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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    3 days ago

    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.

  • Walk_blesseD@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4 days ago

    Jimmy Carr hosting ‘Am I The A**hole?’ gameshow based on famous subreddit

    Dunno why he needs a show to find out. The answer is yes.

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    4 days ago

    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.

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      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