charlie brooker

from this to "You Have Been Watching"

tragic..

he's gotta pay the bills somehow ya cynical fuck, let him have a shit show (not counting nathan barley) for once.

its weird, normally when i see the hosts for those shitty panel shows, i think "yeah well i can see why they do it, the money must be good, and they're not really talented enough to do anything else"

but charlie is talented enough to do something else. so the money must be DAMN good. weird to see him hosting a show like this instead of taking the piss out of it

I quite liked You Have Been Watching

i like those clips, what's the best example of his work, or.. best place to start?

  On 12/19/2010 at 4:11 PM, Funktion said:

he's gotta pay the bills somehow ya cynical fuck, let him have a shit show (not counting nathan barley) for once.

i know. i'm not trying to criticise him or be cynical.

just a shame that that's the kind of show he has to do to pay his bills.

YHBW is no where near as good as screenwipe was/is but it was still funny.

He has a new show coming out next year where he interviews "normal" people and picks apart everything about them in their mundane life.

  On 12/19/2010 at 4:31 PM, Adjective said:

i like those clips, what's the best example of his work, or.. best place to start?

Probably the various 'wipe series. He came to prominence through tvgohome, which was a satirical tv listings website. Cunt, a regular feature of tvgohome, then formed the basis of Nathan Barley, which he wrote in conjunction with Chris Morris. It's an acquired taste (I like it) but worth tracking down. He writes for the Guardian a lot also.

  On 12/19/2010 at 5:50 PM, kakapo said:

  On 12/19/2010 at 4:31 PM, Adjective said:

i like those clips, what's the best example of his work, or.. best place to start?

 

Probably the various 'wipe series. He came to prominence through tvgohome, which was a satirical tv listings website. Cunt, a regular feature of tvgohome, then formed the basis of Nathan Barley, which he wrote in conjunction with Chris Morris. It's an acquired taste (I like it) but worth tracking down. He writes for the Guardian a lot also.

great! thanks. and yes i think i've read a guardian article by him around the time of the phantom ground zero mosque

charlie brooker is funny as fuck.

screenwipe is compulsory viewing.

should also check out 'dead set'??.. i think it was called that anyway, ch4 zombie apocalypse/big brother mashup. written by cb.

tight stuff.

and hats off to davina for being a zombie.

his column in the guardian was good too. he stopped doing it recently, but you can still view the xrchive online.

I didn't rate Dead Set.

There is an old pre-Screenwipe thing called How To Watch Television which is worth finding, I only discovered it recently

loving screenwipe so far, thanks for recommendations(, yo!)

Presume marriage will have to mellow him, because from now on every time he has a go at bland vacuous shite on telly you think 'and your wife is the very epitome of it'.

  On 12/19/2010 at 4:17 PM, Coalbucket PI said:

I quite liked You Have Been Watching

  On 12/20/2010 at 12:28 AM, Conor74 said:

Presume marriage will have to mellow him, because from now on every time he has a go at bland vacuous shite on telly you think 'and your wife is the very epitome of it'.

I think that's sort of why he's moving out of scathing TV commentary, cause he's all over TV now and knows all the people. Said something along those lines in the guardian article when he quit the TV column

xmas screenwipe. whens it on?

  On 12/20/2010 at 8:39 PM, Benedict Cumberbatch said:

xmas screenwipe. whens it on?

i heard 27th... could be wrong.

or maybe that was the yearly round-up thing he does..

  On 12/20/2010 at 9:10 PM, MildewOnRice said:

  On 12/20/2010 at 8:39 PM, Benedict Cumberbatch said:

xmas screenwipe. whens it on?

i heard 27th... could be wrong.

or maybe that was the yearly round-up thing he does..

yer thats what i meant.

I haven't really been enjoying his Guardian stuff recently, but todays made me laugh.

My link

Edit: that link doesn't work. Phones, me and the internet don't go. Google it you lazy bastard

konnie huq! semi-nsfw...

oh god, saved, saved, saved

i'd sort of forgotten i had a libido over the past few weeks... now my boner is threatening to topple my desk

they are lovely funbags. shame about the outy belly button.

  On 12/20/2010 at 12:28 AM, Conor74 said:

Presume marriage will have to mellow him, because from now on every time he has a go at bland vacuous shite on telly you think 'and your wife is the very epitome of it'.

I would say Endemol is the very epitome of it, and oh the incestuous irony, Brooker's production company Zeppotron is part of it.

endemol made big brother right?

what does zeppotron make?

  On 12/21/2010 at 7:52 PM, Benedict Cumberbatch said:

what does zeppotron make?

* Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe

* Newswipe with Charlie Brooker

* Charlie Brooker's Gameswipe

* 8 Out of 10 Cats

* FAQ U

* Nathan Barley

* Space Cadets

* Spoons

* The Law Of The Playground

* TVGoHome

* Unnovations

* Would I Lie To You

* The Wall

* CelebAir

* Dead Set

* You Have Been Watching

* Odd One In

* Popatron

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeppotron

2010 Wipe was on last night and it was pretty dam funny as well.

"Avatar was basically a smurf on a stick being shoved into your face"