Lewis", which is really very confusing. I kept hearing people in US shows refer to a Prince "Lewis" as one of Royals. I'm not a follower of what royalty is up to, but still, never having heard of this 'Prince Lewis' I finally went and looked through all the royal progeny - and nary a Lewis appeared. It took a while for the penny to drop.
I finally realised they were mangling the name of the boy who might one day be King. They obviously are unacquainted with the fact that 'Louis' is pronounced "Loo ee"/Loo-wee". And boy, we all have vast amounts of "Prince Loo-wees" all through Europe's past.
What I want to point out is that we pronounce it that way because we see it immediately as a French name. We know that's because there's a lot of French words in our vocabulary - we come across familiar patterns (eg 3 vowels in a row) and unconsciously learn how to pronounce that. By 'simplifying' spelling Webster robbed words of their history, their value...& if that sounds too fanciful - it leaves so many people not being able to pronounce words properly. And sometimes, as here, there are some words you can't simplify. "Simplifying" Louis gets you "Lewis". But that's a whole, other name.
Geez I hope US commentators learn how to say the kid's name before he actually gets crowned. 'Cos to many of the people it's either lazy journalism or totally disrespectful because these botoxed beauties have a) never listened to ANY British commentaries at all. We all know how to say it. b) could not be bothered to tap a key to hear how it's pronounced? Not because of his position, but because everybody has a right to their own name, especially when people are churning out bulldust about them to send all over the world.
Prince Louis is 4th in line to the throne so slim chance he will be king. He will be the spare like Harry. Lol.
@@letitiakearney2423 Well yes - many wonder if William will even make it, don't they? The point I was trying to make is that he's not some one-hit-wonder singer or actor whose name is going to be forgotten a few months down the track.
He's gonna be around for a while, so not bothering to find out how to say his name, for those who have set themselves up following the Family, is hardly the sign of a reliable source.
In a recent generally inoffensive series, “Louis Theroux Interviews”, Theroux interviews Canadian born but London based comedienne Katherine Ryan. During the interview Ryan talked about an English comedian who was a predator, however, would not name this comedian. Ryan words had opened ‘a can of worms’ which quickly began to focus on Russel Brand.
If you can find it, watch the original Jimmy Savile doc. It's not as kind to Savile as Jimmy the giant said. Louis (pronounced Louie) was very close to uncovering him, Savile appeared like a weirdo throughout the episode, and they secretly filmed him saying some awful things. It uncovered a lot, it was a mini masterpiece.
Louis was very freaked out by him.
@@slytheringingerwitch He was, he did everything he could to reveal him, and was very close. If he had we wouldn't have seen it anyway, Savile would have seen to that.
@@philjones45 well then maybe he actually did? i guess he would have made that clear by now then.
I think Louis' problem wasn't just the arrival of cancel culture. I think that what he does just got a bit old. We'd seen him do roughly the same thing for 25 years and seeing Louis Theroux interview racists in 2024 wasn't nearly as interesting as it was when we saw Louis Theroux interview racists in 1993 and 1998 and 3004 and 2010. That's how it felt to me anyway. He will always have a place in TV history for all the reasons that Jimmy points out. The man is a legend.
Since Louis Theroux started on British Tv, I have watched all his programmes.
They are very informative and interesting.
Louis is a national treasure. Many years ago i worked in PR for a sports and golf resort in Spain. The Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends team rang up wanting to do a doc about it. I was THRILLED I would get to go out there and spend time with the man himself. However, the staff at the resort did some research and feared he would take the piss. They vetoed the idea 😢. Very sad.
I've been saying "Show me on a map" randomly for awhile now! You need it on merch! 😂
The whispered 'Free Luigi' sent me 😂😂😂😂
about the height of Jimmy's TV career, i was climbing the tourist path up Ben Nevis with my parents. about 1/3 of the way up tits very steep and pretty much all steps. who should come running down towards us but mister fix-it himself, cigar in hand, gold dangly bling, and one ball hanging 2 inches out of his tighty-whitey nylon shorts.
its an image ill take to the grave and im sure it took 10 years off my mums life.
they are about to demolish his house in Glen Coe because it has been trashed so badly
With names that come from French, they often get Anglicised in a number of different ways, but th way you say his name would be spelled Thoreau in French, not Theroux. Indeed, Henry David Thoreau is so famous, he might be influencing your instincts here.
I believe Henry Thoreaux is an ancestor of Paul, Louis and the rest of the family.
The Westboro documentaries are I think his best work.
He visited them over a number of years and got them to really open up, and they have a weird friendship even though they don't admit it to each other.
Louis is a Legend. You need to assimilate EVERYTHING he's ever done. His autobiography 'Got to get Thoroux this' is brilliant.
The BBC knew what Saville was doing, but they used to sweep it under the carpet.
You are in for such a treat.
Great video and I love your point of view on it mate
He is a proper journalist, very rare indeed.
For using the IPA on Wikipedia, hover over each letter and it will give you an example of each symbol. His is ru, r as in rye, and u as the 'oo' sound in goose. Interestingly, Justin Theroux does follow the pronunciation that you use, so there must be different Anglicisations of the French name on different sides of the pond.
I’m not surprised he is getting tired dealing with haters all the time.
Louis went to school with Adam Buxton and Joe Cornish, Joe is now a filmmaker and Adam has one of the top podcasts in the UK, The Adam Buxton Podcast and even Christmas they all meet up for Adams pod and it's usually very funny.
Louis Theroux was excellent at lifting the carpet, and its important society sees that!
helping the old lady with her jacket was from a totally different documentary, about people with dementia and how it affects their partners. A great documentary, worth watching. Louis is worth watching for full episodes if you fancy branching out somewhat. This format is getting a little stale, and RUclips s killing reactors right now. This video had about 9 ad breaks, just too much.
Not if you watch in Firefox with uBlock origin, it doesn't!
Well that's suspicious.By which I mean the disappearance of my comment pointing out one way of not getting 9 ad breaks. Heck, I'm amazed you're still watching if you're getting ads every 5 minutes - I certainly wouldn't.
Top Tip: Best to assume 99.374% of those internet pronunciation type video clips are, in fact, complete and utter bollocks.
A side note - Harry Chapin (..yes, that W.O.L.D. guy) started it all off - it always comes back to music...or money...or both! 🤔😂
The great thing about Louis , imo, is that he doesn't just investigate facts, but investigates the psychological, sociological and emotional state of the participants .
One realises that only our own minds are responsible for this crazy world.
I will watch anything with Louis Theroux in. I've not seen (and doubt I ever will) a bad documentary from him yet.
You need to watch his documentaries....they are amazing!
Oxford student whos family are in entertainment ends up with his own bbc shows. Wow that never happens..............wow wow
At least he's not the bankrolled leader of a political "party" who could not get verified signatures to stand for the Mayor of London in time and got beaten by a bucket head.
Massive Louis fan!
I’ve fought the urge to type this since starting watching your videos… but I need to… I love your reactions, but you do look like a Batman villain
! (No offence intended) Keep up the good work bro, glad you reacting to jimmy the giant.. all his videos are good! Educational but proper funny guy too!
My partner calls him “the joker” 😂
I was 24 when I watched TV Nation and 2 years later I was 'in the machine' as a Software Engineer. I lasted 8 years as a 'product'.
I'm all better now 😀
I live (& and have lived in) Catford since 1986. We have a _cat_ here too in the town centre.
They are _not_ "row houses".
They are _Terraced houses_.
I can't believe he grew up there. I wonder if my brother who has lived in Catford for decades saw him around.
@MsPeabody1231
Catford covers quite a large area, it's not just Rushey Green which runs out from Lewisham High Street at one end, through to Bromley Road at the other, which itself leads through to Downham and Bromley.
It goes from side to side by Catford Bridge, and Catford train stations, by one end of Ladywell Rec, (parkland through which the River Ravensbourne' flows down from Keston ponds from Caesar's Well, into Catford, Ladywell, Lewisham - where it joins the Quaggy and the Poole, then heads into Deptford Creek and onward to the Thames) along one side, and up towards Verdant Lane and Hither Green on the other side.
Don't be so ready to diss Catford...it has a fair-sized population of all sorts of people,
"How is he supposed to know?" There's the rub. Louis Theroux has a brilliant approach, to extremely controversial characters, but that opens him up to being historically matched with some seriously diabolical things. I'm not sure Jimmy Saville can ever be viewed sympathetically. It's possible to see flashes of humanity in even the darkest people but Jimmy Saville might have been a soulless void. No spoon is long enough to sup with that devil.
Does instinct never stand in the way of the job description? A lot of people had a very bad feeling about Jimmy Saville. Saville didn't put a huge amount of effort into hiding the fact that he was hiding something huge. Most people will pick up on that and shy away. I really like Louis Theroux but I'm not sure that was one of his better decisions. I suspect he was a victim of his own hype ('I can talk to anybody.') Maybe, in fifty years, his time filming with Jimmy Saville will be seen as vitally important and epoch defining (damn the BBC for always trying to vanilla wash themselves) but for a while it may still be viewed as a blunder.
I watched it when it was first broadcast. I was very uneasy but, yeah, I like Theroux and I thought it was important to watch it. I'm glad I did. Actually, I came out of it thinking even worse of Jimmy Saville than I already had as he came across as not only dodgy but also a savage monster. More than just a creep but an actual thug. Maybe, some day, Louis Theroux will be extolled for the sort of Saville self assassination that he facilitated. But I think (probably from watching Louis Theroux talking to Richard Herring on RUclips) Louis Theroux is very troubled that he felt kindly towards Saville at the time.
Like Jimmy's good friend Prince Charles
You should watch his shows they're amazing
Young Louis was amazing, every documentary was a treat. However, as he got older he became more serious, and started delving into very depressing and "worthy" subjects that got increasingly dark and sad. He lost me then.
Where to invade next was brilliant
The pronunciation of Theroux can be either. I believe the British side of his family pronounce it Theroo and the US side of the family pronounce it Theroh
He's a cousin of Justin Theroux
Um, yeah. That's mentioned.
Most people in tv knew what saville was , no one spoke up
You need to react to his documentries
You should check out he Adam and Joe Show, it was RUclips before RUclips - as you saw Louis messing about with him at the start of the video as they went to school together
I loved Adam and Joe Show especially their toy movies, Obi Wan Kenobi always pissed as a fart begging for money is an iconic 90's memory to me. They were Robot Chicken before Robot Chicken too.
I went to the Dog Racing at Catford a couple of times ! ....... I think the greyhound stadium is closed down now
Been houses for a good number of years now
We call them terraced houses not row houses.
his jimmy saville docs are utterly fascinating, prob the best thing hes ever done imo
I always had a feeling that there was something dishonest about Jimmy Savile, even back in the early 60s when he was a DJ. I was only in my early teens and I thought it was that he was only pretending to like rock music. I never thought about paedophilia, as I didn't know about it then. Probably he was pretending to like the music because it got him close to very young people. Then he started doing charity things and that got him close to older vulnerable people and Prime Ministers, the Queen and other royalty, and the Pope were all fooled by him
so it's not surprising that Louis Thoroux was fooled too. He shouldn't be blamed for it, because the whole world was fooled. I never liked him, but I had no idea how bad he was until it all came out a couple of years after his death. His family knew something about it though.
Well said 😘
I feel like Louis should go on the View and sort them out once and for all.
What a perverse and unnecessary thing to write...
i can see that he is interested in those groups from a psychological point of view. and for sure you can feel bad for those people, because they don't lead happy lives.
but someone like j.s. is a whole different thing. it wasnt really clear in this video what was going on there.
i like people who ask childlike and simple questions. it takes a lot of awareness and objectivity to keep this perspective and actually see the basic things. most people skip them.
Please check out some of his documentaries they are class and I’m sure you’ll enjoy them.
He is great and covered topics other people wouldn't. His brother married a famous American i think but i can't think who lolll (that famous ehh lolll) It's just come to me . . i think he dated Jennifer Aniston.
Louie Theroooo - the pronunciation you referenced was spoken by an American. Paul Theroux (American) called himself Therooooo - you’re wrong, I’m afraid.
At some point, the world that you interview becomes a little to dirty and grubby. Specially as you get older
He definitely isn’t faking that empathy, a good 75% of that is real and for someone like that, who we all desperately need
I can see how it can become overwhelming and he would snap back
Wish him all the best and a safe space
People with racist and bigoted views are clearly suffering themselves, and should be pitied , rather than condemned.
That was part of the appeal of the original shows from around 2000, to find out who was worth saving and question enough to encourage a change of ideology. The newer ones at least from the clip above seems infantile unless out of context, condemnation without thought or anything to gain, although I'll reserve judgement until seeing the full episodes
his name is pronounced Saaavil, not Sevill.
15:09 I think you know those signs are ai generated and the real slogans are more incendiary.
You finally got my area up on a map. Catford is a certified shit hole. How you ended up with all pics of flowers, I don't know. 😅
15:20 😂 we collect cult propaganda 😂 we keep them in morgan our human skull
Saville is pronounced 'Sav-ill'. It is not 'Sav-eel'
Have you read, heard, and / or seen Jon Ronson’s stuff?
6:58 mate i absolutely hope that was just a joke, myself and i imagine many of us in the uk would find statements like that to be anything other than utterly abhorent. No do not free the disgusting killer haha. A childish murderer, who took an INNOCENT mans life, you VOTE for change, you dont praise moron murderers, in fact the usa needs to stop freeing and voting for a lot of its criminals lol. Also actually look into your own healthcare system with some critical thinking because the misinfo and lies people believe right now is wild, doctors dont deny claims, neither do CEO's, no one does these things to be evil there are rules and laws and regulations, that man had a family, he had children, he paid substantial taxes, he did more for society than that murderer ever would have. Im from the uk and love the NHS but the truth between systems is far more naunced, most americans polled like their system and over 50% are covered through their job. The idea that claims are being denied for profits or evil motives is about as true as the uk having death panels.
The majority of what Louis does now is in-depth interviews with celebrities! Judy Dench for example.
I've never seen his new one, it looks like he was told to change tactics to appease a new generation or lose his series. You can tell he isn't enjoying it, it's not his character. Watch the original Weird Weekends episodes instead. Nothing has changed in society at all aside from one thing. Social media. The birth of radically politically correct or not online bubbles of groupthink, with anyone in the room now able to have the loudest voice and influence over people and businesses, regardless of opinion.
Excellent point! 🙌
@@JJLAReacts when he mentioned to the young guy that he looked as though he was about to start crying, I instantly thought Gordon Ramsay, lol. I'll need to see this newer documentary to make sure it isn't just one long lost Kitchen Nightmares script
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Lol, Why would you assume a USA-ian pronunciation link will give you the correct way to pronounce it, theh- row is obviously wrong, its a French name so will likely be pronounced that way in English to, theh-rue. USA-ian pronunciation links are invariably wrong for anything outside the USA unless they happen to coincide.
Stop with the show me on the map you look like you have been it with the thugly tree
So the BBC were giving British Licence fee money to help make an American Tv show, that us Brits never watched.
SCANDALOUS.
This comment is no offence to you Americans.
I hate the BBC, and all that it stands for.
Well, I watched it. You could have watched it if you wanted. It was on BBC2, it's not like you had to pay a subscription to BBC Select or anything.
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