Derren Brown is a tramp
In ‘How To Control The Nation’ Derren will explore subliminal messaging techniques, concluding with an attempt to literally stick the viewers at home to their sofas. Derren says:
“The second show is a piece of media which will be played to the viewing nation that will have the effect of rendering them immobile. Not all of them, but it will basically stick a lot of people to their seats. It’s safe, it won’t work on everybody, but it’s applying what I do one on one with people on stage and turning it into a piece of technology that can then be broadcast – and it has never been done before.”
“I think there’l be quite a wide range of responses. I’m sort of experimenting with mass influence and suggestion in the current live show that I’m doing, and this idea came from that work. It’s perfectly safe, though. People will be able to call into the show – we’ll be telling people to keep their phones within reach – and I’ll be talking to some of those people during the show, so I’ll be able to find out how viewers have reacted.”
“If viewers TVs happened to break, or I died suddenly, after a few minutes people would be able to stand up again.”
hey derren is this some sort of plain because the people at channel 4 wouldnt let you buy a ticket, so you can stick people to their sofas so you can go and rob them disguised as a tramp while the nation struggles to get up……… if this is true can i get half lol 😀
Hmm, so if I watch this in bed, I could end up stuck there all weekend?? Hmm, sounds good to me! 😉
LC x
Derren’s a TILF 😮
Ah does anyone recall the film The Fisher King because Derren you are the spitting image now. However i’m afriad i cannot spare you any change and no jedi mind tricks will make me give you my Wispa Gold either ha ha ha ha.
His eyes are a dead giveaway despite the outfit.
I LOVE The Fisher King… Oh I might start crying… Awww… So many misfits, so little time…
I love the giant false nose they’ve fitted to him.
Oh, hang on…
Paul B xx
Love the update at the top of the page 🙂
Hmm, I look a bit like the tramp pic right now, I wonder if I have a shave and cut my hair, will I look as good as Derren? Seems unlikely, I use the beard and hair to cover my GIANT ears and chin!
That’s not the work of Phillis and Abeo .. they just beamed me what he would have looked like by then …. def. not like this.
Cool .. this transormation .. I indeed noticed this in the introduction movie .. Playing another character can be quite nice I think … He .. erm .. Brown looks more straight now? At least in those two pictures … What,? It’s jus tme getting a different response inside when watching those two pics ….
Too bad we can’t see it .. the shows .. there’s nothing of interest going on on tv here ..
He still looks cool, even as a tramp!
@Joeson – aw… Well, maybe keep the hair…
I wish I had a scarf and a leather jacket and a warm fuzzy hat. Derren Brown gets all the luck.
Second photo would’ve been much better if Derren was pulling the scary hobo growling face at the camera…or shaking his fist at some crazy drunk drivers.
Ehm… I do own (and occasionally wear) the black (H&M! 🙂 ) sweater that “Derren-Tramp” is wearing.
… off to pop it in the bin…
It’s not the disguise, it’s the accent I can’t wait for. I do hope he gives us a chorus or two of ‘I Don’t Like Mondays’…! 😉
Fagin!
I noticed it on last weeks show and again now, Derren is looking tired. A long holiday is in order me thinks.
I really liked Derren’s tramp voice! He should keep it up…
Well I wasn’t glued.
Dissapointed!
Ah, so you finally took that mask off ;P
Oh.. I’m just depressed that I can’t look half as good even without trying to be a tramp :'(
Did you give the guy his shoes back?
Nice accent, by the way. The sense of “hello, I’m a charming vagrant with a heart of gold who maybe plays the harmonica when drunk” was really very apparent.
Well it did me and i was not expecting it… i badly needed the toilet and actualy wet myself because i was so relaxed and couldnt stand up
The tramp scene was done in Watford Harlaquin lol brilliant i live right next to there
When i say this i was amazed at the amount of money people where just willing to give away. sure im all for charity but just to give a handfull of cash ( or a pair of shoes ) to , lets be honest, a random stranger is mind boggling.
But all in all, amazing…
Stuck to chair yeah yeah ok whatever, do u really expect us to believe someone gave up their shoes due to subliminal messages……..u just jumped the shark methinks
Yeah, I too was glued to the sofa. So much so I was actually asleep. I have no recall of being asleep. I just was – oh and the TV was off as well when I woke up.
Weird, huh?
nice to know Derren looks like the rest of us on his days off, mind you I bet his scarf has his full name emboridered on it in pink silk and he still has cufflinks on 😉
still got cheek bones like hes been sucking nuts!
LOL! On a serious note though, I watched this part of the program with my jaw on the floor. INCREDIBLY powerful suggestion. Indescribably brilliant. I can’t get over the extent to which you essentially changed their personalities (let’s face it, tramps don’t usually get a lot of money without the guilt trip treatment) simply by introducing them to symbols of generosity. Icredible to behold. You derserve hearty congratulations on your latest work, and I can’t wait for next week!
And no, unfortunately i didn’t stick… 🙁 bad times
I still think I would’ve recognised you 😛 x
So now, on top of everything else, Derren Brown is also a rather good actor. What CAN’T he do???
You look like Matt Alwright off BBC Rogue Traders
You really cant take the piss out of him because he really is very good, just because his tricks seem to be set up sometimes doesnt mean he isnt amazing.
@ James FINALLY, someone who gets it! I’m fed up of all these people saying Derren’s ‘fake’. Um, isn’t that kind of the point? He’s an ILLUSIONIST; and a very good one!
I have to say that although i like Derren Brown and the show i was a bit put-off with the money stunt. I want to know if there were suggestions to only give away what they could. I mean, basically what you did was con people out of a lot of money and then give it to charity. It’s stealing, plain and simple and at no point in the segment did i see you mention anything but “give massive amounts” (and shoes)… nothing about “give what you can afford to”.
Imagine if someone you know (who was susceptible to this stuff) was out that day and buying something for a loved one and had gotten a large sum of money out of the bank to buy it only to give it away and then not have the money to buy that thing? Sure, we don’t need all this materialistic crap but shouldn’t it be an unaffected decision?
Im sure I saw Derren dressed as a tramp when I was working in the Harlequin. Could have just been a regular tramp, it’s been a while