Louis Theroux

[Cowabungaa]

The act that he puts on, that of a bumbling, naive Englishman, is surprisingly effective at getting people to open up. His choice of topics tends to be fascinating as well.

Bang. Right on the nose.

He's talented at what he does, no doubt.

Indeed, that's an amazing journalistic technique, to act like you're ignorant. We learned about that in school.

My favourites been the hunting one he did last year. There are some really scary South Africans.

Seen that one as well, but I didn't find those SA's as scary as the one's from his Boer documentary. I found the one's from that hunting docu very clever, and also kinda tragic, that they have to let people hunt for sport or else all the wildlife there will be whiped out because it doesn't earn anyone any money. It's a sad state of affairs.

 

[sneak_copter]

I've heard of him but never seen anything he's done.

I just now watched some short clips on YouTube and the clips were OK.

 

[H.R.Shovenstuff]

I fucking love Louis Theroux, he's got to be my number one reporter/ journalist / documentary maker.

 

[Jamous]

He's awesome.

The act that he puts on, that of a bumbling, naive Englishman, is surprisingly effective at getting people to open up. His choice of topics tends to be fascinating as well.

Bang. Right on the nose.

He's talented at what he does, no doubt.

Too true.

 

[BlueMartian]

yeah, i saw his documentary on the nazi's (skinheads) still active in america. he shat himself when they found out he was jewish

I don't think that's really what happened. He's not jewish, but he purposely decided to not tell the guy whether or not he was, to make him feel uneasy and to see his reaction.

Oh yeah, thats what happened. it was ages ago when i watched that, soooo funny. Someone mentioned the one where he spent a week with the baptist church family, that is the best one (IMO)

 

[The Infamous Scamola]

Someone mentioned the one where he spent a week with the baptist church family, that is the best one (IMO)

True, that's gotta be my favourite one.

 

[Gooble]

He is seriously awesome. Did some pretty risky things in the one he did on crime in Johannesburg.

 

[Dudemeister]

Yeah I see his show somewhere on freeview sometimes; E4 I think?

He's usually on BBC2 or Dave.

 

[Unknower]

I haven't seen any of his own documentaries, but he was funny in TV Nation.

 

[More Fun To Compute]

I like him. If you like his documentaries then you should also look up Jon Ronson as he is similar.

 

[matnatz]

I've been watching him since he first appeared in the 90's, I really like his documentaries. I try and catch everything he does, I especially liked it when he visited Johannesburg.