He even poured a glass of water for the host. What a great guy.

I'm really glad that Derren accepted this invitation and spent the time doing this interview. This was well worth watching and it was very rewarding to hear Derren talk about his work and his experiences from a more personal angle. I've been a fan of his work for years, watching from the states, but I also respect and admire him as a person.

I've always been fascinated by Derren's work and his genuine interest in the mechanics of the human mind. It's always great to hear him talk at length about what he does. The girl who interviewed him wasn't great though. At times she didn't sound all that interested and I lost count of how many times she said, "You know."

Definitely one of my fantasy dinner guests. This has just reminded why.

What a great human being.

His art, actual caricature depictions, is beyond amazing. Truly genius work.

Derren isn't just an illusionist. He's a living legend.

Re: the 4 foot wall. 'My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun.' I think Derren Brown may have subconsciously absorbed Sting's liner note for the song Sister Moon, on the album 'Nothing Like the Sun., 1987, (when Derren was 16 years old). The lyrics are named after Shakespeare's Sonnet 130. When accosted by a drunk man while out walking at night, Sting quoted it to bamboozle and disempower him. It worked. Interesting that Derren said you could also use a song lyric.

He's so interesting. I could listen to him speak for hours

Derren is truly a magnificent human being! Thank you, sir, for your work!

Derren is an introvert, so he was just getting warmed up by the time it ended. 😭😃

Always entertaining and thought provoking stripped down and talking honestly to an audience. But at the same time knowing that derren has Jedi powers!

A writer kept a lucky charm on his wall and when asked if he really believed it brought him good luck he said, of course not - but its said to bring you luck even if you don't believe in it

awesome genuine person with morals and class

i like that Derren isnt overly confident considering his knowledge, his hands near his mouth an not looking directly really shows how shy he is

Great showman

Love Derren Brown!

If there's an antonym to 'psychopathic', this man is it. Omnipathic? Respect and awe.

'You're a mentalist'! Not my words, but the words of Alan Partridge.

Am I The only one that can't stop seeing Justin Timberlake it's uncanny! It is like morphing

Hahahahan this is his greatest show yet. He just took you all along for a ride.

Who we are is context-specific and fluid. While we are individuals, but we are also part of a larger organism. Empathy and projection is how we connect to each other and function collectively when we have to. Yet in modern society we fool ourselves into believing the narrative of being “rugged individualists.”

He's a fascinating guy.

Very enjoyable and illuminating discussion. I was particularly blown away by Derren's teaching on the emotional states that produce increasing motivation: gratitude, compassion and (healthy) pride. Since midlife (I'm now 59) I have been on a path to deeper self discovery which allowed me to let go of many aspects of my ego patterns. As a result I have cultivated more gratitude and healthy compassion (I used to try and fix people emotionally) but recently I realised an area for growth is related to how I downplay my own skills and abilities. I now realise am low in healthy pride and so this insight is gold for me, thank you Derren. My self awareness journey morphed into a discovery of my spiritual self and as such, I view gratitude, compassion and pride as some of our highest emotional states of being (non ego self). I often feel the urge to share some of what I've learned with others but haven't done that thus far, so, without expectation of outcome :) I'm going to purposefully practice these three states each morning before I start the day. Maybe, some action will spring forth, maybe not. Being motivated to take action has felt like my biggest difficulty, although it's also possible this idea may simply be a narrative I need to let go of. We'll see!

Derren lastest show is great and if you watch it then you will have too enjoy the show !!!!!!!!!

As a performer, magician and mind-reader you are and will always be an inspiration for me.

I believe what Mr. Brown means by being drawn to people who are susceptible to hypnosis is because they tend to be vulnerable or have the ability to be vulnerable. Jazz is like that. You can study the rudiments,notes,techniques, but in order to have musical intercourse you have to allow vulnerability. It's the secret to life to creativeness. The fear of it can stifle growth, create arrogance and limit humility (humble is the ability to give power,to realize your limits). Give and take,press and let go. A good melody is rarely forced but allowed. Easier said than done. With that I humbly wish you all peace-love

love youuuuuuuu

Very good sort of video

Thank you Derren... You're every bit a mystery as Houdini... you'll still be fooling everyone in the most gentle of ways long after you're done... brilliant sir!!

You know. You know. You know. You know. You know. You know.

He said a few things that were funny in the first 15 mins, but the interviewer just nodded and smiled, and there was nothing. Another interviewer could have responded with a big laugh and "hypnotised" the audience into laughing too.

7:14 Fun fact - you can see Derren eminate his trademark micronod towards the presenter in which she instantly responds by nodding back :-j

Fascinating 💤 💤 💤 💤 💤 💤

Cambridge Union going heavy on the youtube adds!

Nice to see Eric Idle interviewing Derren Brown.

What a legend!

I do hypnosis on people for healing, also family beliefs mostly to delete negative but I become the negativity and go full into motion enhancing it in silence without talking. Some things you cannot change, it only happens through people's consciousness and willingness. Could never understand why do it for shows, but hey! It's to enjoy not understand. Another wonderful guest, thank you. It's very important to study hypnosis how words work with the minds and what's read in the air.

Wow. First Jordan Peterson, now Derren Brown. Cant get any better than that.

The willing suspension of disbelief... In short, faith manifesting

Would love Derren to sit with me for 2 hours and sort out my mindset!

What a class act of a guy.

And there you are - the strange hooded man from the cave below Clifton suspension bridge

Does anyone know who asked the question around 1hr 3mins regarding self-help, Happy and the support group they set up? I'd like to get in touch with him for research purposes. Many thanks.

@DerrenBrown I am Laughing out Loud literally, because until this show I have sent all my messages to an @DarrenBrown on your KZfaq shows I've been watching... sadly it took me watching the Cambridge Union interview directly following you saying on one of your shows about covering your watch and tell me if it has a second-hand, and what time did it say

I agree, and i love derren brown.. but i was only 20 when i found out about this philosophy and i must say Derren that you should end your thought journey there. Listen to alan watts and go deeper down the rabbit hole

Hello I t have you tried creating an environment of suggestibility

I’m definitely hypnotised by… you know… um… sort of… you know… kind of a sort of… um… you know… sort of… you know… ummm… sort of… … … an incredibly distracting speech 😴 … … I suppose…

They’re supposed to be our brightest minds, but don’t think to turn their chairs round?

Why would they select a person that whistle when she talk to do interviews on camera?

Anyone else inadvertently find themselves getting tired at 38:45?

sort of…you know

Haha stage actress Miriam Margolyes eats a raw onion everyday - she did it on a TV program 🤣

The interviewer here is just so a loves ...

Why is the word happy so seemingly ubiquitous? It is as if "The Happiness Trap" by Russ Harris has never been written. ACT as a now major therapeutic approach has a very different perspective on some of these issues. No 1 is that we have much less control over our thoughts and feelings, than our physical actions and words, written or spoken. Also Stoicism on the surface can appear rationally strong, but experientially false for higher hanging "emotional fruits". Hence the growth of more Buddhist influences on 3rd wave CBT approaches.

Are we to thank the exit of the court fool VC for this type of content?

How many times does she have to say 'UM' ?

i wish she would have put more effort into thinking of her questions - they do not advance the agenda of mentalism amongst the common people much at all...which is what we're all really after.

Ahh.. nice little surprise youtube nugget☺️

I would have liked to ask if the people in his life can lie to him or if he’d always catch them out

I remember, about 40 years ago or something, and it's amazing because I can't remember what I had for breakfast, learning something. At school I had to do one of those things where there's a story and you have a multichoice thing at the end to see if you paid attention. Anyhow. Harry Houdini understood something really important. If you just pay people to lie/act then people won't want such a mundane explanation and will invent their own more fascinating events. Derren is a very smart guy, he just does the same thing. It's entirely fiction - but people just won't have it! There's a great lesson for authoritarian politicians here, as if they don't already know. PASS THE BURDEN OF DEFENSE ONTO THE VIEWER !

Empathy.

the host says 'you know' too much for my liking...

the interviewer says "you know" a lot

Ok I’m supposed to challenge the argument but not the person. Fair enough. However… I found it a rather sad set up. Deren was wonderful in the way that he took all the questions seriously and engaged with and provided honest and well thought through answers. What made more impressive was that the interviewer didn’t seem to have bothered to begin by engaging with him on a human level. She launched straight into the important questions she had planned, in a rather intellectual way. Slowly though she appeared to be enjoying the conversation and had forgotten her agenda

Very impressed with the interviewer

He's basically explaining Eckhart tolles teachings

I mean, erm!

Did the interviewer wear a blue polka dot dress as a reference to the assassination of Stephen Fry?

Fun fact: Former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott once famously (and unprovoked) ate a raw onion as if it was an apple. Was Tony placed under hypnosis by Derren?

I expect that was he says about compliance will completely pass the Covidian collaborators by, similarly mass hypnosis

um um um

Where are the audience's masks?!

I wasn’t impressed with the interviewer. She didn’t appear to do much research on Daren but thanks to Daren he pulled it off well. I’ve seen every show of Darens on KZfaq some 2 or 3 times over and think he is the best performer l have ever seen . I’m in my 70s so have seen many.

Derren was surprisingly incoherent in this interview

Both of them keep on saying "sort of". It's doing my head in. Whose mirroring who?

He absolutely does use stooges. Look at the video of him trying to get someone to turn around from a distance... the woman that does is interviewed after, and is clearly an actress. Most people grin when a camera is pointed in their faces, she didn't even smile, just kind of scowled, she was acting.

I am an ardent Derren Brown fan, of his books and stage shows etc. However, this was boring. Mainly because of the banal questions from the interviewer and the audience, but also because I don't think the interview situation is his medium. I switched off half way through.

rotflol @ 'sbould've been beaten up a lot earlier'! Empowering self/abnegation/denigration in the moment. The perfect WobblyMan

tricky upbringing.... jajajaj

This didn't really do or give anything to anyone already having insight in the matter discussed. DB is a showman following same scripts as the targets and the audience - lest we forget - however fluently he seems to be doing the edited nonsense debunking on the side; this being obvious as the simplest encore questions seem to put him on the spot making him uneasy or frankly unable to produce coherent and fluid answers. The skillset he shows doesn't necessarily demand for any deeper understanding or knowledge regarding the human mind, just a baseline to follow when emphasizing the use of a sound epistemology while opening up the dubious truthclaim that's being processed. Rationality isn't rocket science.

Not bad but what a waste of an interviewer, clearly doesn't actually have an interest in Derren or what he does, asking long, incomprehensible questions and unable to speak properly without 'like' 'sort of' 'you know' 'and'. How she gets a position like this is beyond me.

This should have been a lot less boring. Or should it? ;)

HE NEEDS A NEW ACT

39:33 covid mass hypnosis 101

Get a better interviewer.

A very poor interview.

I love Derren, but let's entertain the following thought: what is more likely, that Derren really can hypnotise people into perceiving he is invisible, or that he simply bribes those same people to act as such and his outward disdain for stooges and frauds is just part of a long and consistent con to convince us that he is, in fact, the real deal?

I am seeing so much injection damage, its horid

She is dreadful! Er um like ya know kinda sort of...all read from a list, no engagement, no interaction, wooden dull rambling.

Trying to hypnotise someone to push another human being off some height??? Really? How ethical is that?? Just reading a book on demons - is this a coincidence? - and I can smell a demon lurking around this man. Irrespective of how entertaining he might be.....

This conversation made no sense whatsoever, all I saw was a gay man wrestle with his sexually and a young uni student get quite flustered by this older, dapper gentleman. 😂 Derrens perspective on the human psychi is fascinating but this was more of a lesson on animal attraction than hypnosis. Im sure they were both thinking about each other quite intensively that night. Isn't the imagination wonderful. 😅

'Left behind the Superstitious World'...Most deluded Idiots have yes... Theology is the highest Science. “Does it never strike you that doubt can be a madness, as well as faith? That asking questions may be a disease, as well as proclaiming doctrines? You talk of religious mania! Is there no such thing as irreligious mania?” ― G.K. Chesterton, Magic: A Fantastic Comedy In a Prelude and Three Acts “Fairy tales are the only democratic institutions. All the classes have heard all the fairy tales.” ― G K Chesterton, Magic “There is no bigot like the atheist.” ― G.K. Chesterton, Magic: A Fantastic Comedy In a Prelude and Three Acts

All white audience Except the one black guy stuck up next to Darren 🙄

1:06:19 - Almost 100% white apart from the dude alone at the back and the mic dude at 24:32

just me or does he look ill

This guy does not know the first thing about hypnosis. Stage hypnotists do a great deal of damage to a legitimate modality of healing. Get a real reasercher on this subject and not a charlatan.

is the interviewer transgender? If so it makes the questions/answers even more interesting from that point of view

Brown and cream makes for such a boring video background... no wonder the oxford union is so much better they actually think about that kind of stuff.

Wow. You have the cheek to claim using stooges is "artistically repugnant" when you used cheap camera tricks to "predict" the lottery. You're an amazing showman, Derren. But you debase yourself at times. Please don't try to take the high ground.