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The most-watched clip from a cancelled 2000s TV show shows why Brits can’t believe it was ever allowed to air
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The most-watched clip from a cancelled 2000s TV show shows why Brits can’t believe it was ever allowed to air

If you were conscious and near a television in the 2000s, there is a good chance that you Balls made of steela controversial prank show that has some people wondering how it was even allowed.

To be fair, Balls made of steelit was the kind of show that was on television very late at night and made no secret of what kind of show it was.

It was not the kind of show you would accidentally switch on while zapping, after Coronation Street was finished.

The show featured a roster of comedians and pranksters who played pranks on unsuspecting audiences, but it later became clear that the people they were bullying had, in many cases, been set up by their friends.

If you want to see the show again, you can watch it in full on Channel 4’s streaming platform All4.

We did this for fun in the 2000s: we watched a man throw burgers at people. (Channel 4)

We did this for fun in the 2000s: we watched a man throw burgers at people. (Channel 4)

While my personal favorite was “The Annoying Devil,” the most popular clips from the show on YouTube come from “Neg’s Urban Sports,” where comedian Neg Dupree comes up with a series of games to play with viewers.

To reiterate my personal favorite, I have always been a fan of his “knock and don’t run” game, which is pretty self-explanatory.

The most popular YouTube clip is “Burger Bowl Off,” which is basically just throwing fast food from a car onto people’s heads.

What follows is a series of incidents where Neg does just that, and people react pretty much the way you’d expect if a stranger threw a burger at their head.

I don’t know how much has changed in the world of television since the 2000s, but a show where a guy throws fast food at people in public would be a weird pitch these days.

It was a different time back then, there were shows like You are what you eat where a woman examines people’s feces and gives them nutritional advice based on that.

There was Fat families where Stephen Miller would come out with introductions like this: “They spend too much time sitting on their fat butts, that’s their problem, plain and simple.”

“If they don’t get their chubby fingers out, they’ll go to an early grave.”

Balls made of steel caused quite a bit of controversy itself when Tom Cruise called the people behind the show “idiots” after they splashed water on him on the red carpet, and when they did the same to Sharon Osbourne, who dumped a bucket of water on someone’s camera.

As you can imagine, OFCOM received quite a few complaints about the show at the time and Balls made of steel had to clarify a few things, such as emphasizing that the annoying devil hadn’t thrown actual vomit at people.

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