The notorious “Am I The Asshole?” subreddit is being turned into a gameshow for Comedy Central UK hosted by LOL: Last One Laughing UK’s Jimmy Carr. Jimmy Carr’s Am I The Asshole? will invite members of the public to come before the host and a panel of two other comedians to ask controversial questions. These questions will cover everything from jaw-dropping relationship disputes to the pettiest of family squabbles and stories of behaviors that are guaranteed to split opinion. The “Am I The Asshole?” sub-reddit is famous worldwide and uses the acronym AITA. The BBC mined Reddit in the past for its hit comedy Am I Being Unreasonable?, which is also a famous subreddit. Jimmy Carr’s Am I The Asshole? is being produced by STV Studios-owned Tuesday’s Child. The series will be filmed in late spring and is due to air later this year on Comedy Central UK. Carr said: “There are an impressive number of assholes in our country and they’re finally getting the recognition they deserve on national television.”
Note: because of markdown formatting I have had to change "a**hole" to 'asshole". While it should obviously be "arsehole", it isn't actually clear what the series will be called, it might actually be using the bowdlerised version in the title.
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Walk_blesseD@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 11 pts · 1y
Dunno why he needs a show to find out. The answer is yes.
Aggravationstation@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 1y
It is his job though
tetris11@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 1y
I forget what he did other than the taxes thing
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 1y
He just hosts stuff these days. He's not terrible but I don't know what he really brings.
tetris11@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 1y
Sleek yet greasy salesman vibes?
Walk_blesseD@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 1y
Yeah that's pretty much it tbh. Yeah he's funny, but I just think he gives off arsehole vibes tbh.
Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 1y
That's his whole thing in comedy iirc but yeah I have a hard time believing he's not drawing from his actual personality for some reason
tetris11@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 1y
completely agree
GiveOver@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 1y
My wife once posted a story about me to AITA and it was absolutely insane the answers she got. I'm not exaggerating when I say 95% of the people who heard the story IRL were on my side, but 95% of the people on Reddit were against me. Wife wasn't even that mad, she finds the story funny now and we laugh about how intensely that thread was against me. It's a fun drunken activity with friends to revisit the thread and read out the answers. Diagnosing me with mental issues and making bizarre accusations out of nowhere. Ridiculous subreddit.
palarith@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 1y
That sub was made up slop even before ai. I imagine it would be worse now
OrlandoDoom@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 1y
Hey, these YouTube and Facebook videos are doing quite well let's copy them!
ladel@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 1y
You can write a**hole using backslash escapes before *.
The aita sub was rarely funny, so it will be interesting to see how they make it a comedy gameshow.
smeg@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 1y
Some of my not-that-internetty friends seem to have discovered Reddit recently (I know) and cite Am I The Asshole? as a particular highlight, so I guess it's recently received a lot of mainstream attention