I found this documentry very deeply concerning, if this is what the youth of day deem as 'entertainment' and people to look up to and follow, we are doomed as a society. What has actually happened, there has been a shift somewhere. It's very troubling.
@TBone-s7y wait, so you typed that out and end it on calling someone else weird... you are really something. You know that Ellen is almost 70 years old? She's 12 years older than Louis.
my friend just had the company they have been at for 12 years get taken over by brainless AI evangelists and one of the c-suite freaks in question told the entire company in an all hands meeting that he uses chatgpt to write journal entries for him, based on his calendar and the notes he gave it, which is like. why even do that? what do you even GET out of it?!?
@x_elen_xthat's actually mind blowing how weird that is, if I was doing that I would never tell a soul about that because people would think I'm a freak
When I was 5 there use to be a show called “jim’ll fix it for you” where children would write in to get their dream come true. I had a dream that I was on the show and he said “so you can now have your dream come true but the way he said it was so scary and then he looked me right in the eye and put a tarantula in my hand and while and had his hand around my hands he started squeezing and was staring at me right in the eye at the same time with utter delight in his eyes while I was screaming saying “no no!” And I woke up when he had pushed my hands together so tight I felt it squash in my hands. I woke up screaming and I remember my dad saying “why are you looking at your hands?” As I was just looking at them in a state of shock. So weird how my subconscious mind picked up on his evil. After that I couldn’t watch him and would hide behind the sofa if he came on TV. I still shudder when i see his face
Love his clarification that it's 'for the documentary'. "I stayed at a brothel.... For a documentary." "I was in a maximum security prison.... For a documentary." Buddy. We know. 😂
It's absolutely true. No one is inherently evil and no one is inherently good. One man's Freedom Fighter is another's Terrorist. Example: the people who did 9/11 didn't do it for a laugh. They sacrificed their own lives. They did it to stop the evil they saw the US doing to their people. We will never improve society if we stop looking at the motivation for evil acts, no matter how heinous they seem on the surface.
AnnihilateTheWickedexactly, it’s scary to think that many evil people know full well what they’re doing, they just don’t care/feel bad about the consequences
The term “Give a man enough rope and he’ll hang himself” is Louis’ interview style. He doesn’t accuse anyone of anything, he just gently prods with the right questions then sits back and lets them ruin their own reputations. Their egos are so big they can’t help but to fill the silence and end up making themselves look stupid. It’s a rare skill and he has perfected it. It happened in the Manosphere doco with the way the guys treated him on the first day vs the last day. He didn’t put words in their mouths or have to persuade you that their beliefs or actions were ridiculous, they did it to themselves and knew they messed up as soon as the words came out of their mouths. They became vulnerable and scared of this quiet natured man! Louis Theroux is iconic and a genius of our time!
I’m baffled by the “awkward” comments. I find Theroux utterly self assured, without the borderline narcissistic bits that present in many self assured people. He has a calming effect. If people are referring to the strategic pauses then they’re not really understanding his genius.
I mean, relating to your username, there are people who are adamant that Trump is charismatic, which is beyond absurd. It makes sense that such people would find someone who is actually charismatic to be 'awkward' in their eyes.
There was a funny moment in the manosphere one where HS friend had just started doing pred catching live and while hanging out with Louis on the street, some fan yelled across the street to ask if Louis was a pedo, hahaha
Indeed, and it's a necessary quality in this day and age when people are constantly dehumanising other people. It's at it's worst point when people are being bamboozled by the elite class into blaming migrants for everything. It's not that it's more dehumanising than other places, but more that the scale of it in 'normal' society is dangerous.
What a banger. Louis is the GOAT. He is the best at taking hard core shots at people but remaining so serious and nonchalant. It sends the subject into a tail spin. You can see their blood boil and he’s there just smiling away 😂
Ngl, on first hearing, I thought he spoke about the banana tree of evil and I thought “is that a saying?” And on second hearing, I heard he actually said banality of evil
13:00 Still going on in Syria. 16 Yazidi girls who refused to convert were burned alive in cages a few months ago. Didn't make mainstream news, of course
I sometimes think of the 5000 people who went to see Jimmy Saville's coffin laying in "state" at the hotel in Leeds, the 1000 people that crammed into the cathedral to watch his funeral, and the countless people that lined the streets to watch the hearse who were chanting "JIMMY! JIMMY! JIMMY!". You won't find a single person who will admit that they were one of those people. I'm not saying they should have known but it is an extreme example of why you shouldn't have a parasocial relationship with a celebrity.
I feel this way about the royal family. A lot of the UK genuinely view them as members of the of the family and become very defensive when you criticise them lol.
@MurronWright I feel like that’s only really the south of England, half of Northern Ireland, and rangers fans in Scotland. Nobody else really gives a fuck.
@GroßerBöserWolfyea the east of England doesn't really care. The Andrew formally known as prince had to be relocated when people learnt he was in the area lol
@CyanideSunshinesI see the south east of England as being the most English 😂, I didn’t know he was chased out. Inconvenient that Iran are bombing the gulf states where he could hide from extradition 😂
Louis' curiosity has led us to meet some of the most unhinged people in the world. I love how he observes quietly, even when the people he's interviewing are mad at him!😂
I’ve followed this guy for years and I do find his general outlook on life and weird people quite refreshing. He’s is very awkward, but that’s part of his charm I think.
The person who described Louis Theroux as awkward has it all backwards. I honestly think Louis is the least awkward human alive. He can go into any environment with any other person and put everyone at ease with him being there, such that they are happy to talk about anything with him. That universal ability to put other people at ease is the antithesis of “awkward”.
I fancy myself as somewhat an educated guy but damn Theroux is super smart, perfectly quoting Nietsche 1 second, talking about Aramaic the next, all with classicly English reserved charm lol
Louis "Do not interrupt your enemy when they are making a mistake" style interviewing in Manosphere was excellent, these folks just kept telling on themselves and I encourage everyone to watch it, and if you happen to have someone in your life who is like this, even more. Ask them "These are the people you look up to?"
I don't find him awkward, i've always just seen him as not bothering with all the fluff that most people do... he allows space for people to think and respond and he's also honest about what he's thinking/how he words his questions. I love it.
Louie knows what’s going on before he asks the question, whenever he interviews. It’s like he’s thinking 3 questions ahead of the person and they have no idea.
I just watched that today...most of the guys (for example HS) were EXACTLY what I expected, selfish, low intellect, toxic, zero self-awareness adult man babies. A few were older and not as toxic but theyre still grifters with a very toxic viewpoint.
@LowToleranceForDumbI hope he does one about woman and toxic feminity just for balance. I’m really disappointed and embarrassed how some woman are becoming so vicious and cruel towards men.
@vinyltap1 that's only happen toward horrible man... in 30 years I have never experienced toxic felinity anywhere toward me. It seems like a particular type of man problem.
@wil@willywonka7812I have no misogynists whispering in my ear. I am an intelligent woman and I’m sick of the toxic females out there dragging the rest of us down. Louis does a great job but it was a predictable choice tackling men. I wonder if he’s brave enough to tackle woman. I doubt it.
My god, the way this guy speaks. It's like he knows what people can and will nitpick about what he says and makes a joke out of it. Brilliant. I think I'm in love
This gentleman has the genius of coming across as not the sharpest knife in the box which makes those he interviews feel that they are so much cleverer that him. This then allows him to ask what seem quite basic questions and the people just flow while he nods, this is very very clever.
You're not just a national treasure, Louis, but an international treasure! I've so enjoyed your gentle interviews of weird self-centred people, making them so comfortable that you give them enough rope to hang themselves. Thanks so much for your openness and honesty in this video, too!
The astonishingly visible and well-articulated crystal of reason and recognition in Louis's observation about being hemmed in but finding people's grotesque aberrations quite relatable speaks of someone who has a rare understanding of himself, and therefore the human animal.
He was pretty critical of yungblud to his face for pretending he was working class and having a fake Doncaster accent that his parents and sisters don’t have, the fact that he pretends to his fans he went through trauma when really he’s was a private school kid who’s parents sometimes argued, like 99% of peoples, while gaslighting fans who’ve been through horrific abuse and pretending he understands and has been through what they have. Louis called him right out for that. It was beautiful.
I re-watched the original When Louis Met Jimmy Savile right after the allegations came out, it was deeply unsettling seeing him act, well not normal, but not like a predator.
As someone who's struggled with setting personal boundaries, I really appreciated and respected him throwing out the question about being awkward. That's what self respect looks like.
I would love to be as eloquent and charismatic as Louis. I could sit and listen to him talk to Adam Buxton and Joe Cornish all day long. Plus Jiggle Jiggle is iconic
It's not an insult to call him "awkward". Whether it's natural or just a style that helps him get the most sincerity out of life's "outsiders" it is part of who Louis is and is certainly not a put down. His quirkiness is what sets him apart from most mainstream journalists.
The fact that Louis is fine with the manosphere morons laughing/bullying him just shows how secure and comfortable he is with himself. The manosphere bros would have a meltdown from being challenged even slightly on anything. Egos too big to survive.
Nate Bargatze has a bit about traveling to the past to blow people’s minds with technology and then realizing he doesn’t know how anything works, which is the path Louis was about to go down.
@stonehengemaca this is where it gets difficult: generally, the better you understand people based on an empathetic and full picture of their life circumstances, the more difficult it is to see them as evil. Or as any one thing, really.
@kathrynturnbull990 I don't empathise with evil people. I can listen and understand what messed them up but I don't care. There is no excuse and most don't make excuses. They play victim. There are plenty sick people out there and I have no problem seeing them as evil. I guess a definition of "evil" we can all agree on would help.
Guy is amazing. Doesnt really imply judgement or criticism to whatever he is doing the documentary on but rather is silent at the right time and asks just enough to make the person dig their own grave
He was pretty critical of yungblud for pretending he was working class and having a fake Doncaster accent that his parents and sisters don’t have, the fact that he pretends to his fans he went through trauma when really he’s was a private school kid who’s parents sometimes argued, while gaslighting fans who’ve been through horrific abuse and pretending he understands and has been through what they have. Louis called him right out for that. It was beautiful.
Loved the Megan Phelps Ted talk, she is clearly a very intelligent and compassionate person who I found to be very inspiring. Highly recommend to anyone who's not seen it yet!
Louis is genuinelly a national treasure, one of the best documentarians in the world and has helped a lot of us grow up and see thee world not with hate but with curiosity
Can't wait for the clips of Louis popping the paper thin skin of the manospheric facade. The show was as expected. Brilliant, revealing and a fearless exposure of his subject's questionable brainpower while showing the utmost respect for their humanity. Something the scared little boys in the 'Scamosphere' severely lack. 10/10.
Still remember watching a Place for Paedophiles - it was initially shocking at how they almost normalised the pathology within the place they were housed, but attempted to combat it and ensure their ‘safe’ release back into society. Just who did, and how they, deemed them ‘rehabilitated’ seemed so open to obvious coercion and gaming by what they invariably referred to as residents or patients. Some of them had done the worst things imaginable, often to their own families. Incredibly interesting watch though and Louis handled it, as ever, perfectly.
He is one of the few people that could make an interesting conversation about anything. You could read names out of an old phone book and end up discussing the nature of existence itself. He has a way of speaking that is effortlessly eloquent yet so approachable.
What I have always loved about his documentaries was the moments of the protagonist certainty and then Louis looks them in the eye, holds them, the camera too, neither yield, but the truth shines. It’s a pretty amazing technique
I've never clicked on a video so fast. I grew up with Louis Theroux! I have fond memories of myself and my family. Falling around properly belly laughing at him on "Weird Weekends" when he donned an Alien Helmet, he had to kill them with his mind. Surrounded by 2 people wearing black sashes with Alien sew on badges. 1 for every 10 aliens killed or when he was at a wrestling match and here was this nerd fighting with these athletes. 😂 Then as I got older and watched his more "serious" programs. Peeking in to the lives of others that most people wouldn't dare. Like the patients with brain trauma. I followed his podcast during Covid Lockdown... it helped me a lot. I can say with confidence that I've watched his entire body of work. He's always been my favourite investigative journalist. He's got something coming out on Netflix soon. Thanks Ladbible for another great episode. I absolutely love this crossover. Fangirling so much.
I am American. Do not feel bad for saying we're f*cked. We know we're f*cked. Half of us are trying to un-f*ck us and the other half are trying to make it worse.
Dude you just hit the nail of the head. As a Brit it perplexes me that in a country with so much natural beauty there can be so many truly ugly and hateful people. Nice to make the acquaintance of an un-f**ker 👍👍
I gotta say I do love Louis. He is a natural. Another great person to watch is John Saffron. He did a series with a non tamper priest from Sydney. Absolutely brilliant too❤
Being bullied really is his superpower - most people would crumble where he just finds it interesting. It's why his shows are so fascinating and illuminating
Inside the Manosphere is such a great documentary. It shows the true toxic community they've created and the many contradictions they place on themselves.
Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere is out now on Netflix.
Netflix and Louis Theroux are woke garbage
I watched the documentary today. And these Andrew Tate wannabe gangsters is a concerning development.
My farts stink like rotten eggs
Behind a paywall. I'll wait until YT get it.
I found this documentry very deeply concerning, if this is what the youth of day deem as 'entertainment' and people to look up to and follow, we are doomed as a society.
What has actually happened, there has been a shift somewhere. It's very troubling.
Sometimes it's just nice to listen to someone articulate.
Articulate yes, also looks like a mature Ellen DeGeneres...off putting....weird....
@TBone-s7y wait, so you typed that out and end it on calling someone else weird... you are really something. You know that Ellen is almost 70 years old? She's 12 years older than Louis.
@kurtkurtson9111 is she seriously that old? fucking hell
she looks it too, just looked it up 😂
I so agree ! So refreshing ❤
@TBone-s7yand what of you ?
“Evil arises out of a lack of introspection”.
Meanwhile, billionaires publicly stating they don’t waste time on introspection.
Yeah. It shows.
my friend just had the company they have been at for 12 years get taken over by brainless AI evangelists and one of the c-suite freaks in question told the entire company in an all hands meeting that he uses chatgpt to write journal entries for him, based on his calendar and the notes he gave it, which is like. why even do that? what do you even GET out of it?!?
@x_elen_x For real, the whole point of a journal entry is that it's supposed to be authentic and personal. How is AI helping with that?
@x_elen_xthat's actually mind blowing how weird that is, if I was doing that I would never tell a soul about that because people would think I'm a freak
I really don’t get when people say he’s awkward - he’s so natural and well spoken - he just takes his time with his words is all
And he manages to slug out some silences during conversations, and it's almost always the OTHER person that makes it awkward
It's part of his act- he pretends to be a bit awkward to get past people's defences. He's very clever and calculating.
Super intelligent, super charismatic, fantastic command of the English language
He’s extremely articulate, it’s lovely hearing him speak, I feel like I’m getting more intelligent just by listening to him.
He’s very well spoken but also very good at confusing and catching his subjects off guard.
When I was a teenager I wanted to be Louis Theroux when I grew up. I’m now 27 and still want to be Louis Theroux when I grow up
You could do a lot worse for a role model 😊
You're gonna be Jimmy Saville when you grow up
you can do better
@ijustwannaleaveacommentony6511moot 😊
When I was 5 there use to be a show called “jim’ll fix it for you” where children would write in to get their dream come true. I had a dream that I was on the show and he said “so you can now have your dream come true but the way he said it was so scary and then he looked me right in the eye and put a tarantula in my hand and while and had his hand around my hands he started squeezing and was staring at me right in the eye at the same time with utter delight in his eyes while I was screaming saying “no no!” And I woke up when he had pushed my hands together so tight I felt it squash in my hands. I woke up screaming and I remember my dad saying “why are you looking at your hands?” As I was just looking at them in a state of shock. So weird how my subconscious mind picked up on his evil. After that I couldn’t watch him and would hide behind the sofa if he came on TV. I still shudder when i see his face
Love his clarification that it's 'for the documentary'.
"I stayed at a brothel.... For a documentary."
"I was in a maximum security prison.... For a documentary."
Buddy. We know. 😂
Plenty of folks won't know. I felt he was saying it humorously, like the a joke about the obviously obvious
Its cause of the manosphere documentary
“Evil arising out of a lack of introspection” is THE key point and how you are able to recognize it when confronted with it.
It's absolutely true. No one is inherently evil and no one is inherently good. One man's Freedom Fighter is another's Terrorist. Example: the people who did 9/11 didn't do it for a laugh. They sacrificed their own lives. They did it to stop the evil they saw the US doing to their people. We will never improve society if we stop looking at the motivation for evil acts, no matter how heinous they seem on the surface.
It can also be due to not feeling guilt or remorse or having distorted thinking patterns that make you think you’re doing something right/just
AnnihilateTheWickedexactly, it’s scary to think that many evil people know full well what they’re doing, they just don’t care/feel bad about the consequences
Jung understood this.
Some people don't have the right stuff inside themselves to introspect on.
The term “Give a man enough rope and he’ll hang himself” is Louis’ interview style. He doesn’t accuse anyone of anything, he just gently prods with the right questions then sits back and lets them ruin their own reputations. Their egos are so big they can’t help but to fill the silence and end up making themselves look stupid. It’s a rare skill and he has perfected it. It happened in the Manosphere doco with the way the guys treated him on the first day vs the last day. He didn’t put words in their mouths or have to persuade you that their beliefs or actions were ridiculous, they did it to themselves and knew they messed up as soon as the words came out of their mouths. They became vulnerable and scared of this quiet natured man!
Louis Theroux is iconic and a genius of our time!
This.
And thank you, I'll have to look up the Manosphere video.
"The term “Give a man enough rope and he’ll hang himself” is Louis’ interview style." Yes. He does it almost as well as Werner Herzog.
Hahaha, that is exactly how I operate with people. Which also explains why I am single at 34. 😆
He's a one-sided bigot who never goes after the far left!
Netflix is woke garbage!
That's a great analysis. I watched Manosphere last night. What awful people, I was quite shocked. You are so right, they exposed themselves.
World’s most charismatic nerd
Sorry but Henry Cavill takes that title haha
If John Kiriakou and Where's Wally had a baby.
Hank Green
Anyone who has some intuition
No. Not even close. But a good documentarian.
He’s not a national treasure. He is an INTERNATIONAL treasure!
I’m baffled by the “awkward” comments. I find Theroux utterly self assured, without the borderline narcissistic bits that present in many self assured people. He has a calming effect. If people are referring to the strategic pauses then they’re not really understanding his genius.
He is articulate but people confuse that with awkward
You pseuds love this pseud huh
I mean, relating to your username, there are people who are adamant that Trump is charismatic, which is beyond absurd. It makes sense that such people would find someone who is actually charismatic to be 'awkward' in their eyes.
People mistake being the loudest in the room as charisma
I think he also does it deliberately to put people off balance
I like how you can tell that the production team love Louis by how responsive they are to him
@BromideBride "He's a bit like Hobnobs..." Never has an analogy made more sense to me.
I was surprised they didn't laugh more
He's so damn personable how could you not!
How has this guy never won a BAFTA? But he’s so humble, if he did one day win one, two or even three, he’s not the type of guy to mention it twice.
Dude he said in the video that he won 3 baftas 😂😂😂. And he said it multiple times.
@xirisx1988whoosh hehe
@xirisx1988 Take a day off Iris. Joke FLEW over your head.🤣
@markomahony1747 No, it just was so bad it didn't even look like a joke.
@markomahony1747are you the footballer?
I’m going to aim to be as comfortable in my skin as this guy clearly is.
Careful, you may end up publicly admitting to your weekends at brothels haha
Life goals 😄
"I was in a Maximum Security Hospital for Paedophiles - Making a documentary" - I love the way he points out exactly why he was in that institution
There was a funny moment in the manosphere one where HS friend had just started doing pred catching live and while hanging out with Louis on the street, some fan yelled across the street to ask if Louis was a pedo, hahaha
This guy is my guilty crush. Something about how eloquently and intelligently he speaks is so attractive to me! 😅
Same. I’ve always thought he’s hot as hell. Still do.
Nothing guilty about it. He's handsome, intelligent and kind-hearted. My crush for sure!
No guilt, here. Also big crush.
Ditto❤
A man who listens? yes please 😄
Legend. You can obviously tell Louis is a very empathetic guy, his ability to view his subjects as human beings first is why he's so good at it.
Indeed, and it's a necessary quality in this day and age when people are constantly dehumanising other people. It's at it's worst point when people are being bamboozled by the elite class into blaming migrants for everything. It's not that it's more dehumanising than other places, but more that the scale of it in 'normal' society is dangerous.
HAHAHA BOLLOX HAHAHA YEAH HE DIDN'T KNOW HAHAHA EMPATHY FROM A VIPER 😂
@OskinsBob lemme guess. Fan of the manosphere?
I completely agree. That's a mark of a great journalist.
"My money dont jiggle jiggle it folds"
As soon as I saw this I learned the dance…red red wine…
😂😂😂😂
"I'd like to see you wiggle wiggle. You know."
My money shines, it's not paper, or digital.
What a banger. Louis is the GOAT. He is the best at taking hard core shots at people but remaining so serious and nonchalant. It sends the subject into a tail spin. You can see their blood boil and he’s there just smiling away 😂
'Why am I all hemmed in and normal?' Louis just summarized my entire existential crisis in 8 words.
Feel lucky to be on that side of it 😂
Thankfully this is true for me too. Sometimes it's okay to have a relatively boring life and 'normal' is good.
"What are you on" 😅 yeah same
Right? That landed HARD. Ouch. Sometimes one doesn't want to feel so seen.
@loverlyme
I really do hope to have that be my existential issue one day.
2:49 "I spent 3 weeks in a brothel watching people COMING and GOING" looooooool
I know everyone says he’s awkward but he’s genuinely so charming and charismatic you can tell the people behind the camera where charmed
Agreed. If he was truly awkward, he wouldn’t disarm people so well.
He manages to stay so calm each time. Perfect person for the job. I couldn't do it.
Almost too passive for me
@beckyflower7297 I think that passivity allows the people he interviews to feel incredibly safe to say the wild things they do
@beckyflower7297 Too much late stage Ellen DeGeneres for me.
1:38 the way he has to specify it was for a documentary 😂
That really made me laugh, he just realised what he said and that it could be misinterpreted hahaha
‘Clip it chat’ 😂😂😂
I cackled
This made me laugh as well 😂. Then he does he again later when talking about the brothel.
@pdavda86😂 so good.
Ngl, on first hearing, I thought he spoke about the banana tree of evil and I thought “is that a saying?” And on second hearing, I heard he actually said banality of evil
Same lol
It's a famous quote from Hannah Arendt.
I thought he said banana TEA and I googled that!
"The Banana Tree Of Evil", R.L Stein really missed a trick on that one, I can just see the glossy slightly raised front cover now.
I absolutely CACKLED at this, like top of my lungs squak
2:39 "for a program" thanks for clarifying Louis 😅
13:00 Still going on in Syria. 16 Yazidi girls who refused to convert were burned alive in cages a few months ago. Didn't make mainstream news, of course
OMG that’s horrific I thought Syria was much safer now ?
@nikkimclay5474It's been spiralling in and out of civil war and unrest, definitely not safe.
Oh my goodness, that’s absolutely the most horrendous thing I’ve ever heard. Those poor girls, my God, those poor-poor girls.
I sometimes think of the 5000 people who went to see Jimmy Saville's coffin laying in "state" at the hotel in Leeds, the 1000 people that crammed into the cathedral to watch his funeral, and the countless people that lined the streets to watch the hearse who were chanting "JIMMY! JIMMY! JIMMY!". You won't find a single person who will admit that they were one of those people. I'm not saying they should have known but it is an extreme example of why you shouldn't have a parasocial relationship with a celebrity.
Peter Kay made a special celebrating Jimmy Saville.
I feel this way about the royal family. A lot of the UK genuinely view them as members of the of the family and become very defensive when you criticise them lol.
@MurronWright I feel like that’s only really the south of England, half of Northern Ireland, and rangers fans in Scotland. Nobody else really gives a fuck.
@GroßerBöserWolfyea the east of England doesn't really care. The Andrew formally known as prince had to be relocated when people learnt he was in the area lol
@CyanideSunshinesI see the south east of England as being the most English 😂, I didn’t know he was chased out. Inconvenient that Iran are bombing the gulf states where he could hide from extradition 😂
"A humble human with 3 Bafta's " 😂 love the Brits
I'm a massive fan, but Louis is aging into the perfect person to cast as Grunkle Stan in the live action remake of Gravity Falls.
oh my god you’re SO right 😭 give louis a fez and that’s literally grunkle stan irl!!
🤣🤣☠️
He seems more like Ford
Louis is aging into the male counterpart of Ellen DeGeneres.....strange....
Louis is definitely one of my favourite documentary makers.
Louis' curiosity has led us to meet some of the most unhinged people in the world. I love how he observes quietly, even when the people he's interviewing are mad at him!😂
I’ve followed this guy for years and I do find his general outlook on life and weird people quite refreshing. He’s is very awkward, but that’s part of his charm I think.
Think?? He's said himself it's a conscious choice and it's helped him. He's wonderful
He’s a national treasure
Did you just call Louis Theroux 'this guy'....
😂 I can see we had similar childhoods
@elliotw3904 go as far as to say a European treasure. A treasure for the whole western world
20:35 I could see Louis interviewing a squirrel now and i'd still watch it 😂
As someone that feeds them and build some little squirrel houses, I promise you they would carry the interview
I would watch it first probably 😅
Louis conducting a serious interview with an actual squirrel would probably be the most watched clip of that year.
We should make that happen😂
I love the crew chuckling in the background
Louis please do a doc on ICE in america
Louis please do not turn into Ellen DeGeneres twin brother.
The person who described Louis Theroux as awkward has it all backwards. I honestly think Louis is the least awkward human alive. He can go into any environment with any other person and put everyone at ease with him being there, such that they are happy to talk about anything with him. That universal ability to put other people at ease is the antithesis of “awkward”.
Thats exactly it.
4:29 I think he said "ebullient" (as in, more lively) and not "bullied" as the subtitles say
Right you are
Wonderful man who possesses what seems to be the world's most powerful patience and calm when dealing with others.
I fancy myself as somewhat an educated guy but damn Theroux is super smart, perfectly quoting Nietsche 1 second, talking about Aramaic the next, all with classicly English reserved charm lol
Louis "Do not interrupt your enemy when they are making a mistake" style interviewing in Manosphere was excellent, these folks just kept telling on themselves and I encourage everyone to watch it, and if you happen to have someone in your life who is like this, even more. Ask them "These are the people you look up to?"
I don't find him awkward, i've always just seen him as not bothering with all the fluff that most people do... he allows space for people to think and respond and he's also honest about what he's thinking/how he words his questions. I love it.
Louie knows what’s going on before he asks the question, whenever he interviews. It’s like he’s thinking 3 questions ahead of the person and they have no idea.
Just watched Inside the Manosphere. So excited to see Louis in action again. Excellent work Louis!
I just watched that today...most of the guys (for example HS) were EXACTLY what I expected, selfish, low intellect, toxic, zero self-awareness adult man babies. A few were older and not as toxic but theyre still grifters with a very toxic viewpoint.
@LowToleranceForDumbI hope he does one about woman and toxic feminity just for balance. I’m really disappointed and embarrassed how some woman are becoming so vicious and cruel towards men.
@vinyltap1 that's only happen toward horrible man... in 30 years I have never experienced toxic felinity anywhere toward me. It seems like a particular type of man problem.
@vinyltap1you have to stop listening to people who want to use you, like the misogynists whispering in your ear to rile you up
@wil@willywonka7812I have no misogynists whispering in my ear. I am an intelligent woman and I’m sick of the toxic females out there dragging the rest of us down. Louis does a great job but it was a predictable choice tackling men. I wonder if he’s brave enough to tackle woman. I doubt it.
love that he chose the Brothel doc immediately. Haley and Louis was some of the best romantic tension ever. She was so real.
I feel like the brothel is probably some of the most normal people he's interviewed. To them it's just a job.
Definite chemistry!
Such a wonderful man. Fascinating, attentive, present, honest, courageous, eloquent.
Deliberate front to let people underestimate him,make them feel superior
Loving the giggling in the background haha
??? A bunch of sychophantic teens giggling to engratiate themselves. You need to look in the mirror. Weirdo.
@justmyster1976 Ehh you ok bud
@justmyster1976 Please stop watching this video, it's clearly raising your blood pressure
My god, the way this guy speaks. It's like he knows what people can and will nitpick about what he says and makes a joke out of it. Brilliant.
I think I'm in love
I couldn't agree more about Carole Baskin. It really showed how everyday people can enjoy being utter monsters when they feel they have permission.
Too many people equate being charismatic/confident with being right.
Her husband was found alive btw!
@lollyjnXXNo he wasn't. That was debunked...he's still classified as missing
"when they feel they have permission" - this x 1000 as it relate to Jimmy Savile
This gentleman has the genius of coming across as not the sharpest knife in the box which makes those he interviews feel that they are so much cleverer that him.
This then allows him to ask what seem quite basic questions and the people just flow while he nods, this is very very clever.
A journalistic Miss Marple 😊 ! It's an Agatha Christie reference
I can't love this man more than I do! He's so naturally charismatic, charming, funny, interesting,modest, clever! Great guy ❤❤❤
i love Louis. Been watching him since i was about 14..... im 44 this year
Same here.
Same! Also 44 this year - welcome to "mid forties" 🥴
@davideaston8314 omg, i love it. ive not changed since i was 22 ha ha.
I'm 42 this year , been watching him since I was about 12.
You're not just a national treasure, Louis, but an international treasure! I've so enjoyed your gentle interviews of weird self-centred people, making them so comfortable that you give them enough rope to hang themselves. Thanks so much for your openness and honesty in this video, too!
NATIONAL TREASURE ..LIKE
YEAH ASK HIM TO FIX IT 4 U
Its so cute that you can tell everyone likes him
The staff were probably fighting over who got to be in the room for this
I think that's pretty much the response you would give to a national treasure. Confirmed!
"I was in max security mental hospital for pdf files... making a documentary" Glad he reassured everyone XD
The astonishingly visible and well-articulated crystal of reason and recognition in Louis's observation about being hemmed in but finding people's grotesque aberrations quite relatable speaks of someone who has a rare understanding of himself, and therefore the human animal.
Louis is one of the greatest interviewers of our generation. An absolute treasure.
He was pretty critical of yungblud to his face for pretending he was working class and having a fake Doncaster accent that his parents and sisters don’t have, the fact that he pretends to his fans he went through trauma when really he’s was a private school kid who’s parents sometimes argued, like 99% of peoples, while gaslighting fans who’ve been through horrific abuse and pretending he understands and has been through what they have. Louis called him right out for that. It was beautiful.
Truly a treasure.
What a GLORIOUS human being.
I knew he was going to say Savile
I re-watched the original When Louis Met Jimmy Savile right after the allegations came out, it was deeply unsettling seeing him act, well not normal, but not like a predator.
How could he not?
What people seem to forget is that he was good friends with Saville, even after the first allegation came out. He even stayed over at Saville's house.
@Ebenezer456 Yes,I googled it,that’s really weird.
same because I remember that interview. I disagree that he's the most famous pedophile maybe in the UK , but not in the US
As someone who's struggled with setting personal boundaries, I really appreciated and respected him throwing out the question about being awkward. That's what self respect looks like.
I would love to be as eloquent and charismatic as Louis. I could sit and listen to him talk to Adam Buxton and Joe Cornish all day long. Plus Jiggle Jiggle is iconic
Weird Weekends is iconic.
Like water dripping can fill a bucket, evil can slowly fill the mind.
Such as people being influenced over time by extreme social media content.
Why am I amm hemmed in and bored and you're out there with a cult living your best life 😂😂😂😂
It's not an insult to call him "awkward". Whether it's natural or just a style that helps him get the most sincerity out of life's "outsiders" it is part of who Louis is and is certainly not a put down. His quirkiness is what sets him apart from most mainstream journalists.
I watched him so much, when I was in journalism school. He is the perfect interviewer. he always finds a way to get people to open up.
The fact that Louis is fine with the manosphere morons laughing/bullying him just shows how secure and comfortable he is with himself. The manosphere bros would have a meltdown from being challenged even slightly on anything. Egos too big to survive.
I met him once while I was drunk at a local thai resturant decades ago and he was basically exactly like he was on TV.
Are you Lake Palmer ?
what if he was making a documentary about you?
Nate Bargatze has a bit about traveling to the past to blow people’s minds with technology and then realizing he doesn’t know how anything works, which is the path Louis was about to go down.
"A highly-esteemed three time BAFTA-winning normal person like you". Absolutely perfect.
Louis stealing a Nate Bargatze Joke at 22:35 was unexpected.
Evil is when a person thinks about what they're doing and the aim is to make a person suffer.
That’s malevolent. Evil implies a degree that’s exceptional.
@lindboknifeandtool True. Like Malice and spite. What would you describe as evil?
@stonehengemaca this is where it gets difficult: generally, the better you understand people based on an empathetic and full picture of their life circumstances, the more difficult it is to see them as evil. Or as any one thing, really.
Pedo's are evil and they all deserve a death sentence. They cannot be rehabilitated.
@kathrynturnbull990 I don't empathise with evil people. I can listen and understand what messed them up but I don't care. There is no excuse and most don't make excuses. They play victim. There are plenty sick people out there and I have no problem seeing them as evil. I guess a definition of "evil" we can all agree on would help.
Genuinely brilliant person
This guy is a natural talent. Raw, unpredictable, non judgmental, open minded and un afraid to push the boundaries of real life, good or bad.
I'm from Finland and just now found Louis! He is my new favorite person/celeb! What a funny and charismatic guy, and a family man. GOAT
Wonderful, articulate, intelligent communicator.
His money doesnt jiggle jiggle, it folds....
Guy is amazing. Doesnt really imply judgement or criticism to whatever he is doing the documentary on but rather is silent at the right time and asks just enough to make the person dig their own grave
He was pretty critical of yungblud for pretending he was working class and having a fake Doncaster accent that his parents and sisters don’t have, the fact that he pretends to his fans he went through trauma when really he’s was a private school kid who’s parents sometimes argued, while gaslighting fans who’ve been through horrific abuse and pretending he understands and has been through what they have. Louis called him right out for that. It was beautiful.
@GroßerBöserWolfwhat show was this ?
@ÁdhamhÓGríofa it's on iPlayer was relatively recent. He interviewed Anthony Joshua and Judy Dench and a few others too, I can’t remember the name.
the self awareness is on extreme levels
Loved the Megan Phelps Ted talk, she is clearly a very intelligent and compassionate person who I found to be very inspiring. Highly recommend to anyone who's not seen it yet!
Louis is genuinelly a national treasure, one of the best documentarians in the world and has helped a lot of us grow up and see thee world not with hate but with curiosity
Can't wait for the clips of Louis popping the paper thin skin of the manospheric facade. The show was as expected. Brilliant, revealing and a fearless exposure of his subject's questionable brainpower while showing the utmost respect for their humanity. Something the scared little boys in the 'Scamosphere' severely lack. 10/10.
Still remember watching a Place for Paedophiles - it was initially shocking at how they almost normalised the pathology within the place they were housed, but attempted to combat it and ensure their ‘safe’ release back into society. Just who did, and how they, deemed them ‘rehabilitated’ seemed so open to obvious coercion and gaming by what they invariably referred to as residents or patients. Some of them had done the worst things imaginable, often to their own families.
Incredibly interesting watch though and Louis handled it, as ever, perfectly.
That episode had me horrified and transfixed. He was stellar.
30yrs later and i'm still here.
He is one of the few people that could make an interesting conversation about anything. You could read names out of an old phone book and end up discussing the nature of existence itself. He has a way of speaking that is effortlessly eloquent yet so approachable.
What I have always loved about his documentaries was the moments of the protagonist certainty and then Louis looks them in the eye, holds them, the camera too, neither yield, but the truth shines. It’s a pretty amazing technique
I've never clicked on a video so fast. I grew up with Louis Theroux! I have fond memories of myself and my family. Falling around properly belly laughing at him on "Weird Weekends" when he donned an Alien Helmet, he had to kill them with his mind. Surrounded by 2 people wearing black sashes with Alien sew on badges. 1 for every 10 aliens killed or when he was at a wrestling match and here was this nerd fighting with these athletes. 😂
Then as I got older and watched his more "serious" programs. Peeking in to the lives of others that most people wouldn't dare. Like the patients with brain trauma.
I followed his podcast during Covid Lockdown... it helped me a lot.
I can say with confidence that I've watched his entire body of work. He's always been my favourite investigative journalist.
He's got something coming out on Netflix soon.
Thanks Ladbible for another great episode. I absolutely love this crossover. Fangirling so much.
I actually read the first bit and honestly thought you were his friend growing up.
@Toyrian1981 😂
It's out btw 😊
Never jumped in a video so quick 😂
Yes! We hope you love it!
I am American. Do not feel bad for saying we're f*cked. We know we're f*cked. Half of us are trying to un-f*ck us and the other half are trying to make it worse.
I'm American & approve this message.
74 MILLION Of us voted for the woman, only 3 million less than voted Maga, despite their claims of a landslide.
Try harder, we’re counting on you.
Dude you just hit the nail of the head. As a Brit it perplexes me that in a country with so much natural beauty there can be so many truly ugly and hateful people. Nice to make the acquaintance of an un-f**ker 👍👍
he's half American
Louis is one of the best documentarians of our generation
Love You Louis! Keep up the good work.
Absolutely love Louis and his documentary style. He’s a legend in his field & love how he investigates things/subjects.
I gotta say I do love Louis. He is a natural. Another great person to watch is John Saffron. He did a series with a non tamper priest from Sydney. Absolutely brilliant too❤
I would say global treasure
"behind the scenes in a brothel...watching people coming and going..." 🤣
Being bullied really is his superpower - most people would crumble where he just finds it interesting. It's why his shows are so fascinating and illuminating
Automatic upvote for Louis. One of the most addictive people to watch or all time. God love him.
Inside the Manosphere was so good (and awful, like an episode of black mirror)
Glad you love it! Hope you enjoy this honesty box! 🗳️
15 million merits
@MorpheusMindful🤓
Absolute legend! What a brilliant episode
We love Louis!
Inside the Manosphere is such a great documentary. It shows the true toxic community they've created and the many contradictions they place on themselves.