charlie brooker

[MildewOnRice]

 

from this to "You Have Been Watching"

tragic..

[Guest Funktion]

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

[thief]

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

[Guest Coalbucket PI]

I quite liked You Have Been Watching

[Guest Adjective]

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

[MildewOnRice]

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.

[blackdust]

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.

[kakapo]

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.

[Guest Adjective]

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

[pylonbitch]

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.

Edited December 19, 2010 by loganfive

[Guest Coalbucket PI]

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

[Guest Adjective]

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

[Guest Conor74]

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'.

[Guest Benedict Cumberbatch]

I quite liked You Have Been Watching

[Guest Coalbucket PI]

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

[Guest Benedict Cumberbatch]

xmas screenwipe. whens it on?

[MildewOnRice]

xmas screenwipe. whens it on?

i heard 27th... could be wrong.

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

[Guest Benedict Cumberbatch]

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.

[Guest Dirty Protest]

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

Edited December 21, 2010 by Dirty Protest

[keltoi]

konnie huq! semi-nsfw...

 

 

 

[Guest Iain C]

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

Edited December 21, 2010 by Iain C

[keltoi]

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

[Guest lullezucht]

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.

[Guest Benedict Cumberbatch]

endemol made big brother right?

 

what does zeppotron make?

 

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

[blackdust]

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"