Comments on: Derren Brown Interview – The Times

By: amy

amy — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 10:43:24 +0000

His ”noddy thing”, I love that You are so so amazing Derren. You make my day, every day

By: JJ

JJ — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 20:56:44 +0000

Genuine, honest and somewhat touching. Thank you, Derren.

By: leah

leah — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 18:29:42 +0000

I’m always interested in what Derren is up to. He and I had some of the same training so watching what he’s doing with other people’s minds is always a great watch.

He’s quite naughty but really he is just showing us all how daft and easily lead we are much of the time and how hypnotic our experiences are.

It’s important to always remember that anyone who participates in his shows and allow him to hypnotise them, is aware unconsciously of who Derren is and that it is a show. We are certainly capable of being brain washed and easily influenced but those influences are usually only going to work if our morals and values are upheld.

By: Dean

Dean — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:48:56 +0000

Good article, thanks!

By: Vaughn Toulouse

Vaughn Toulouse — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 15:18:06 +0000

I thought Derren Brown was the epitomy of cool but “ironing your jeans” & then denying it , what were you thinking ?!!

By: alan

alan — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 13:34:38 +0000

“If I were him I would be a depressive cynic.”
If you were him, you’d probably realise that a pessimist is what an optimist calls a realist.

“a girl with Down’s syndrome came out and the audience were just booing”
Were they all sufferers of White Blackbird syndrome?

By: ron

ron — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 20:57:07 +0000

Derren Brown tells Stefanie March how he has always felt a bit different. He is not that different, just more known.

By: hiit

hiit — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 20:55:13 +0000

Derren is so funny sometimes:D

By: Mari Lorentzen

Mari Lorentzen — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:37:05 +0000

I personally don’t like these kind of interviews. I’m not really interested in the author’s opinions on Derren. A plain old Q&A type of interview has far more useful information (usually). How much ‘interview’ content is in this article? Very little.

By: Berber Anna

Berber Anna — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 12:31:42 +0000

James: True, but you’re now using the scientific definition of ‘experiment’, and as he has no intent to publish these experiments or obtain scientific results, we can deduce that these are not scientific experiments.

However, there is a more colloquial use of the word ‘experiment’. When I say ‘I’m going to experiment with using watch faces to make jewelry’, I don’t mean that I’ll write a research proposal and set up formulaic tests of the hypothesis that I can use these watch faces in the jewelry I make. I mean that I’m going to try this, and see what the result is.

The series is kind of in between the two definitions, I think. It’s not scientific experimentation, exactly, but it is based in the scientific method. ‘The Experiments’ covers what’s happening quite well, if you ask me.