You can sorta tell that Qi and the whole British TV-Show standup circuit has molded him.

I found this one a little off the mark. The best way to write an American tv show is, of course, to write a British tv show and wait for American networks to rip it off for their own version.

>> ^dannym3141:

Westy i now see your point and understand where you're coming from. I think this is just good to show how something can change from very small changes over a very long period or something, not really evolution explained or anything.
But hey, i get a twinge of pride for this being a national british tv show educating about evolution to kids


true its good to have general education on tv but it should be allot better , as a kid i would watch open university and other stuff and it was allot more informative than allot of the shows on tv now.

still do get some good ones on tv now , but i think the internet is replacing tv annyway im sure non retarded kids with an intrest in science now would just go strate online.

Westy i now see your point and understand where you're coming from. I think this is just good to show how something can change from very small changes over a very long period or something, not really evolution explained or anything.

But hey, i get a twinge of pride for this being a national british tv show educating about evolution to kids

FYI: This is British TV show, Banzai. It is a tongue in cheek 'interpretation' of Japanese television. Wiki says that Fox picked it up but dropped it again after complaints it was racist.

>> ^Yogi:
Well there's another British TV show I now have to watch, thank you sift.


This is a very poor british comedy show compared to our good ones. Man, you'd love some of the really good stuff. This scene didn't even make me laugh!

Well there's another British TV show I now have to watch, thank you sift.

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>> ^RhesusMonk:
>> ^SaNdMaN:
But how can he be so confident that this would work? It seems like one of those things that would not work on everyone. What if he does the trick and it fails on live TV?

This is called Neurolinguistc Programming (NLP) and is based strongly in Gestalt psychology and a huge amount of statistical data produced in the 1970s and 80s concerning how human brains associate speech, concepts and sensations and what the testable results of those associations are. The actual origin of the phenomenon/heuristic is fascinating (literally a combination of psychology and math), and is a must-read for people interested in how humans influence and are influenced. For a long time it was used as a kind of quick-fix psychotherapy a la behavioral modification in clinical settings (patients would be imparted with associations of sensation and cognition without conscious awareness in order to relieve symptoms). These days, it's used in board rooms and at card tables as well. Not all of it works all the time, but unless you're performing tricks for an audience, no one is even going to know you're trying, so failure looks the same as doing nothing at all. Derren Brown is not just a practitioner of this art, he is a major contributing pioneer; he is, as he mentioned, aware of the risks of failure, and he has even stated that this awareness, imparted to his subjects, is immensely influential in getting the tricks to succeed.


I'm aware that it's NPL, but NPL doesn't work with everyone, just like hypnosis doesn't work with everyone. Yet he supposedly uses this technique in situations where he can't afford for it not to work. That's why I think he's using some other trick and just says that it's NLP.

>> ^SaNdMaN:
But how can he be so confident that this would work? It seems like one of those things that would not work on everyone. What if he does the trick and it fails on live TV?


This is called Neurolinguistc Programming (NLP) and is based strongly in Gestalt psychology and a huge amount of statistical data produced in the 1970s and 80s concerning how human brains associate speech, concepts and sensations and what the testable results of those associations are. The actual origin of the phenomenon/heuristic is fascinating (literally a combination of psychology and math), and is a must-read for people interested in how humans influence and are influenced. For a long time it was used as a kind of quick-fix psychotherapy a la behavioral modification in clinical settings (patients would be imparted with associations of sensation and cognition without conscious awareness in order to relieve symptoms). These days, it's used in board rooms and at card tables as well. Not all of it works all the time, but unless you're performing tricks for an audience, no one is even going to know you're trying, so failure looks the same as doing nothing at all. Derren Brown is not just a practitioner of this art, he is a major contributing pioneer; he is, as he mentioned, aware of the risks of failure, and he has even stated that this awareness, imparted to his subjects, is immensely influential in getting the tricks to succeed.

I agree with both of you. The only other thing I noticed was he said the words send, screen, psychic, shout, and shouting a few times each (maybe not on "psychic"). However, I didn't notice it until the second time through when I was only listening for words similar to "boot", "shoe", "foot" or "leg".

>> ^Haldaug:
Derren is looking down all the time, I imagine he's looking at their shoes. He is also talking about sitting and the ground all the time.

>> ^handmethekeysyou:
I caught "Can you both look, (foot), just take your hand down..." at 5:17. Anyone else catch anything? Also his hand gestures, starting around 5:30 and ending when he has Richard settle on something, imply an object around the size of a shoe (as opposed to a large landscape or room or building or person, etc.)

Okay what's wrong with people? This is one of the funniest British TV shows.

Philistines.